'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix

First time accepted submitter Xondak writes "The cult series 'Arrested Development' is being resurrected and brought exclusively to Netflix streaming subscribers. This marks the first time a major studio has produced first-run content for the streaming service and perhaps this will afford other opportunities for cancelled Fox series. Firefly, anyone?"

Comments

I'll pass.

[Microlith]

I'm allergic to giving money to corporations that sponsor bills like SOPA.

Re:I'll pass.

[John Bresnahan]

I took the liberty of looking some things up, and it may surprise you to learn that the cast of TV shows does indeed age with the passage of time. Firefly was nearly 10 years ago, so everyone is now 10 years older. It's funny how that works isn't it.

That didn't stop the original cast of Star Trek!

Re:I'll pass.

[Bradmont]

Oh, I thought you were saying Netflix was sponsoring SOPA.

Very Cool, but...

[ideonexus]

I closed my Netflix account during all the price-hike hoopla and really haven't missed it at all (started reading a lot more). So I guess I'll do what I do with TV shows (since we don't own a TV) and wait until they're out on DVD or streaming somewhere else for free online. I'm patient enough to do this with Futurama, so I can wait for more episodes of this awesomely twisted show.

Not exclusively

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazon provides Arrested Development to prime members for free and others can rent/buy episodes or seasons.

Re:Hate It

[Karlt1]

More or less, but it's been that way for ages. I remember Apple using that as a way of damaging competing brands of MP3 player. They would have tons of DRMed ITMS exclusives that couldn't be played on other players without degrading the sound quality. All because Apple refused to license its DRM to competitors and wasn't willing to license MS' DRM.

And instead of licensing their DRM, they encouraged the music industry to allow all music to be sold DRM free.

http://www.apple.com/de/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs havenâ(TM)t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. Thatâ(TM)s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

Re:"Opportunities for cancelled Fox series."

[mrchaotica]

For those reading this, "Burn Notice" is really good, by the way.

Re:Several thoughts on this rather positive trend

[icebraining]

Most Free Software is copyrighted. GPL, BSD, Apache are all copyright licenses.

Re:WTF is Arrested Development?

[Surt]

It's a fox tv series that aired in the US a few years back. Among people who watched it, it was exceptionally well regarded, but it suffered and died from two problems:

1) Jumping in was hard, because there were a lot of self-referential jokes from earlier episodes.
2) It got consistently stuck in terrible time-slots, and this was before Nielsen figured out how to deal with people using dvrs.

If you're a nerd and enjoy comedy series, I'd highly recommend it. In my opinion it's the best comedy series ever on tv, and the only one that I've watched the entirety of more than 3 times.