Well, it finally happened. Fox cut the order of episodes on Arrested Development from a full season of 22 episodes down to 13. Which pretty much means that there is an ever so slight chance that the show would come back, but it is extremely unlikely. They aren’t going to show any more episodes during November Sweeps, and instead are going to run out the season in the no-man’s-land that is December and January. This is pretty much a declaration of no faith of Fox in AD.

It’s a shame, because as you’ve probably gathered from my previous post, last week’s hour of Arrested Development was probably the funniest the show has ever been. Of course no one watched it though. They lost like 4 million viewers. That might have something to do with no one knowing it had come back finally after baseball. None of my friends had seen it. I only caught it because I have been obsessive about seeing it this season.

So here’s the deal. When it does come back on the air, I’m going to try and tell you all about it ahead of time. And I want you to tell everyone you know ahead of time. And I want them to tell everyone they know, and so on. If we can get the ratings up high enough Fox might try Arrested Development as a summer show or something, or at the very least some other network more daring might pick it up. I don’t care how it comes back, but we can’t lose TV’s funniest show at its peak. We just can’t.