Can The Bluths Get Arrested In This Town?

I've got a huge backlog of TV stuff, but most importantly, Fox's Arrested Development still hasn't been able to find an audience, and, as reported in today's Chicago Sun-Times, faces a very uncertain future.

Some of this may have been the show's own undoing. After a brilliant first season and offseason industry accolades, the quirky comedy stumbled out of the gate in it's high-profile second season debut. But it found it's stride over the course of the run, even if it's been a bit more absurd than usual. What I find encouraging is how much support they seem to have among the acting community, purely on the basis of the guests they've managed to attract. Liza Minelli and Carl Weathers are one thing, but Ben Stiller, Zach Braff and Dan Castellanetta, who even offered a non-Homer annoyed grunt in his spot as an inept doctor, raise the bar.

The show has a website where you can pledge your support. Word on the street is that, if Fox does kill the show, somebody like HBO might rescue it, but that's hardly a sure thing.

I have a couple of quibbles about the Sun-Times article, though. It's "Larry Sanders," and not "Larry Shandling," although that's sort of a funny mistake. And writer Lucio Guerrero's final line, "The saddest part of the finale, however, are the last scenes -- coming attractions for an episode we may never see," is even more unintentionally amusing, since the scenes from the next episode are never actually in the next episode.