Arrested Development season 5 is 'definitely happening', says show creator

However, it won't happen before the presidential election

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When Arrested Development was cancelled in 2006, there was mass hysteria; how could a show, widely praised by both fans and critics, end after just three seasons?

Thankfully, Netflix picked up the pieces, and in 2013 we were finally given a fourth season of Bluth adventures. Word on a fifth season has been sporadic, with people seemingly unsure if the series will continue or not.

Now, show creator Mitchell Hurwitz has given all fans hope, confirming the fifth season will “definitely happen”, it’s just a matter of when.

“It’ll happen. It’ll definitely happen,” he told Esquire while promoting his latest Netflix series, Lady Dynamite. “Not before the election, but it’s definitely going to happen. I say that because the actors want to do it, the studio wants to do it, Netflix wants to do it, I want to do it. It’s just making it happen. There’s no one resisting.”

Hurwitz also revealed there is a new cut of the show’s fourth season that follows the format of the previous three seasons; each episode of the fourth season follows a different character, rather than interspersing the separate stories over a number of episodes.

“There’s a recut, too, of the fourth season,” he continued. “Just to make it airable on TV. They’re like the old Arrested Developments.

“We redid all the narration and reshot a few little things. Now we have 22 episodes, and they’re delightful to watch and they’re much less work than the Netflix series. My hope is we’ll find a place to air those.”

Recently, the Bluth family staircase made a cameo appearance in Captain America: Civil War - the directors of the Marvel film, the Russo Brothers, directed a number of Arrested Development episodes.