Hell yeah. Via Deadline:
Mitch Hurwitz and Will Arnett’s Wilde Kingdom has been picked up to series. The show is now being called Running Wilde. The comedy, which also stars Keri Russell, is being produced by Tantamount and Principato-Young Entertainment and Lionsgate. Hurwitz and Arnett co-wrote the pilot with Jim Vallely. The three are executive producing with Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Peter Principato and Paul Young. It stars Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman (Russell).
Great to see Arnett back on TV. Everyone with any taste loved him as Gob but he was awesome when he guest starred on 30 Rock too. Having him on every week is fantastic news.
I know most people have a very low opinion of Sit Down, Shut Up but that show actually grew on me. That being said, I’m extremely happy to have Hurwitz and Arnett team up again in a live action show. I’m hoping for big things from Running Wilde. Until Fox cans the show that is. And you know they will. They’re Fox after all.
All the die-hard Arrested Development fans out there take notice, Sit Down, Shut Up returns to the airwaves at 11:59pm Saturday night on Fox.
It’s a shitty timeslot for a show that’s at times hilarious and at other times duller than lead, but at least it’s back even if it is to burn off the remaining episodes.
I know the show’s not as great as everyone had hoped, but until that Arrested Development movie makes an appearance it’s the closest anyone is gonna get to an Arrested Development reunion.
A mini Arrested Development reunion is in the works with Will Arnett, Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely teaming up for a new single-camera comedy for Fox.
The project is being written by the trio and is set to star Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can’t stand his lifestyle or values.
Despite my idiot friends not liking it, I think Arrested Development is second only to Seinfeld as the best sitcom of all time. That means I’ll always pay attention to anything which involves alumni from the show, no matter what the premise is.
Now if only that movie version of Arrested Development would get off the ground.
(source = The Hollywood Reporter)
