Netflix Promises the Return of ‘Arrested Development’
Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, and originally airing on Fox between 2003 and 2006, the critically lauded and award winning series just never caught on with mainstream audiences and wound up canceled after three seasons. In the years that passed after its lamented removal from TV screens, however, via DVD and streaming video the program’s cult following grew in both size and dedication. It also didn’t hurt that many of the show’s cast members went on to greater successes in film and television.
It’s odd to think that not that long ago original programming created exclusively for a streaming video service seemed strange and new. The revived Arrested Development was a pioneering project in this regard.
Arrested Development is the topic of much buzz today, among its feverish fanbase, as Netflix‘s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, said in a recent interview with USA Today that the program’s return is “just a matter of when.” He added that critics of the last season who complained “that the cast didn’t appear on screen often enough together” were “fair” in their assessment.
In honor of all this AD buzz, we’re putting the cult sitcom’s cast members to the PeekScore test; measuring and comparing their various impacts and presences here on the Web.
The biggest surprise for us was the cast-member topping the list. While married to one of our all-time PeekScore champs, we didn’t realize that she herself was such a formidable presence on the web.
| Rank | Picture | Name | Character | PeekScore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Portia de Rossi | Lindsay Bluth Fünke | 9.34 / 10.00 |
| 2 |  |
Jason Bateman | Michael Bluth | 8.24 / 10.00 |
| 3 |  |
Ron Howard | Narrator | 8.22 / 10.00 |
| 4 |  |
Michael Cera | George-Michael Bluth | 8.16 / 10.00 |
| 5 |  |
Will Arnett | Gob Bluth | 8.09 / 10.00 |
| 6 |  |
David Cross | Tobias Fünke | 8.08 / 10.00 |
| 7 |  |
Jeffrey Tambor | George Bluth, Sr. | 7.80 / 10.00 |
| 8 |  |
Alia Shawkat | Maeby Fünke | 7.58 / 10.00 |
| 9 |  |
Jessica Walter | Lucille Bluth | 7.45 / 10.00 |
| 10 |  |
Tony Hale | Buster Bluth | 7.44 / 10.00 |
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