Precarious Development
Info from today's Variety, courtesy of friend, Kem Saichaie:What's up with Arrested Development? While it seems to be on the cancelled list at Fox (tho not officially), there is word other networks may be interested in picking it up. Among the rumored interested parties are ABC and Showtime. It should be noted, however, contractually nothing official can happen until the show is truly cancelled by Fox. Also there are significant financial considerations at hand-- including the show's $1.6 million per episode price tag, and let's not forget about the millions in deficit financing 20th has already put into the show. One way to offset the financial losses to date is syndication, tho when production this season concludes the show will be 36 episodes shy of a syndication deal which needs a minimum of 88 eps in the can to launch. If either ABC or Showtime are real contenders for this show, this may have to make a very serious commitment for the jump to make sense for 20th, who would continue to produce (and continue with deficit financing.)
You can be sure the last thing Fox wants is for another network to make a hit of this program. Stay tuned. Literally.
posted by CM @ 10:18 PM
2 Comments:
what's the deal with "tho?"
I'm just repeating what I received. Variety is a subscription site, and I don't play that game.
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