Back in January, the Home Theater Forum had an online chat with a Senior Vice President at Fox Home Video, Mr. Peter Staddon. During the chat, which we
reported on here, Staddon was asked about
Arrested Development on DVD, and the response 4 months ago was "Arrested Development is being looked at now and should be a lot of fun."
So where are we at today? Well, we now take our cue from Katie O'Connell, Senior Vice President of Comedy Development and Current Programming at Imagine Television. Imagine is Ron Howard's company, and is behind
Arrested Development of course. O'Connell spoke recently to The-OP.com, a fan website for
AD that ironically has a logo resembling that of another Fox Network show,
The O.C. The website enjoys fronting themselves as "the on-line website for (the fictional newspaper) the
Balboa Observer-Picayune".
In the fansite's interview with O'Connell, which you can read in its entirety
by clicking here, the following exchange took place:
Can you comment on when we'll see a DVD release of Arrested Development?
Hopefully, late summer.
And there you have it. "Late Summer" is the latest info, from somebody close to the situation. This is obviously very preliminary, and subject to change. Still, it's good to have a general idea that it could be as close as just a few months away!
Stay tuned, and we'll have more for you just as soon as we can. Our thanks to "Steve" for the info and the link.
