Network television\'s best comedy continues to get the recogintion it deserves, but looked like it might never get a few months ago.
That\'s right, Arrested Development was nominated for an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, along with cable\'s best comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, and three of televisions most diarrhea-inducing programs: Sex and the City, Will and Grace and Everybody Loves Raymond. Of course, one of these three shitstorms will probably win, but who cares? Arrested Development is still rated low enough that any buzz will help it secure a consistent spot in the Top 40-50 range next season when Fox is expected to move it to 8:30 behind the Simpsons and out of the 9:30 graveyard.
My choice as to who had the better season between AD and Curb? Despite the fact that I\'ve been an avid Larry David/Seinfeld fan for over a decade, I feel Arrested Development had the stronger season for a few reasons: 1. just as funny a show without the benefit of profanity, although AD takes full advantage of the bleeps, 2. 22 half-hour episodes for AD in comparison to 9, plus an hour finale, for Curb, so AD simply had more material, and, most important, 3. AD\'s finale was hilarious wheras Curb\'s was laboring to watch, and to me, the finale has the value of at least 5 episodes. The only thing to monitor is that AD will be under a lot more pressure to deliver for the second season with these scattershots of hype such as being on the cover of TV Guide, etc. It\'s still a long ways away from being on Curb\'s level all-time as that is coming off it\'s fourth season. But to even be mentinoned in the same category by the Emmy\'s is a huge honor and a boost to AD\'s credebility.
For the record, AD was created by Mitchell Hurwitz and the executive producer is Ron Howard.
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