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Netflix鈥檚 resurrection of the beloved but short-lived helped cement it鈥檚 emerging pre-eminence in original online content. The news of a new season was so over-hyped that when the entire season 4 was finally made available, some critics were underwhelmed and kind of perplexed.聽The show鈥檚 fourth season turned out to be a departure from what came before, with each episode focusing mainly on one character at a time and overlapping in a way that only made sense once you鈥檇 watched them all鈥� and then re-watched them.

Despite the mixed response from a vocal minority, creator Mitch Hurwitz wanted to do . Netflix seemed interested, with CEO Reed Hastings saying it was up to the聽鈥渢补濒别苍迟.鈥澛�Now we have a confirmation from Hurwitz that it鈥檚 鈥�definitely鈥� happening鈥� either as a series or a movie.

reports that during a Q&A with Hurwitz and Netflix聽chief content officer Ted Sarandos at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Hurwitz was asked whether or not we鈥檇 be seeing another season.聽鈥凄别蹿颈苍颈迟别濒测,鈥溌�he stated. Then he turned to Sarandos and said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 want to get into a whole negotiation right now鈥� but I鈥檝e got a family to feed.鈥澛�

Hurwitz went on:

鈥淚 keep thinking about it, and why don鈥檛 we do the movie version of this and then do the series, because this series kinda peaks with the story?

鈥淚 kinda go back and forth between that and a series. But here鈥檚 the most important thing, whatever we do, I want to get the cast all together and not do another anthology thing, and that鈥檚 why I keep thinking about kicking off with a special or a three-part show and then going into a series.鈥�

Hurwitz then turned to Sarandos and asked,聽鈥淎re you game for that?鈥澛�Sarandos responded,聽鈥淎bsolutely. In any form.鈥� 聽While a movie had been talked about prior to season 4, it was pushed back in favor of an anthology series that could catch everyone up on the lives of the Bluths. According to Hurwitz, he would discuss the movie idea with Jeffrey Tambor, who plays Bluth family patriarch George Sr. and his twin brother Oscar:

鈥淲e would see each other and talk about it, and then it would end up in the press with him saying 鈥榃e鈥檙e doing it!鈥�, but we didn鈥檛 have have a deal, we [didn't] own the property 鈥� 20th Century Fox [owned] the property 鈥撀燼nd there were a lot of things to get in place.鈥�

鈥淎nd also part of it was us stalling a little bit, too, waiting to see if the right idea came to us. And I think it has. We have it basically, we have the next step.鈥�

Netflix does not release audience values, but it鈥檚 safe to presume that no one would be publicly discussing moving forward with a new season if the show had not successfully drawn enough viewers.

The recent Emmy nominations for Arrested Development聽(Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Musical Composition for a Series), along with fellow originals聽House of Cards (nine) and聽Hemlock Grove聽(two) have suddenly changed the entire idea of what 鈥渢elevision鈥� is, in ways that are not entirely clear just yet.

Netflix鈥檚 success in this arena will likely re-ignite cries for the company to bring back other beloved series. There have been reports that they with the creators of the fascinating, short-lived聽, but nothing has come of it.

Still, we鈥檙e getting more聽Arrested Development, and that鈥檚 a good thing. Expect more news on the streaming front as details emerge.