Fox: Graveyard of Quality Television

I've been in denial the last few days, but I finally have to accept it: Arrested Development is dead, dead, dead:

"Arrested Development," the critically praised but low-rated Fox show that won an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, as well as Emmys for writing, will not be resurrected on Showtime as rumors circulating for months have suggested.

A source close to the negotiations said that creator Mitch Hurwitz had decided after a lengthy period of debating an offer from Showtime that "Arrested Development reached its end, creatively, as a series."

So it joins the select and prestigious company of Firefly, Futurama, Wonderfalls, Brimstone, Millennium, and a whole bunch of other shows that Fox put on its schedule just for the sheer sadistic joy of cancelling them.

But let's not dwell on the negative here. We may not have GOB and Franklin any more, but we still have this guy:

[That's all, folks]