'Arrested Development' Tipped For 17 More Episodes On Netflix

The impending fifth season of the now-Netflix-produced cult comedy Arrested Development has been tipped to run for 17 episodes by one of the series' executive producers in US podcast the B.S. Report, hosted by Bill Simmons.

In the podcast, which was uploaded to YouTube overnight, Simmons chats with long-time AD executive producer Brian Grazer about the show's future prospects. Acknowledging the series was "never a huge thing", Grazer told Simmons that "people are loyal to it, and we're going to do another 17 episodes".

"So stay tuned for Arrested Development," he told Simmons — but that's all he told the host, leaving the finer details of the Bluth family's still eagerly awaited return (despite the lukewarm response to the experimental, non-chronological format of the show's fourth season).

The fifth season of Arrested Development was previously confirmed by show star Will Arnett, who features as elder dynasty offspring George Oscar "GOB" Bluth, on an August 2014 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, telling the audience: "The truth is, the guy who's the boss, the big boss man at Netflix [Ted Sarandos], he announced it … it's gonna happen; we don't know when, but it's gonna happen."

At the time, Sarandos had commented in an interview with USA Today that "it's just a matter of when" until we see Arrested Development back for round five. Better get those Netflix subscriptions in order.