Pop-culture rumour news is dangerous to talk about, but Arrested Development was one of those shows that won a religious sort of fervour from its fans, with FOX playing the role of Judas or something. So when creator, Mitchell Hurwitz announced the show’s return over this weekend’s New Yorker Festival, the internet got its preach on.

The announcement was made during a public cast reunion, with more details filtering through in the hours that followed – specifically, that the season will be around 10 episodes long, aimed at filling the gap between the show’s last episode, which happened back in 2006, and the proposed feature film, set for 2013-ish release.

Which is super fun, and would be great to believe, but people have been waiting for Mitchell Hurwitz to descend from the heavens and take them back up into his Arrested Development flock for about five years now – and, as the creator had to concede,

We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing…[the project ] requires studios to work together that don’t typically work together, film and TV.

So I mean basically Hurwitz is trying to get the internet excited enough about this entirely speculative film/TV project that studios with money will take notice.

But we’re okay with that.

I hope this isn’t a trick.

[Source: GotchaMedia]