Arrested Development is a character-driven American comedy television series which originally ran from November 2, 2003 to February 10, 2006 on FOX. A reprisal season premiered on Netflix in 2013 with the fifth season concluding in 2019. Arrested Development is about a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family, the Bluth family. The series is presented in a fashion reminiscent of documentary film/cinéma vérité, with omniscient narration (by Ron Howard), archival photographs, and histo