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Arrested Development season 5 release date hint: Jeffrey Tambor says work 'starts in January'

Jessica Walter previously said 'everybody is on board'

Jack Shepherd
Wednesday 21 September 2016 03:56 EDT
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Since his Emmys win on Sunday night for best actor in a comedy, Jeffrey Tambor has been doing interviews non-stop, most of the discussion centering on his wonderful acceptance speech in which he said: “I hope I’m the last cisgender man playing a transgender woman”

Somehow, the actor also made time to talk about season five of Arrested Development, quickly discussing with Today when filming begins.

“There’s always chatters to go to work in January,” he told the presenters in amongst laughs about ‘Dave’. This aligns with what show creator Mitch Hurwitz said earlier this year: “If it does happen, it looks like the shooting will start at the beginning of 2017.”

Other updates on season five of Arrested Development have come from Lucille Bluth actor Jessica Walter, who said after Archer’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards: "It's looking real good. I don't have dates but everybody is on board.”

Arrested Development was previously cancelled by Fox in 2006, only being picked up once more by Netflix in 2013, becoming one of the streaming service’s first original series.

Netflix content officer Ted Sarandos previously said of renewing the show it would be difficult due to the famous cast being very busy and it still being owned by Fox.

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