Arrested Growth isn’t leaving Netflix anymore. The streamer announced on Twitter that the present will stay on the platform after licensing points practically resulted in its elimination.
Whereas Netflix initially deliberate on taking down all 5 seasons of the present on March fifteenth, together with the 2 produced by Netflix, that by no means occurred. That’s as a result of Netflix reached a take care of the Disney-owned twentieth Century Studios, which nonetheless holds the rights to the collection after it initially premiered on Fox in 2003, in keeping with a report from Vulture.
Below the phrases of the brand new deal, Vulture studies Netflix will acquire unique streaming rights to the collection, and that the present’s first three seasons will finally go away Hulu later this 12 months (sorry, Hulu subscribers). The deal will reportedly let Disney promote the linear TV rights to all 5 seasons as properly, that means the present might wind up on a tv community, whether or not it belongs to Disney or not.
Arrested Growth, which stars Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, the late Jessica Walter, and lots of different stars, has lengthy remained a staple on Netflix. (It was definitely one of many very first collection I watched after I first subscribed to Netflix practically a decade in the past now.) To not point out that the present can be one in every of Netflix’s very first authentic collection. After the streamer picked up Arrested Growth following its cancellation on Fox in 2006, Netflix revived it for 2 (considerably disappointing) seasons, with one debuting in 2013, and one other touchdown on the platform in two separate elements in 2018 and 2019.