Yes, even more than Buffy, Alias or Battlestar Galactica (the "new" one).

This show never got an audience, and yet has been hailed for years as "brilliant", "intelligent", "groud-breaking". Aspersions have been made on people's intelligence if they don't like it and critics have united to tell the world it was great (the world, as usual, wisely ignored the critics...) The reality is that this show was so unfunny, it's actually funny to consider. One of the reasons for its overall unfunnyness is that humor needs timing, and Arrested Developmet has no timing. Why not? you ask... Well, because Arrested Development wants so badly to be "hip and groundbreaking" it botched the editing in order for the show to be fast. Bad mistake as it destroyed most of the humor of the show. It also didn't help that the producers fell into the "shakycam" trap and made the show painful to watch.

Guess what, NYPD Blue remains the only badly-shot show to ever be successful. All other shows that chose low-quality in film-making never got an audience.

Arrested Development is one of them.

So, please stop writing articles in the press about how brilliant this show is and how it "deserves" another chance. It got plenty of chances. Fox spent more money on AD than on five other shows combined and it still never clicked with the audience.

AD is another show that exemplifies that the producers should concern themselves more with making quality TV than with hyping a bad show.