For the last month or so, I’ve been saying my prayers for the brilliant Arrested Development to live on. Today I was given a glimmer of hope with this news snippet:

Producer Brian Grazer told CNN last week that he is working feverishly to move the sitcom to another home.

“I think we’ll get picked up by some other network, possibly,” he said. “You never know. I can’t tell you anything other than I’m hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I’m optimistic.”

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! If this happens, I might actually start believing in a higher power (which, of course, would be the network executive who buys it). NBC needs to jump at this opportunity. They’ve already made their smartest decision in years by moving The Office and My Name is Earl to Thursdays. Put those together with Scrubs and Arrested Development and “Must See TV” would be back in business! Or maybe they could give it a new spin and call it “Laugh Track Free Must See TV.” It’s such a smart idea I’m sure nobody with any power will think of it. I’ve received two letters and three comments of condolensces from friends who are fellow Arrested fans, but I’m not giving up hope until it’s officially dead. Then again, I still have hope that Seinfeld’s coming back (they said, “One year…”).

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I’ve noticed I’ve thrown out the word “brilliant” several times in my blogs and in all honesty, it’s not a term I use lightly. So here’s a list of people and artistic endeavors I consider “brilliant.” I’ll probably update this as others occur to me:

Seinfeld (the barometer for brilliance)
Arrested Development
Cheers
The X-Files (quite a distinction since I usually can’t stand science fiction)
Lost
“Calvin and Hobbes”
“The Far Side”
Late comedian Mitch Hedberg (truly one of a kind)
Billy Joel
Green Day, particularly their album American Idiot (surprise, surprise)
American Beauty
Trainspotting
Author Michael Crichton
Oprah Winfrey (fat, black, female abuse survivor becomes one of the richest and most powerful women in the world and uses that power and wealth to help others? Heck yeah that’s brilliant).
Me