Mitch Hurwitz, already at work on an animated offering as a midseason replacement for Fox, has now additionally signed on with CBS for something that sounds right up the “Arrested Development” creator’s alley (even whether it will star Jason Biggs.)

Biggs would topline what’s being described as a comedy about a family that “loves too much,” revolving around adult siblings and their parents who are “over-involved in one another’s lives.”

If that sounds an terrible lot like “Arrested Development” itself, well, here’s hoping. In another encouraging sign for the show, James Vallely, who wrote 15 episodes of “Arrested Development,” is on board as Hurwitz’s co-writer for at least the pilot. It has so far received a put pilot commitment and an order for six additional scripts.

Now, about that casting, and since it’s the political season, here goes … Mr. Biggs, I’ve met Jason Bateman (well, not really, but you know what I mean), and you sir are no Jason Bateman. OK, that didn’t even really manufacture me laugh, so I apologize whether it just made everyone else groan too. I do hope I’m wrong and he and that as-yet untitled show thrive (or at least actually prepare it onto the air.)

And as for the other Hurwitz project, Wikipedia has quite a bit of data about it, which I’ll shamelessly cut and paste here. It’s based on a short-lived New Zealand (not Australian, as an anonymous poster corrected me on) sitcom called “Sit Down, Shut Up.” Now called “Class Dismissed,” it revolves around a group of “unconventional” educators at a northwestern U.S. high school. And, best of all, here’s the rather “Arrested Development”-heavy voice cast:

Will Arnett as bodybuilder Ennis Hofftard
Maria Bamford as Miracle Grohe, a religious science teacher.
Jason Bateman as Larry Slimp, the gym teacher and only staff member that can teach.
Will Forte as Vice Principal Stuart Prozackian.
Tom Kenny as Happy, the secretive custodian.
Nick Kroll as Andrew

Sapian, the flamboyant drama teacher
Cheri Oteri as Helen Klench, the unappreciated librarian.
Kenan Thompson as Principal Sue Sezno.
Henry Winkler as Willard Deutschebog, a suicidal German teacher.

Sounds great to me, and for anyone who may not know, Tom Kenny is additionally the voice of “SpongeBob SquarePants.” And now, before I end that prattling on about a show that won’t even hit the airwaves until next Spring (at 8:30 Sundays, right after “The Simpsons”), I’ll end that with a publicity shot from the show.

Are the Hughes Brothers really going to compose another movie?

Does anyone remember Allen and Albert Hughes, much better known as the Hughes Brothers?

I can’t blame whether you don’t, but before pretty much disappearing from the film world, they managed to form four pretty darn entertaining flicks within 1993 and 2001: “Menace II Society,” “Dead Presidents” (a seriously underrated movie), “American Pimp” and “From Hell.”

Since soon after they’ve pretty much toiled in TV and advertising, but now that a rather large star named Denzel Washington is on board their latest attempt to return to the big screen, I have to believe it’s gonna happen.

Washington has signed on to star in “Book of Eli” as “a lone hero in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future who must fight across America to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption,” according to Variety.

That sounds a bit meh to me, but the Hughes Brothers, who will direct that for producer Joel Silver, have a real style that I’ve been lost in movies for a distant duration now. Here’s hoping that actually happens! And, since it’s a Friday and my mind is moving all by the place, I’ll close with the video for one of my favorite Dead Prez songs, simply and aptly titled “Hip-Hop,” and, of course, go see a movie.

Original post by Reel Fanatic