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Arrested Development Sues 'Arrested Development'
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Arrested Development Sues 'Arrested Development'
(Wednesday, November 05 03:11 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The hip-hop group Arrested Development is apparently back together -- who knew? -- and none too pleased about the title of a new FOX sitcom.
The group is suing the network over the title of its new comedy "Arrested Development," which shares a name with the band as well as a fairly common phrase to describe something that stopped short of its expected growth.
"FOX has no more right to use 'Arrested Development' for its show than a band would have to name itself after one of FOX's sitcoms," Todd "Speech" Thomas, Arrested Development the band's frontman tells Billboard.
The Atlanta-based group filed a trademark-infringement suit in DeKalb County, Ga., Superior Court last month against FOX and producer Imagine Entertainment.
"Arrested Development" the TV show debuted Sunday (Nov. 2) on FOX. The critically acclaimed show stars Jason Bateman, Portia De Rossi and Jeffrey Tambor as part of a dysfunctional family trying to pick up the pieces after its patriarch (Tambor) is arrested for shady accounting.
Arrested Development the band had a huge hit with its 1992 debut album "Three Years, Five Months and Two Days in the Life of ...," which sold more than 4 million copies. A 1994 follow-up, "Zingalamaduni," never got higher than No. 55 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the group broke up two years later.
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