Arrested Development is a character-driven comedy television series about a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family. The show is presented like a documentary, complete with narration, archival photos, and historical footage. Although set in Newport Beach and Balboa Island, California, it is primarily filmed on location around Culver City and Marina Del Rey. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, since debuting on November 2 2003, the series has received six Emmy awards and a Golden Globe. However, despite critical acclaim, Arrested Development has never climbed in the ratings. As a result, the episode orders for the second and third seasons were cut. This has left many critics and fans believing that the show will be cancelled, although Fox is not expected to make an official announcement until next fall's schedule is released in the spring.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1492: Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola)

1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died without completing his Requiem mass in D minor. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_%28Mozart%29)

1933: Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition)

1936: The 1936 Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Stalin" constitution, was adopted. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Soviet_Constitution)

1945: Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle)

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"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse." -- Walt Disney (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney)