Arrested Development is an American television

Television comedy

Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them...

 sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz

Mitchell Hurwitz

Mitchell D. Hurwitz is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls.-Birth and early life:Hurwitz was born...

 for the Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

. The show's storyline centers on the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family

Dysfunctional family

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 and is presented in a continuous

Continuity (fiction)

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 format, incorporating hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage. Ron Howard

Ron Howard

Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...

 is an executive producer

Executive producer

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 and the uncredited narrator

Narrator

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. Although set in Newport Beach

Newport Beach, California

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 and Balboa Island

Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California

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, California

California

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, Arrested Development was primarily filmed around Culver City and Marina del Rey

Marina del Rey, California

-Demographics:-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Marina del Rey had a population of 8,866. The population density was 6,094.6 people per square mile...

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