Fox may not be killing Arrested Development, but it's stabbing it in the gut, rolling it out of the passenger side door, and leaving it for dead by the side of the road. Variety reports that Fox is pulling the show from the schedule during sweeps (along with Kitchen Confidential, but we doubt its fans will be sending any foam Hail Marys to save it), and has reduced its order from 22 to 13 episodes. We'd tearfully lament the fact that we live in a world where Fox flips pancakes for the re-launch of Stacked while plotting AD's demise, but a) as we all know by now, we're dead inside, and b) Stacked probably won't survive past December, either.

• 'Arrested,' 'Kitchen' cut back [Variety]

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