As surely as there is always money in the banana stand, there is always eternal optimism—encouraged by remarks by Arrested Development principals every half year or so—that the cast members of the show will reunite again and make the much-rumored Arrested Development movie. Sunday at the New Yorker Festival in New York City, accompanied by the reassembled cast, creator Mitch Hurwitz upped the ante, saying that they also intend to make a nine- or ten-episode AD miniseries as prelude to a movie.

And all that will happen if—you knew there was an if!—somebody with money and a TV-show-and-movie-making machine agrees to commit those resources to Hurwitz and his cast.