Arrested Development creator returns to the network that killed him, possibly for vengeance?

The long, drawn-out cancellation of Arrested Development was one of television's greatest crimes against humanity. It ranks right up there with the approval of a new Knight Rider when the original was already one too many, the spinoff Baywatch Nights, and the made-for-TV movie Knight Rider 2000. That's right, I just hassled the Hoff. If any of you want a piece of me, I also come with a side of "whoop-ass."

But with the Arrested Development movie clawing its way inch-by-inch towards the big screen, Mitchell Hurwitz will at least have one other project on the horizon and on the very same network that tried to destroy him. Either he's showing he's a good guy and can take rejection in stride, or he's trying to bring down the place from the inside. You make the call.

Fox announced that Hurwitz's new show, Sit Down, Shut Up, will air sometime next fall. Critics also got an advance screening at the Television Critics Association conference last week.

The show is actually a remake of an Australian animated show, but the idea seems like it has a better chance to fit in at home here in the states than Yahoo Serious ever did.

It's set in a South Florida high school and focuses on the beleaguered facility and their various problems, all of which come before the students. Each show has animated people with real life backdrops and features an eclectic sounding array of characters in the cast. There is the science teacher who believes in creationism, the overly medicated vice-principal, the Muslim janitor who everyone thinks is Hispanic, and the drama teacher who acts very, shall we say, "drama teacher-ish."

The show also reunites some former Arrested Development cast members with Hurwitz and company, such as Jason Bateman, who obviously takes on the leading straight role, Will Arnett as the "jock English teacher" with the low smoker's voice, and TV's Henry Winkler as the angry German teacher.

Usually, the prospect of another animated sitcom on Fox depresses me. But since this one is being fronted by Hurwitz and former Simpsons writer Josh Weinsten instead of Seth MacFarlane -- who by the end of the 2014 will have enough sitcoms to overtake a small country -- at least I know it will keep me hungry until the AD movie hits the screen.