--- title: Jeffrey Tambor: Arrested Development Season 5 on the Way description: Although the future of Arrested Development has been uncertain, Jeffrey Tambor has confirmed that the Bluth family will be back. canonical: https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-21T18:50:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:50.136Z og:title: Jeffrey Tambor Confirms New Arrested Development Season og:description: There's always money in the banana stand og:url: https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeffrey Tambor Confirms New Arrested Development Season twitter:description: There's always money in the banana stand twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jeffrey Tambor Confirms _Arrested Development_ Season 5 Is on the Way  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 21, 2016 6:50 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 21, 2016 6:50 PM UTC Although the future of [_Arrested Development_ ](time.com arrested development)has been uncertain since its fourth season was released on [Netflix](http://time.com/4361525/netflix-binge-watch/) in 2013, [Jeffrey Tambor](http://time.com/4498778/emmys-2016-jeffrey-tambor-speech/) — who plays George Bluth Sr. — confirmed Tuesday that the Bluth family will be back for a fifth season of hijinks. Appearing on [_Today_](http://www.today.com/video/jeffrey-tambor-on-his-transparent-role-more-arrested-development-769320515749)to talk about his second consecutive Emmy win for his role as Maura Pfefferman on _Transparent_, the 72-year-old actor revealed that he is scheduled to report to film the comedy in January. “There’s always chatter,” he told the show’s hosts. “My marching orders are to go to work in January.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/"},"headline":"Jeffrey Tambor Confirms Arrested Development Season 5 Is on the Way","datePublished":"2016-09-21T18:50:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:50.136Z","description":"There's always money in the banana stand","url":"https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4503158/jeffrey-tambor-arrested-development-season-5/","name":"Jeffrey Tambor Confirms Arrested Development Season 5 Is on the Way"}}]}] ```