The most I've seen of an episode of Arrested Development was :09 of the end of this season's premiere when my Tivo decided to start recording the first episode of Kitchen Confidential a bit too early.
And for the record, the funniest thing on FOX right now, sadly, is The War at Home. Im surprised they haven't dug out "FROM THE NETWORK THAT BROUGHT YOU MARRIED WITH CHILDREN!" on it yet, if they haven't already. Its not the next MWC, but its as close as you'll get in todays Network TV landscape.
oh, and I saw this:
Also, I wouldn't look for a cable net to pick up AD because apparently 1 episode of AD costs as much as about 5 episodes of anything that FX puts on including The Shield and Over There and they would be looking at not picking up any more viewers.