Marketing Vox is reporting that MSN has secured the online syndication rights to Fox’s canceled (boy what a mistake) cult television show Arrested Development. This gives MSN the rights to add all 53 episodes of Arrested to MSN’s store featuring free, ad-supported video-episodes. This marks the first time that a major studio has sold a show’s syndication rights to a web portal, at least according to AdAge. Way to go MSN! Arrested was also picked up by HDNet for HDTV syndication and by G4 for normal broadcast syndication.

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We love Arrested Development here at Bunch of Nerds, as many of you (hopefully) do. Naturally with it’s horrid treatment by Fox (boooo, hisssss) we were pretty bummed out when the final nail in it’s coffin was hammered in, resulting in the show’s cancellation. But with the latest Emmy nominations comes a bit of interesting gossip that the idea of an Arrested Development movie is (still) being tossed around. Though the chances are pretty slim, it’s still great to know there’s SOME sort of life left in Arrested Development, though how much money is actually left in the property remains to be seen.

…I’m pretty sure that, obviously it rests on Mitch [Hurwitz], any sort of project like that would have to come from him. It would be something that he would be really passionate about. If the story was right and you felt like that the story was right, and by story I mean money, was large enough, then he’d do it…

[Will Arnett on an Arrested Development movie]