Arrested Development

Title: Arrested Development
Year: 2003-2004 / 2004-2005 / 2005-2006
Network: Fox
Creator: Mitchell Hurwitz
Directors: Joe Russo (season 1, 7 episodes; season 2, 3 episodes), Paul Feig (s1, 2; s2, 3; s3, 2), Anthony Russo (s1, 3; s2, 2), Lee Shallat Chemel (s1, 3; s2, 2), Jay Chandrasekhar (s1, 4), Greg Mottola (s1, 3), John Fortenberry (s1, 1; s3, 2), Peter Lauer (s2, 2; s3, 1), Robert Berlinger (s3, 3), Lev L. Spiro (s3, 2), Patty Jenkins (s2, 1), Jeff Melman (s2, 1), Jason Bateman (s2, 1), Andrew Fleming (s2, 1), Danny Leiner (s2, 1), Chuck Martin (s2, 1), John Amodeo (s3, 1), Arlene Sanford (s3, 1), Rebecca Asher (s3, 1)
Writers: Mitchell Hurwitz (season 1, 8 episodes; season 2, 6 episodes; season 3, 5 episodes), Jim Vallely (s1, 5; s2, 5; s3, 5), Richard Rosenstock (s1, 5; s2, 2), Barbara Feldman (s1, 2; s2, 5), Chuck Martin (s1, 3; s2, 4), John Levenstein (s1, 5; s2, 1), Brad Copeland (s1, 3; s2, 3), Abraham Higginbotham (s1, 2; s2, 3), Richard Day (s3, 4), Chuck Tatham (s3, 3), Courtney Lilly (s1, 1; s2, 1), Ron Weiner (s3, 2), Lisa Parsons (s2, 1), Tom Saunders (s3, 1), Jake Farrow (s3, 1), Sam Laybourne (s3, 1), Karey Dornetto (s3, 1), Dean Lorey (s3, 1)
Starring: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Ron Howard
Music: David Schwartz
Episodes: 53, at c. 22 minutes (3 seasons of 22, 18 and 13 episodes)
Synopsis: the head of a wealthy family is arrested
How I saw it: some episodes on TV; on video (rented from Netflix), September 2007 (season 1), November 2008 (2) and January 2009 (3)
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great).
Objective Rating: 9/10 (1 point off for concept) c. 3.2/4 (Very good).

Hilarious. Normally I hate this sort of show, where unsympathetic characters act like jerks, but in this case it just works somehow.  Season three is significantly worse than the other two (although it's still funny); it's probably for the best that it was canceled while it was still good.