'Arrested' fails to develop ratings, but Bateman is up

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2004 | by Donna Freydkin

NEW YORK -- Midway through lunch at the hip Hudson Hotel, a man strides over to pay respects to Jason Bateman, unobtrusively eating meatloaf at a corner table. "I love your show. It's just brilliant, brilliant," the visitor gushes. Bateman grins and thanks him.

The ego boost is short-lived. "I paid him $50 to say that," a poker-faced Bateman, 35, announces. "Did you like it?"

Critics are going ga-ga over Bateman's latest show, Fox's Arrested Development (Sundays, 9:30 p.m. ET/PT). But the show struggles in the ratings, drawing an average of 6.3 million viewers. To help boost viewership, the network will run the first of a two-episode arc, starring Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a blind attorney, tonight at 9:30 ET/PT right after ratings powerhouse American...

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