abstract:Michael Bluth is a fictional character and the protagonist of the television sitcom Arrested Development, created by Mitchell Hurwitz. He is portrayed by Jason Bateman.
Rather than carom from character to character, as the series once did, the new episodes focus primarily on a single character, beginning with the ostensibly normal son, and the series' center of gravity, MichaelBluth (played with po-faced conviction by Jason Bateman).
"Arrested Development" had its final broadcast on February 10, 2006 and concerned MichaelBluth (Jason Bateman) and his eccentric family comprised of his son George Michael(Michael Cera), his father George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his brothers George Oscar Bluth II (Will Arnett), Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay Funke (Portia de Rossi), and Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross) and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat).