Arrested Development Cancelled? Stupidest Fox Move EVER

I just read that one of my favorite television series Arrested Development has had its 22 episode commitment cut to 18, and that the show may be cancelled. Ratings are down to about 1 Million people an episode.

AD is seriously one of the funniest shows on television, and one of the funniest in the a looooooooong time. But since it doesn't

- Have a laugh track
- Feature some crappy comic
- Have cookie cutter episodes like: "Dad buys a car and spends too much", "Dad has two committments at the same time so has to rush between locations and change clothes", "Mom charges too much on the credit ccard", "The Inlaws are coming to town", or everyones favorite "Little Timmy Cheats On A Test"
- Feature a guest "celebrity" like Paris "I'm A Tard" Hilton or Juggslee Simpson

The show was destined to die. Shows like this such as Action, The Tick, Son Of The Beach always seem to garner a cult audience but never widespread success. After all why spend money putting on an intelligent, witty, well written television show that garners awards by the bucketfull when you can spend 5% of that same budget and get a bunch of narcissitic retards to make fools of themselves for whatever ridiculous premise you have for this reality show.

How sad is it that American Idol, The Swan, and crap like that stay on the air and this show gets the freakin axe? Is it too late to book Ryan Seamen or his lookalike on Extreme Makeover for Arrested Development and fool the masses into thinking its a reality show?

Can anyone out there SERIOUSLY say they would rather watch George Lopez stink it up for 30 minutes instead of GOB's chicken dance for 5 seconds?