The slow elevator toward Arrested Development season 5 took another vaguely promising lurch upwards today, with Jason Bateman announcing that he’s “officially signed on” for another season of the formerly Fox-based show. Bateman was assumed to be on board for the project—like most of the series’ cast, he’s been a vocal proponent of keeping the show going, whenever Mitch Hurwitz can get everybody back into roughly the same locations—but now there are apparently contracts and whatnot keeping him to his word.