There’s some very bad news for Canadian fans of the cult comedy series Arrested Development. The show is coming back from the dead with new episodes that will be available exclusively on Netflix in spring 2013, but they’ll only be available on the U.S. version of the streaming service.

We hope that none of our Canadian readers would resort to using proxy server trickery to get the new episodes.

Arrested Development originally aired from 2003 to 2006, but despite critical praise, it never gained a large enough audience to stay on the air. It was produced and narrated by Ron Howard, and starred Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Michael Cera as members of the dysfunctional Bluth family. A big screen movie based on the show has long been rumoured.