CALIFORNIA SCHEMING.('Arrested Development' and 'Kid Notorious')(Television Program Review)

There's a sense of loopy serendipity about Fox's new half-hour comedy "Arrested Development," which premiered on November 2nd. It's the kind of show you want to tell everyone about and yet keep to yourself--if the network finds out how good it is, it may get cancelled. The show is about a family of misfits, ne'er-do-wells, and lawbreakers; the title refers both to the arrest of the patriarch, George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor), a housing developer, at the beginning of the first episode, and to the stunted psyches of most of the family members. The arrest takes place on a party boat, where George's family is throwing him a retirement bash, and where the one "normal" person in ...