Call it the next phase in the wild-and-woolly life of George Bluth Sr.

"Arrested Development" star Jeffrey Tambor has been cast in the NBC comedy pilot "Twenty Good Years" from Werner-Gold-Miller and Warner Bros. Television.

Tambor will co-star with John Lithgow in the project about two men in their 50s who experience personal epiphanies and decide to make the most of their next 20 years. The comedy was penned by Michael Leeson, who is executive producing the pilot along with Tom Werner, Eric Gold, Jimmy Miller and Mike Clements.

Tambor's casting on "Years" is in second position to 20th Century Fox TV's "Arrested." Fox dropped the Emmy-winning comedy late last year, and after much speculation about it getting picked up by another network, 20th said in a statement issued Wednesday that there were no plans to resume production on "Arrested" anytime soon.

Tambor earned two consecutive Emmy nominations for his role as the disgraced patriarch of a wealthy, self-centered Orange County clan that is forced to rally together as a family after Tambor's character is sent to prison.

Tambor's many television credits include HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show," for which he earned four Emmy nominations, and "L.A. Law."

Tambor is repped by the Gersh Agency and Brillstein-Grey Management.