Futurama Is Back!
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Sweet gorilla of Manila! Futurama is really coming back!
20th Century Fox Television, the animation powerhouse that brought “Family Guy” back from the dead five years ago, has done it again: Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s brilliantly subversive animated sci-fi comedy “Futurama” will return to production on 26 new half-hour episodes more than six years after the series aired its last original episode.
Oh man, oh baby, oh man oh man! I am so happy about this! Futurama is one of the greatest television shows ever, and if you disagree, you’re wrong. Written by math and science dorks, it lampoons science fiction at the same time it betrays its love for it. The Star Trek episode with Melllvar is hands-down one of the funniest things ever written, and if the one with Fry’s dog doesn’t choke you up you’re not human (not that there’s anything wrong with being from Omicron Persei 8).
Yay! So now it’s just the long, long wait until mid-2010 for the new episodes to be released. But you will wait. YOU WILL WAIT.
ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD!
Sweet gorilla of Manila! Futurama is really coming back!
20th Century Fox Television, the animation powerhouse that brought “Family Guy” back from the dead five years ago, has done it again: Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s brilliantly subversive animated sci-fi comedy “Futurama” will return to production on 26 new half-hour episodes more than six years after the series aired its last original episode.
Oh man, oh baby, oh man oh man! I am so happy about this! Futurama is one of the greatest television shows ever, and if you disagree, you’re wrong. Written by math and science dorks, it lampoons science fiction at the same time it betrays its love for it. The Star Trek episode with Melllvar is hands-down one of the funniest things ever written, and if the one with Fry’s dog doesn’t choke you up you’re not human (not that there’s anything wrong with being from Omicron Persei 8).
Yay! So now it’s just the long, long wait until mid-2010 for the new episodes to be released. But you will wait. YOU WILL WAIT.
ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD!
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This was one of the things I said I'd kill for.
I feel bad. Now I have to kill someone.
This was one of the things I said I'd kill for.
I feel bad. Now I have to kill someone.
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Good News Everybody!!
Seriously is though. The movies were pretty good but new episodes is what I've been wanting for ages. Can't wait.
Good News Everybody!!
Seriously is though. The movies were pretty good but new episodes is what I've been wanting for ages. Can't wait.
Good News Everyone ...
.. oh my yes
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/10/2593801.htm
Comedy Central gives Futurama new future
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It's back to Futurama for fans of the animated series.
Taking a page from the Family Guy resurrection guidebook, the cancelled Fox animated comedy is returning with an order from Comedy Central for 26 new episodes to run over two seasons.
Futurama creators Matt Groening and David X Cohen are already working on stories for the new batch of episodes of the sci-fi cartoon, slated to premiere in mid-2010.
Just as with Family Guy, whose improbable return was triggered by big DVD sales and solid ratings for the show's reruns on Cartoon Network, the performance of Futurama's repeats on Comedy Central and on DVD was key to its resurrection.
Futurama, which aired on Fox for five seasons - from 1999 to 2003 - centres on Philip Fry (Billy West), a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy who accidentally freezes himself on December 31, 1999, and wakes up 1,000 years later with a fresh start at life and a "diverse" new group of friends including Leela (Katey Sagal), a tough but lovely one-eyed alien, and Bender (John DiMaggio), a robot who possesses human characteristics and flaws.
When the series returns with original episodes in 2010, it will be seven years after the show's last original episode aired on Fox. That's a much longer hiatus than the three years Family Guy spent on the bench before being summoned back by Fox.
All key voice cast members are expected to return for the new episodes, along with the series' core writing team.
.. oh my yes
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/10/2593801.htm
Comedy Central gives Futurama new future
Posted 9 hours 14 minutes ago
It's back to Futurama for fans of the animated series.
Taking a page from the Family Guy resurrection guidebook, the cancelled Fox animated comedy is returning with an order from Comedy Central for 26 new episodes to run over two seasons.
Futurama creators Matt Groening and David X Cohen are already working on stories for the new batch of episodes of the sci-fi cartoon, slated to premiere in mid-2010.
Just as with Family Guy, whose improbable return was triggered by big DVD sales and solid ratings for the show's reruns on Cartoon Network, the performance of Futurama's repeats on Comedy Central and on DVD was key to its resurrection.
Futurama, which aired on Fox for five seasons - from 1999 to 2003 - centres on Philip Fry (Billy West), a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy who accidentally freezes himself on December 31, 1999, and wakes up 1,000 years later with a fresh start at life and a "diverse" new group of friends including Leela (Katey Sagal), a tough but lovely one-eyed alien, and Bender (John DiMaggio), a robot who possesses human characteristics and flaws.
When the series returns with original episodes in 2010, it will be seven years after the show's last original episode aired on Fox. That's a much longer hiatus than the three years Family Guy spent on the bench before being summoned back by Fox.
All key voice cast members are expected to return for the new episodes, along with the series' core writing team.
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about time too. Good news indeed.
about time too. Good news indeed.
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And there I was thinking the movies meant it was the end.
Good news all the same
And there I was thinking the movies meant it was the end.
Good news all the same
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Woo hoo
Fantastic news .
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This is all part of some sort of pay dispute methinks. Fox pulled a similar stunt with Simpsons cast, but they eventually backed down.
They are threatening to recast Futurama, but surely they know this will almost guarantee the show bombing.
If they cannot reach agreements with the original cast they are more likely to can the show than create something that would feel like some sort of cheap ripoff.
They are threatening to recast Futurama, but surely they know this will almost guarantee the show bombing.
If they cannot reach agreements with the original cast they are more likely to can the show than create something that would feel like some sort of cheap ripoff.
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Should be great love Futurama and they cant make it worse than new simpsons lol
I still think that first Futurama movie is the best Futurama Movie/Episode of the whole series.
Really sad.
Really sad.
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You reckon?
Can't go past Jurassic Bark or the episode where Fry has the parasites IMO
Can't go past Jurassic Bark or the episode where Fry has the parasites IMO
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Nice!
Hoping for some more classic Zapp episodes, my favourite being "Amazon women in the mood"
Hoping for some more classic Zapp episodes, my favourite being "Amazon women in the mood"
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Good news everyone!
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New eps weren't too bad.
