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Good News Everybody! For those who haven't heard Futurama is getting 26 new episodes from Comedy Central. They begin airing in mid-2010.
For those who can't view the above link spoiler below:
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.
OMG, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh thats just sweet
Best news ever.
There IS a God!
(or at least some gigantic, omnipotent, nebulous entity, or possibly a computer, that lives at the center of the universe)
I bet even Morbo is pleased with this! :)
I bet even Morbo is pleased with this! :)
If he isn't, he can kiss my shiny metal @$$.
Will you not be satisfied, Fox? Will your appetite for self-defeating moronicism not be sated? Do you deliberately spend days and weeks and months just dreaming up ways of dumping on your fans, the people who pay your wages, from a very great height?
FUTURAMA sells more DVDs than any other TV series in human history. After years of constant lobbying you concede that 'maybe' there's a market for more FUTURAMA. You bring back the series as some TV movies which are huge sellers on DVD, sell all around the world and make some serious money.
After more chin-rubbing, you finally agree to bring the show back in conjunction with Comedy Central. Combined with your decision to renew Dollhouse, you are, briefly, the toast of SF fans everywhere, held up as a shining example that even the most retarded of networks can be rehabilitated.
But then you remember your purpose in this world is to sow hope and then ruthlessly extinguish it. So you decide the actors are 'asking too much money' and decide to sack them and replace them with impersonators because no-one will notice.
WHAT THE HELL? I mean, in what reality is this a good idea? Do you think the fans will respond well to this news?
Almost unbelievable.
Probably a little late, but the above link is definitely .
Yikes. Talk about a disaster of epic proportions in the making... Your two main ingredients in making an animated character are the voice acting and the art. You mess with either one in an established hit, and your fan base is going to revolt.
Woohoo! Take that, Ghandi!
Apparently without Bender though.
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Apparently without Bender though.
Well, Bender will be there no matter what, but they haven't reached an agreement yet with John DiMaggio yet. Sounds like they're still negotiating, and I'm guessing they'll work something out. If they don't, they'd re-cast, which would suck, but with everyone else signed on, I'm pretty confident they'll be able to reach an agreement.
I'm hopeful they get John on board.
YUESS!!!