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Topic Started: Jun 23 2006, 02:56 PM (283 Views)
Genkanemoti
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Kintaro's love child
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Futurama

Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has
signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum
13-episode run.

Comedy Central will start airing the new shows in 2008.

"We are thrilled that Matt Groening and 20th Century Fox Television have
decided to produce new episodes of Futurama and that Comedy Central will be
the first to air them," said David Bernath, the cable net's senior VP.

The new episode order is part of a larger deal Comedy Central made with the
production company last year, when they bought the syndicated rights to
Futurama's 72-episode library.

"There is a deep and passionate fan base for this intelligent and very funny
show that matches perfectly with our audience, and it is great that we can
offer them not just the existing library but something they've never seen as
well," Bernath told the Hollywood Reporter.

The offbeat show was the brainchild of The Simpsons mastermind Groening and
writer David X. Cohen and debuted on Fox in March 1999. The series revolved
around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who is accidentally frozen for a thousand
years. When he wakes up in the year 3000, he befriends a sassy one-eyed
pilot, Leela, and a cranky robot, Bender, who both work for an intergalactic
delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's.

In August 2003, after five seasons and three Emmys, including the 2002 award
for Best Animated Series, Futurama was canceled due to low ratings.

Reruns of the show, however, were picked up by Cartoon Network, and just
like cable home did with Family Guy before it, the move paved the way for a
Futurama revival.

Both shows aired on the Cartoon Network and quickly built up unexpectedly
robust ratings.

In 2004, Stewie & Co. were resuscitated by to Fox thanks to staggering DVD
sales--the show ranks as the fourth-biggest TV series seller ever--and its
proliferation in reruns.

In January of this year, 20th Century Fox began talks with Comedy Central to
revive the long-gone Futurama as well, thanks to its resurgence in
popularity courtesy of its second life in reruns and high--though not Family
Guy high--DVD sales.

The cable net has already re-signed voice stars Billy West,
Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio to reprise their animated roles.

In the meantime, new Futurama plots can already be had in comic book form,
with Groening's Bongo Comics releasing the stories.
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Belpowerslave
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Man, that is fucking great! I cannot believe we have to wait, what, a *year and a half* for them...but still, great none the less.

Bel
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Genkanemoti
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Wow yeah I didn't even notice the date, I thought it said 2007. D'oh!
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Belpowerslave
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Wow, this has got to be one of the deepest dig-up jobs on the forums yet:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090610/en_top_eo/128406

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090610/ap_en_tv/us_tv_futurama_returns

Finally, three years later we have an update...and in just another year the show *may* start running again! ;)

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