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Charlatan · 06-26-2006, 05:57 AM

It was rumoured for a while but it looks like Comdey Central is going to order a new season of Futurama.

I am totally looking forward to this. I love the series and hope it keeps going and going.

LINK

Quote:

Futurama has a future on Comedy Central

A new series of cult US toon Futurama is to be broadcast by cable channel Comedy Central, the first new episodes of the futuristic comedy since the Fox network dropped the series back in 2003.

The cable channel has greenlit at least 13 new episodes of the animated series, soon to be produced by Matt Groening (The Simpsons) with David X Cohen. The voices of original stars Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio will feature.

An option to make new episodes of the show was included in Comedy Central's 2005 deal with Twentieth Century Fox, from which it acquired the first 72 episodes that aired on the Fox network. The new and old episodes will start to air on Comedy Central from January 2008.

A Twentieth Century Fox representative said that the Fox network also has the option to air the new episodes, but added that the new series "may not fit into the channel's scheduling plans." Maybe Groening is hoping the show will follow in the footsteps of Family Guy, another toon axed by Fox but later resurrected after a cable rerun spiked DVD sales.

David Bernath, senior programming VP at Comedy Central, said his channel will be the first to air the new series. "There is a deep and passionate fan base for this intelligent and very funny show," he said. "It matches perfectly with out audience and it is great that we can offer them not just the existing library, but something they've never seen as well."

Antony Reeve-Crook
23 Jun 2006
© C21 Media 2006

ironman · 06-26-2006, 08:01 AM

Gret news! Since Family Guy returned i was sure this was only a matter of time. I know i'll get flamed but Futurama is way better than the Simpsons, specially the last 5 or so Simpsons seasons that have been nothing but bullcrap.

Dilbert1234567 · 06-26-2006, 08:33 AM

Good News everybody!

Willravel · 06-26-2006, 08:42 AM

All praise to Comedy Central!!!! I really hope that we can be privy to the same amazing writing that Futurama enjoyed on Fox.

ratbastid · 06-26-2006, 09:10 AM

I say to Fox: Kiss my shiny metal ass!

fresnelly · 06-26-2006, 09:18 AM

I wonder how they're going to play the Fry/Leela relationship?

cyrnel · 06-26-2006, 09:58 AM

Saw a brief mention of this on boingboing but we've seen false starts before.

This looks reliable.

Oh yea. Do the bender!

//Trying not to regress too much at the good news.

bermuDa · 06-26-2006, 10:04 AM

Thank goodness, I am so sick of reruns!

guthmund · 06-26-2006, 11:25 AM

NEW Futurama???

Oh. Your. God.

Fremen · 06-26-2006, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567

Good News everybody!

Hehehe, good news indeed, Professor.

Willravel · 06-26-2006, 11:29 AM

"Hey baby....you wanna kill all humans?" - Bender, this generation's Confucious

Charlatan · 06-26-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567

Good News everybody!

Damn... I can't believe I missed the opportunity to use that line in the OP.

abbaker987 · 06-26-2006, 11:50 AM

this is AWESOME!!!! I am happy that they get to make new episodes. I feel they put alot of hard work into that series and they didn't get to play the story out, until now...or 2008.

MexicanOnABike · 06-26-2006, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ironman

Gret news! Since Family Guy returned i was sure this was only a matter of time. I know i'll get flamed but Futurama is way better than the Simpsons, specially the last 5 or so Simpsons seasons that have been nothing but bullcrap.

i think most ppl who saw the show can agree that it's way better than the simpsons. i havent watched the last season or so. it's so boring!

longbough · 06-26-2006, 03:11 PM

I was more of a Futurama fan (c.f. my avatar) until I discovered Family Guy which is probably 20 times more clever, funny, vulgar and creative.

... but I'll still watch both, I'm sure.

theguyondacouch · 06-26-2006, 06:24 PM

Awesome! Futurama is my favorite cartoon, if not my favorite show all together. I can't wait for the return!

Devoid · 06-26-2006, 06:35 PM

I enjoy Futurama, but only after giving it a second chance. When I originally saw it on Fox, I couldn't sit through an episode, but once it got on Adult Swim, I was hooked with a quickness. It's a much smarter show than either Simpsons or Family Guy. I love the science nerd jokes, and am really looking forward to some new greatness from these new episodes.

Frosstbyte · 06-26-2006, 07:12 PM

It was probably the best news I'd heard in a very long time. I'm thrilled that futurama is coming back. It is by far my favorite cartoon ever. I'm just disappointed that it's going to comedy central. It's been such an integral part of my Adult Swim experience for so many years, I will miss it dearly. Ah well, I'll take more futurama whereever I can get it.

stevie667 · 06-27-2006, 03:02 AM

Wait, somethings coming...yes...no...ye...no...yes, yes...no...yes! Wooo!

abbaker987 · 06-28-2006, 12:04 AM

A Terrifying Message from Al Gore

This is great.

Val_1 · 07-01-2006, 03:29 PM

I am stoked about this! Futurama was a great show. Now they've got to bring back Firefly.

Arc101 · 07-01-2006, 03:51 PM

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Thank goodness, I am so sick of reruns!

Nope I can watch re-runs all day ! - Anyway it is about bloody time I was going to get Morbo to kill humans at Fox as they are puny and inferior !

Kadath · 07-02-2006, 05:00 AM

2008, though. That's so far away! 18 damn months...I don't know if I can wait.

heywatsup · 07-02-2006, 08:34 PM

best.news.ever!!
personally i cannot wait D:

guy44 · 06-09-2009, 07:48 PM

Good news, everyone!

Futurama just got brought back to life - not as DVDs, like the last couple of years, but as a fully-fledged TV show on Comedy Central! The order is for 26 episodes! Huzzah!

One of the coolest things about this, besides the obvious, is that I think the cast must be extremely pumped. Whenever I've read interviews with the voice cast (especially Billy West), they always talk about how much they genuinely loved Futurama.

Now all we need to do is get Firefly back on the air somehow...

Charlatan · 06-10-2009, 01:05 AM

Just confirming the news as well:

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Comedy Central is breathing new life into the animated series Futurama, ordering 26 new episodes from 20th Century Fox TV. Comedy Central will re-launch the series the middle of next year, confirming the three lead actors have all signed on to return: Billy West as Philip Fry; Katey Sagal as Leela; and John DiMaggio as Bender. FOX originally aired the series created by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen from 1999 to 2003.

Jetée · 06-10-2009, 04:13 AM

I guess I missed the first reuppal; I shall not miss the second! And I suppose I'll echo the sentiments uttered before, but Futurama is still perhaps one of the best animated cartoons/sitcoms created, possibly besting the first decade of The Simpsons run.

This is HUGE NEWS!

The Out of This World Long-Awaited Reunion click to show

thespian86 · 06-12-2009, 10:00 AM

hahaha Oh Marylin Monroe bot.

squeeeb · 06-12-2009, 11:23 AM

News like this is almost makes me want to go out and get a tv. Leela remains the cartoon i would most do.

Daniel_ · 06-12-2009, 12:22 PM

Fantastic.

Whooo hooooo!

Jetée · 03-18-2010, 12:16 PM

New Futurama Teaser Trailer! | Comedy Central Insider Blog

I can't seem to get the new trailer to work, but the basic gist of it explains to you, the awaiting audience, is that new episodes begin this June.

(also, each and every time this announcement happens, I'm actually expecting for a new season of Futurama to start back up, not just receive a package of 3-4 episodes that are intertwined to make a made-for-TV movie revolving around this universe. I'm not complaining, but it does get to be weird to hold your breath for something that has yet to happen in 3+ years; a brand new season and series upstart.)

Xerxys · 03-18-2010, 02:19 PM

Sweet! Futurama!

Willravel · 03-18-2010, 02:29 PM

Woohoo!

Wes Mantooth · 03-18-2010, 09:41 PM

Reading this thread I was all

YESSSSSS!!!!

Then I looked at the date of the posts and I was all

SONOFABITCH!!!!

But then I scrolled down and was all

KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!

Really awesome to hear I loved this show and could never figure out why it never had a big enough audience to come back like family guy did. Anyway after a horrible night its pretty good to hear.

guy44 · 03-18-2010, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth

Reading this thread I was all

YESSSSSS!!!!

Then I looked at the date of the posts and I was all

SONOFABITCH!!!!

But then I scrolled down and was all

KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!

A+ for clever referencing. I loved the teaser trailer, too - "it's some sort of comedy central channel and now we're on it" indeed.

Jetée · 06-15-2010, 09:15 AM

I would've created a new thread for this, but I don't like to create them for nothing, and it ties in, so here is the scoop:

Recap-O-Rama: Five seasons of "Futurama" condensed into nine minutes, narrated by Zapp Brannigan:

guy44 · 06-27-2010, 10:18 AM

Well, now that the new season premiered, what do you think? Personally, I really enjoyed Rebirth and thought the second ep was just ok. But man oh man it is good to have Futurama back. I can't wait for the rest of the season!

Zeraph · 06-27-2010, 01:48 PM

I missed the new episode. Does anyone know where I can see it? I've been keeping an eye out for reruns and looked online but haven't found anything

edit: yay finally caught a rerun of it. I liked it.

Jetée · 06-27-2010, 02:12 PM

There's some sort of mini-marathon of it to be run tonight on Comedy Central, at midnight (Est) ; perhaps the two newest episodes will lead off this showing.

06-26-2006, 08:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
ironman Smithers, release the hounds Location: Guatemala, Guatemala	Gret news! Since Family Guy returned i was sure this was only a matter of time. I know i'll get flamed but Futurama is way better than the Simpsons, specially the last 5 or so Simpsons seasons that have been nothing but bullcrap. __________________ If I agreed with you we´d both be wrong

06-26-2006, 08:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
Dilbert1234567 Devils Cabana Boy Location: Central Coast CA	Good News everybody! __________________ Donate Blood! "Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

06-26-2006, 09:18 AM	#6 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	I wonder how they're going to play the Fry/Leela relationship? __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

06-26-2006, 09:58 AM	#7 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Saw a brief mention of this on boingboing but we've seen false starts before. This looks reliable. Oh yea. Do the bender! //Trying not to regress too much at the good news. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

06-26-2006, 10:04 AM	#8 (permalink)
bermuDa don't ignore this--> Location: CA	Thank goodness, I am so sick of reruns! __________________ I am the very model of a moderator gentleman.

06-26-2006, 08:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	All praise to Comedy Central!!!! I really hope that we can be privy to the same amazing writing that Futurama enjoyed on Fox.

06-26-2006, 09:10 AM	#5 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	I say to Fox: Kiss my shiny metal ass!

06-26-2006, 11:25 AM	#9 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	NEW Futurama??? Oh. Your. God. __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.

06-26-2006, 11:29 AM	#11 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	"Hey baby....you wanna kill all humans?" - Bender, this generation's Confucious

06-26-2006, 11:50 AM	#13 (permalink)
abbaker987 Upright	this is AWESOME!!!! I am happy that they get to make new episodes. I feel they put alot of hard work into that series and they didn't get to play the story out, until now...or 2008.

06-26-2006, 03:11 PM	#15 (permalink)
longbough Soylent Green is people. Location: Northern California	I was more of a Futurama fan (c.f. my avatar) until I discovered Family Guy which is probably 20 times more clever, funny, vulgar and creative. ... but I'll still watch both, I'm sure.

06-26-2006, 06:24 PM	#16 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	Awesome! Futurama is my favorite cartoon, if not my favorite show all together. I can't wait for the return! __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

06-26-2006, 06:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
Devoid Psycho Location: Floating amongst the ether	I enjoy Futurama, but only after giving it a second chance. When I originally saw it on Fox, I couldn't sit through an episode, but once it got on Adult Swim, I was hooked with a quickness. It's a much smarter show than either Simpsons or Family Guy. I love the science nerd jokes, and am really looking forward to some new greatness from these new episodes. __________________ We're here to steal your pornography, and sodomize our vast imaginations. - Inignot

06-26-2006, 07:12 PM	#18 (permalink)
Frosstbyte Winter is Coming Location: The North	It was probably the best news I'd heard in a very long time. I'm thrilled that futurama is coming back. It is by far my favorite cartoon ever. I'm just disappointed that it's going to comedy central. It's been such an integral part of my Adult Swim experience for so many years, I will miss it dearly. Ah well, I'll take more futurama whereever I can get it.

06-27-2006, 03:02 AM	#19 (permalink)
stevie667 Too Awesome for Aardvarks Location: Angloland	Wait, somethings coming...yes...no...ye...no...yes, yes...no...yes! Wooo! __________________ Office hours have changed. Please call during office hours for more information.

06-28-2006, 12:04 AM	#20 (permalink)
abbaker987 Upright	A Terrifying Message from Al Gore This is great.

07-01-2006, 03:29 PM	#21 (permalink)
Val_1 Addict Location: In a State of Denial	I am stoked about this! Futurama was a great show. Now they've got to bring back Firefly. __________________ I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. -Frank Sinatra

07-02-2006, 05:00 AM	#23 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	2008, though. That's so far away! 18 damn months...I don't know if I can wait. __________________ it's quiet in here

07-02-2006, 08:34 PM	#24 (permalink)
heywatsup Upright	best.news.ever!! personally i cannot wait D:

06-09-2009, 07:48 PM	#25 (permalink)
guy44 Somnabulist Location: corner of No and Where	Good news, everyone! Futurama just got brought back to life - not as DVDs, like the last couple of years, but as a fully-fledged TV show on Comedy Central! The order is for 26 episodes! Huzzah! One of the coolest things about this, besides the obvious, is that I think the cast must be extremely pumped. Whenever I've read interviews with the voice cast (especially Billy West), they always talk about how much they genuinely loved Futurama. Now all we need to do is get Firefly back on the air somehow... __________________ "You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'"

06-10-2009, 04:13 AM	#27 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	I guess I missed the first reuppal; I shall not miss the second! And I suppose I'll echo the sentiments uttered before, but Futurama is still perhaps one of the best animated cartoons/sitcoms created, possibly besting the first decade of The Simpsons run. This is HUGE NEWS! The Out of This World Long-Awaited Reunion click to show __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-12-2009, 10:00 AM	#28 (permalink)
thespian86 change is hard. Location: the green room.	hahaha Oh Marylin Monroe bot. __________________ EX: Whats new? ME: I officially love coffee more then you now. EX: uh... ME: So, not much.

06-12-2009, 11:23 AM	#29 (permalink)
squeeeb part of the problem Location: hic et ubique	News like this is almost makes me want to go out and get a tv. Leela remains the cartoon i would most do. __________________ onward to mayhem!

06-12-2009, 12:22 PM	#30 (permalink)
Daniel_ Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It! Location: Southern England	Fantastic. Whooo hooooo! __________________ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗ Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air, And deep beneath the rolling waves, In labyrinths of Coral Caves, The Echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand; And everthing is Green and Submarine ╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝

03-18-2010, 12:16 PM	#31 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	New Futurama Teaser Trailer! \| Comedy Central Insider Blog I can't seem to get the new trailer to work, but the basic gist of it explains to you, the awaiting audience, is that new episodes begin this June. (also, each and every time this announcement happens, I'm actually expecting for a new season of Futurama to start back up, not just receive a package of 3-4 episodes that are intertwined to make a made-for-TV movie revolving around this universe. I'm not complaining, but it does get to be weird to hold your breath for something that has yet to happen in 3+ years; a brand new season and series upstart.) __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

03-18-2010, 02:19 PM	#32 (permalink)
Xerxys Junkie Location: My head.	Sweet! Futurama!

03-18-2010, 02:29 PM	#33 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	Woohoo!

03-18-2010, 09:41 PM	#34 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Reading this thread I was all YESSSSSS!!!! Then I looked at the date of the posts and I was all SONOFABITCH!!!! But then I scrolled down and was all KICK ASS!!!!!!!!! Really awesome to hear I loved this show and could never figure out why it never had a big enough audience to come back like family guy did. Anyway after a horrible night its pretty good to hear. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”

06-15-2010, 09:15 AM	#36 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	I would've created a new thread for this, but I don't like to create them for nothing, and it ties in, so here is the scoop: Recap-O-Rama: Five seasons of "Futurama" condensed into nine minutes, narrated by Zapp Brannigan: __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

06-27-2010, 10:18 AM	#37 (permalink)
guy44 Somnabulist Location: corner of No and Where	Well, now that the new season premiered, what do you think? Personally, I really enjoyed Rebirth and thought the second ep was just ok. But man oh man it is good to have Futurama back. I can't wait for the rest of the season! __________________ "You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'"

06-27-2010, 01:48 PM	#38 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	I missed the new episode. Does anyone know where I can see it? I've been keeping an eye out for reruns and looked online but haven't found anything edit: yay finally caught a rerun of it. I liked it. Last edited by Zeraph; 07-01-2010 at 01:10 PM..

06-27-2010, 02:12 PM	#39 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	There's some sort of mini-marathon of it to be run tonight on Comedy Central, at midnight (Est) ; perhaps the two newest episodes will lead off this showing. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi