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Concerning The Cancellation of Futurama
Andie Similon of gotfuturama.com writes: "We have recently heard from 4 reliable sources that fox did not pick up the 5th season of futurama. So it's going to get cancelled. We (the fans and webmasters of cgef and other websites) have set up a letter campaign to Fox,' but we need some big sites to spread the word. There are two possibilities of saving futurama A) some other network picking it up B) Fox realizing its mistake (I don't count on it), but the only way we can realise this is that we can get a very big amount of written letters to Fox." Go read the online petition
and/or
sign it. They've temporarily removed other content on anything else from the site -- there are priorities, after all. Futurama is one of the few shows that make me glad for the invention of television.
I guess it's time you bought a TiVo.
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Well. I guess we can't get rid of all people who make uninformed judgements.
"You know you don't act like a scientist, you're more like a game show host." Dana Barret
Well gee yeah that's incredible... people protest the closing of shows they like while ignoring the passing of shows that they don't like! What bias! How unfair! Boo hoo!
...and "The Family Guy"...? Just when exactly did you have your sense of humour surgically removed? Were the "All in the Family" reruns too heart-stoppingly chucklesome for you?
You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
Fox turned into a hard core porn channel so gradually no one even noticed.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
It's dubious how much a network pays attention to these sort of online petitions, but it would greatly improve your chances if you spellchecked the petition first. And then have 10 people proofread it.
happyness?
quantitiys?
possibilitiys?
inivative?
funnny?
entertaing?
unfinnished?
interupting?
And "Simpsons" should be capitalized as well. The networks probably won't listen anyway, but you might as well not give them specific excuses for discarding your petition.
And it goes on like that, night after night! Why would they want to air a clone of a successful Fox show like The Simpsons, when they can air "That 80's Show"? And have you seen the fan base behind "Grounded for Life"? You can't do a single search on Morpheus without tripping over DivX episodes of that runaway hit. And let's not forget the lucrative DVD revenues from "Titus"!
Basically, there's no place for Futurama in the Fox lineup anymore. Saturday night is locked down with "Human Scum TV", craftily filling in the space between COPS and America's Most Wanted with COPS reruns! So what are they going to do? If only Fox was running three other humorous adult animation shows to fill out the rest of two hours, perhaps they'd be able to create some sort of thematically unified lineup, but where would they find three shows like that on short notice?
Don't cancel it, just rename it to match the other fine, fine programming on FOX.
Some potential winners:
- Temptation Spaceship 5
- When Aliens Attack
- Who Wants to Marry a One-Eyed Woman?
- Bender in the Middle
- That 2970's Show
To be quite honest, while I love shows like The Family Guy and Futurama, I question how much petitions like this do. True, they gave it a terrible timeslot, but the real "petition" is to watch it (although without a Nielsen box it doesn't do much).
I mean, looking through the petitions on petitiononline.com, we see:
1337 sp3ak in 5(}{00l !!
A petition to the WWF in honor of the Undertaker
Let's Import Japan
A bit hard to take this seriously, especially considering how little effort it takes to sign a petition. A bigger noise would be made by sending postcards, that would fill their mailboxes.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
who else thinks Leela is sexy?
"You know, Fox turned into a Hard core sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice."
- Marge
no comment
I wonder what kind of commercials appeal to somebody with enough time to sit with a stopwatch and refresh a page every 30 seconds and figure out what the rate of change on it is?
The difference is:
Family Guy gets cancelled after every season
It's kind of like their replacement for the season finale I guess.
"Who Wants to Marry Temptation Island Millionaires in the Chamber... While Animals Attack?"
I'll produce my own Futurama-show... With black jack... And hookers!
:(
In fact, forget the show.
And the black jack.
Aehhh... screw the whole thing!
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Hey Bender, will the futurama references be cancelled
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