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.

Comments

Spellcheck The Petition Please!

[GeekLife.com]

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.

Don't you people understand?

[roystgnr]

Fox just doesn't have enough room in it's busy schedule full of quality programming to squeeze in Futurama! Why, look at the Austin affiliate's jam packed lineup tonight:

• The Teenage Sex and Drugs Hour (Formerly titled "That 70's Show" and "Undeclared")
  
• 24 (Sure, there are rumors that this could go away and empty up an hour of space soon, but who knows: they could rename it "48" and surprise you!)
  
• Fox 7 News at Nine (This takes up a whole hour, of course, because you just can't shave any time out of a local news channel and still preserve Fox's world-renowned reputation for journalistic depth and integrity. Tonight's banner headline from www.fox7.com: "Back pain can be excruciating!")
  
• Um, er, well... that's it for current programming. But they surround it with four hours of reruns (allowing them to spend less on expensive new programming, and pass the savings on to you, the viewer!), "Fox 7 News at Five" (for the hour full of important breaking stories that just can't wait until 9), and the late night rerun of "Fox 7 News at Nine".
  

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?

To quote the Simpsons:

[thermostat42]

"You know, Fox turned into a Hard core sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice."
- Marge