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Futurama Confirmed on Cartoon Network
MrChubble writes "A quote from the cartoon network Adult Swim FAQ: "Starting January 12th the block will be extended to five nights a week (Sunday-Thursday) 11pm-2am et/pt and FUTURAMA will be added to the schedule."
Sounds like fun to me."
Jamie asks: it's nice to get confirmation of
reruns,
but will they be buying new episodes? Anyone know?
On the other hand, anime (especially manga) has historically been no better than pornography: it systematically dissects women into their component anatomical parts, except they're just fictionaly women. Now, this may be changing with the times, and there is a new crop of feminist apologists who'll tell you there's nothing wrong, that it is no more degrading to women than to men and that people of all genders are avid consumers. But again, to draw an analogy to pornography, it may just be that women are starting to internalize oppression.
Shut up, troll.
Why just a decent show like Futurama, and not a golden nugget like Family Guy? Why why why??
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Ahem. I believe you meant to write "bite my red-raw, distended shiny metal ass".
Its 5 am and I'm reading a post on slashdot about how in two weeks I will be able to spend 5/7 of the remainder of my life watching cartoon reruns until two in the morning.
What's even more pathetic is I'm posting this on windoze because linux won't boot.
Just frag me. Frag me now.
Its kind of a drag that they gave it such a shitty timeslot. I don't know about you, but I'm a student and I have to wake up at 5:30am... there's no way I can stay up until 2am watching cartoons.
Not new episodes, according to the press release.
Cartoon Network has acquired rights to air all 72 episodes of FUTURAMA, which recently won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.
Why the hell does this get posted, let alone make the front page? Look, I love Futurama as much as the next guy, but there are so many other, vastly more important things going on the world. Is it really that important to keep the thousands of Slashdotters constantly updated on ever evolving Futurama/Adult Swim situation?
/., get your priorities in order.
I sometimes think this site would pointless were it not for YRO. It's amazing, some of the stories in YRO that never make it to the front page, which seems to imply those stories are somehow less important then Futurama.
Honestly
1. Its Official - Futurama will be part of Cartoon Networks "Adult Swim" from Jan. 2003
Although Cartoon Network has a 5-year contract for Futurama, 20th Century Fox has the right to sell to syndication if TV stations show an interest in buying the reruns.
2. Chat Transcript: 20th Century Fox
A chat transcript, including Peter Staddon of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
[peterstaddon] There are so many TV titles coming down the road that I don't know where to start/ Futurama, The Shield, King of the hill, Son of the Beach, nypd Blue, Dark Angel, Angel, Family Guy, and probably a couple that I've overlooked as well. There's more than enough to keep you watching tv 24/7 .
I used to watch fox almost exclusivly, but now they don't have anything I want to see. It looked like they would hold me a bit longer with Futurama, but then they dropped it. Thank goodness for cable. Now I like The Learning Channel and Comedy Central.
Roll on the day when I can buy programmes of my choice and get them sent to my hard drive to watch at my leisure. There is the small issue of payment and copy protection but it's not a killer. I'd be happy to pay for (e.g.) a season of online Futurama if I could get a hardcopy on DVD.
Anyhow, the obvious solution is product placement. Bite my shiny metal Pepsi ass!
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Ads for the syndicated Futurama on TOON have been plastered on the side of NYC buses for a couple of weeks now. Complete with Bender's signature invitation.
Next time I see a new bus ad, I think I'll submit it as a story; and get a head start on all these fancy-shmancy web sites, who are REALLY behind the times...
I know that Futurama season 1 has already been released in other regions (R2 I think), and has been reasonably well done from what I've talked to people about.
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I'm a big fan of RPN, too, but HP has discontinued its calculator line.
In any event, RPN is fun and a way of life etc etc, but nobody does it and the time saved is really no big deal.
I'll continue to use my HP48GX until the day it dies but after that I'll probably have to buy a TI.
Futurama is already available for preorder on DVD. Why bother with the inconvenient timeslots and commercials?
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I've noticed for about 2 - 3 weeks now on the NJ Transit trains into New York City, that Cartoon Network has been running Futurama ads for their Adult Swim segment. It's an ad with Cartoon Network Logo at top, the Futurama gang, and the words "Visit the Future - Again, and Again, And Again..." and the 'Adult Swim' info at the bottom.
Looks like it's double confirmed!
But Cartoon network doesn't run any football games, so how do they plan to pre-empt it?
I swear, Fox must have *hated* this show. On 12/22, Futurama was the ONLY program Fox was planning to show that was not a rerun. They scheduled it for 7pm and, like every football game every season, the game ran long and they pre-empted Futurama again.
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It grows on you. Really it does. The first few episodes I saw I thought were mediocre as well, but once you get to know the characters, Futurama is funny as hell.
Let me tell you a little story about the Cartoon Network and non-DBZ shows.
There once was a little CGI show from Canada called "Reboot". In order to do another season, they (Mainframe Entertainment) needed a commitment from the Cartoon Network. You see, even for a Canadian company, they still relied upon the US market as a gauge for success.
So the magic day came...the new season was out! Reboot fans in Canada gathered around the warming glow of YTV and enjoyed the new episodes! But in the States, it was a different story...
CN showed the new Reboots irregularly. Some say they didn't even bother to air the entire season! But CN was more than happy to expand their Adult Swim lineup with more Dragon Ball Z (and shows just like it).
The moral of the story? Unless it's some loser Japanese cartoon, don't expect CN to get behind it in any way. If they promise to help fund new Futuramas, they won't air them (that would interfere with the non-stop DBZ slideshow).
It has robot jokes... and everyone loves robots.
I thought Futurama was confirmed on Sunday night when they showed about 20 commercials for it.
"The best Comedy Scfi Action Drama."
I've watched Adult Swim every Sunday night regardless of how much work I had on Monday for quite awhile, and I don't want to see Futurama on there.
Granted, I like the show. I just don't see how it fits. Adult Swim seems to have it's own style, which doesn't meld well with Futurama, the Simpsons, the Critic, or the Family Guy.
I would much rather watch the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, make the homies say "HO" and the girlies wanna scream.
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and who can argue with the humourous quality of Gaydar!! LOL
after seeing all futurama episodes to date I'd have to say that it's a great series. I seriously hope they continue with a new season or 2.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. How much insight is there in "The Family Guy is good"?
Unless it's some loser Japanese cartoon, don't expect CN to get behind it in any way.
Please. They don't get behind anime at all unless it's DBZ. They made a half-hearted attempt with Cowboy Bebop, and they're probably going to make a half-hearted attempt with Lupin III.
Here's the problem, as I see it:
The people who don't know any better and think that DBZ is quality programming will watch it, bad dubbing, heinous editing and all.
The people who prefer good anime and wish that CN would show it occasionally get their wish. Then they see that their favority anime has received the Cartoon Network Treatment, cringe in pretentious terror, and change the channel.
Thus, the good anime gets shitty ratings, and DBZ gets yet another time slot.
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i already own the first two series on DVD ( 33 episodes in total i believe ). So i guess there both out.
A) Dragonball Z is on Toonami, not Adult Swim (as was Reboot, for that matter).
B) Of course Cartoon Network likes Dragonball Z, it brings in good ratings. As does their anime-oriented Adult Swim lineup.
C) That said, at this point in time, there are two different Adult Swim lineups, one for Saturday, which is anime, and one for Sunday, which is American (and possibly Canadian, I don't remember) cartoons. It sounds like they are adding Futurama to, and expanding, the latter.
D) There's far more non-anime than anime on Cartoon Network. Aside from showing a lot of old cartoons, like the Flintstones, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo (they show a lot of that) etc, they also have their own shows, like Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, etc. Of course, they did recently add Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh to their evening lineup, which annoys the heck out of me (and I like anime), but they still show a lot of non-anime stuff.
Now, I don't know why they cancelled Reboot (although, frankly, I didn't much care for it, so no loss to me), but it had nothing to do with it not being anime. Whether or not they support Futurama will have more to do with whether Fox is willing to give up its rights to new episodes, and whether Cartoon Network has the money to pay for it (most of its own cartoons are considerably lower-budget than Futurama; I suspect the executives like anime because most American audiences haven't seen the shows, but Cartoon Network doesn't have to pay for their creation, just the rights to show them). But it has nothing to do with whether or not it's Japanese (aside from the cost issues mentioned above).
New Years Eve they are showing new episodes of Space Ghost, and other shows.
And Brak from the Brak show will be hosting along side Carl from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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Very true. It seems all of the comments have came from people who don't actually watch Adult Swim.
Their Anime block is wonderful to me, because I have never seen the shows, but their Sunday Block has always done better, which is why they are showing it throughout the week.
Cartoon Network has done a wonderful job with Adult Swim, and I hope they can continue doing a great job with so many days. There aren't THAT many episodes of a lot of these shows.
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It was as good as confirmed months ago, but this confirmed confirmation isn't really breaking news either, considering the Cartoon Network has already started airing ads for Futurama.
...last night on the way home.
BIG poster in the NYC subway advertising Futurama.
You don't spring for that kind of ad unless yes, they are going to be showing it.
Brazil has decided you're cute.
Now if they could just get The Simpsons, I'll have no reason to watch network television ever again.
I didn't know that there even were any new episodes of reboot. I've liked that show since I first saw it back in '96. I think it was on Fox. Anybody know how to get my hands on these newer editions? Amazon only has the first season.
every single futurama episode that has aired. no other show has made me laugh as hard as this one has. i cant wait till the movie comes out.
Slightly offtopic, as Futurama is about as Anime as a Mickey The Mouse cartoon!
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So let me get this straight, you don't like trolls, don't trust the moderators and have time to kill so you read all -1 comments but want someone "that you can trust" to remove comments that are not interesting to you?
Some people are never happy.
If I were CmdrTaco I would let the trolls think they have moderations points but only let their point rank the comments read by other trolls. It would be fun to see the trolls' version of /. spiral down until even the trolls get board (is that even possible?)
I'll be happy with the original episodes, since I missed half of them thanks to FOX pre-empting it every chance they got. Now only was that bad enough, but they'd let the fucking post-game show overrun it!
:-)
The Simpsons sucks enough now that I can almost completely stop watching Fox. It's occasionally good, like the Halloween shows and the recent Tales from the Public Domain, so I'll keep tuning in to the long-running suckfest just to catch the occasional gem, just like I did with Married... with Children for its last 5 or 7 years.
Save your mod points, I'm just venting. But misery loves company, so reply & chime in!
PS--hooray, Cartoon Network!
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I have done a little digging and found the following link which gives a "complete" Reboot show listing:
here
I agree Reboot was excellent and its a shame I never got to see more than two series over here either.
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FUTURAMA SUCKS ASS!!! its just pittiful to start watching this stupid cartoon on the once really nice Adult Swim. It just plainly suck, they are cutting back on REAL anime and just stupid cartoons like futurama.
Is an insult.
The JZA
Thank God for TiVo!
Listen to the smart robut!
Futurama adds Cartoon Network to IT'S schedule.
If you only saw the first two seasons, it's almost as if you didn't see ReBoot at all. The third season -- when the makers were liberated from the strait-jacket that was ABC's Bureau of Standards and Practices -- blossomed into a really sharp show. Luckily for you, you can get all 16 episodes of the third season on DVD.
I only saw the first half of the fourth season. (Cartoon Network, in its infinite wisdom, only ran the episodes once
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If you're planning on buying the second season on DVD as well, you'll be disappointed by the extra features (Hardly anything, mostly just deleted scense).
them damn ideriot boxen?
I mean, really now. With the atrociousness
of the general public's spelling and grammar,
you should all be reading books.
Do yourself a favor, turn OFF the tv and go
read a book or go outside!
I guess the strike was a partial success.
They've been advertising this for at least two weeks.
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For those of you who can't wait for the North American release of the first season, you can order it up from Amazon.co.uk. The second season is also available. The down side is that you need a region-free or European DVD player to watch 'em. The director's commentaries are hilarious! Well worth the $$$.
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Please. They don't get behind anime at all unless it's DBZ. They made a half-hearted attempt with Cowboy Bebop, and they're probably going to make a half-hearted attempt with Lupin III.
Lupin's not even on the air here yet, and as for Cowboy Bebop...It's never shared the same block of time with DBZ, and probably never will. Further, i'm not sure what qualifies it as "half-hearted" to you, as they've gone through the entire series at least 3 or 4 times now, and except for some possible small niggling differences, it's been identical to the (dubbed) DVD version.
Here's the problem, as I see it:
The people who don't know any better and think that DBZ is quality programming will watch it, bad dubbing, heinous editing and all.
If you don't like it, don't watch the damn show. It is what it is- an action cartoon. People watch it for the fight scenes, a bit of humor, and to just be entertained. If you want something deeper, then watch the right show for the job, which is not DBZ, most times.
Yes, Funimation did a horrid job on the dubbing and such, but some of us don't need perfection to get a little enjoyment. If it really bothers you so, go watch the original Japanese version and leave the rest of us alone.
The people who prefer good anime and wish that CN would show it occasionally get their wish. Then they see that their favority anime has received the Cartoon Network Treatment, cringe in pretentious terror, and change the channel.
Again, if you don't like them so much, don't watch the freaking shows! Nobody's forcing you to tune to CN.
I love how you seem to think that Cartoon Network does all the dubbing and editing, too....Try reading the credits on most of the shows sometime. On Cowboy Bebop, for instance, you should be blaming Bandai and or ZRO Limit Productions for most of the percieved damage.
Between my ReplayTV and my DVD burner, I'm just burning my own. Too many of my favorite shows either do not end up on DVD at all, or are priced so high as to not be worth it. While season one and two of Futurama might be in the stores, how likely is season three or four? Then there are the shows that will never be released on DVD, like The Critic or Invader Zim.
Sure, I don't get the commentary or neat packaging, but I don't care about that. I care about the show.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
If they promise to help fund new Futuramas, they won't air them (that would interfere with the non-stop DBZ slideshow).
DBZ is on at least 6 hours earlier than Futurama will be....They're not even in the same block of programming, dumbass. How the hell is it going to interfere?
But it is PAL and R2. But that shouldn't be a problem if you use your computer to watch them. If you want to watch them on your TV, PAL could be serios problem. Some players can convert to NTSC but the picture won't be that good. Most new TVs sold in PAL countries can accept NTSC input but most TVs sold in NTSC countries are unable to accept a PAL input signal.
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Well let's be honest, who here hasn't fantasized about Leela being gang-tentacle-raped by demons?
WTF? How is this off-topic? Read the thread: Somebody mentioned Reboot, and I asked if there was any way to get it, since as far as I know it's not being shown on any US stations. It was on-topic for the thread, and I turned off my bonus point for the post, since I really only cared about the parent poster reading it.
This is offtopic, yes, but very relevent to the discussion of Anime that was going on, and very insightful. I can understand why the typical idiotic slashdot-male can not understand this, though it is important for them to start listening. It should not be modded troll.
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You have to wonder just how many people completely missed that.
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Are you kidding me. Futurama is 10x better than FG. FG is just a bunch of goofy things thrown together. Futurama is often damn clever and funny at the same time
The Season 5 episodes have been showing up on the NNTP newsgroup alt.binaries.multimedia.futurama
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Then you'll need WinRAR to extract the MPG. Works well, tastes great and lasts a long time! (Bender Burp BRAAAAAAHT)
Futurama is a terrible show... and should stay off the TV. Hell TV is terrible stop watching it, ok well just watch simpsons/family guy =P
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Fox kills Futurama, breaking contract. CN gets a deal for showing re-runs. Am I supposed to be jubilant or what?
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
Series 1 of Futurama is out in R4 too, I'm going to buy it when I get paid next week.
Funny, I assumed that it would've been released in R1 first, considering that's where it comes from.
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so now we shall see if they can get Invader ZIM to be a part of this line up...Hopefully the Oblongs will still be on and maybe Jhonen will make an animated version of Johnny the Homocidal Maniac.
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