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?

Comments

Time Slot

[gabeman-o]

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.

Re:For got sakes, how the hell is this news???

[lvdrproject]

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, but Slashdot doesn't owe you or anyone else anything. I, for one, find this somewhat interesting, and i'd like to see what other Slashdotters have to say about this ("this" being what happened, not criticism of the article itself). Of course, this article isn't as chock full of wordly implications as many of Slashdot's finer ones, but nonetheless it does fit into the "news for nerds" thing. It seems every other article gets a batch of guys like you saying "But how does this fit in with the almighty SLASHDOT MANTRA????". The fact is, the Slashdot mantra is subjective, and you're never going to get everyone to agree on it.

However, if you don't think this is news, by all means, please don't read it. The people on here that do find this interesting will not be converted or otherwise swayed by your comment, or mine, or anyone else's. So, i think the phrase "if you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything at all" applies here. If you really want to criticise something, criticise the moderation system. I browse at -1 because i don't trust the moderators to weed out "only the bad" for me. Of course, with this comes the... FIFTEEN (so far) trolls/f1rst pr0st/goatse posts. Now for that i'd be interested in hearing a solution.

Re:To be devil's advocate

[KoolyM]

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.

Re:New Shows? Why bother?

[Hugh Kir]

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).