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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?
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.
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 .
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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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.
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.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. How much insight is there in "The Family Guy is good"?
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).
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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.
Now if they could just get The Simpsons, I'll have no reason to watch network television ever again.
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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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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So if the parent (again, not sure if that's you) really finds Slashdot totally pointless except for YRO, then why not just read YRO? What's the point in posting to every article you don't find interesting and saying that "it's not news"? I don't want to turn this into a flame war... i mean, if this was the first post of its kind i had seen, then i would've just moved on. But as it is, like i said, i see dozens of these a month. The whole thing really is subjective, and there's not really any middle ground. I guess it's all opinion. Just stating mine.
They've received the rights to air 72 episodes, so it'll be about 14.4 weeks, or 3.6 months, before they have to show repeats.
:)
Even so, repeats can be a good thing if (like me) you don't have time to religiously watch TV 5 nights a week.
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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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.
I forget the number -- something like $120k/episode, but this is the most CN has ever paid for a show, so I'm sure it will get shown pretty regularly :)
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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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.
Fox kills Futurama, breaking contract. CN gets a deal for showing re-runs. Am I supposed to be jubilant or what?
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