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?

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Syndication Rights Only

[finny]

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.

Two interesting links

[CBNobi]

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 .

Television has to die...

[ites]

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!

DVDs out soon too...

[Masem]

Season 1 of Futurama has been confirmed for R1 release on March 25, 2003 (3 disks, with audio commentary on each episode with some deleted scenes), and related, Family Guy's first box set for R1 (apparently the first season, but may be more) is listed on April 15, 2003 (4 disks, some selected audio commentary).

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.

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.

How will they pre-empt it?

[Col. Klink (retired)]

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.

Re:Time Slot

[veddermatic]

By your statement it's obvious you are in high-school, and therefore not a "Student"

Real Students are watching TV at 11pm while figuring out what bar to go to because you just finished the case of beer you started on a couple hours ago with your buddies.

Then the next morning (and by morning, I mean afternoon) there will be hazy discussions over last night's Fututrama... "I think it was funny... d00d, I'm sooo hungover! I only got $4 left, looks like we goot buy Busch again tonight..."