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One Last New Episode of Futurama

Posted by michael on from the sweet-juicy-justice dept.

Ant writes "Futurama's last new episode airs tonight at 7:00 PM on Fox." If you're missing your fix, there's a Futurama website with entirely too much Futurama info.

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  1. Re:Sad.. by barzok · · Score: 5, Informative
    Fox is far from perfect, I'm no fanboy, but the other big networks don't tolerate stuff like Family Guy and Futurama. Fox stuck with the show through four years of poor ratings, and with Family Guy through three years or so of dismal ratings.
    Both of which Fox sabotaged. Futurama moreso than Family Guy. Futurama was put in a timeslot where at least 10 weeks a year (7 PM Sunday - NFL games run to 7:30 regularly), it would be pre-empted, and Fox knew that when they put it in that timeslot.

    Family Guy - when it was on Fox, I never knew when it was airing. Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Friday? They kept moving it, so they were never able to snare a viewer base.
  2. A Testament to Groening by KU_Fletch · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's going to be sad that I won't have Futurama on my Sunday nights any more (at least I won't have to suffer through King of the Hill afterwards). But thank god for Matt Groening and his DVD producion staff at Fox. The Simpsons and Futurama DVDs are some of he best released and reflective of how much Groening likes his fans.

    If you look at other TV show DVD sets, Groening's collections can beat just about anyone out there. They are reasonabley priced (around 30-40 bucks at most stores) compared to some TV shows selling their sets at $80-100. The production quality is great, so you don't have to suffer through bad transfers (although there was an initial pressing problem with Simpsons S1 that was fixed). And probably the reason I love them the most is the fact that Groening and his boys sit down and do commentaries on all their episodes. They know that you can watch all the episodes and get a laugh out of them, but the thing that keeps you coming baack is hearing them shred their episodes to pieces. We've all seen Simpsons and Futurama on synidcation long enough to know a lot of the old episodes by heart, but the commentaries are pure genious. So it might be sad that the TV shows are leaving us, but props to Matt for a dedication to kick ass DVDs

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