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Futurama: Can it be True!?
foolinator writes "Wired News has reported that Futurama could be making a comeback! From the article: "Last year, Futurama and Family Guy reruns did so well that it's likely both shows (which Fox killed in prime time) will produce new episodes."
" Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again.
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I truely hope that they both come back, particularly Futurama.
Ah, Zoidy, what are we doing without you?
...will they be able to get back the same writing talent that made us fall in love with it, or is the quality of the shows going to be compromised?
At least South Park still manages to be fresh and timely after 8 years.
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Will Adult Swim get the new episodes of this show?
This is simply a exagerration by the reporter - a wishful comment. It's simply not true, as has been said on all the Futurama sites for some time now.
I still think we're headed for an all-cartoon prime time. It's so much cheaper to make cartoons compared to other shows, and the jokes can be so much clearer, plus you can fly under the FCC's crazy censorship witch-hunting by being "just a harmless cartoon".
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It seems like too much of a coincidence that while the Simpsons actors are holding out for $8 Million / season that Fox suddenly takes an intrest in Futurama? Say it aint so!
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I hope someone at Fox got the axe for cancelling the two shows in the first place.
I certainly hope this is true. The 4 DVD Box sets would love a 5th-nth Futurama series as long as they keep the humour to the same high standard.
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What about new FG episodes on DVD? I heard some rumour about that...
For those who don't know, Family Guy will be back early next year for a fourth series. Alex Borstein (Lois) has recently commented on her first week back.
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CGEF carried this over a month ago. At the time it was considered a case of "overenthusiastic editor." It still is as far as I'm concerned.
I'll believe it when there's an announcement from Fox.
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Is there any chance that these shows might find a network other than FOX?!
After seeing them not only cancel shows that they doomed to failure due to their poor placement to say nothing of the travisty that is FauxNews I would like to see these shows grow some balls and find a network that might care about them.
At the last convention that I saw him at, Matt Groening said he would LOVE to make new episodes of Futurama, but it is a extremely expensive show to make. It's more a money issue than anything else.
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As for Family Guy, they ARE making new episodes of that. The DVD set sales blew the execs away, they hadn't realized how popular it was, apparently.
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Since Gendy Tarkovsky is going to be directing episode three now, Seth will be taking the helm of his Cartoon network projects, and George Lucas will intern be taking over for Family Guy, and perhaps more surprisingly Futurama. You thought a 6 minute fart joke was overly long and in poor taste in a 120 minutes of movie, wait till you see an expanded version with 3 full minutes of previously unreleased flatulance shoehorned into 22 minutes of TV.
"Big Name" shows like these with a large brand recognition would be right at home on the smaller channels that need something to grab a few hundred thousand viewers. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that a show like Futurama would be given a lot more love and attention by a more grateful network, than the Fox behemouth.
In addition to the mentioned toons, I read an interview with Kevin Smith and he mentioned that not only have the original 6 episodes of Clerks: The Animated Series been picked up for airing on a channel other then ABC (HBO I think?), but there is the possibility of all new episodes, as they orginally had plans for 4 seasons! Good times indeed....
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The Critic has been released on DVD and Invader Zim has probably also been released by now.
I wish they could bring these shows back.. I heard that Jhonen Vasquez isn't interested in continuing with cartoons though. Ah well.
Invader Zim only got what, one or two seasons?
Futurama and Family Guy are more popular than they realize. Me and my roomate no longer watch television. Over the course of the 4 years of college we've had TV go from that thing we watch to being hated enemy. Of course there are 3 shows we download and watch. The third is the Simpsons. If they make new episodes that would be great, because then I can download and watch those too. It really sucks when you've downloaded and seen every single episode and there's nothing new. Buying the DVDs is good too.
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Do the executives ever watch these programs if they did they would realise what a bad idea killing them off would be. Most programs that have a large audience in there first series usually trail off by the second and third (think of most reality shows). Most quality series build up a fan base slowly by word of mouth, which is what has happened with the re-runs.
Message to SKY/FOX please stop repeating the same Simpson episodes in the same week it's boring and putting me off the Simpson's.
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If Fox does bring it back I hope they don't put it on at 7pm Sunday. Football and Nascar runs long... Kill Futurama. They never gave the show a chance to grow an audience outside of Sci-Fi fans. And yet they give Oliver Bean the cherriest slot behind Simpsons. I loved that crapfest when it was called 'The Wonder Years'.
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Sheesh, did they have to change the name of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/whatever again?!?
During Futurama's last season there was a two-month stretch where no Futurama was shown at all (even though it was in the schedule).
Futurama has been the best packaging of any dvd series by far. Its not flimsy so it will last, and its also very sexy looking. All other tv shows should do this, Unlike the crappy packaging that 24 comes in....
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I downloaded every single episode, i hope to do so again.
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I dunno, I'm as big a South Park fan as anybody but season 8 has been consistently bad so far.
Anyway, when these shows come back, I'd be concerned about the voice talent, the writers, the desire of the studio to just crank out some crap hoping the title of the show keeps people watching. I mean, have you seen the Simpsons lately? Definately past its prime.
Maybe, and I hope I'm wrong, these shows were cut down in their prime for a good reason: to avoid jumping the shark.
Now here's a show I'd love to see brought back, but it'll never happen... Invader ZIM. Too bad, the creative genius of the show has gone on record saying he'd rather die than animate.
Can it be true?
Yes.
Is it?
Probably not. I have no respect for unsubstantiated Hollywood rumors. Please provide some factual evidence before posting stupid rumors like that.
OK, now we've got the second best science-fiction comedy cartoon of all time un-cancelled, a concerted effort must be made to rescue Invader Zim from Nickelodeon. Irkan dominance must not be denied!
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I don't know if anyone else remembers what Futurama was replaced with. Oliver Beane. One of the shittiest shows ever. People joke about Fox executives being a bunch of monkeys that have no clue about programming, but it's really true. Every single truly good show Fox gets it cancels. What is it replaced with? Midgets, people injuring themselves, TV bloopers, weddings, police chases, reality shows, absolute shit. The ratings may be high for those shows, but they are only high because they are extreme. Once people become censatized they must become more extreme. It's an arms race. Just look at the wedding shows of 3 years ago compared to todays. There's nothing about these shows that have lasting value or anything that's fundamentally entertaining about them.
Zoidberg, now he's entertaining. The rubber band is on the other claw now!!
Who needs TV anyway, I would pay a couple of bucks if fox (or anyone else) was selling a legal torrent or downloadable version of these episodes. DVDs are nice, but you have to wait, torrent files would be cheaper.
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God I love Futurama
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FOX executives know as much about entertainment, as FOX News execs do about news. You'd almost think they ran Sci-fi, I know! Let's replace Farscape with Tripping the Rift (aka Proof that Quebec is the humorless wasteland everyone thinks it is).
What I would wish, is that we all get neilson boxes. And those boxes control one candy dispenser for, and one cattle prod rectally inserted inm each network executive. But the small amount of voltage contributed to either the candy machine or cattle prod is multiplied by the average IQ of the household where it resides.
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1. Create insanely funny, brilliant show. Allow critics and internet forum readers to rave about said brilliance while it airs on FOX.
2. Allow FOX to cancel your series after a few seasons.
3. Send out a couple of DVDs that sell millions of copies.
4. Air reruns on Cartoon Network that become insanely popular.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
Here's the new Fox lineup starting at 8pm, 7 central:
8:00 = The Simpsons
8:30 = Futurama (Oliver Bean was funnier when it was called "The Wonder Years")
9:00 = The Family Guy (Malcome in the Middle should be Malcom in the Unemployment line)
9:30 = Arrested Development (this is a GREAT show, please keep it idiots)
Please note, there are no laugh tracks in any of the above shows...as you don't need to tell us when something is funny. (Animated before a live audience?)
Also, Fox WILL stop from the idiotic news teases such as "Alarming news about a certain new food you could be eating right at this very moment that could instantly kill you...we'll tell you about it at 10pm".
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*Buzzing Sounds* (Together) We will reinstate Futurama... All glory to the hypnotoad.
You're telling me you didn't laugh at let's fighting love? and butters getting a throwing star in his eye? or "you got served"?
I love each and every one of you, with your crazy "But I love it and I'm teh smart!" arguments.
Look around you, dear hearts. Do you see a Neilsen box? No? Then nobody who matters cares what you think. Accept it, and move on.
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Yeah, they canceled the shows "by mistake" and that's why they're bringing em back...
Or is just that they took it away, brought it back as "new coke" and sold it for twice the price?
I mean I like the cartoons and all but mostly I catch them by accident. E.g. flipping channels and happen to hit on it. I'm not really that excited that they're "back on the air" because that's what they want you to think.
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Now if they can only ditch Matt Groening, all would be well in this perfect world.
If the DVD commentaries are anything to go by, that guy's spends his time trampling over any ideas he doesn't immediately understand and blurting out random whims. At least he brings the money.
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Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again.
Movie Tome has an entry for a Firefly movie called "Serenity" that will start filming later this year and be ready by 2005. Hopefully it'll be successful and spawn another set of episodes or at the very least more movies. I'd link it but tv tome and movie tome aren't responding to me right now.
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I agree, Futurama sucked and shouldn't make a return. I also agree that Family Guy should come out with some new shows!
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This was published and on the newstands about 3 weeks ago and it was presented as a big maybe. How do you get a slashdot story out of this anyway?
I'm very glad they're making more. "It's a jackal!"
Hello... "Do the executives ever watch these programs...?"
Well, yes... they probably do. But, since they're executives, there's a slim chance that they're also geeky enough to "get" Futurama. Futurama was packed with side jokes related to programming, physics, linguistics, etc. No executive worth his washroom key would understand any of that...
I don't know why it's doing so poorly! All we did is move its timeslot around and then preempt it with sports that its target audience doesn't want to watch.
[as] is like the nice, sweet geek friend who loves a girl (great cartoons) who's with a horrible boyfriend (Fox). He treats her wrong, and she runs to her geek. But as soon as she's feeling better, the dumbass boyfriend wants her back.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Part of me says "woo hoo! New Episodes!" But another part says "Now it will be in the mainstream again, complete with lots of disgusting, annoying commercials and no funny cards."
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
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I really never saw the appeal of Futurama, even though I was a big Simpsons fan. I tried watching it and giving it a chance, many times, but every time I watched it I couldn't help but see Peggy Bundy whenever the one-eyed chick talked.
Now, Family Guy, on the other hand, has a shot - I've seen articles about its possible revival thanks to strong DVD sales.
Everyone, put your CSS and region-control concerns behind you, and buy a fuckload of Futurama DVDs.
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Now if only Fox would bring the back The Tick. (The animated version! The animated version!)
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This news has already been reported before, and every time the creators of the show said they will not be bringing it back as it would segment too much of their time which they need for other projects
If you don't like Futurama you probably didn't get the jokes. :)
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God, that's the very reason the show got canceled: it was too smart for its audience.
It's sort of like telling redneck jokes in Alabama... NOBODY gets it.
Movie Tome has an entry for a Firefly movie called "Serenity" that will start filming later this year and be ready by 2005. Hopefully it'll be successful and spawn another set of episodes or at the very least more movies.
You've got to hope that someone holding the money sees the light. A friend lent me the DVD box set of the Firefly episodes (as I'd missed them all first time around) and I'm hooked. I'm also totally pissed off that when I get to the end of Disc 4 there isn't any more to go round, so I'm praying that the movie is good enough to get another series going.
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But I've been a pretty big fan of this past season. The episode this season with Homer taking over Ziff Corp. was amaizing. Anytime you can sneak in a theremin joke, or a USA loves Saddam Hussein joke, you know you are dealing with gold.
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... was because Seth MacFarlane's old school headmaster got the sponsors of the show to pull out.
Of course it's total BS, but he's the real person to blame for this, not the Fox execs, as such. What could they do? No money, no deal, right?
BTW, Family Guy rocks! Go Family Guy! :-)
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I was a huge Simpsons fan, until I got tired of 50% of all the writing being a parody of something else. But it was a great show, regardless. Futurama...well, I tried to watch it a couple of times, and I didn't get it. I saw how it was trying to be funny, but it was so forced.
Now King of the Hill...there's a slickly written and funny show. It has lines which are completely brilliant, without just being throwaways or parodies of other shows or movies.
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Did any one ever write to that, I did, I actually became a mailing list for the partition to keep Family Guy on Fox, I wonder if it still works??
Yeah, that's why Jeff Foxworthy isn't popular at all....NOT.
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Isn't it? How something has to be canceled before anybody notices it was doing well? Someone needs to figure out what it is about middle management that makes them insist on canceling/firing/destroying as a first alternative for everything.
Profits down? Fire people. Ratings down? Cancel it. Not making seven figures pure pocket-stuffing profit a day? Destroy it. What if these guys worked in agriculture? They'd probably bulldoze the whole fucking farm because they weren't shipping truckloads of wheat bread and salsa by Thursday.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Thats what you like to tell yourself to feel smart then fine, whatever. Personally I thought the jokes in Futurama were few and far between, and the ones that were there were weak at best. Futurama was little more than Simpons: 3001
Family Guy has a very dark edge to it that Matt Groening could never hope to capture. If you can get the humour in Family Guy you can sure as hell get any humour in Futurama, if it were there.
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You are one hundred percent wrong.
Decent cartoons actually cost far more than the crap reality shows to make. Alledgedly Futurama cost something like $1 million dollars an episode to produce, due to it's high quality animation.
Thats why Fox canned them in the first place - they did it to bump their short term profits.
However quality shows like Futurama and Family Guy have much greater long term value - they can be shown on TV for years and DVD sales are also very great - whereas who gives a rats ass about last years reality shows ? And who wants to watch repeats of them for years on end ?
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Nice to see that Futurama may have a second chance at getting pre-empted for football every week and shuffled throughout the Fox lineup until Ethan Fucking Edwards couldn't find it.
This is still Fox we're talking about people. If both Futurama and Family Guy do end up coming back, don't expect the second coming or anything. They'll get some hype when they first come back, get thrown into some God awful time slot when American Idol: This Time It's Personal goes on the air, and will be forgotten by 90% of this country inside of 3 weeks.
I can understand how Zim's humor was considered by Nickelodeon to be too "goth". Perhaps Zim would have had a different fate if it aired on a channel where it could interest a wider audience -- for example,on Comedy Central.
Comedy Central already has South Park and Tripping the Rift; Zim, with its non-sexual themes, could round this out nicely.
Familiy Guy - is back in production of Fox! Yay! (airing early 2005)
Futurama - isn't. Booo! The article says the production costs are too high. (...but stay tuned)
who the hell is jeff foxworthy? an american pollie or someone?
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You know, if Fox were to bring back all the great shows they've cancelled over the years, they could singlehandedly wipe out reality TV (largely because they wouldn't have any time to show it).
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Although it might be harder to produce, I'm getting a feeling that Fox shouldn't even bother because they'll just end up abusing whatever timeslot they put the (new) Futurama on by pre-empting football or nascar or some Fox News thingy. They need programming that they deem "throw away" to fill in the gaps and its not going to be The Simpsons or some reality TV show.
I suspect the reasons why these are being disucssed at all are actually two fold. One is clearly the popularity in [adult swim]'s block on Cartoon Network. The other is selling through well on the DVD market.
Fox execs will see CN and the DVD producers (as well as a good penny for Groening and MacFarlane) making a load of cash on both shows and will probably make the same mistake *again*. I don't mind though. In the end that just means more epsiodes for CN and more DVDs.
Fox killed this show back in 1999 and man I wish everyday they'd bring back that show. It was about a cop who's wife got raped. He caught the guy who did it and killed him. He dies a couple months later and goes to hell. Ten years later, 113 demons escape from hell and the devil sends the cop after em. Go get some of eps at suprnova.
is I pay for this and spend more time on it then I EVER have any television program.
and it's a lot like a cartoon! only with interaction. Why waste time with TV when you can be doing something that stimulates?
What is the big hairy deal with Firefly?
I watched the first two episodes.
That thing stunk worse than a turd on the sidewalk in August.
It is clearly a live action ripoff of the much touted and clever Cowboy Bebop.
Anime should be left anime, and crap shows should be cancelled.
Some things are just better left as animation.
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Please bring Futurama back. With a lot more Amy Wong in skimpy outfits.
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Go outside, read a book, or more likely, spend all your time 'watching' the Internet instead.
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Futurama was on of the best TV shows. You can go wrong with repeats - And of course you can get all the information you can handle at gotfuturama.com.
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Not only is the movie Serenity in pre-production, but the good folks at Universal asked Joss Whedon to rework the script. And the rumored reson was to make the movie a potential launching platform for... a television program.
It all will depend on how many people I can drag to the movie.
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The thing is, Futurama was one of those shows that was driven by one character's unrequited love for another. (Although I suppose there are some who'll argue that it was driven by comedy. Pshaw!) It ended with a story where it looked like Fry and Leela were finally getting together, though the writers left some wiggle room. Now, what would happen in a new season? Either:
1. The writers take advantage of that wiggle room -- no, Fry and Leela didn't really get together; he's still pining for her, she's still turning him down. That's depressing, after everything that happened in the finale. I don't want to see that.
2. They DO get together, and live happily ever after. I'm glad for them, but I don't want to watch that. It's boring. That's why "happily ever after" is always at the end of the story. It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit.
Alternatively, they could get together, and then have it not work out. That's even more depressing than the first option.
OK, so I'm a hopeless romantic.
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"Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again."
Since you are rooting for "Firefly," how about saying the same for the other Mutant Enemy show still on the air, "Angel"? "Angel" is the second highest genre program on the WB Network, right behind Smallville. It had a significant ratings increase this season, yet the WB decided to cancel it, to try to replace it with a rehash of "Dark Shadows" and "Lost in Space." This is after the WB tried to replace it with "Birds of Prey," "Black Sash," and "Tarzan" all before they fizzled out.
"Angel" has 5 more new episodes this season on the WB before it bows out. If anyone is interested in helping to save the show, please head over to www.savingangel.org. Co-creator Joss Whedon has stated that the more the fans are vocal, the more chances that at least the WB will actually follow up on their rather hollow promises of having "Angel" tv movies/mini-series next year if they don't decide to reverse the cancellation notice. "Angel" is selling well with the DVD box sets, and you can also catch repeat episodes (Season 1-4) on TNT and in local syndication (usually on Fox owned affiliates just like with "Buffy").
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Now now, just because people have the wit to make funny comments, there's no need to get jealous.
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I think this explains your sense (or lack) of humour.
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Agreed... I LOVE Futurama, but I totally lost track of when it was on, once they started bouncing it around. (Sorry, but 7pm is too early!).
/.'ers would get that?)
On the other hand, I can see how it's a little bit of a niche show (any show with inside-jokes so obscure, such as seeing an x-ray of bender's head showing he has a 6502 processor, is just pure genius in my eyes, but how many people other than
That woul dbe so kickass if theu started making futurama again... my life would be complete ;)
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Get someone to bring back the Fox shows "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Wonderfalls," and we'll really be talkin' progress. For that matter, bring back "Get A Life," too.
Donald Duck is going to have a SCREAMING SQUIRMING ORGASM over this news. I imagine he thinks that maybe his turn might come again to get back on the screen. In the mean time, he's going to make sweet sweet love to Daisy Duck.
According to the Fox charter, should the programming director abdicate, a council of learned slashdot citizens may rule in his stead.
Anyone have ideas on how we could persuade him to step down?
Not only did they cancel Wonderfalls short of a full season, they had already paid for the full season and the entire season had already been filmed. Until they bring it back, Fox can kiss my shiny metal ass!!
By "use" I mean not only clicking it to be able to "submit", but to actually "use" the functionality...
If you don't like N*Sync, you probably didn't get their music
Ugh... That's like comparing "not getting a million dollars" to "not getting the flu." Those who do like N*Stink are sick, sick people.
they could have changed the show to whatever name they wanted, it would still have sucked imo.
Millenium and Harsh Realm were 2 of the finest shows I have every seen, and if FOX wants to dust something off, it seems that these would be good choices, too.
I love the "news" stories they do about their programming. "Will so-and-so make it to the American Idol finals?" "What happens in the finale in My Big Fat ...?" You get the idea. Blatant commercials pretending to be news stories. It's worse than Entertainment Tonight.
The '(V)' after the title means the film is made for video or a direct-to-video release. For those with a link-clicking phobia, here's the important info from that page:
Wow I hope you're kidding. I don't feel superior to people that don't like Futurama, I was just giving the parent poster a bit of a hard time. Notice the smiley face, intended to convey humor ... you've heard of humor, right?
/. sure is becoming full of cynical tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists. No wonder they made the "Funny" mod not count anymore :)
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" Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again."
FUCK that. Instead Firefly coming back, the Sci-Fi channel shoul bring back FARSCAPE!!!! Damn you insensitive clods!
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1. Make more episodes to sell to CN
2. Air them on FOX
3. Sell the DVDs.
Sounds like a winning plan to me. People won't stop their DVD collections just because the shows back on the air.
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What about digital puppet shows where live actors in motion-capture gear perform on stage, and the computer turns the joint position data into instructions to animate CG characters? It's been done.
I know I'll probabaly get flamed for this but I miss this show.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Was the anime in Cartoon Network brought up even once. It's like a red-headed Japanese stepchild to the rest of the block.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
Duckman, now that was funny as sh*t!!! I still catch it sometimes on the weekends late at night on Comedy Central.
P.S. Why won't they just rename "Comedy Central" to "The Comedy Channel" since that's what I call it most of the time?
Europe sucks. The United States doesn't.
Please dear lord, bring back futurama for all that is holy. IM TALKING TO THAT GOD THAT IS PART NEBULA. The one with the really cool tones as he talks. (mmmm, peacefull tones...) :D PLEASEEEEEEE!!!
(of note, a screensaver (or background) with the nebula higher power from the show would be cool. Could even beep with little messages ever so often)
~FOX, you will re-instate futurama! NOW!~
BZZZ-----
from the HYPNOTOAD
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