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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.
...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.
Will Adult Swim get the new episodes of this show?
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.
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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"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?
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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Alex Borstein did the voice of Lois and others. Incidentally wasn't there talk of a feature length Family Guy?
Oh, and add Greg the Bunny in there. Any show with Eugene Levy, Seth Green, and Bob Gunton has my vote.
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5. Force Fox to start series again because it kicks ass and make more money.
The way a naked Cartman creeped across that stage was funnier than anything that's been on Fox for years.
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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... 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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You know, some of us *DO* watch Malcolm in the Middle. It's a really well written show. The plots are clever and original and the acting is great.
Oliver Beene hasn't been on in months (yet another Fox shitpile). They've been playing Bernie Mac reruns instead...and that show's starting to grow on me.
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I'm afraid your both wrong.
We're headed for what we've always had...a scant few long running shows that get money and the benefit of the doubt, along with a bunch of filler that's on a short leash. Family Guy did well, but it didn't do as well as expected (come on, it was up against friggin FRIENDS, the indestructable behemouth of thursday night. even *I* would tape FG during the first run). So it was dumped as if it were Oliver Beene. Of course, since then, it's done massive syndicated business and had tons of DVD sales, and suddenly it looked a lot more valuable.
Reality TV series are pressed to be more outrageous and as such are becoming more expensive. Yes, you don't pay the actors...but if you think talented editors, tropical locales and hundreds of cameras come cheaper than a ten person cast and a few unchanging sets, you're deluding yourself. And it's not as if you don't need writers on a reality show...you think all that drama sequences and frames itself? You think those voiceovers are ad-libbed? People write out the plots and subplots of reality TV, same as regular shows...they just have to make mountains out of molehills instead of out of imagination.
I think reality TV peaked last year. It won't disappear, but I think what we're seeing is the tail end of reality show development and we can expect something new to excite programming directors for the next five years.
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Notice 3 are cartoons, and one Banzai, I will probably get bored of once the novelty wears off.
The stuff I watch rarely or intermittently probably adds up to the amount of time I spend watching the stuff I watch regularly but the list is longer and my devotion is less.
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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.
anything with Hitler in it is avoided, as is anything having to do with emergency rooms, UFOs, Crop Circles, Ghosts or Psychic Powers.
I was channel-hopping one night and ran into one of those "Unsolved-Mysteries" UFO shows on Discovery. They were talking about these mysterious lights floating over Phoenix, which are apparently a big mystery in the flake world. I was disgusted to see this kind of World Weekly News crap on a science channel. But I watched it in a horrified trance. And do you know what happened? They debunked it! After listening to all the UFO nuts talking about how the only explanation is the paranormal, they spent the last quarter of the show presenting a credible, rational explanation. Yay for our side!
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The reason fox doesn't like Futurama or Family Guy (and kept moving them around and eventually gave them crappy time slots) is ownership.
Fox wants to own every show on Fox. Groening owns Futurama. Fox would rather show a stupid show it owns (like Oliver Beane) that gets worse ratings, but gives Fox a lionshare of the profits.
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!!
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.