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Groening Confident on Futurama Relaunch

Posted by Zonk on from the kiss-my-shiny-metal-daffodil dept.

friedo writes "Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, says there may yet be hope for a renewed Futurama series, thanks to high DVD sales and syndication ratings. Comments from David X. Cohen: 'Three months ago, I would have said we were going to start tomorrow ... And one month ago I would also have said we were going to start tomorrow. So...my current estimate is that we're starting tomorrow.'"

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  1. Re:Firefly? by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 4, Informative

    Serenity is currently sitting at #1 on Amazon.com's DVD sales chart. The Firefly series DVD set is at #6. Not bad for a cancelled TV show that by all account "nobody" saw. Joss Whedon has said time and again that the DVD sales for Serenity will decide on the fate of the universe the movie and series are set in. I'm a pretty pessimistic Browncoat, but #1 on Amazon for a film that had almost no marketing seems pretty encouraging to me.

  2. Re:Whew! by circa1979 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You heard correctly.

    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ e=televisionNews&storyID=2005-12-14T084755Z_01_SCH 431622_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-ARRESTED-DC.XML

    Though I don't have Showtime, I and a lot of people I know would gladly change that for this show.