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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. Whew! by mister_llah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have to say, this is a relief, if it actually happens, there may be hope that Arrested Development, too, may be saved from the fires!

    Too bad it doesn't seem to work for sci-fi (see also: Firefly, Farscape) ... :/

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    1. Re:Whew! by wiggles · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I thought I heard that Arrested Development was being shopped to Showtime or HBO. Anyone else hear anything like this? That would be an excellent pick-up for either one of them, IMHO. If they can get good ratings from Curb Your Enthusiasm, they can get good ratings for AD.

  2. HEY TACO!!! by eno2001 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why don't you get Groening for a Slashdot interview?? Then we'd have the inevitable "I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter" posts for a month.

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  3. NO! they need to tell Fox to F themselves. by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Futurama is the perfect show to prove to the content providers that TV is a useless medium for selling content. they need to make futurama available as a pay per episode download on itunes and in a higher resolution format. I would gladly subscribe to individual shows Monthly than pay Cable Tv to shovel 900 channels of garbage at me.

    Futurama would be one of those shows that even at $3,99 a download would sell at insane levels and make mattand company vastly more money than they could ever get on a TV network and in the same setup become the pioneers that pavedthe way for the future of television.

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  4. Re:Firefly? by Lillesvin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not exactly... I know I'm being pedantic, but the Futurama eps are approx. 22 minutes each, so more like 24 1-hour eps.

    But yeah, Futurama is popular and I really hope that Fox will soon get their heads out of their asses and realize that one of their biggest mistakes (next to that of their existance and probably some others I don't know about) was to cancel Futurama.

    It's ridiculous that a show can be held hostage in such a manner. I'm sure some other network would have loved having the Futurama crew on board.

    And, let me just point out that for the first time ever, my sig is actually on-topic! :-)

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  5. Re:In the words of Zapp Brannigan by Surt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought the author of that line in the show clearly had never played blind chess, where the rules are all the same, but indeed you are not allowed to see your opponents pieces. Every time you commit a move, a moderator does the following:

    1) if the move is illegal, the moderator makes you take it back and tells you why (ie exposes your king to check)
    2) if the move captures an opponents piece, he tells you which one
    3) if the move puts your opponent in check he tells you so
    4) if the move achieves checkmate he congratulates you

    It's fun. Chess fans should try it.

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