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Groening Confident on Futurama Relaunch
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.'"
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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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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking