Futurama to be Resurrected?

KingDaveRa writes "Futurama could follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and re-enter production more than two years after it was axed. The animated series, brainchild of Simpsons creator Matt Groening, ended after four produced seasons amid lackluster ratings and broken scheduling on broadcast network Fox." From the Reuters article: "Reps for 20th Century Fox have declined to comment on the news, but Variety says initial negotiations have begun. If revived, it's unclear exactly which network would air the new episodes. While Fox housed the original series, the show found new life once reruns began showing on the Cartoon Network. Comedy Central subsequently snapped up the off-air rights and will exclusively air the repeats beginning in 2008. " A follow-up to Groening and Cohen's recent comments.

Comments

What's to stop Fox from doing it again though?

[Spazntwich]

Fuck them. It's a pity Fox ends up with such draconian ownership of shows, or Groening could have brought new Futurama episodes to a better network. Now he's once again at the mercy of their idiotic policy on show cancellations.

Re:What's to stop Fox from doing it again though?

[tompaulco]

Don't get me started on Fox's cancellatino policies. I can't count how many times the Simpsons Halloween episode has not aired until after the TV season was already over, and of course by that time, they've already cut scenes and are running it as a rerun (even though it was never run before). It's always annoying when they show you a teaser clip to advertise the show, and that clip didn't make it through the rerun editing.
Or how about how they always pre-empt shows on Sunday evenings because of some dumb sports game that runs long. Hint, hint FOX. Sports games ALWAYS run long. Why don't you schedule some crap that nobody wants to watch so you can preempt that instead of the Simpsons.

Please include in any contract...

[phillymjs]

...a provision stating that Futurama will NEVER be scheduled anywhere near the timeslot of a God damned football game.

I don't know how many times I sat down to watch a TiVo'd episode of Futurama, only to discover that what was recorded was the last 20 minutes of some stupid NFL game.

THAT is why it got poor ratings, because the FOX idiots stuck it in the 7pm Sunday death slot.

~Philly

Re:Cool, but...

[RPoet]

I think the episode was carefully crafted to be "good enough" for a final episode, but also appeal to both fans and Fox that cancelling the show would be immature. Witness the last line of the last episode: "Please don't stop playing, Fry. I wanna hear how it ends."

There are many, many more stories screaming to be told about the Futurama universe. Fox were fools to stop playing. We wanna hear how it ends!

TV execs don't have a clue

[grasshoppa]

Firefly, Farscape, Family guy, Futurama

What do these shows have in common? These are great shows that were killed before their time due to poor decisions of TV execs. Everything from showing the series out of order to playing musical timeslots to abruptly killing the series without advanced warning, these shows were actively campainged against by the execs ( although I can't imagine why you'd want to mess up a money maker ).

This is why I don't watch TV anymore ( in fact, I don't own a TV ). I purchase DVDs, and I get to watch things ad free through liberal use of dvd decrypter and dvd shrink.

Re:futurama... to smart for mass consumption

[dfn5]

I'm afraid Futurama has just too much geek humor for it to last very long. For instance

Speaker: And the winner is ... Number 3, in a quantum finish.
Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

I'm sure the masses just don't get this kind of stuff. I'm surprised it made it as long as it did. But here's hoping *Raises glass of Benderbraü*