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Futurama Returns
riflemann writes "Another 26 episodes of Futurama will shortly go into production! This news comes from none other than Billy West (voice of Fry) himself, in a short post to his own message board. No further details are available, except that it's likely to be on TV, not straight to DVD." The best news is that means fresh quotes for slashteam to hide in the source code.
PLEASE kill The Simpsons already. The longer it goes on, the darker the future is for all of us.
damn that show is painful to watch.
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Done by Cartoon Network. Im sure the high ratings Futurama reruns get there and on Fox had a lot to do with it.
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Now now, let us not forget that Fox themselves more or less boycotted Futurama.
Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
The BBC: Mishal Husain. NPR: Carl Kassell. PSB: Jim Lehrer. FOX: Bill O'Reilly.
In the words of one of the great PBS productions, "one of these things is not like the others."
Could be worse: we could waste our time trying to diss other people wasting their time with a holier-than-thou attitude that accomplishes nothing.
As for what you're ranking as more important than Futurama, about the only way any of that is going to change is through armed revolution. If you wish to try to start one, be my guest, but your time would probably be better spent buying ammunition and rallying compatriots rather than posting on Slashdot.
Futurama is different though. The viewers didn't leave. The network did.
Farscape.
Not a Fox show.
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Regardless of the quality of the product, if they think they can make money, they will try.
I for one believe the quality of this product is top notch and am glad to see it coming back. I welcome back our sardine craving, can get no loving, lobster overlord.
I am soooooo glad that Futurama returns for a season. Maybe Fox will air the last remaining episodes from the previous season. We can all thank Adultswim for this return. Fox Execs probaly used Adultswim's ratings for Futurama to make a decision on it's return or not.
FYI: The Simpsons are moving onto a movie in couple years.
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As Bender (Staying on topic) would say: Wrong. How many scandals have erupted based on "biased" reporting on Fox? Now count how many happened during the elections by "Mainstream media" as you put it? Dan Rather anyone? That said, I am writing this from Iraq. I work intel at the multi-national corps level. The only station that comes close to reporting what's going on over here accurately is Fox. It's still pathetic liberal bias in the media does to the news.
What's an "actual writer" supposed to be? You think writers have a degree in writology?
Actually, Bill O'Reilly isn't a news caster, he's an editorialist. Fox's editorials are definitely slanted to the right, though they do have a lot of left leaning editorialists as well, just not with their own shows. Their news journalists are quite balanced, eg. Brit Hume and Chris Wallace.
Two mostly different fanbases, methinks. Simpsons is more family friendly than futurama, a single futurama episode has more geek cred than a dozen Frink episodes.
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Oh yeah, Brit Hume's just a paragon of journalism.
In addition, can we stop pretending the news needs to be "balanced"? Not every issue or event has "sides" and when they do they often don't have equal merit.
Is it me, or is Fox just plain out of touch?
They cancelled Family Guy (I was GLAD when they cancelled it because the musical timeslot game they were playing with the show was worse than not having it) and Futurama only for Adult Swim to syndicate them and earn consistently phenomenal ratings at a poor timeslot - a cable station no less, where poor ratings are expected at ANY timeslot. When the DVDs came out, DVD sales went through the roof almost immediately, and every time Groening and Cohen put out a new compilation of episodes, it charts. Even worse, Futurama won multiple emmies, earned a lot of critical acclaim, the demand is obviously there and many catch phrases from the show have caught on in American culture (Good news, everyone! Bite my shiny metal ass! etc.) which is unexpected given the more academic nature of Futurama's humor. Sure, there is some LCD fart humor in the show, but the vast amount of it is more math, science, and technology oriented. I've told my mom about the show, and she's told me she watches it from time to time (she loves Bender's antics).
Look at Arrested Development - similar situation. It earned what, SIX emmies, and despite receiving NO promotion from FOX and the musical timeslot having been played with the show, it STILL garnered six million viewers week to week during the first two seasons, and when initial news of the cancellation (er, sorry, "cut order" in Fox nomanclature) it STILL managed to attract 3.7mil to 4.0mil viewers per week, and you had to search for the show for this last season. DVD sales through the roof, an uproar throughout the press over Fox's treatment of the show, and they still won't hear of continuing it. You have two competing networks who have put in bids for the show, and right now it's in Mitch Hurwitz's lap as to whether or not the show goes on (I've read he's worn out due to the emotional roller coaster he went through at Fox, and I can't blame him if he doesn't accept Showtime's or ABC's offer). What essentially replaced it was "War at Home" which is a show which earns critical scorn, poor ratings, and much mocking on the web. Heck, I didn't even KNOW about Arrested Development until late summer; I set my VCR to tape The Simpsons and Family Guy (yes, I use tape, my ATI AiW cards don't cooperate with Linux) and fast forward through the commercials. I never knew about Arrested Development until a friend told me about it, so I read some reviews, and the one weak promotional attempt of a marathon that Fox ran (in other words, they had no new "reality" show episodes in the can, so they looked for something to fill airtime) happened to be coming up so I watched it; I was hooked. When the announcement came that they were cancelling the show (er, cutting the order short) I'd love to say I was shocked, but I wasn't. After what happened to Titus, Family Guy, and Futurama, it could very easily have been predicted.
If it's a quality show and not The Simpsons, Fox will not give the show the respect it deserves. They have a very, very long track record of that dating all the way back to 1990, when they enjoyed their initial taste of success from Married With Children, the Tracy Ullman Show, and The Simpsons.
My theory about Fox: I think what happens is folks involved in program scheduling at FOX play politics when it comes to their pet projects, and when their projects lose to competing bids, they seek to sabotage the shows that win over their projects by either putting them in timeslots they KNOW will be preempted (e.g., Futurama's 7:00 Sunday slot which is consistently overrun by Football games, Baseball games, and even Basketball playoffs). If the show does manage to earn some success, they take it a step further and move the show around week to week, in a fervent attempt to completely destroy the ratings.
The wake these shows leave behind, including harsh articles from critics lambastimg them over idiotic cancellations, a tremendous number of well-done fan web sites, and high DVD sales ratings, and yet all the while the
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