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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.
Well, bite my shiny metal ass.
I was going to have to make my own cartoon...with blackjack...and hookers.
"Back to the Futurama"?
PLEASE kill The Simpsons already. The longer it goes on, the darker the future is for all of us.
Crazy theories one, regular theories a billion!
Here's an example of one (hidden in the HTTP headers that /. returns):
X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!
I, for one, welcome our humorous animated futuristic overlords.
The main way people can help to do something about the quality of TV is by actually watching/buying DVDs of the decent shows, but not watching the crap. The ratings are what is important to Fox, not the 'quality'.
Oh, Futurama, I love you more than the moon, the stars, the... POETIC IMAGE #36 NOT FOUND.
Done by Cartoon Network. Im sure the high ratings Futurama reruns get there and on Fox had a lot to do with it.
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Best News Ever
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In fact, forget the cartoon!
This poo is cold.
You people disgust me! There is currently a war in Iraq, american rights being taken away daily, a buggy operating system on almost every computer, and starving children in africa. With all this going you call another 16 episodes of a cartoon news? Blah!
Now now, let us not forget that Fox themselves more or less boycotted Futurama.
Bender already flirted with Robotology in one episode, I recall.
Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy.
TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want, Star Wars EPI-III anyone? The last two Red Dwarf series (bringing back Rimmer) were horrible. Niles and Daphne getting together was at the point when Frasier turned bad
When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
The moral of the story is -
If this were really happening, what would you think?
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."
Farscape.
Not a Fox show.
You can't take the sky from me...
Perl is just as much a programming language is as html. Dweeb!
The show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery.
This is great news for all us nerdlingers. For those of you who don't know already, here's a look at the backgrounds of some of the writers on the show:
J. Stewart Burns: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992. His senior thesis was on "The Structure of Group Algebras." He received his master's degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1993.
David X. Cohen: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1988. He received his master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1992. He published the following article with Manuel Blum: On the Problem of Sorting Burnt Pancakes. Discrete Appl. Math. 61 (1995), no. 2, 105--120.
Ken Keeler: Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1983. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in applied math from Harvard University. The title of his doctoral thesis was Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation. He also published the following article with Jeff Westbrook: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
Bill Odenkirk: Has a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995.
Jeff Westbrook: Majored in physics and the history of science at Harvard University and he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1989. The title of his doctoral thesis was Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and also worked at AT&T Labs before writing for Futurama. He published the following article with Ken Keeler: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
And with that the show also has some great voice actors (Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Dave Herman...), a great 3D department (praised for its ability to blend 3D scenes almost seamlessly into 2D backgrounds), and the show even uses a full orchestra to record its music (composed by Christopher Tyng). And with the huge scope of ideas possible in the SF universe the show is set in, I imagine it'll take a long time yet for this show to burn out.
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
- Feynman's last words.
Carl Kassell, of course. I mean, he's the only one you can get to record an answering machine message for you.
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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 never thought it possible to suck all the joy out of there being more Futurama, but you just did it. Nice going.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Much as I wish this were true. They got broadcast rights for the current show in .uk. Just like they've had in .us for a long time now. But oh how I wish you were right.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds30578.html
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All Hail the Hypnotoad!!!!
wow.it been 9 years and their back now CAN NOT FIND SYSTEM FILE Windows/login/system32/hal.dll.
What you have linked to appears to be about a Futurama movie, not more Futurama episodes...
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.
Well ... on the plus side they seem to have gotten better about their handling of material since the Sliders fiasco (for the fans at least :) ).
... although with their emphesis on Mini-Series, I would expect to see that as an outlet for a new 'Firefly' story, sooner than a 22 episode full season. (don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see a new season or three of Firefly)
... as opposed to Futurama which is always somewhat offensive, while completely amusing :) )
:)
They aquired Stargate when it was looking like it was going to wrap up in its 5th season (or was it 6th?), and its now going into its 10th? (and done rather decently including letter the characters grow and evolve).
They spun off Stargate Atlantis, and its now into its 2nd Season and looking forward to a 3rd.
Battlestar Gallactica is looking forward to a 3rd season as well, and getting rave reviews from critics, and some interesting re-imagining that I think most fans are appreciating, except for a few die-hards (Heck, my wife who isn't a big SciFi junky like I am has really gotten into the character driven stories of both SG:Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica! amazes the heck out of me).
Andromeda had already jumped the shark before Sci-Fi got hold of it (some would argue the same for Sliders), so I find it hard to blame them for the shows last season. Rather, I find it encouraging that they at least gave it a home for a last season, and an opportunity to finish telling their story (to admitedly medocre success).
I am also looking forward to their new show "Eureka" that looks very intreaging, and I hope shines as well as "The Invisible Man" and "The Chronicle" did. Granted they didn't last as long as they should have (both being fun and entertaining shows in my opinion), but they were both allowed something rare in the Network world, the chance for a satisfying conclusion and the wrapping of most major plot threads.
They've made mistakes (Farscape not getting a 5th Season for instance, which I think most fans are still sore about, even after the mini-series), but they have certainly made more positive moves as far as dramatic content goes
I won't get into their original half-hour shows which are usually more schlocky (and not so much my taste) considering "Ghost Hunters", "Scare Tactics", and "Tripping the Rift" (the last of which is at least somewhat amusing, while completely offensive
I'm sure, since this is Slashdot, someone will correct my facts if they think they are blatantly out of line with reality
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This is great news, and certainly cause for Futurama fans to rejoice. All the same I'd be just as exited if were to turn out to be true that Billy was going to reprise his role as the Jackie Puppet. I swear every time that freakin' puppet opened it's mouth I'd end up laughing so hard that my stomach hurt and my eyes watered.
;)
Also, it is just me or is there something not funny about a Futurama thread that consists mainly of Futurama quotes? Oh well, I guess we can at least look forward to the next phase of the Scientology wars, Scientology vs. Robotology.
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I think this is an excellent example of how powerful the masses have become in affecting entertainment, and to a greater degree corporations in general.
Medieval times: jester makes everyone laugh but the king. King has jester beheaded.
Modern times: show makes everyone laugh but company has show cancelled. Show does astromical DVD figures and comes back.
It's a testament to the power of the masses' will. The almighty buck is powerful, but the almighty buck plus thousands of people writing Fox to call them idiots is even more powerful.
P.s. Don't stop calling Fox idiots.
It's an F'ing shame, that's what it is!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
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.
Billy just posted that he was in error..... false alarm. (sigh...)
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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Yeah. Geraldo's reporting was so accurate that it got him booted out of his unit. Broadcasting troop positions aside, how is Fox any more accurate than the other outlets?
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Interesting...no, wait. That other thing - tedious.