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No New Series of Futurama
Nikoth writes "It seems that Billy West got it wrong when he announced that there are 26 new episodes of Futurama on the way, and instead there will only be the 4 movies as planned. "
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With hookers! and Blackjack!
Looks like Bender has been using "The What If Machine".
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F*** you, Fox Network!
How hard is it to understand that Fox makes a habit of canceling good shows (or prempting them every week) and holding there rights in limbo and then puting on unwatchable trash.
The return of Famly Guy was a sign, we can vote with our wallets here we don't need to stand for being told what we like anymore.
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maybe.... billy west was told about this, and told its a secret, forgot that it was a secret, told the fans of futurama, when it got out that people know, billy was told to tell them its not true... to keep the secret...
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It seems like early adopters of rumors of this nature experience more bugs!
CmdrTaco: Hey, I heard that Futurama is back
Hemos: No. we just thought you would enjoy that for a moment.
Anyway, that was the best nanosecond of my life
I think the buzz was there, but they just didn't pick it up. At least fans get the movies, though.
Anyway, I was pretty clear about it when I read the previous report about Futurama that it was speculation and hearsay. Fortunately, some of us know how to take a source into context and realize that this is a quasi-news site, not a courtroom. Speculation and hearsay, presented as such, is and should be welcome... so long as it's newsworthy to someone.
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Bender should not be allowed on TV!
Good news, everyone! There's a report on /. with some very bad news!
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
I don't recall seeing any fan created versions of Futurama, Family Guy, etc. after they left the air - it seems to me that it would be easier to create an animation homage than do live action movies (like Star Trek). Have there been any home-grown versions of animated series?
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I'll be in the Angry Dome.
Fortunately, some of us know how to take a source into context and realize that this is a quasi-news site, not a courtroom.
A courtroom-style format would be a breath of fresh air.
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Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
no, wait. the other thing. tedious.
MORTAR COMBAT!
Advertising revenue. When you're dealing with the people who watch nerdy niche programming, you're dealing with an uncommonly tech-savvy crowd that owns TiVos, refuses to watch commercials and never pays for anything anyway. You've got a fan base of freeloading music and software and movie pirates. Just look at the ads that run during reruns of Star Trek. It's all penis enlargement and debt relief. It's pretty obvious that this isn't a crowd that has much disposable income to squeeze out of it.
There's a lot of demand for the 18-35 male population, because it spends a lot of money. But our niche, for whatever reason, is VERY undesirable. The above reasons are probably why.
Note: I am not suggesting that everything in the first paragraph is TRUE, and certainly not of every single person who watches Futurama. But look at the commercials that run on Spike and during Next Gen rebroadcasts... it's obvious what their advertisers think of us, and they hate us. Hence, you can run Battlestar Galactica at 10:00pm on a Friday and get record numbers of us to tune in - they know we're not doing anything else on Friday night from 10-11 pm.
Anyway ... there's some assumptions being made about their demographics and those assumptions fuel the types of advertisers they get and thus their revenue off broadcasting. I think some of those assumptions can be borne out, as uncomfortable as that may make some of you.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib