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David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie
Joel Keller writes "I conducted a brief interview with David X. Cohen, EP and show-runner for Futurama, about the release of the new DVD, "Futurama: Bender's Big Score," as well as the return of his show to TV. The interview was posted to TV Squad this morning. In it, Cohen talks about how the movies will be split up into episodes, some of the inside references that they inserted for the die-hards, and a quick preview of what the second Futurama movie is going to be about."
It's worth noting that both Adult Swim and Comedy Central both put in bids for the new eps of Futurama and Comedy Central won. Since Adult Swim more or less resurrected Futurama by playing it almost every night for the last few years it was kind of a dirty move on CCs part. So if Adult Swim got it the new eps would still happen and would be in, what some would consider, more capable hands. The same exact thing happened with Family Guy but the other guy was Fox and not CC.
I thought that too at first but he seems to stick mostly to the Simpsons. David X. Cohen is the main guy behind Futurama but as I understand it he still has to answer to Groening.
You'll love the DVD then. It has a full 22-minute episode of "Everyone Loves Hypnotoad," complete with commercials and bloopers. :)
Groening is the creator, but Cohen runs the show. I talked to Groening in January about the show, and, believe me, he's pretty involved with it, as well.