Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return)

Svippy writes "As revealed last summer, Futurama will be returning this year, and while there were conflicts about the cast of the show in the late summer of 2009, a deal was eventually secured. Last week, Comedy Central confirmed the airing of the first episode, 'Rebirth,' will be 24 June 2010. Several other details related to plot and production have surfaced over the months, and for those interested, a full article is available on the subject."

Comments

hmm

[nomadic]

One of my favorite shows of all time, though most of the recent movies were kind of disappointing. The first one was good though.

Re:hmm

[maxume]

Hopefully most of the problems were related to the weird format (where they wanted to be able to air it in 1/2 hour time slots, but also sell the movies as standalone DVDs).

Re:hmm

[antifoidulus]

All the movies suffered from the same basic flaw, not nearly enough Zoidberg.

Re:hmm

[mqduck]

Funny, I was more disappointed with the first than any of the others.

Think back to how you felt when you first saw it. Sure, in retrospect, it had a hugely solid and downright impressive sci-fi plot, but it also got weighed down by all the fan service (which I kind of liked, but ultimately didn't). Ironically, I think the best parts of it were the musical numbers, which everyone crapped on at the time.

Beast With a Billion Backs was great because of how bizarre it was, and how uncomfortable it made people (which is also the main reason so many dislike it). With Bender's Game, Futurama finally returned comfortably to form, but it was strictly Fantasy, not Sci-Fi, so I understand if it upset some fans. Into the Wild Green Yonder was Futurama in top form, with a solidly Sci-Fi (by Star Trek standards, at least) plot.

Anyway, they all did have a problem. That problem is that they were feature-length films, which Futurama had never been before, which had to be designed to be chopped up into four episode-length bites each. The effect was rather jarring.

Good News!

[kurth]

Good News Everyone!

Re:Good News!

[skine]

Good News Everyone!

Doesn't that just mean that something bad is coming?

Tough contract negotiations

[PPH]

No doubt, Comedy Central had to kiss some shiny metal ass.

Hey Everybody!

[camperdave]

Hey folks, can we please stop linking to previous Slashdot stories? When I click on the link "Futurama will be returning this year", I want to read the actual press release, or article, or whatever. I don't want to read last year's Slashdot dupe.

Re:Hey Everybody!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it totally sucks that you had to get to the press release via another slashdot story. That one extra click must have been a bitch. Hope your finger is OK.

Rebirth? Hopefully this does not mean reboot.

[kimvette]

The only franchise "Reboot" I've liked is Reboot iself.

Futurama is perfection as designed; a good mix of classic cel and modern CGI animation, the perfect mix of fart jokes, puns, and science and math humor, as well as subtle story arcs (well, mainly the on-again off-again almost-romance between Fry and Leela, Fry's being the most important "person" in the Universe, and Nibbler's continual influence on keeping society going) that don't cause you to lose interest if you miss a few episodes, but add lot to the show.

I hope the "rebirth" doesn't mean a Tim Burton or Lucas-style franchise reboot.

Re:In this being

[glwtta]

I'll let you know what the great things that exist today people are nostalgic for then.

I'm gonna go with "2D movies" and "the internet".

Re:In this being

[Tokerat]

In what world do you live where rich asian chicks aren't hot?

Well, the cancelation

[SmallFurryCreature]

This can only lead to Futurama being canceled again. I swear they are just playing with our emotions!

I wonder how many episodes we will get now about the evils of file-sharing and even worse, free news sources from the lovely Fox network and its dark overlord.

Re:In this being

[Anonymous Coward]

Yoko Ono