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

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-need-a-3d-tv-with-smellovision dept.

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."

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  1. hmm by nomadic · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    1. Re:hmm by maxume · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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).

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    2. Re:hmm by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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  2. Good News! by kurth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good News Everyone!

    1. Re:Good News! by skine · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Good News Everyone!

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

  3. Tough contract negotiations by PPH · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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  4. Hey Everybody! by camperdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Rebirth? Hopefully this does not mean reboot. by kimvette · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  6. Re:In this being by glwtta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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".

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  7. Re:In this being by Tokerat · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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