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David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season

Posted by timothy on from the bachelor-chow dept.

joelkeller writes "I spoke to David X. Cohen, executive producer of Futurama, about the upcoming season, which premieres on June 24 on Comedy Central. He talks about the season finale (!) and how the show is always on the precipice of cancellation."

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  1. Since the opener "Good news everyone!!" was taken by Tanks*Guns · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fry, it's been years since medical school, so remind me. Disemboweling in your species, fatal or non-fatal?

  2. Re:So what? by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a Leela/Fry romance about as awkward as The Big Bang Theory

    I'd say the exact opposite there. The big bang theory has romances that are awkward because they don't fit. There's no reason for the people dating in that show to be dating. There's no chemistry, and the writers just never seem to know what to do with them together. Fry/Leela are great because the characters are well written. Each has issues of abandonment and isolation within the greater society at large which act as a common bond.

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  3. Everyone now senteced to... by rshol · · Score: 5, Funny

    Death,

    By snu snu!!

    Carry on.

  4. Re:Good News Everyone! by Jenming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only way they can tell if you watch it is if you are selected for a Nelson survey. If you are part of one be sure to put down you watched Futurama in every time slot available.

    I guess there is some damage you do to overall commercial value by pirating, but you would do the same damage by watching TV and not changing your purchasing habits.

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  5. Re:Penalty: Intentional Grounding. by forkazoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Has there ever been a show getting canceled that slashdot doesn't blame on the time slots and/or episode ordering? Seriously people, if the audience had been big enough and the ratings high enough, they would have moved them to prime time slots. The last pick of the shows also get last pick of the time slots, either deal with it or stay off the air then.

    Sure, there are plenty of shows that deserved to die. You don't generally hear much about them because they deserved to die. Nobody invests time and effort begging to have them back, and for the most part they are so forgettable that you never hear about them again.

    The reason that most canceled shows that you do hear about are spoken of as being canceled unfairly is simply a selection bias. To throw out one that I do remember - SeaQuest. I think it was a good premise, but by the third season it had gone so far from what they had originally intended that they lost off of their fans, but never managed to attract their new target audience. No amount of scheduling games would have made up for the sheer badness of some of the episodes. Scheduling games didn't help the continuity when a character was mourned, got killed off and then was alive and well, never to be seen again. Still, the show wasn't all that dependent on the continuity, so the executives who rearranged the episodes didn't have a huge negative effect.

    OTOH, for Firefly they refused to show the damned pilot at any point in the original broadcast run. If "Lost" had been treated as badly as Firefly, it never would have made any money either.

  6. Re:Good News Everyone! by Nugoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last I checked, Canada has Internet connections, so, yes, it is.

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  7. Re:Good News Everyone! by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Nelson survey?

    HA-HA!

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