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Futurama Renewed For 7th Season

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @05:44AM from the good-news-everyone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During the video for the 3rd International Talk Like William Shatner Day, Futurama voice actor Maurice LaMarche revealed that the show had been renewed and he'd received his contract for the show."

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Should be titled . . . by KenSeymour · 2011-03-23 05:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

Good news everybody!

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Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by eln · 2011-03-23 06:51 · Score: 4, Insightful

Only the very last scene (all of a few seconds long) was written before the first season started, and honestly with the producers' penchant for lying through their teeth ("everything on the island will be scientifically explainable"), I have a hard time believing even that. You are right that they had to make up a lot of stuff because they didn't anticipate getting so many seasons, and it definitely shows.
Best Episodes come from Classic SciFi by WrongMonkey · 2011-03-23 06:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

Futurama really shines when it takes a classic sci-fi story and give it a comic twist. Like The last season had The Late Philip J. Fry, which was almost directly cribbed from Flight to Forever by Poul Anderson. That seems like a pretty easy formula to follow so I hope they keep it up.