Futurama Renewed For 7th Season

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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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I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by ackthpt · 2011-03-23 05:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

I stopped watching TV about 10 years ago and most of the shows I see are on DVD, I watch as I have time available. I did like the series, but never enough to tune in or buy cable.

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1. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by GreatDrok · 2011-03-23 05:54 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I've stopped watching new shows as a result of the cancellations of so many good shows. Now I only bother if it has a good run or completes. I only just started watching Lost. Futurama is excellent and I'm glad it has been renewed but it is a rarity that shows survive this long regardless of quality, especially shows that get cancelled and then come back.
  Not watching new shows saves a lot of time and I guess I should thank those willing to waste their time getting into a new show with all the risk of cancellation and the disappointment associated.
  
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2. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by doti · 2011-03-23 06:12 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  make youself a favor and skip the last season(s) of lost.
  
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3. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by jgtg32a · 2011-03-23 06:13 · Score: 2
  
  I would advise against finishing Lost. Unless, you are 100% about the characters and their interactions and don't care about why
4. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by JerkBoB · 2011-03-23 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I would advise against finishing Lost. Unless, you are 100% about the characters and their interactions and don't care about why
  Seconded. Without giving too much away, I'll just say that it felt like dating in middle school. All buildup with no payoff.
  I tried to make a car analogy but the wheels fell off.
  
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5. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by eln · 2011-03-23 06:48 · Score: 2
  
  I think most fans of Lost (me included) were hooked in by the first season and wanted to see how it all ended up. The first two seasons were excellent, but it started to sort of tail off from there until it was indeed laughably bad toward the end. Still, by the time it got really difficult to watch I still stuck it out because a.) I wanted to see what they would do, and b.) I knew it wasn't going to last forever because they had already announced how many more seasons it would get.
  
  So, I watched the whole thing when it aired, but I would never want to watch it again, and certainly wouldn't buy it on DVD.
6. 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.
7. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by morari · 2011-03-23 07:06 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Exactly.
  I've never understood the appeal of J.J. Abram's work in general. I mean, how can you find talent in someone who's resume is made up of garbage like Mission Impossible III and Star Trek?
  
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8. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-23 08:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Do what I did and make your own last season with blackjack! and Hookers! Ah! Forget the blackjack!
9. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by brentrad · 2011-03-23 08:55 · Score: 2
  
  I've been a huge Futurama fan since the show first came out (although I admit I stopped watching the last few years before it was cancelled, because Fox was screwing around and always pre-empting it with baseball games that ran too long, and constantly changing the time and day it was airing. But I watched them all on DVD, and have probably seen each episode 20-30 times by now.) The new episodes totally rock - some of this season's episodes rank up there as some of the best episodes of Futurama from any season.
  
  There's an episode that spoofs iPhones and Twitter, an episode where the whole Planet Express team swaps brains with each other, one that lampoons California Proposition 8 (Proposition Infinity), etc.
  
  I highly recommend the DVD movies too (commonly referred to as the 5th season) - especially Bender's Game, which makes fun of Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, and Fantasy in general.
10. Re:I can hardly wait for it to come out on DVD by morari · 2011-03-23 13:16 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Amazingly generic, perhaps. It was all action fluff with no real sci-fi or exploration.
  
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FOX by jlechem · 2011-03-23 05:46 · Score: 3, Insightful

Can kiss his shiny metal ass?

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1. Re:FOX by Sponge+Bath · 2011-03-23 06:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Fox executives give Morbo gas.
2. Re:FOX by cyberfin · 2011-03-23 06:57 · Score: 2
  
  All hail hypnotoad! O_o
  
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Oblig by ThatsNotPudding · 2011-03-23 05:53 · Score: 3, Informative

"Good news, everyone!"
1. Re:Oblig by bigstrat2003 · 2011-03-23 06:54 · Score: 2
  
  I disagree. One of the movies (Beast With a Billion Backs) was lame, while the rest were good. The new season was hit and miss, but it seemed like towards the end the quality was more regular. I took that to be simply them getting back in the groove, because when they were on, it was every bit as good as before.
  
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2. Re:Oblig by iamsolidsnk · 2011-03-23 08:11 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Also, I have noticed that it will take me multiple viewings of the same episode to fully appreciate the humor in it.
  
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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:International Talk Like William Shatner Day by DavidTC · 2011-03-23 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

No. There is No. International. Talk Like William Shatner Day. Do not be limited. By the rules.
Every day. Is. International Talk Like William Shatner Day.

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Re:Good news, but old news. by DavidTC · 2011-03-23 06:04 · Score: 2

Katey Sagal jumped the gun, everyone was still in talks back then. Now the contracts have been actually signed.
And the episode airing on June 23 is the second half of the previous ordered episodes that have all already been made, not another season. Comedy Central just broke the last batch of episodes in half and aired them in two parts.
The season we're talking about here won't be ready until 2012.

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Re:How long is the season? by JustOK · 2011-03-23 06:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Does anyone know how many episodes are in a season?

Yes. Someone does know.

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Re:Yippee!! by JustOK · 2011-03-23 06:08 · Score: 2

Because of its shiny metal ass.

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Re:Good news everyone! by derfy · 2011-03-23 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny

<scruffy>Second.</scruffy>
Bad news everyone by __aailob1448 · 2011-03-23 06:12 · Score: 4, Funny

The professor only says good news when he has bad news so all of you have it backwards!
Re:Good News Everyone! by 0100010001010011 · 2011-03-23 06:19 · Score: 4, Funny

You've invented a device which makes us read this in our head in your voice?
Re:International Talk Like William Shatner Day by elrous0 · 2011-03-23 06:30 · Score: 3, Insightful

When...everyone....here....TALKS....like Shatner...theyforgetthathealwaysrusheshsispeakingatsomepoint....in...his....monologues.

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Re:Yippee!! by fridaynightsmoke · 2011-03-23 06:36 · Score: 2

In my part of the world (in Britain) a 'bender' is something else entirely. You might see a 'bender' or two in a bar, but only in a certain type of bar, in a certain part of town....

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Seriously? by name_already_taken · 2011-03-23 06:39 · Score: 4, Informative

I love torchwood but the mini series was awful. They never explain what the 456 is or even why they want the children. Same goes for Doctor Who, love the weekly shows but can't stomach the christmas specials.
You probably should have tried watching it.
The 456 were alien junkies.
The children were used to produce drugs for the 456.
The christmas specials are always aimed at young children. They are god-awful but the true fans sit through them anyway because the material in them is included in canon. British TV, particularly the BBC, has a long tradition of producing awful sugary-sweet christmas specials. You think the Doctor Who ones are silly? Try watching the Are You Being Served christmas specials.

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Re:Futurama Vs Venture Bros. by mikeabbott420 · 2011-03-23 06:47 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't understand how people can not love Venture Brothers - it's like they somehow have different tastes than I do!
which is the same as being wrong

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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.
1. Re:Best Episodes come from Classic SciFi by Dunega · 2011-03-23 07:43 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Jurassic Bark is evil. A comedy cartoon should not bring people to tears. :( That being said, it is probably one of the best. Followed closely by Spanish Fry.
Re:It'll be interesting by bigstrat2003 · 2011-03-23 07:05 · Score: 2

I think some did. The episode with Lrrr, for example, was brilliant and as good as any except the very cream of the original crop. Same for the robosexual marriage episode. A bunch of others were only OK overall, but had some amazing parts. The Scruffy and Wash Bucket scene had me in tears from laughing so hard. And honestly, that's in keeping with the original series run too. Not every episode was a gem, some were merely "Ehhhhhhh, it was ok," especially towards the beginning of the show. I also find that my appreciation for some of the episodes has gone up on repeat watching, so maybe I'll like them all more in time.

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Re:International Talk Like William Shatner Day by Sulphur · 2011-03-23 07:12 · Score: 2

When...everyone....here....TALKS....like Shatner...theyforgetthathealwaysrusheshsispeakingatsomepoint....in...his....monologues.
EveryonelovesitwhenLeonardNimoydoesthat.
Re:It'll be interesting by careysub · 2011-03-23 09:11 · Score: 2

The "Eye-Pod" commercial was dead-on!

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