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Futurama Return Made Official[/h1]
[h2]The animated series is coming back in a big way.[/h2]
by Eric Goldman
June 9, 2009 - You just can't stop Futurama. A day afternews broke that the show looked to be coming back, Comedy Central has made it official, announcing they have picked up the series for an impressive 26 newepisodes - thirteen more than originally expected.
As Comedy Central notes, this will mark the first true new episodes of the show in six years - though the four recent, straight-to-DVD Futurama movieswere re-cut into 22 minute episodes.
Comedy Central will begin showing the new installments beginning mid-2010. An interesting note in the press release states, "Twentieth Century FoxTelevision retains the option to license the original runs of the new episodes to a broadcast network," seemingly implying there is a chance a network(though come on, it would be FOX, right?) could potentially air the new episodes first, before Comedy Central.
Says co-creator Matt Groening, "We're thrilled Futurama is comingback. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender andFry in the year 3000." Added his fellow Futurama creator, David X.Cohen, "We're excited and amazed that the show is coming back, perhaps due to some sort of mysterious time loop. We look forward to working withComedy Central and 20th Television to make this the best iteration of the loop yet!"
Futurama mirrors another 20th Century Fox production, Family Guy, byits impressive resurrection, years after cancellation. Says 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden, "When we brought back FamilyGuy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing - that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived. ButFuturama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there weremany more stories yet to tell."
http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993144p1.html
Futurama Return Made Official[/h1]
[h2]The animated series is coming back in a big way.[/h2]
by Eric Goldman
June 9, 2009 - You just can't stop Futurama. A day afternews broke that the show looked to be coming back, Comedy Central has made it official, announcing they have picked up the series for an impressive 26 newepisodes - thirteen more than originally expected.
As Comedy Central notes, this will mark the first true new episodes of the show in six years - though the four recent, straight-to-DVD Futurama movieswere re-cut into 22 minute episodes.
Comedy Central will begin showing the new installments beginning mid-2010. An interesting note in the press release states, "Twentieth Century FoxTelevision retains the option to license the original runs of the new episodes to a broadcast network," seemingly implying there is a chance a network(though come on, it would be FOX, right?) could potentially air the new episodes first, before Comedy Central.
Says co-creator Matt Groening, "We're thrilled Futurama is comingback. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender andFry in the year 3000." Added his fellow Futurama creator, David X.Cohen, "We're excited and amazed that the show is coming back, perhaps due to some sort of mysterious time loop. We look forward to working withComedy Central and 20th Television to make this the best iteration of the loop yet!"
Futurama mirrors another 20th Century Fox production, Family Guy, byits impressive resurrection, years after cancellation. Says 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden, "When we brought back FamilyGuy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing - that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived. ButFuturama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there weremany more stories yet to tell."
http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993144p1.html
