Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:44 pm
Man, I really hope they sign this deal soon. I've been hoping for it to go through for so long now.
I'm not that fussed about the Simpsons either. Luckily, Futurama will be on Cartoon Network until 2009, and then Comedy Central until 2014. (TBS also shows Futurama, but I'm not really sure of the terms of their deal.)
Fiddelysquat wrote:I love Futurama, and I am bored to tears by the Simpsons. I hope they still show re-runs on Adult Swim, at least. The thought of no more Bender is terrifying.
I'm not that fussed about the Simpsons either. Luckily, Futurama will be on Cartoon Network until 2009, and then Comedy Central until 2014. (TBS also shows Futurama, but I'm not really sure of the terms of their deal.)
Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:52 pm
Officer 1BDI wrote:I am struggling to keep myself from doing some sort of happy dance on the coffee table. I refuse to celebrate until David Cohen or Matt Groening themselves confirm this news.
But man, it's looking really good right now. Someone at Rough Draft Studios (animation company involved with the show) apparantly posted "Soooo close" yesterday. Billy West (voice of Fry) also posted similar sentiments on his forum.
Well, in older news (Not really old, from Dec. 21), it says that Matt Groening and David X Cohen are hoping it will return... At the Berkeley thing I went to with Jeff Westbrook (Futurama) and Ken Keeler (Futurama/Simpsons), they didn't mention anything about its return, but said there would be a movie, but that they couldn't say anything else. (David X Cohen was going to be there at the lecture but didn't make it)
Surprisingly enough, I'm not bored with Simpsons. There was a time when it went down (probably seasons 11-14 mostly) but I think it's (the quality of the episodes) going up again. It still is one of the most consistently funny shows on TV. Even though it's not as good as it used to be, it's still better than about 90% of network TV. And it is one of the few good shows on Fox that hasn't been cancelled and probably one of the longest-running shows ever. Still, it's my favorite show. And I think it's only supposed to go for 19 seasons until 2008, because that's when the movie is.
Even though I like Simpsons and a few other shows on Fox (The O.C., maybe American Idol occasionally), I don't understand why they create new shows that are BAD (Stacked, Life On a Stick, Quintuplets, The War At Home-although luckily these were cancelled, except war at home) and cancel the few good ones (Anyone remember Cracking Up with Molly Shannon? I loved that. It lasted what, 4 episodes? And remember Wonderfalls? And of course, Futurama and Family Guy. And Arrested Development.). It just makes you wonder if they really know what they're doing.
TV.com's Futurama page (Scroll down to recent headlines for new articles, the newest ones there are basically the same article I posted though)
OH NOES! ANOTHER LINK!
http://www.simpsonschannel.com/
^ Mainly Simpsons news but I have also noticed a lot more Futurama news on there, probably because Matt Groening does both shows.
Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:53 am
Igg wrote:I still think Fox wanted a new Simpsons, but didn't get the ratings. They were aiming too high.
Yes, well, Fox has proved to be a moron many a time.
Firefly, anyone?
Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:44 pm
From Billy West:
HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project
is a done deal! Here's the word from DX---
There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or
August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies.
Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!
Into the Future,
Billy
Source is a Futurama message board (and Billy West's forum, of course), but you can get the gist of the quote at The Simpsons Channel.
Waiting until Cohen or Groening confirms this before I break out the non-alcoholic bubbly, but
Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:26 pm
Officer 1BDI wrote:From Billy West:
HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project
is a done deal! Here's the word from DX---
There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or
August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies.
Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!
Into the Future,
Billy
Source is a Futurama message board (and Billy West's forum, of course), but you can get the gist of the quote at The Simpsons Channel.
Waiting until Cohen or Groening confirms this before I break out the non-alcoholic bubbly, but
Even though he's said it's a done deal before (and he's been wrong)...this is good enough for me to get excited about! Squee!
The new president of the Fox network seems to have some warm fuzzy feelings about Futurama, so I'm getting quite optimistic.
Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:35 pm
>_<. Sorry for bumping this up. I didn't know if I should have made a new thread for this or used this one, even though this one is for the movie(s).
Good news everybody!
"New Season of Futurama in The Works"
"Following on from our report two months ago regarding four direct-to-dvd Futurama movies being greenlit, Billy West has now unofficially confirmed that these have been put on the backberner in favour of 26 brand new episodes, meaning that Futurama as we know may well be back in business the same way Family Guy was revived last year."
He says that the original plan was to have the movies first, but now they are expecting the episodes to come out first. I don't know if it's two seasons of 13 episodes, or one huge season of 26 episodes. Since it's coming out before the movies, I hope it comes out this fall, or next January at the latest! It probably won't though, since it hasn't been officially confirmed by David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, or Fox, and because the episodes generally take at least 6 months to make. Funny how it took so long, you'd think it would be more popular than Family Guy! I mean, there were (and still are) more episodes of Futurama and it took longer for Fox to cancel it. But yay...news!
Come on Fox, confirm it already! Actually, there's no news about what station it's going to be on, I just assumed Fox. I'm glad it's coming back because I've seen almost all of the episodes now, thanks to Netflix and Adult Swim. Just half of season 3 and most of season 4 left to watch!
http://www.simpsonschannel.com
^ Source, has Futurama news as well. It is also on gotfuturama.com and the Futurama page on wikipedia.
Good news everybody!
"New Season of Futurama in The Works"
"Following on from our report two months ago regarding four direct-to-dvd Futurama movies being greenlit, Billy West has now unofficially confirmed that these have been put on the backberner in favour of 26 brand new episodes, meaning that Futurama as we know may well be back in business the same way Family Guy was revived last year."
He says that the original plan was to have the movies first, but now they are expecting the episodes to come out first. I don't know if it's two seasons of 13 episodes, or one huge season of 26 episodes. Since it's coming out before the movies, I hope it comes out this fall, or next January at the latest! It probably won't though, since it hasn't been officially confirmed by David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, or Fox, and because the episodes generally take at least 6 months to make. Funny how it took so long, you'd think it would be more popular than Family Guy! I mean, there were (and still are) more episodes of Futurama and it took longer for Fox to cancel it. But yay...news!
Come on Fox, confirm it already!
Actually, there's no news about what station it's going to be on, I just assumed Fox. I'm glad it's coming back because I've seen almost all of the episodes now, thanks to Netflix and Adult Swim. Just half of season 3 and most of season 4 left to watch!
http://www.simpsonschannel.com
^ Source, has Futurama news as well. It is also on gotfuturama.com and the Futurama page on wikipedia.
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:56 pm
Wow! I loved Futurama when I was in 4th grade (Such a long time ago T_T), and I'm really glad to see that it's coming back!
-hopes it's still good-
-hopes it's still good-
Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:59 am
I hate being the bearer of bad news, but:
http://billywest.com/forum/forum_posts. ... =2018&PN=1
http://billywest.com/forum/forum_posts. ... =2018&PN=1
HEY GUYS ----Please forgive me but I'm getting different information than
what I was given about Futuarma. DXC told me that this info was not true
right now --I think the DVD's are happening at some point,but I'm terribly
sorry about the misinformation! Please help me to tell all the posters about
this.I'll find as much accurate info as I can!
Thanks,
Billy
Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:01 am
:| Meh...if it ever does come back, I hope Fox learns their lesson and gives them a good, steady timeslot. Not Sundays at 7 or Tuesdays or whatever else they did. Sundays at 8:30 is good. I still don't understand how Futurama, Arrested Development, and other good shows get cancelled, and yet some of their new shows are still going, like The War at Home or Free Ride.
Of course, some shows I like are still on and haven't been cancelled (Simpsons just got renewed for at least 2 more years, I like King of the Hill ok - that got renewed, Family Guy, but it was better before it was cancelled, American Idol, OC- should be cancelled now). But seriously, Fox doesn't know what they want...they won't even license their programs to iTunes because they don't think it'll make enough money. That's what it all comes down to, money.
Kay...to end that rant, I'm sure all this Futurama publicity is helping. They've been saying it would come back last May too after Family Guy came back, but still.
Of course, some shows I like are still on and haven't been cancelled (Simpsons just got renewed for at least 2 more years, I like King of the Hill ok - that got renewed, Family Guy, but it was better before it was cancelled, American Idol, OC- should be cancelled now). But seriously, Fox doesn't know what they want...they won't even license their programs to iTunes because they don't think it'll make enough money. That's what it all comes down to, money.
Kay...to end that rant, I'm sure all this Futurama publicity is helping. They've been saying it would come back last May too after Family Guy came back, but still.
(Gotfuturama.com)Another well-informed source tells us that there was no basis in reality for the 26 episode rumour. The plan to make direct-to-DVD movies is still existing.
Le *BUMP*
Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:29 pm
Some more REALLY good news:
To Conclude:
* 4 DVD movies, the first to (hopefully) be completed in time for XMas '07
* At least 13 new episodes schedueled to be made for Comedy Central
Now, the CGEF source (who I think is David X. Cohen himself) didn't mention the episodes, or else mArc would have mentioned them on the site, but still....
Link
Also, to our friends at PEEL, we really are starting the first dvd movie later this summer, but I know you won't believe me and debate it to death because I'm not an "official" source -- I'm just some poor schlub who actually works at the the friggin' cartoon studio where we're making the g**-d**ned thing.
Link
Even though there is little information about the four Futurama DVD movies, the project remains on track (i.e., as it stands, they are going to be produced). To give you an idea of the timeline, the first of the movies is tentatively planned to be released around Xmas 2007. We'll let you know once we get more information from our sources.
(No source because whoever posted this on PEEL didn't give one.)
*June 21, 2006, Katey Sagal, as a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, stated that Futurama is very likely to return for either 13 or 16 new episodes on Comedy Central, in addition to the DVD movies. She also stated that she had already signed the contract to do voice work in Futurama.
Also, on Adult Swim, it was announced that Billy West spoke of 3 straight-to-DVD episodes of Futurama which would begin production during the Summer of 2006, hopefully arriving Fall of 2006.
Link
I was waiting for someone else to announce the show's return to television
so I wouldn't get clobbered if I had any information that was inaccurate!
Yes-- what Katey said is true so there is every reason now (with no
reservations) to go nuts.I'm glad to go back to work on my favorite show!
I'm sure I'll be on a bunch of shows to promote this.I've never seen Craig
Ferguson--what's his story?
Futurama lives!
Billy
To Conclude:
* 4 DVD movies, the first to (hopefully) be completed in time for XMas '07
* At least 13 new episodes schedueled to be made for Comedy Central
Now, the CGEF source (who I think is David X. Cohen himself) didn't mention the episodes, or else mArc would have mentioned them on the site, but still....
Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:04 am
Well, I forgot to mention this, but almost two months ago, Matt Groening confirmed the dvds:
Source
This is old news, and I'm sure you already know this, but around the end of October last year, Comedy Central bought the rights to the show for $400,000 per episode. (Source) The Adult Swim contract expires in December 2007 which means that syndicated episodes of Futurama won't air on Comedy Central until at least January 2008. At this point, I don't care how many episodes they produce or when they'll be out as long as there will be new episodes again.
Fox will be sorry!
Oh. Your. God. MAJOR NEWS!
Click
Supposedly, Comedy Central ordered 13 more episodes (to premiere in 2008). The source is the New York Post, so it should be true!
Another confirmation
Hmm...I hope the seasons are longer than 13 episodes though. I know the next one will be 13 episodes because they're probably testing it (like seeing how many viewers they can get and what time works best), but the seasons of South Park on Comedy Central are generally 14-18 episodes. I hope Futurama has more episodes! If not, eh... I won't complain. At least it's coming back!
Edit: Actually, it seems like the "new episodes" on CC will really be the direct-to-dvd movies being shown on TV. There are going to be 4 dvds split into 4 episodes each, for a total of 16 episodes.
AVC: What can you say about the Futurama movies?
MG: We're going to do four of them, straight to DVD. And as we speak, I'm exchanging e-mails and ideas with David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler, both of whom worked on the show from the very beginning. Right now we're trying to figure out whether to do a giant epic, or separate crazy movies, or what. But I wager that Bender will be featured prominently.
Source
This is old news, and I'm sure you already know this, but around the end of October last year, Comedy Central bought the rights to the show for $400,000 per episode. (Source) The Adult Swim contract expires in December 2007 which means that syndicated episodes of Futurama won't air on Comedy Central until at least January 2008. At this point, I don't care how many episodes they produce or when they'll be out as long as there will be new episodes again.
Fox will be sorry!
Oh. Your. God. MAJOR NEWS!
Click
Supposedly, Comedy Central ordered 13 more episodes (to premiere in 2008)
. The source is the New York Post, so it should be true!
Another confirmation
Hmm...I hope the seasons are longer than 13 episodes though. I know the next one will be 13 episodes because they're probably testing it (like seeing how many viewers they can get and what time works best), but the seasons of South Park on Comedy Central are generally 14-18 episodes. I hope Futurama has more episodes! If not, eh... I won't complain. At least it's coming back!
Edit: Actually, it seems like the "new episodes" on CC will really be the direct-to-dvd movies being shown on TV. There are going to be 4 dvds split into 4 episodes each, for a total of 16 episodes.