Futurama to be Resurrected?

KingDaveRa writes "Futurama could follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and re-enter production more than two years after it was axed. The animated series, brainchild of Simpsons creator Matt Groening, ended after four produced seasons amid lackluster ratings and broken scheduling on broadcast network Fox." From the Reuters article: "Reps for 20th Century Fox have declined to comment on the news, but Variety says initial negotiations have begun. If revived, it's unclear exactly which network would air the new episodes. While Fox housed the original series, the show found new life once reruns began showing on the Cartoon Network. Comedy Central subsequently snapped up the off-air rights and will exclusively air the repeats beginning in 2008. " A follow-up to Groening and Cohen's recent comments.

futurama

[ducatier]

Good news everybody!

I'm axing a question

[User 956]

Futurama could follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and re-enter production more than two years after it was axed.

Well, i'm waiting... what did they ax it?

My Little Girl Rejoices

[Chagatai]

My three year-old daughter loves Futurama. Her favorite character? Bender, naturally. She would see a commercial or the DVD set in the store and shout, "Look, daddy! It's Bender!" Gratefully, she does omit the, "Bite my shiny metal ass."

Cue comments...

[maynard]

...about the resurrection of Farscape and Firefly for an "F" trifecta!!!

Re:get some priorities, people!

[Spad]

Futurama is being resurrected [slashdot.org] and you're talking about Ariel Sharon?! You disgust me!

Life...

[pizza_milkshake]

Life is hilariously cruel.

Sure, but what about "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad?"

[MilenCent]

It's always had high ratings!

Re:My Little Girl Rejoices

[User 956]

Gratefully, she does omit the, "Bite my shiny metal ass."

What's your daughter doing with a shiny metal ass [fzntsa.org]?

Re:What's to stop Fox from doing it again though?

[DarthTator]

I agree. Its enough to drive this robot not to drink!

Re:atleast they realize their mistakes

[Asakusa]

What's "Arrested Development"?

hmm

[engagebot]

"If only there was some way to know which can of slurm has the winning bottlecap..."

"wait, what did you say? I was too busy using this ray gun to look inside of stuff."

Re:Sunday?

[User 956]

I wish they could just resurrect shows on Cartoon Network. Unfortunately, that's unpossible.

fixed that for you.

Re:I'm axing a question

[systemic chaos]

You're obviously used to ancient pronunciations, like when you say Christmas instead of Xmas.

The Trifecta of F

[OrthodonticJake]

Have you ever noticed this? If the show is on Fox, is good, and if its title begins with F, it is f*cked. Family Guy, Futurama, Firefly. If this is true, though, 2/3 of the trifecta will have been resurrected. But we all know Firefly is never coming back.

Re:futurama

[Rei]

(Execubot rolls dice)

Executive Beta: "Groening Cartoons Are Back!"

Ahhh, so many memories, so many strange fluids gushing out of patients' bodies....

Re:Woooo-Whoooo!

[QuantaStarFire]

Woooo-Whoooo!

That's just air escaping from the folds of his fat!

Re:What's to stop Fox from doing it again though?

[Rei]

Things are going to be different this time. Before, Fox was demanding and possessive. But now, it wants them to do stuff and stay with them all the time.

Re:get some priorities, people!

[Anonymous Coward]

for that line of thinking, Ariel Sharon is dying and yet here you are posting on Slashdot forums about how much people posting on Slashdot forums are disgusting you. I think causality just collapsed again.

Re:Sunday?

[Anonymous Coward]

King of the Hill needs killin'.

If I want to laugh at some idiot conservative Texan these days, I put on CNN.

If I Only Had...

[SenorPez]

... my Fing-Longer, I could activate the What-If machine, and see what would happen if FOX brought back Futurama.

Instead, I'll just enjoy the syndication, instead.

Re:I'm all for it ...

[Sheetrock]

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer that the only choice for right-wing comedy on the air right now is Fox News.

Reporters... Don't They Know Anything?

[Evil Closet Monkey]

From the Article:
The series revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy, who is accidentally frozen for a thousand years. He wakes up in the year 3000 and befriends sassy one-eyed pilot Leela and cranky robot Bender, who both work for an intergalactic delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's.

Leela worked at the Chrionics lab, getting her job with the delivery service at the same time as Fry.
Bender was ending his carrier as a bender, rather drastically, when he met Fry. Also joining Planet Express at the same time as Fry and Leela.

My last shred of faith is shattered. How are we ever to trust the news media again!?

Re:futurama

[dpille]

Ahhh, so many memories

*Pushes button* And now they're gone.

You poor unfortunate man

[Excen]

My three year-old daughter loves Futurama. Her favorite character? Bender, naturally.
 
Bender. Bender Bending Rodriguez. The whoring, hard drinking, foul-mouthed bending robot. I put the over/under at 3 months past her 18th birthday when she first dances on a brass pole for dollar bills.

Hurray!

[QuantumPion]

Now Zoidberg is the popular one!

Don't Worry.

[Farrside]

Fox would never allow something like that to happen.

They'll have to re-hire a TON of people for this!

[sgant]

I mean, the voice talent alone. You have to get the people that do the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, and various other people. I mean that's 5 people right there you have to re-hire!

Can they find all these guys again? They could be anywhere! They may all have scheduling conflicts or something...

waiting for someone to state the obvious about this of course

Re:TV execs don't have a clue

[Damek]

Their titles all contain vowels! ...

What, you thought I was going to jump on the "they all contain F!" bandwagon? Pfft.

Re:Cue comments...

[Viper Daimao]

And while Claudia Black is hot there's no amount of her naked hugging a dance pole that could get me to watch it.

There's defintely an amount of naked hugging a dance pole that could get me to watch it, and I eagerly await the experiments to quantify this amount.

Re:I'm all for it ...

[Eli Gottlieb]

As long as it doesn't turn into a partisan political mouthpiece like "Family Guy" has. If I want to see one-sided political humor, I'll read "Doonesbury."

You seem to have misspelled "American Dad" and "The Boondocks".

It's like that old story

[Tim Browse]

All this axing of shows, and then they come back with DVD sales, and then the people that axed them want to make them again. It keeps happening. It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a race-car.

Is any of this getting through to you?

Actually it's just one dumb assistant...

[mykepredko]

that keeps getting told to get the "F outta here".

myke

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