Futurama Movie Set For November 27

kevin_conaway writes "TV Squad informs us that the new Futurama movie will be available on November 27. The show will return as a full-length, high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes, each to be aired on Comedy Central. So, that's 4 DVD movies or 16 new episodes."

Re:Oblig.

[kimvette]

I, for one, welcome Groening as our overlord!

Matt & David & Co.: if any of you are reading this I want to say THANK YOU for hanging in there and making these DVDs happen. Here's to hoping to the return of Futurama to full production! :) I will be buying at least five or six copies of this to be handing out as gifts to try to help increase popularity of (and thusly demand for) the series.

Re:Finally

[User 956]

You're talking about this one, maybe? [cafepress.com]

Re:About damn time

[Rik Sweeney]

With the Simpsons ending

That's news to Matt Groening.

A few corrections

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, Futurama had four production seasons (hence the four box sets) that aired as five television seasons on FOX.

Also, AFAIK, The Simpsons isn't ending any time soon.

Re:The Velour Fog

[mrchaotica]

I knew somebody was going to object to that sentence...

Anyway, I meant "straight" in the acting [answers.com] sense, sort of, not in the sexual sense. Or in other words, I'm claiming that Zapp isn't a parody of Shatner because Shatner himself is that bad too.

Don't you just hate it when you have to explain a joke?

Re:I never really..

[Anonymous Coward]

Gee, I wonder what all those shows have in common...

Face it, science fiction is just not terribly mainstream right now. Strangely enough, elves and wizards are still quite popular with the mainstream audience. I think this has to do with an obsession with the past in our current culture.

Re:I never really..

[cowboy76Spain]

Because it was a little too geeky. Many of the jokes involved references to sci-fi movies or series, or scientific / mathematical theory (for example this list [lycos.es] (spanish)). Most people won't get what is about a 7-11 clerk in a box, but you know it is the shield from "Dune". Or that a aleph-sub-0 cinema would have a countable infinite number of rooms.

Also, many of the jokes are more subtle than those usual to the Simpsons, and probably people won't want to look at a cartoon and have to think harder to understand its humour.

That said, I am already waiting on it.

Re:I never really..

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't see this answer in the previous replies to your question.

Fox set up Futurama to run at 7PM EST / 6PM CST. This was on a Sunday. Fox had football running on Sundays. With the exception of the west coast, most of the country never saw the show. Many times they joined the show already in progress at approx 20 after, so no one could know what was going on. Too many football games went past their time slot.

Plus, there are those that attended church on Sunday nights, so they never saw an episode. While living with the parents, it was a requirement to attend church on Sunday nights. I never caught the show unless I was sick or after I had moved out. So I never got a chance to see the entire run until Adult Swim started showing it.

So for a few, other things were going on on Sunday nights. For many others they never got a chance to see the show due to Fox's use of a 7PM time slot on a day they had football scheduled until 7PM, but typically it ran until 7:20.

No promotion behind it. All I remember ever seeing commercials for was Simpsons and King of the Hill.

Re:misnomer

[Enderandrew]

I don't know why I even bother responding to an AC troll, but 480i is standard definition. Standard definition is also 4:3 aspect ratio.

A DVD can put out a native widescreen 480p picture, which was the bare minimum for the original HD specs. Most high-def TV shows are broadcast in 720p, and the new high-def movie formats are 1080p, but most high-def TVs can't even support 1080p. There is no single resolution that defines HD content.

Re:Oblig.

[robably]

Just saying, but "Good news everyone!" was always the herald of really bad news. The tag should be !goodnewseveryone.

I'll get my coat.

Re:Oblig.

[Crunchie Frog]

Of course not. Your point?

... has obviously gone over your head.

Futurama Movie Trailer!

[Anonymous Coward]

The trailer shown at the comic-con is online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEtZHOj4vHo [youtube.com]

Cancelled by the 'Box Network'!

Re:About damn time

[sharkey]

Just like this fall's schedule. [snpp.com]

Re:Oblig.

[glindsey]

I think you mean "Sweet zombie (lips moving with no sound because network censors are too scared to say 'Jesus' on television)".

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[bigstrat2003]

There's only one clone, Dwight is a natural kid. :P

Re:I never really..

[Anonymous Coward]

A television network in the US, will never switch away from a football game ever again. Not since the Heidi bowl [wikipedia.org]. They will switch to another football game, as they can switch back easily, but they will not switch from a football game to a movie or show.