David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie

Joel Keller writes "I conducted a brief interview with David X. Cohen, EP and show-runner for Futurama, about the release of the new DVD, "Futurama: Bender's Big Score," as well as the return of his show to TV. The interview was posted to TV Squad this morning. In it, Cohen talks about how the movies will be split up into episodes, some of the inside references that they inserted for the die-hards, and a quick preview of what the second Futurama movie is going to be about."

Re:Comedy Central?

[AmaDaden]

It's worth noting that both Adult Swim and Comedy Central both put in bids for the new eps of Futurama and Comedy Central won. Since Adult Swim more or less resurrected Futurama by playing it almost every night for the last few years it was kind of a dirty move on CCs part. So if Adult Swim got it the new eps would still happen and would be in, what some would consider, more capable hands. The same exact thing happened with Family Guy but the other guy was Fox and not CC.

Re:His show?

[AmaDaden]

I thought that too at first but he seems to stick mostly to the Simpsons. David X. Cohen is the main guy behind Futurama but as I understand it he still has to answer to Groening.

Re:Comedy Central?

[cthulu_mt]

I think "Dead Like Me" was originally on ABC and didn't last a full season. Sci-fi ran the episodes a few times and then moved on. They do that alot with cancelled series.

Re:Comedy Central?

[MuscaDomestica]

Wha? Fox made new episodes and aired them, but Adult Swim got the episodes one Week after they aired on Fox. It was an arrangement that helped both of them. The Futurama situation is a little different.

Re:To Mix Memes

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll love the DVD then. It has a full 22-minute episode of "Everyone Loves Hypnotoad," complete with commercials and bloopers. :)

Re:I've seen it

[Selfbain]

I thought the movie was decent but not as good as I had been hoping for. Some of the old episodes had more funny moments in 22 minutes than the entire movie had (Roswell That Ends Well anyone?).

Re:Comedy Central?

[poot_rootbeer]

Comedy Central is famous for getting shows like this and then killing them off quick. MST3K anyone?

Zwuh?

The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central picked up a quirky little program from a Minneapolis UHF station, and turned it into a national sensation (turning itself one of the top-tier cable networks at the same time). MST3K ran on CC for seven seasons.

Honestly, Futurama would be more at risk returning to Fox -- the network that already short-sightedly cancelled the program once -- than to a cable network like Comedy Central, which has typically taken very good care of its cash cows.

Re:Comedy Central?

[0100010001010011]

Comedy Central != Cartoon Network.

The show's been on Cartoon Network for the last 7 years not Comedy Central

Re:Comedy Central?

[Tetsujin]

Comedy Central != Cartoon Network.

The show's been on Cartoon Network for the last 7 years not Comedy Central

He was talking about MST3K.

MST3K was on Comedy Central/Comedy Channel for seven years. It's the only show to survive from the network's launch that survived that long. So it's hard to understand how someone could use MST3K as an example of Comedy Central killing off good shows quickly...

Granted, as the show went its timeslot got shifted around, it got split up into "MST Hour" format, etc. - and then the seventh season was remarkably short... But still, it ran seven seasons. It even survived major cast changes. So, yeah, it's not a great example of Comedy Central getting a good show and killing it off "quick"...

(As an MST3K fan it was hard to understand a decision like that when the 7th season ended - Comedy Central pulled MST3K in favor of... what, exactly? So they could run crappy low-budget unfunny Bill Maher movies? Mind you, this was when The Daily Show had just barely started and South Park hadn't. But TV shows gotta end sometime, right?)

Re:His show?

[joelkeller]

Groening is the creator, but Cohen runs the show. I talked to Groening in January about the show [slashdot.org], and, believe me, he's pretty involved with it, as well.

Answers: Re:Mars University Challenge

[siglercm]

1. Witten's Dog (I think it was the neutrino that tasted like grape, right?)
2. (Hermes) Look it up, ya lazy bum!: http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/3-000058-1/ [peelified.com] (read down a bit; further info at http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/cubes.html [appstate.edu] )
3. Aleph naught