Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central 259
avajcovec points out a brief note on Collider.com that Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of Futurama. Quoting: "Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward. This should be a welcome surprise to fans of the show who have already gone through the series' cancellation and resurrection as direct-to-DVD movies."
Casting (Score:4, Interesting)
Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward.
Let's hope it's all the original cast. Wrong-sounding Muppets where no picnic, either (to paraphrase Family Guy).
Into the Wild Green Yonder (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder if it will continue from where Into the Wild Green Yonder [wikipedia.org] left off.
Re:Let's hope the Family Guy effect holds true (Score:3, Interesting)
Admittedly, "The Beast with a Thousand Backs" or whatever it was called did more to creep me out than to amuse me. That being said, as a literary critic I can't agree with the assertion that a single second of any episode of "Family Guy" could be classified as "meh." For thousands of years comedy has not developed past Aristophanes -- indeed, fewer than a hundred years ago the great cultural historian Edith Hamilton compared the popular entertainment of the previous generation to his oeuvre. The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of. In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
So there's that.
Re:Who gives a fsck... (Score:3, Interesting)
Futurama Season 1, Episode 5 "Fear of a bot planet" is based on a short story by Stanisaw Lem. David X. Cohen, the head writer of Futurama, acknowledged that Stanisaw Lem is among his favorite Sci-Fi writers.
Re:The movies didn't work (Score:4, Interesting)
it could go the family guy route of being stale almost immediately after it returned to screens.
I'll agree that Family Guy was a shadow of its former self, once it returned from cancellation.
It took some time, but the show *has* returned to something like it's former levels of comedy though.
Re:Obligatory... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Absolutely wonderful (Score:5, Interesting)
Some of the best jokes in the show were only there because of the censors forcing re-writes. What do we get the moment they have some wiggle-room? Bender's Big Score. I may hate censorship, but these writers don't seem to work well without it.
Re:Casting (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm old enough to remember when they replaced the Flintstone's character "Barney"s voice-actor in the 1960s
It always sounded weird to me... I can't imagine Fry or Lela or Dr. Zoidberg having different voices
Amy could probably be replaced and the rastafarian guy, but most of the others cannot
Re:Absolutely wonderful (Score:2, Interesting)
I completely agree: Bender's Big Score was fantastic. It was a great, densely written, intricate and heartfelt story. Plus, it came with a dash of Torgo's Executive Powder.