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Title: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Signe on June 23, 2006, 01:58:19 PM Quote "Futurama" Pulls a "Family Guy" By Gina Serpe 1 hour, 44 minutes ago Comedy Central is going back to the Futurama. Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum 13-episode run. Comedy Central will start airing the new shows in 2008. "We are thrilled that Matt Groening and 20th Century Fox Television have decided to produce new episodes of Futurama and that Comedy Central will be the first to air them," said David Bernath, the cable net's senior VP. The new episode order is part of a larger deal Comedy Central made with the production company last year, when they bought the syndicated rights to Futurama's 72-episode library. "There is a deep and passionate fan base for this intelligent and very funny show that matches perfectly with our audience, and it is great that we can offer them not just the existing library but something they've never seen as well," Bernath told the Hollywood Reporter. The offbeat show was the brainchild of The Simpsons mastermind Groening and writer David X. Cohen and debuted on Fox in March 1999. The series revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who is accidentally frozen for a thousand years. When he wakes up in the year 3000, he befriends a sassy one-eyed pilot, Leela, and a cranky robot, Bender, who both work for an intergalactic delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's. In August 2003, after five seasons and three Emmys, including the 2002 award for Best Animated Series, Futurama was canceled due to low ratings. Reruns of the show, however, were picked up by Cartoon Network, and just like cable home did with Family Guy before it, the move paved the way for a Futurama revival. Both shows aired on the Cartoon Network and quickly built up unexpectedly robust ratings. In 2004, Stewie & Co. were resuscitated by to Fox thanks to staggering DVD sales--the show ranks as the fourth-biggest TV series seller ever--and its proliferation in reruns. In January of this year, 20th Century Fox began talks with Comedy Central to revive the long-gone Futurama as well, thanks to its resurgence in popularity courtesy of its second life in reruns and high--though not Family Guy high--DVD sales. The cable net has already re-signed voice stars Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio to reprise their animated roles. In the meantime, new Futurama plots can already be had in comic book form, with Groening's Bongo Comics releasing the stories. Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060623/en_tv_eo/19344) Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: tazelbain on June 23, 2006, 02:10:03 PM Adult Swim continues to perfect the art of Necromancy.
I hope they get working of Mission Hill and Oblongs next. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Surlyboi on June 23, 2006, 06:58:44 PM Totally. I'd love some more Mission Hill.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Viin on June 23, 2006, 07:39:15 PM I want more Home Movies damn it.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Fabricated on June 24, 2006, 07:33:53 AM Comedy Central is getting the series? Good god, it's gonna end up animated like stick figures if it gets the traditional Comedy Central budget.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Yegolev on June 24, 2006, 07:59:22 AM Comedy Central is getting the series? Good god, it's gonna end up animated like stick figures if it gets the traditional Comedy Central budget. They can just use that Chapelle bankroll. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: tazelbain on June 24, 2006, 08:15:06 AM Crap I missed that. They have no love for Cartoon Network.
I don't in chance for Home Movies. It already had it's second chance. Home Movies is too dry current Adult Swim audience. No worries, Brendan Small's Metalocalypse is in August. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Fabricated on June 24, 2006, 08:48:07 AM While Comedy Central has the money to do Futurama right, I doubt CN does without significant help from their parent company. That's probably why CN didn't get it.
Most of the Adult Swim shows made in-house are made on a Top Ramen budget. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Righ on June 24, 2006, 11:20:46 AM Stand by for a terrifying message from AL GORE. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24)
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Johny Cee on June 24, 2006, 02:59:08 PM All glory to the hypnotoad!
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Llava on June 24, 2006, 10:09:12 PM Al Gore: And this is Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons.
Gygax: It's a *rolls dice* pleasure to meet you. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Simond on June 25, 2006, 02:50:53 AM All glory to the hypnotoad! http://www.r33b.net/Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Yegolev on June 26, 2006, 08:23:35 AM Most of the Adult Swim shows made in-house are made on a Top Ramen budget. They are, however it is done so purposely. I'm not going to try to tell you that Williams Street itself has lots of money, but it's not as if CN (or wherever the $$$ goes) is poor. If they wanted to do it, I think they could, however there is plenty of money to be made selling low-budget shows. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Llava on June 27, 2006, 09:13:52 AM The Boondocks certainly seems like it has a pretty decent sized budget. Big name voice actors with pretty good animation.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Grand Design on September 21, 2007, 12:57:23 PM (Necro'd)
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/810/810144p1.html (http://dvd.ign.com/articles/810/810144p1.html) November 27 - preorder available via Amazon. I'm as happy as a little girl. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Signe on September 21, 2007, 01:23:16 PM I LOVE Furturama. (plus I buy anything with Coolio in it because, it's... well... you know... coolio.)
(now I can't stop saying coolio out loud :oops:) Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Grand Design on September 21, 2007, 01:39:13 PM I don't read / watch previews, but I really, really hope that Zap Branigan is in this and has a prominent role. Favorite Zap quote: "If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ... checkmate." Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Evildrider on September 21, 2007, 04:40:32 PM Yep I've been waiting for this for a year.. woo.
Futurama trumps Simpsons and Family Guy in my book. :-D Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Triforcer on September 21, 2007, 07:26:50 PM Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Signe on September 21, 2007, 07:36:27 PM (http://www.realitybbqforums.com/images/smilies/blush.gif)
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Evildrider on September 21, 2007, 07:44:41 PM I don't read / watch previews, but I really, really hope that Zap Branigan is in this and has a prominent role. Favorite Zap quote: "If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ... checkmate." Bah! It's all about Bender. “Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh screw the whole thing!” Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Stormwaltz on September 21, 2007, 10:19:13 PM Favorite Zap quote: "If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ... checkmate." "Stop exploding, you cowards!" Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Evil Elvis on September 22, 2007, 03:15:37 PM It's exactly like me, Flexo - the fun-loving love machine fembots love to love.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: bhodi on September 23, 2007, 09:28:40 AM I knew that killbots had a pre-set kill limit, so I simply sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they shut down. Right men? (You suck!)
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Bunk on September 23, 2007, 07:04:04 PM The episode about Fry's dog was the saddest moment on (fictional) TV for me since the musician guys died on the M.A.S.H. finale.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Mazakiel on November 27, 2007, 03:34:01 PM Bender's Big Score is out today, just picked it up from Best Buy. Hopefully it's as good as I've anticipated.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Evildrider on November 27, 2007, 04:02:59 PM Bender's Big Score is out today, just picked it up from Best Buy. Hopefully it's as good as I've anticipated. I liked it, and I'm a big Futurama fan. I saw it about a week ago.. off one of them torrent things. :ye_gods: I'm getting the dvd for christmas.. just couldn't wait that long. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Nerf on November 27, 2007, 05:41:29 PM Quicksilverscreen has benders big score up already, watching it tonight. They've got A Scanner Darkly up too, what an odd fucking movie that was.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: cmlancas on November 27, 2007, 06:06:08 PM The episode about Fry's dog was the saddest moment on (fictional) TV for me since the musician guys died on the M.A.S.H. finale. I cried. I absolutely turn off Adult Swim every time it comes on. It's just too damn depressing. I'll go read some goddamn Hemingway if I feel like kicking myself in the balls that badly. :sad_panda: Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Selby on November 27, 2007, 06:24:00 PM I cried. I absolutely turn off Adult Swim every time it comes on. It's just too damn depressing. The saddest part was that until the last 90 seconds it is one damn hilarious episode. And then the ending comes and I can't take it.Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Margalis on November 27, 2007, 09:09:05 PM I liked A Scanner Darkly a lot, but I love Dick. :ye_gods:
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Mazakiel on November 27, 2007, 11:55:46 PM Overall, I liked the dvd alot. Probably the biggest weakness it had was squeezing in so many characters from throughout the series into cameos or bit parts.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Llava on November 28, 2007, 01:14:41 AM I think it's worth mentioning that the DVD carries a full-length episode of "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad".
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Phildo on November 28, 2007, 01:01:16 PM They could definitely hve skipped out on the musical numbers.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Grand Design on November 28, 2007, 01:51:41 PM DVD will be here tomorrow via Amazon.
Earlier today it was #3 on Amazon's best sellers this week. That bodes well for new episodes after the movies are complete! Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: rattran on November 28, 2007, 02:18:52 PM I picked it up today, it was good, but seemed to really drag at parts.
Some snappy bits, but too much stuff shoehorned in. <edit> Worth it for the Everybody Loves Hypnotoad episode. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Evildrider on November 28, 2007, 04:44:26 PM DVD will be here tomorrow via Amazon. Earlier today it was #3 on Amazon's best sellers this week. That bodes well for new episodes after the movies are complete! They are supposed to be making like 2-3 more movies, that will be broke up into 4 episode chunks. Those episodes will be the next "season" of Futurama on Cartoon Network. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Grand Design on November 28, 2007, 05:21:16 PM That was the last that I had heard. I'm not sure if they are doing any more seasons after the four movies.
If I like Wikipedia, does that make me a Wikipedophile? :hello_thar: Quote from: Wikipedia! In February 2007, Groening clarified speculation as to whether Futurama had been revived in episodic or feature-film form, saying "[The crew is] writing them as movies and then we're going to chop them up, reconfigure them, write new material and try to make them work as separate episodes." I think Futurama runs about a million per episode, so the DVD sales would have to be impressive to warrant a new commitment*. *Which is my way of subtly saying, "I bought mine, go buy yours." Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Litigator on December 06, 2007, 11:54:19 AM I think I will buy the movies as they come out, but I am going to skip the DVD when they repackage them as episodes, even though I have the S1-S4 boxes.
I also didn't like them name-checking all the random characters for no reason. Stuff like "The Hedonist Bot" loses its humor when you overuse it. He should be popped out sparingly, when it's really, really funny. The Globetrotter joke was totally played already; that should not have come back. I did really like the Al Gore stuff. That guy is a good sport. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: K9 on December 06, 2007, 02:36:14 PM I was happy just to have any new futurama at this stage. It was decent overall, but not stellar. I agree with whoever said that it dragged at times, and I think that as was also seen in the Simpson's movie, Matt Groening's genius doesn't really extend beyond 45 mins, and consequently these feature length episodes do feel a little drawn out in some scenes.
As an imminent precursor to new seasons though I'm over the fucking moon. PS: can we have a thread of just Zap quotes? Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Grand Design on December 06, 2007, 04:39:46 PM PS: can we have a thread of just Zap quotes? Kiff, inform the men that we're starting a new thread! We need a Zap smiley. I thought the movie was great. I made the mistake of expecting too much from the Family Guy movie and, while it was funny, it didn't live up to my unfounded expectations. To the point that it dragged: I think that in the episodes, they have about 22 minutes to get in everything that they want to and a lot is left on the table when it is finished. With a movie, the writers can follow a broader story and naturally some parts will drag. Futurama has never been all the funny - they like to tell stories. But there were some parts that were absolutely hilarious. Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: K9 on December 06, 2007, 05:42:06 PM But there were some parts that were absolutely hilarious. I'd agree, it just seemed like there were about 22 minutes of hilarity and then a lot of filler. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it, just that I think I'll be happier when the show is being presented in its native format :) Also "We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?" :awesome_for_real: Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: geldonyetich2 on December 06, 2007, 07:51:22 PM Funny thing happened (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054485/) when I was confirming the Postman from Olive the Other Raindeer was also the Robot Devil.
Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Litigator on December 12, 2007, 12:25:26 PM Funny thing happened (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054485/) when I was confirming the Postman from Olive the Other Raindeer was also the Robot Devil. Robot Devil = Homer Simpson Title: Re: Futurama Back From the Past. Post by: Johny Cee on December 12, 2007, 01:13:11 PM If you ever get the chance....
I caught one of the "Simpsons: In the Flesh" things a couple years ago, where they have the actors (or their understudies) read a script from the show and Matt Groenig does some talking and Q&A. Dan Castellaneta was funny as shit, even doing some of the facial expressions/body language when he was doing Homer. Hell, everyone was funny. The reading was great. They did the "pro-soccer/Homer gets a gun" episode. |