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More FUTURAMA Coming To Fox Network?? It's Possible, Says Zapp Brannigan!!
Merrick here...
At the recent Anime Supercon in Florida, actor Billy West - voice of Fry, Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Brannigan (and more?) on FUTURAMA says that Fox is angling to return the show to its network. Seems DVD sales & replay on Comedy Central have treated the show kindly.
Here's an embed of Billy's comments:
I have mixed feelings about this. I love FUTURAMA & am horny for more, but Fox mistreated the series the first time around...made it damn near impossible to find/watch, then pulled it per lackluster ratings. If Fox will give FUTURAMA the attention/respect it deserves & air it at a consistent time? Cool. Otherwise...the stability of direct-to-DVD/Comedy Central would be vastly superior, I should think.
The DVDs have felt a little lackluster to me, but not so much that I'm anywhere close to abandoing the show. The next direct-to-DVD title, INTO THE WILD GREEN YONDER, releases next Tuesday, Feb 24, on standard DVD (HERE) and Blu-Ray (HERE).
Thanks to Nathan for calling the above clip to out attention.
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I'd like to see new episodes, but I'd like to keep seeing the reruns on Adult_Swim. They never ran the credits in a tiny corner of the screen during the intro to South Park.
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Use your brains, idiots!;)
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Wait, what?
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And Billy West kicks ass!
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Over and Over. I'm pretty sure I've never seen the ones from the final season(s) of the show, I keep seeing the same fucking episodes though!!! I'm cursed!
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It makes sense, they need something to complete the animation block. Why risk something new?
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He always talks about stuff too early, before things are nailed down, months in advance of anything actually happening. He did the same thing with the DVD movies and the Comedy Central thing. Which is not to say the show won't be back on Fox, but the fact that its coming out of Billy West's mouth is not sure indication that its actually going to happen.
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Any way we can get more Futurama is a good thing. I'm all for it, even though FOX is run by a bunch of idiots.
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FUCK it lubelessly, up the ass, and in the backseat of a Volkswagon.
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Where's our talkback!? I said, we will hi-jack it all. It's clear you aren't getting advanced screenings anymore, so you might as well just post the ABC blurb and a TB and get it over with first thing. Avoid all this nonsense. LOST TALK BACK!!
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I used to say the same thing about Jon Lovitz's "The Critic" when Comedy Central aired it endlessly - and then I realized they only did like 30 episodes in the entire series, so that's why I kept seeing the same episodes over and over again. That's all they had.
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It blows and not in a sensual, cum-inducing way.
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If Ben were here, he'd laugh too!
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I just looked at the episode list of Futurama on wikipedia... there's just not enough eps and I have seen most of them...
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Feb 18, 2009 9:53:51 AM CST
After watching LOST all these years... my balls are drained
by turketron
I'm out of cum.
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The Futurama movies aren't as good as the episodes. The show works as a show but as a movie is too long (even my wife who is a die-hard fan agrees...)
Bring the show back... Fox screws up everything but at least when they brought back Family Guy it stayed on the air this time. -
Don't make us relive your conception.
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Fuck Lost I'm still waiting on a Chuck talkback.
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No love for the RATINGS GIANT? The best damn show on television?
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Feb 18, 2009 9:56:06 AM CST
If FOX can bring back FAMILY GUY, they can bring back FUTURAMA
by spyguy
The half-hour televised format seems to suit FUTURAMA better than the Direct-To-DVD format.
Oh, and LOST bitches (of which I consider myself one) need to calm the fuck down and wait for their own Talkback which everyone knows will be here eventually. Show a little decency and restraint, people.
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Feb 18, 2009 9:58:01 AM CST
and it delivered 2... TWO... TO... TOO... TEW awesome hours
by turketron
Last night! Holy shit! I pounded my drained balls into mush just so I could ejaculate SOMETHING to the awesomeness of AI... FUCK!
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Ben is using Jack Bauer one-liners to express the desperate situation we're in! We have to go back bro!
But seriously, I don't really go near the Lost talkbacks until after the show airs anyway. Fuck a spoiler... -
Yes please
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And FOX... DO A MARRIED WITH CHILDREN MOVIE FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!! AL BUNDY RULES!
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I enjoy Chuck despite myself, but a TB? What is there to discuss? Every episode pretty much follows the same formula and tells the same story.
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Feb 18, 2009 10:24:23 AM CST
I thought the new episodes were airing on Comedy Central...
by danielkurland
Or maybe it was Adult Swim. Why would they decide to switch from this deal and go back on FOX, who consistently mistreated them? I really don't understand why countless people who have been spurned by FOX keep going back. It won't teach them anything...
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No, wait...wait...I wasn't serious...shit!
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Ratings mainly, that and lead-ins.
Fox, simply saying, is a bigger network then the cartoon network and has a larger reach. -
The only positive opinions I'm aware of, I've seen on this site in fact. By die-hard-Any-Futurama-Is-Better-Than-None type fans.
Personally, I thought they were awful. I'd rather the show got smarter again, and I doubt Fox is a network that encourages or rewards intelligent programming. -
Let's focus on the positive. Futurama is one of the best written and most consistently funny television series of all time. It was like a hate crime to bring back Family Guy and only trust Futurama to direct-to-dvd status. The dvds have been ok, but a show like this needs room to run, so series form is where it will be at it's best.
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isn't that they're bad. It's that they're trying to tell a much bigger story, but probably shouldn't be.
In spite of their eccentricities, Futurama and the Simpsons are very much old school sitcoms. If it's not Homer's latest mishap and resulting scheme then it's Mom's conquest plan of the moment.
Futurama and the Simpsons are shows that rely heavily on compressed storytelling and situational humor. In many ways, they're no different than Three's Company. Expanding the story to 90 minutes and decompressing the humor is counter-genre.
By the same token, a show like the X-Files, which relied on slow and simmering conspiracy plots fails on the big screen because it now has to compress everything to fit within 2 hours. Compressing the 17 hours of a full season into 120 minutes ruins the anticipation and eliminates slow burn.
Futurama actually stands a much better chance on Fox if they go back to self-contained episodes instead of big arcs that last 4. Unfortunately, like the comic industry and the trade format, Fox is probably going to realize that these decompressed arcs allow them to sell more DVDs at retail. If they do that, the show will probably be canceled again. All of the humor will be there, but it'll be spread out instead of being rapid fire. -
can't wait!
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Totally agree, the feature-length DVD's lost something of the show's charm. Maybe they should have brought on some writers with more big screen experience.
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I find it really difficult to sit through them. Futurama just doesn't suit that format; the 25 minute TV slots were on the money.
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because "into the wild green yonder" is quite lame and dull. It would be a shame if that's how the series ended.
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I still think that Futurama has life left in it - as long as it's in the form of an episodic series. Feature-length stories (even if they're split into episodes) don't suit the razor-sharp nature of Futurama's humour at its best. Too much padding dilutes the quickfire jokes.
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I had to laugh that the only examples you gave of Billy West speaking about things too early were the DVDs and Comedy Central episodes made out of them, given that those actually happened. :D
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Even if FOX messed with the shaw back in the day, we're getting new content and in this age of hulu.com and home videos whichever way the network treats it is irrelevant. Join in the celebration of MORE FUTURAMA!!!!!
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hope they bring back Scooby Doo while they're at it
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if only for market research. I know no one who bought the movies but everyone have seen them.
They were of varying quality to say the least but recut to a series they could work a lot better and please bring on more episodes. -
This needs to be a series. The direct-to-dvd episodes, while welcome, seem a little thin with the overarching plots and spread out gags. It's MUCH better as self-contained half-hour episodes.
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I swear, how many times am I going to turn on the anchovies episode? Or the Beck one?
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...if FOX has any business sense left. Like someone said earlier, it's a sure thing versus that new school show that Will Arnett, Cheri Oteri, and company are doing. I mean, I like Will Arnett but that show looks atrocious. Futurama has a built-in fanbase, and I seem to be in the minority of people who thought the first two movies were up to par with the series, while Bender's Game sort of fell flat more than not. Let Ken Keeler take most of the writing reigns, keep the "blue" humor of the DVDs (insofar as a primetime Network slot will allow), and you've got the makings of a first rate 5th production season (technically 6th if you count the movies) for the funniest show FOX has had since cancelling Andy Richter Controls The Universe.
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Billy West is a god among men. The only thing Howard Stern is truly missing on Sirius is for Billy to return.
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Billy is sheer talent and gods what range. Many more happy years in animation we hope!
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in episode form please. The movies were disappointing b/c since they were in movie form the plots had to be extended to the point that it was distracting. Nearly all four movies could've been either 1 episode or a 2 parter; not 90 minutes.
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I'm definitely in the bank of fans who want Futurama any way we can get it... I'd actually PREFER it be on AdultSwim, but I'll absolutely take it on Fox if that's where I have to go for it... and if it bumps King of the Hill out of the Sunday lineup? ALL THE BETTER!! Now I don't have to figure out what to watch for a half hour after The Simpsons.
As for the DVDs, yeah, they were a bit overblown, but there are moments of the show's typical pure gold in there, and just one or two. Hell, you can jump ahead and watch the last half of "Bender's Game" (once they're into fantasy) and it is GREAT.
It's rare we get a full team of people (writers, actors, artists, etc) who CARE about a show like the people do who make Futurama . . . FOR GOD'S SAKE, LET THEM WORK!! -
HUH?!?
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He could have a Lucifer robot as an homage to the original BSG. Billy West could do the voice. He does a killer Jonathan Harris/Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space".
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... was Dan Castellaneta in the show (checking). Yes, and thereafter it was Maurice LaMarche. I think it's a variation of the Frank Nelson character in the old Jack Benny show... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_r1Ynl4Ls
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There are so many great movies Futurama can base their episodes on. I mean, mindlessly duplicate. I mean, uhh... parody.
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the movies are great. Sure, BwaBB was disappointing but Bender's Big Score is on par with some of the greats. I can't wait for the final movie.
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Billy is batting 1000 so far so I take this as "very close to a done deal". Yeah - he reveals things that no one else will verify for several months, but it eventually happens. I've enjoyed the DVDs, but I truly loved the series and it's still the only show that can consistently make me laugh out loud even after multiple viewings. Futurama is best served in 22 minute chunks, so I’m crossing everything I can that this will become “official” soon.
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I'll get the powder, sir.
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...was going to air new episodes when it picked up Futurama from Cartoon Network.
I could've sworn I read that. But only the DVD movies were made. -
comedy central are just gonna aire the 4 movies edited down into 16 episodes. apparently there will be new footage to make them work more as individuals or something.
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But this is a FUTURAMA TB. Futurama is great, the movies were ok but at least we have something. And like everyone has said, if the can bring family guy back (which i think has nothing on futurama, but i still watch it) then they can bring futurama back!
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is that the movies were meant to be the new episodes. That's repeated many times here in the TB's but people still dont get it.
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Feb 18, 2009 6:45:18 PM CST
"Billion Backs" was as good as anything, the rest not so much
by tallboy66
But not hateful or anything. Bender's Game felt more in line with the wackiness of the series, just took an odd left turn there in the last 30 minutes. The first direct-to-DVD wasn't very great (not awful, just not great) but I'll attribute that to them getting their sea legs back.
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If you had been reading his posts at the time, confirming, then backpedaling, then saying nothing was set in stone, then unconfirming, then re-confirming, you'd know what I was talking about. It was a mess that led to much confusion and consternation for a long period of time. But, whatever. Fuck Lost.
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Bender's Big Score. It really felt like a coherent movie with a PLOT. After that, I liked Bender's Game, then Billion Backs and finally Wild Green Yonder (only seen it once though.)
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so billy west can afford to buy a new shirt. for the love of god, man
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Hard and fast!
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..that said bring back Futurama!!!!
FREEDOM! -
Is now on Beige Alert.
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And moist. Don't forget moist. And sometimes sticky. A restraining order is usually in effect. And one last thing about Brannigan's Law that's exactly the same as Brannigan's Love: no phone call the next day.
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I don't care who does Futurama, as long as it keeps getting made!! Fox need to think of Futurama like Zoidberg thinks of his shell. Spend ages looking for something new, then find that the old one in the dumpster still fits perfectly. Whoop Whup whup...
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When is Billy West going to go back on the Howard Stern Show!!!???
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...was really good. It was probably the best out of the DVD movies. It ends the show with a pretty satisfying conclusion too.
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Fox hated Futurama. Kicked it around the schedules in the United states. before each new season, fox wouldnt say if it was coming back or not. it ended up selling it Comedy Central. Groening must be really uneasy about returning to fox. after all they hated futurama from day one.
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You homophobe bitches.
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that guy. and love futurama. love it.
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Nixon's baaaaaack!
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Maybe this is something of a case of Fox eventually, slowly noticing what works.
Simpsons is in it's 20th year just went HD. Fox is thinking, for a cartoon movie it made a lot of money.
They brought Family Guy back it succeeded. Then came American Dad. The Cleveland show is apparently in the works.
Fox has to be looking at the idea of bringing back Futurama and seeing good things....
Or they're just greedy fucks incapable of original ideas. If the suits are going to recycle more stuff better this than another a Dukes of Hazard Movie.
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I want me some Futurama.
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The movies are ok, but seem very forced; the whole 'edit four episodes together' paradigm they've been working under doesn't work that well. Make straight half-hour episodes will probably result in a better product.
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And Heremes' kid? They weren't in the DVD movies. Not that I care, they sucked.
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They were the ones who got Bender hooked on D&D.
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I's a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a hobbit. God i love this show. But i would give FOX the shaft this time
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Is that they had unbelievably funny, goofy things, mixed in with stories of almost Shakespearian tragedy (Jurassic Bark. Tell me you didn't cry a little at the end) and it just worked. And it still does. Whatever form Futurama takes, I will still watch, and buy it. But yeah, another vote for 22 minute episodes. And Zoidberg rocks.
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Damn you Harry Knowles and your lack of a talkback edit feature! ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD!
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