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Comedy Central Orders 13 More Episodes Of FUTURAMA??
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Cal Kemp at Mr. Beaks' old site, collider.com, is reporting that the four “Futurama” direct-to-DVD movies won’t be the last we’ll see of Bender, Leela, Morbo, et al.
Kemp’s “inside source” indicates that Comedy Central has given the animated sci-fi sitcom a new 13-episode order:
… word is that “Futurama” production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward …
Find all of Collider’s exclusive on the matter here.
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I hope everyone will be back on board!
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I love Futurama.
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Way overdone?
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IF it's true. Futurama is perhaps THE best half-hour animated show in the past 20 years. It's DVD release movies had a lot of great moments, but fell a bit flat over the long run, trying to maintain a longer story. But over a half hour, it is some of the best stuff on television.
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More shitty direct to DVD movies?
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It says 13 episodes, not anything about movies, so apparently not.
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oh yeah. this was my favorite cartoon for years. cant wait for the new episodes
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The Spaghetti Incident?
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FEMINIST (observing a giant King Kong statue): "Men! It's always King Kong... never... Queen Kwong."
When I heard that joke, that was the end of my blind love affair with this show. -
but it did get stale.
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I want to see what the year 4000 is like.
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One of those stories that the title is enough. Talkback pointless. Beaks reference not needed. Then again, from the site that links Script Girl. So there you go.
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the future of futurama, putting the ram in futuRAMa
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wait... casting?
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Keep it tight for the love of god.
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Jun 08, 2009 3:41:28 AM CDT
The Hypnotoad ordered Comedy Central to order 13 episodes.
by det. john kimble
You told Brent on the phone, Brent told me.
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I'm assuming that refers to signing up the voice cast for thirteen episodes and/or casting for any additional parts.
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I'll pensively share your optimism.
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that is all...and scriptgirl still sucks.That really is all.CHEERS!
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Jun 08, 2009 5:24:10 AM CDT
stop with the hate, more futurama beats more shitty reality tv
by palewook
or another carlos mancina series.
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just fuck off.
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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD!
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I love Futurama, but I hope they don't keep it going for years like The Simpsons (not that a scripted, funny animated show is bad)
I'm with palewook, I'd sooner see more of this than more reality TV. (In the UK now, it's on ALL the time, one show finishes, and another starts, like they're all synchronised) -
that won't cop out when there's heat all about!
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We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid building, space travel, and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
FRY: Heh heh heh... also Wolfman. -
..and why should I care."Anything that involves more Bender 'Bending' Rodriguez is fine by me - no other animated character comes anywhere close to his coolness."Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!"
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the D&D theme for last movie. I am up for more ep's/movies.
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Reeeeal greasy.
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Neither is being disappointed when something you love lets you down.
The movies were not up to the quality of the series, hopefully these new episodes will be better. -
Which permeated and sank the last season and also messed up giant sections of the largely unfunny 'movies.' The Futurama team is comprised of funny nerds, not romantics.
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Just wondering.
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Jun 08, 2009 8:24:01 AM CDT
Time for another Star Trek episode but with Pine, Quinto, etc.?
by spyguy
Or just have Shatner's head jar attacking Pine's head jar as the "Arena" battle theme music is playing. It would be glorious! Glorious, I tell you!
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I always thought this is what was happening...
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yes people do still watch this fucking show.Why? Because it is fucking hilarious, has characters I love.It also features the endless talents of one Bender 'Bending' Rodriguez - The alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking, gambling, folk-singing kleptomaniac who is fun at parties, 40% titanium and just wants people to remember his name. Its Bender.
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More Futurama, even sub-par Futurama, is always welcome in my house.
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...going on about Bender I forgot to clean up the 2nd para.Should read: Because it is fucking hilarious, has characters I love and anyone who disagrees is a dick.
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I wish they had brought it back like this in the first place. I feel like the DVD movies just stretched out the series' resurrection too far. And while I thought they were mediocre to nearly good, sticking to new half hours woulda worked better. In fact, a lot of the various subplots would have worked better as half hours built around the same premise.I'll still watch all these, but the DVDs just delayed things.
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"SHUT UP, baby, I know it!"
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Whatever.
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...I know that we'll all be disappointed with it after a little while...
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I'm so there!
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I'd love to see Barak and Michelle as heads in jars and see if they're still the Black Kennedys after 1000 years.
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The show already has a cast.
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Billy West is the dumbest motherfucker in showbiz but this show deserves some fucking respect. Much better than most of the shit being peddled these days. Do it Comedy Central. Just fucking do it.
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Whoop-Whoop-Whoop
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...but there's something about hypnotoad. I can't take my eyes off of him. hmmmm?
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Futurama is at its best when it's short, sharp and funny. The movies just stretched things out and slowed the plot down - which got in the way of the jokes. I believe that Futurama will be back on form with individual episodes.
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Look, each movie was just 4 interrelated 22 minute episodes without the credits or commericals. Just watch it in chunks if you need episodes so badly. From a marketing perspective, the movies were genius, getting fools (like me) to shell out $20 for 4 episodes of the show. That's $80 for one 16 episode season on DVD. OUCH!
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...BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!!!
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Granted, the last 3 movies were painfully uneven at best, but damn is it better to have more Futurama than none. I get that they do the movies to bilk the fans like me out of buying them on DVD first, so whatever it takes, but I would like to suggest to the writers that they work a little longer on the overarcing storylines in a framework format BEFORE writing the scripts, even if it means making sacrifices to individual episodes. This show deserves to be remembered for high quality laughs and storylines, not shoehorned laughs and scattershot storylines.
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The DVD things proved this fucker ran out of steam. It's so dated now despite beings set in the future.
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I've pretty much had my fill of his shiny metal ass. A robot that acts like a jerkoff fanboy, har de har har damn it's gotten old. But Fry and Leela gave this ditzy show some humanity, and some of its best episodes. And how about an overarching storyline, hm? You know, make the show less episodic. How about some kinda space war goin' down, and Planet Express has to supply provisions to the troops, and deal with smugglers and warlords and the like. Give the show some ooomph. Futurama sucked too often because you'd have a decent ep one week and a godawful one the next, with nothing to glue them together into any kind of cohesive series thematic, you dig. Oh, one more thing...kill off Zap Brannigan. Enough of that hole already. I would PAY to see that happen. He stopped being funny long time ago. I have spoken. Obey my directives and you might win my viewership, earthborn scum.
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Damn but it's brill.
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And its sticky keys. Maybe I should wash my hands once in a while. Ya think?
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With darker, edgier, and, of course, younger cast?
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GOODNIGHT!
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Mate, I'm glad you and me agree that Futurama should continue and you have thought about how it can happen a lot more than I have.It is hard to pick fault with someone who is able to explain their opinion clearly and back them up with arguments. Unfortunately though every single one of your ideas is terrible.The advantage of cartoons is that you DON'T need any character development. No one gets old, no one has to grow up, no one can get hurt - Charlie Brown never has to leave elementary school, Garfield never goes lame and gets hit by a car, Coyote never catches Road Runner.By next week they are back to square one again ready for their next humerous episodic adventure. The only requirement is to keep it funny.And shame on you for dissing Bender.
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you get my drift though
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The movies where good, but nothing so great that I was willing to throw furniture around and rip holes in my drywall in an excited rage. The show works best in a half hour shot at a time.
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Into the Wild Green Yonder was not so good on the first viewing, and even worse on the second.
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But will Comedy Central be able to afford the high quality animation that Futurama has had in the past?
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Although, I wish the reruns would go back to adult_swim. It dosen't seem to get treated with any respect on Comedy Central.
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Great news - my brother will be a very happy camper.
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"Kiff, whats the name of my sex learning disorder?"
"Ugh. Selexia." -
Just thought I'd point that out. And unlike (ugh) Family Guy, there's been no revival motivated by high DVD sales. So that tells me that Futurama was not an overlooked diamond-in-the-rough. It still doesn't appeal to enough people to make it anything like a hit. It's just a cult classic, and that kind of show doesn't thrill network executives (since geeks=broke). So THAT tells me the show still has some weaknesses. I recall that there was a lot of griping on this board when the 2nd and 3rd Futurama Direct-To-DVDs completely ignored the storyline from the first DVD, esp. regarding Leela and Fry. Continuity does matter, unless the jokes are really REALLY good, and come on. So I beg to differ. And Bender to me is a turn-off, always was. He takes the dumb self-centered degenerate male stereotype 20,000 leagues beyond Homer Simpsons, and IMO, beyond the point of funny. But that's just me. Regards!
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More NIBBLER!!!
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Would love to see them groove with the proper series format again.
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The general apathy toward FUTURAMA in the wake of the four subpar movies (the missed opportunities!) will guarantee, with the worsening aconomy, that risky ventures like new episodes of FUTURAMA will not be possible in the wake of the cold heart REALITY (TV).
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Futurama fucking rocks!
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..its a shame that futuristic/scifi TV shows never seem to get the audience they deserve on their first run.Red Dwarf, Star Trek, Firefly, T:SCC - the list goes on. There just seems to be a large percentage of the TV watching population (ie: morons) that see anything involving space/the future/computers as 'stoopid'. Some shows make cult status later on, some don't.But don't equate 'geeks' with 'broke'. Ever since the IT revolution producers have realised that there are a lot of brainy people with disposable income to spend. Geeks are no longer stuck in labs earning peanuts - now they are working in IT and spending money on iPhones, huge HD tellys and extensive DVD/BR collections!
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by fucking with the schedule when Futurama was on...and off.
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..by jesus.
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comedy central orders 26 more episodes....even more good news
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...because of the weird-ass format enforced on them by the suits. Stretching a half-hour formatted show into a 1.5+ hour movie is always a bad idea, requiring that the movie then be available for splitting back into separate half-hour segments is even more idiotic. Typical corp-think. I mean remember how great The Muppet Show was? 30 minutes of epic silliness, good, bad, hokey humor all hitting you rapid fire. Then, they did the movie. I remember sleeping through it. Hopefully the move back to 30 minute eps will bring back that Futurama magic again. Here's hoping, anyway.
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