Have you grown tired of bad TV news? And by bad TV news, I mean bad news about television shows. Bad "TV news" is redundant.
Well, get ready for some good news. No wait, get ready for some great news. No, great doesn't really describe it. Here is some grantasticularly wondergasmiclicious news! (And my 12th grade English teacher said I'd never amount to anything as a writer.)
Comedy Central has ordered all brand new episodes of Futurama, and the show has officially gone back into production.
An insider told Collider.com that the network has given the series an order for 13 additional episodes to air now that the network has run through all of the series' original episodes and the four full-length DVD movies. This news has sparked rumors that production has officially started again on the series and casting is underway.
It's not just good news for Futurama fans, even though the fans are slipping into grinning comas and twitching with joy over the news. And who can blame them? It's one of the few comedy series that just seems to get better and better the longer its run gets. It's the bizarro According to Jim.
It's also good news to every show that has been cancelled before its time. Matt Groening, David X. Cohen and company have proved that no show can truly die just because a single-minded network doesn't have the patience to let it develop and expand. Their dedication to the show and its fans is truly astounding, and if new episodes do make it to Comedy Central's doorstep, disappointed fanboys across the universe will have one less thing in life to be disappointed about.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
6-08-2009 @ 11:22AM
Philip J Fry said...
Oh great news I was looking this up only a couple of days ago.
Couldn't be happier I hope this comes to our TV sets within the next few months.
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6-08-2009 @ 1:25PM
Dan said...
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE BEST NEWS ON THIS WEBSITE IN MONTHS!!!!!
Futurama rules and I'm so excited I'll get even more Futurama. If you've ever seen the comics, you'd realize how many dozens of episodes they could produce...the posibilities are limitless.
6-09-2009 @ 3:18PM
Dead_Rebel said...
I just pooped a little, with joy!
6-08-2009 @ 11:26AM
Blu-Sam said...
Hooray!
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6-08-2009 @ 12:01PM
purpleslog said...
"It's one of the few comedy series that just seems to get better and better the longer its run gets."
You must not have seen DVD #2,#3, or #4.
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6-08-2009 @ 5:08PM
Jeff said...
I agree with your dvd assessment. That is all.
6-08-2009 @ 12:12PM
pinsleric said...
WOOOOO!!!!!
I don't think much else needs to be said.
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6-08-2009 @ 4:03PM
Tim Mahoney said...
That's What She Said!
6-08-2009 @ 1:04PM
jim said...
"Good News, Everyone!"
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6-08-2009 @ 1:30PM
R-Bro said...
Hope it won't be another two-year wait!
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6-08-2009 @ 1:52PM
Mike said...
Well, sorry to dash that hope, but a standard animated series usually takes about a year per episode to produce. So, you're probably looking toward the second half of 2010 at the earliest, unless this is actually old news and they're on down the road a bit already.
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6-09-2009 @ 3:14PM
Bunnsy said...
You seem to be forgetting that I don't care when I get it, just so long as I get it.
HAZOOZOO!
6-09-2009 @ 4:35PM
simon said...
a year?! If Southpark can pump out episodes in a week, Futurama could too
6-09-2009 @ 4:37PM
Joe said...
So you're saying this 13 episode season will take 13 years to produce? I have a hard time believing that.
6-08-2009 @ 4:34PM
StillBash said...
Yeah... well.. uhm...
I hated all the DVD releases. All of them. They weren't close to anything that's done while the show was still in production.
I really REALLY hope they'll manage to get back to the quirky, 20 minute episode format. Those 80 Minute 4-episode movies just didn't feel right. I didn't even RENT the last one because the first three were so unfunny...
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6-08-2009 @ 5:17PM
metz said...
Absolutely. The DVD's were spectacularly unfunny. I don't know if it was the writers or the forced "movie" format but they certainly tamped my enthusiasm for more Futurama into the ground.
6-08-2009 @ 6:49PM
Jesse said...
GREAT NEWS!!! Props to Cartoon Central's: Adult Swim for keeping the show alive!
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6-08-2009 @ 6:51PM
Jesse said...
Err, I mean Cartoon Network..
6-08-2009 @ 7:52PM
Goober8008 said...
I can't believe so many didn't like the DVD movies...I thought "The Beast with a Million Backs" and "Benders Game" were super funny. I laughed my ass off watching Benders Game in a way I haven't for a movie in a long long time. Easily better than the Simpsons movie and funnier than many of the episodes...but maybe I just "got it" because I played Dungeons and Dragons and had just watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers before Beast with a Million Backs. To each his own I guess.
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6-08-2009 @ 10:17PM
Todd said...
I thought it was just me. I loved the show, but found the dvds unfunny.