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Posted Jun 9th 2008 2:39PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Reality-Free
Thanks to the extreme generosity of Fox Home Entertainment, TV Squad has scored an advance copy of the latest direct-to-DVD
Futurama release titled
The Beast With A Billion Backs. Previously,
we directed you to another DVD review of the show, but now this one is ours! All ours! MWA HA HA HA!
A-hem.
The second direct-to-DVD release of
Futurama is a fun movie with loads of extras that make the purchase worth it. They include outtakes, deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and an extra I particularly enjoyed: a "Lost Episode" made from a
Futurama video game (which was a bit like watching a video game demo, but with jokes). The DVD also comes with a preview of the next
Futurama DVD release which looks to be a satire of
Lord of the Rings. Guest voices include Brittany Murphy as Fry's new girlfriend, David Cross as the planet-sized Yivo and Professor Stephen Hawking as himself.
Spoilers after the jump...
Continue reading Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs - DVD Review
Posted May 21st 2008 8:22AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Animation, Futurama, Reality-Free
Disclaimer: TV Squad will soon be posting its own review of this Direct-to-DVD Futurama movie. Rather than keep our loyal readers in suspense, we'll be directing you to another review site until the DVD finally arrives in the mail.
Screen Jabber was able to grab an advance copy of the second Futurama DVD release, The Beast With A Billion Backs (lucky bastards). As a result, we are treated to a review by them.
The story takes place about a month after the events of Bender's Big Score. It seems that there has been a rip in time and space and a giant mutli-tentacled alien is reaching through to try and have sex with everyone on the planet (if two people having sex are the beast with two backs, then...well, you get the idea).
Continue reading New Futurama DVD advance review
Posted Dec 26th 2007 12:02PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Programming, Animation, Adult Swim, Futurama
Believe it or not, Futurama has been airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block for about five years. During that period, fans of the show have probably watched every single episode at least once, or twice, or fifteen times. Now, those same fans will get the chance to watch every single episode one more time as Adult Swim begins a Futurama marathon.
Starting tonight at 11:00 PM, and continuing until 11:30 PM on the last day of the year, there will be nothing on the schedule but Fry, Leela, Bender, and the rest of the team from Planet Express. On December 31st Adult Swim will air the show's first episode, 'Space Pilot 3000' and the last episode, 'The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings' (great episode, by the way) at 11:00 pm and 11:30 pm respectively. This is all in preparation of Futurama moving from Adult Swim to Comedy Central starting on January 1st.
Continue reading Adult Swim airs every Futurama episode starting tonight
Posted Nov 16th 2007 11:01AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Futurama
Futurama is back, and the future looks a whole lot brighter. Cliché, but true.
When I first heard that
Family Guy was returning to the airwaves, I was wondering if/when other cancelled Fox animated shows would similarly rise from the dead. Then I heard
Futurama was returning to Comedy Central (with a brief stop on DVD beforehand).
Futurama can best be described as
The Simpsons for sci-fi/fantasy fans (which makes sense consider that Matt Groening created both and uses the same animation style for both). I then thanked the gods of comedy for returning this gem.
The plan for
Futurama is to release four direct-to-DVD movies which would make up a complete season of 16 half-hour episodes. "Bender's Big Score" is the first release and consists of the first four episodes (although I hear the individual episodes will contain extra footage not in the DVD release when they are eventually broadcast. How's that for a reversal of precedent?).
Continue reading Futurama: Bender's Big Score - DVD review
Posted Jan 31st 2007 6:33PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, TV Royalty, The Simpsons, Animation, Adult Swim, Interviews, Comedy Central, Futurama, TCA Press Tour
Probably my favorite moment during the TCA press tour week -- and this is a week where I joked around with Greg the Bunny and visited the set of
Scrubs -- was when I met Matt Groening at FOX's party on the last night of the tour. Because just about all the questions I had about
The Simpsons were asked during the
show's press session earlier in the day, I took the opportunity to concentrate on his other show (and a perennial favorite amongst our readers),
Futurama, and
its impending return to TV.
Groening gives the show's loyal fans all the credit in the world for helping the show come back. "The continued devotion of the fans, chiefly on the Internet, kept us thinking that maybe we could bring this back," he said.
Continue reading Matt Groening talks about Futurama's comeback
Posted Dec 13th 2006 3:44PM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Animation, Comedy Central, Futurama
David X. Cohen spilled a few beans recently to
Toyfare Magazine about the upcoming new
Futurama season that'll be both direct to DVD, and
appearing on Comedy Central. Right now it's like the chicken and egg, and nobody knows which will come first, but I know that one way or another, I'll be watching. Here's a couple of tidbits:
- The entire original cast is returning
- You'll find out some of Nibbler's secrets
- Al Gore is back
What more can you ask for? Except of course, for them to hurry up and finish it. How long does someone have to wait for some new
Futurama goodness? Apparently at least a year longer. The new
Futurama won't be ready until 2008, meaning that five years will have passed since a new episode has been seen. Five years! Still, I suppose it's a small price to pay. How many shows come back from the dead after that long? Does this mean I shouldn't give up hope on
Gilligan's Island?
[Thanks, Justin and Jeff]
Posted Jun 18th 2006 8:19PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd, Animation, Retro Squad, Futurama
(S01E03) So, now we've seen how Fry gets to the year 3000, and we've met the Planet Express crew. Now's the time to tell some stories.
There were a bunch of interesting tidbits from the DVD commentary to this episode. One was the admission from Matt Groening that the storytelling in
Futurama was more linear than it was on his other show,
The Simpsons, mostly due to the fact that there's so much going on in the background of a typical
Futurama epsiode. Well, with all due respect to Groening's genius, duh. I've always equated the storytelling on
Futurama to what the early years of
The Simpsons were like before the pop-culture asides and other wackiness started to dominate. This episode, where Fry and Bender become rommates, is a perfect example of the show's storytelling prowess; an episode like this would have been told completely differently on
The Simpsons, or at least on the show from it's third season onward.
Continue reading Futurama: I, Roommate
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