phillip j fry-related stories
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 11:08AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Interviews, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Futurama has gone through more frustrating cancellations than a United Airlines flight leaving Chicago's O'Hare Airport. No one knows that better than voice actor
Billy West and actress
Katey Sagal who respectively provide the voice, heart and soul of the show's two main characters, Fry and Leela.
But what has kept the show going is the camaraderie of the cast and crew. Everyone from the show still keep in touch in between other jobs and even have the occasional reunion from their regular crowded visits at ComicCon to smaller get togethers like when Katey said the cast got together to watch her last concert at the
MBar in Hollywood.
Most of all, they said they have the fans to thank for their next big reunion when
Futurama goes back into production. They both took a short time out of their busy schedules to chat about Comedy Central's two season order.
Continue reading Katey Sagal and Billy West on the return of Futurama
Posted Jun 13th 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Reality-Free
If you thought
Futurama had nowhere to go after the climatic series-long ending with
Into the Wild Green Yonder (and notice I'm not revealing what that ending is so you spoiler-hating surprise junkies don't lose your half-daily hit of whahuh?!?), think again.
Futurama's executive producer David X. Cohen talked to
Wired Magazine's Underwire blog about just what lies ahead for the
new Comedy Central episodes.
The good news is Cohen seems to be brimming with more crazy ideas than a Hardee's product development retreat, but he doesn't reveal anything too specific in terms of what Fry, Leela and Bender will be doing in the episodes to come.
Continue reading David X. Cohen spills some dark matter on Futurama's future
Posted Jun 9th 2009 7:21PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
What was once just internet gossip that spread across the web like a persistent skin rash has now become confirmed fact.
20th Century Fox and Comedy Central are not only reviving
Futurama, but they want double the initial number of episodes that
Collider.com reported meaning fans can look forward to 26 new episodes the sci-fi comedy series around the middle of 2010.
Variety also reports that actors Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio have also signed up to once again provide the voices for Fry, Leela and Bender. I believe that sound you just heard was the universe being ripped open by this awesome time loop.
Continue reading It's confirmed! Bender is back! And his banjo! And so is the rest of the Futurama crew!
Posted Mar 19th 2006 11:08PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Talent, Animation
Good news
everyone! NOT!
Earlier today, Billy West, voice of Phillip J. Fry and so many others on the dearly departed Futurama,
posted a message on his own web
site that they were hammering out a deal for 26 new episodes of the series that would air on TV. For just a
moment the world was a joyous place again: men hugged puppies, warring factions put down their arms, and Brad
and Angelina said they were going into seclusion so we would never hear about them. Ever. Ever. Again.
Then, only a few short hours later, Billy posted again and said that there was no such project except for the DVD releases that Jonathan Toomey wrote about earlier this year. After the
news was heard, men ran away from puppies, wars began, and Brad and Angelina decided to start a 24-hour cable channel
devoted just to them.
Oh, we were so happy there for just one minute!
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