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01-04-2006, 12:27 AM
Futurama May Live Again on Fox
Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/)
January 4, 2006
Variety reports that talks have begun at 20th Century (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) Fox TV (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) to revive the animated series (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) Futurama (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#), which takes place in the next millennium.
The studio is in early discussions to put Futurama back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series -- although it's too soon to tell where those episodes might end up, adds the trade.
The final original episode of Futurama aired on Fox (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) in August 2003. But since then, the series has found new life -- and fans -- via DVD releases and repeatedly high-rated airings on the Cartoon Network.
Futurama remains popular enough that Comedy Central even stole away off-net rights to the show's repeats late last year; it will switch to the comedy channel in 2008.
A similar resurgence in interest for Family Guy persuaded 20th Century Fox TV to revive that show, which has produced two seasons of new episodes and a DVD since coming back from the dead. Family Guy now resides as Fox's Sunday 9 p.m. tentpole.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and "Simpsons" vet David X. Cohen were behind Futurama, which premiered on Fox in March 1999.
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Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/)
January 4, 2006
Variety reports that talks have begun at 20th Century (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) Fox TV (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) to revive the animated series (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) Futurama (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#), which takes place in the next millennium.
The studio is in early discussions to put Futurama back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series -- although it's too soon to tell where those episodes might end up, adds the trade.
The final original episode of Futurama aired on Fox (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=12567#) in August 2003. But since then, the series has found new life -- and fans -- via DVD releases and repeatedly high-rated airings on the Cartoon Network.
Futurama remains popular enough that Comedy Central even stole away off-net rights to the show's repeats late last year; it will switch to the comedy channel in 2008.
A similar resurgence in interest for Family Guy persuaded 20th Century Fox TV to revive that show, which has produced two seasons of new episodes and a DVD since coming back from the dead. Family Guy now resides as Fox's Sunday 9 p.m. tentpole.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and "Simpsons" vet David X. Cohen were behind Futurama, which premiered on Fox in March 1999.
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