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Good news everybody! Futurama relaunch looking more likely

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Queasy

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"Futurama" may live to see the year 3000 after all.

Talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive the animated skeinskein, which takes place in the next millennium, much in the same way "Family Guy""Family Guy" found new life after cancellation.

The studio is in early discussions to put "Futurama" back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning skein -- although it's too soon to tell where those segs might end up. A reprep for 20th Century Fox TV declined comment.

The final original episode of "Futurama" aired on Fox in August 2003. But since then, the skein has found new life -- and fans -- via DVD releases and repeatedly high-rated airings on the Cartoon Network.

"Futurama" remains popular enough that Comedy CentralComedy Central even stole away off-netoff-net rights to the show's repeats late last year; it will switch to the laffer cablercabler 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.

"Futurama" scored three Emmys in its five-season run, including the 2002 award for animated series. But it lived an unusual existence on Fox, with short seasons, late launches and long gaps between airings. That allowed Fox to air five seasons of "Futurama," even though technically only four were produced.

"The Simpsons""The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and "Simpsons" vet David X. Cohen were behind "Futurama," which bowed on Fox in March 1999. The animated skein revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who's accidentally frozen for 1,000 years. He wakes up in the year 3000 and befriends cyclops Leela and cranky robot Bender -- all of whom work for the intergalactic delivery service run by Fry's distantly descended nephew, Prof. Farnsworth.

Before "Futurama" comes back into being, however, 20th first must secure deals with the show's production team, as well as voice stars including Billy West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela) and John DiMaggio (Bender).

Meanwhile, even after the cancellation new "Futurama" stories have continued to be churned out via the "Futurama" comicbook, published by Groening's Bongo Comics imprint.
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OMG, HOLY FVCKING SH|T! Lets just pray it doesn't go bad like Family Guy has since its return. 🙁
 
I would love to see more Futurama shows. It is my favorite cartoon by far.
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Wtf is a skeinskein?
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A skein is a TV series. The copied link repeated may words, so read it from the original site.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Wtf is a skeinskein?
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It seems that a lot of the words in that article were repeated twice. Whoever edited it has serious crack issues.

ALthough I still don't know WTF a skein is
 
Originally posted by: StormRider
I hope Firefly is the next show to relaunch....
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Originally posted by: pontifex
they need to do this with Firefly
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I believe Whedon has already said that Firefly is dead after the poor performance of Serenity at the box office.

But then again, almost every movie had disappointing box office revenue last year.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: StormRider
I hope Firefly is the next show to relaunch....
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Originally posted by: pontifex
they need to do this with Firefly
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I believe Whedon has already said that Firefly is dead after the poor performance of Serenity at the box office.

But then again, almost every movie had disappointing box office revenue last year.
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Yeah, I read an interview and it seems like Whedon has moved on. But I love that show and its characters so much that I wish it could be relaunched. It's better suited for TV so we could see more development of the characters.
 
Question for the fans. What was the last episode aired? Is it "The devil hands play the music instructment"? Fry switched his hands with the robot devil so he could play that flute.
 
Originally posted by: Svnla
Question for the fans. What was the last episode aired? Is it "The devil hands play the music instructment"? Fry switched his hands with the robot devil so he could play that flute.
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You sir are correct.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: StormRider
I hope Firefly is the next show to relaunch....
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Originally posted by: pontifex
they need to do this with Firefly
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I believe Whedon has already said that Firefly is dead after the poor performance of Serenity at the box office.

But then again, almost every movie had disappointing box office revenue last year.
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When are they going to realize that 8.75 for a friggin movie ticket is too much? The problem isn't that the movies suck or that piracy is cutting into their profits. The problem is people can't afford them. They'd just as soon wait 2 months for the movie to come out on dvd and watch it from the comfort of their own home with popcorn that doesn't cost 10 dollars a bucket.
 
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