returning in February?

After the Xmas episode last night, an ad told us Futurama will not be returning until February. Anyone know why?

Damian P.

Damian Penny wrote:

On www.futuramaoutlet.com - News of Dec 7th:

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Little Details.. In a recent letter sent to FOX concerning the loss of episodes in January 2000, AskFox replied: "This is not a slight at FUTURAMA. The producers of FUTURAMA told us in early October that due to production delays overseas they would not be able to deliver any new episodes for late December and the entire month of January 2000. So we have been scrambling to figure out the best thing to do for the show and for the viewers so that they don't get a stretch of 6 weeks or more of repeats and at the same time using THE SIMPSONS to allow sampling for a TERRIFIC new show. FUTURAMA will now ANCHOR our big SUNDAY Night beginning FEB 6th at 7pm ET/PT!!! We are very proud of FUTURAMA and expect big things from the show kicking off our Sunday Nights once Football is over. Thanks for writing -ASKFOX". Of course, if you write them you will get the same verbatim response.

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HTH, Jens

In article , Jens Krabbenhoeft wrote:

Damn, this has them "Scrambling"?? Wow.

So out of 16 episodes or so they are afraid we will be swamped and saturated with repeats?!? Just show the last 6 episodes again ferchristsake! They are new so show them again, duh. Or show the first 6 as a "first episodes" set or something simple. buh.

I don't know about you but I anchor things at the end, not the begining. "Sure, let me throw this anchor off the front of my moving boat and watch what happens, gee it hit bottom and spun my boat all around!"

Jerks, I hate automated responses. Bite my shiny metal ass! ;-P

Of course, if you