Holdovers for Season 4?

Does anyone know if there were any more holdovers that were already scheduled for season 4, in addition to the four episodes FOX just confirmed were bumped out of this season? I'm trying to remember what was on the Season 3 Spoilers list on the Futurama Chronicles before it was shut down. They may have had a few of these future 3ACV episodes on their list beyond 3ACV18. Does anyone still have a copy of this list or know any 3ACV titles or descriptions beyond 18?

"Eric S." wrote:

3ACV19 Top Secret Season Premiere Extravaganza 3ACV20 Godfellas 3ACV21 Future Stock 3ACV22 Ironic Chef

I don't recall descriptions existing for any of these since they were so far in the future when the last list was made.

[email] wrote:

Thanks... Since Futurama is only airing 16 episodes this season, I wonder if the producers get to take a vacation this year. They only have 8 left to do for next year to get up to their average amount of episodes. Less if they manage to get the 2nd Christmas ep on the air.

By contrast The Simpsons will be airing 21 episodes (with 5 holdovers). Malcolm in the Middle has already aired 21 episodes as of last week...if they put in another 3 or 4 which seems likely for May sweeps, they'll easily win the crown this season.

"Eric S." wrote:

Sure they get a vacation, the Actors guild strike. Futurama may be one of the few shows unaffected by the whole thing considering how many episodes they probably already have in the last, non actor reliant parts of production. But with that many holdovers at least the short order for the 4th production run of episodes (18 I think) makes more sense from FOX then it did when it was announced.

[email] wrote:

I haven't been following the strike news, so I couldn't tell you if it's a writers strike, actors strike, when it's going to happen, if it's going to happen, why it's going to happen, or none or all of the above... I thought it was a writers' strike, but if it's an actors it could be a good thing for our favorite animated series. I think they record voices way in advance, I remember hearing some of these recent Simpsons episodes were recorded before last summer. So with no actors, FOX could fill programming slots with Futurama. Of course we know they'll try to do it with The Simpsons. God only hopes they don't pull Family Guy out of the archives, but it still is listed as a replacement program on their home page. Maybe this is why they're doing so many Malcolm episodes this season...they'll have more to rerun if there's a strike. Anyway, if they ordered 18 Futuramas that will leave them with 26 to air next season. If they don't do any better next year we're going to end up with 10 holdovers...I wish they'd just air this as a summer original series to make up for the football fall pre-emptions.

"Eric S." wrote:

Maybe it was the Writers that were striking. I know I heard all kinds of crap about both. But either way they have a nice big buffer zone of stuff ready to finish. And it cant be a summer original series it already exists as a series. Besides Summer isn't that great of a time for ratings I'm lead to believe. Otherwise you wouldn't have repeats for everything all summer long.

Both the writers and the actors are planning strikes this summer. The writer's contract is up first, though, so they'll be the first to go. Its the actor's strike though that will devistate the networks. Writers walking out has negligable effect unless it goes on for a long time.

"Eric S." wrote:

I somewhat remember the descriptions for these:

3ACV20 - Bender is blasted into deep space, and finds God. 3ACV21 - A wall street mogul is unfrozen, and takes over Planet Express. 3ACV22 - Bender challenges Elzar to a cooking contest.

These are just some recollection. Can't guarantee accuracy, but these are at least close. As for 3ACV19, I have no idea. I don't think they had anything on it yet.

== Mike Reed

There trying to get the whole series done before those kids grow up!

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:28:30 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

What about "A Tale of Two Santas"? Is Fox going to do what they did with the "Married... with Children" episode "I'll See You in Cort" and can a fully produced ready-to-air episode?