01/04/06
BACK TO THE FUTURAMA: Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox TV is in early discussions to go back into production with Futurama, the Emmy-winning animated series that ran on Fox from March 1999 to August 2003, giving it a Family Guy-style resuscitation. Based on the misadventures of Fry, Leela and Bender, Futurama is set in the year 3000.
Let us hope that the series will return, with a decnet timeslot and no pre-emptions.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:04:11 -0700, Ralph Snart wrote:
I missed just about every single episode the first time around because not only wasn't futurama in a decent timeslot, it wasn't in the same timeslot three weeks in a row. Ditto for dilbert.
I now have a DVR smart enough to record futurama any time it is aired anywhere.
"AZ Nomad" wrote in message news:[email]...
DVRs rock, but they have one drawback: because more and more people are getting DVRs and skipping the commercials, advertisers are making product placements in the shows more often and more obvious (and are starting to break the rhythm of some shows). There have been some recent ones I can think of, like Monk insisting his assistant buy "Glad brand Force Flex" trash bags, and on CSI they play ring tones on the characters' cell phones for no apparent reason and then try to sell you those ring tones during the commercial.
Is it smart enough to get the part that's replaced by cars driving in circles?
"Ralph Snart" wrote:
Well, if you get Cartoon Network, chances are that episodes will air there soon after they first air on Fox (the way American Dad episodes do), with the full closing credits, and no worries about football pre-emptions. As for Fox, something tells me that the main reason they want Futurama back is to fill the gap caused by King Of The Hill ending this season, which means it will probably end up on Sunday nights at 7:30. (Sunday night is a given; 8:30 is out of the question, as Fox likes to use it for a new show for a year before moving it (I will be very surprised if The War At Home is still there when the 2006-07 season begins); 9:30 is a maybe, especially if they decide to dump American Dad, but Fox may want to save it for a "viewer discretion is advised"-type show (from 9:00 on, the FCC tends to be more lenient as to what can be on TV). Under Fox's new policy, this means automatic pre-emptions when Fox has an NFL doubleheader (which, in a way, is a good thing, as it means there won't be any "show just the last five minutes of a new episode and then pretend they aired the whole thing so it won't air again until the summer" problems). Besides, since they're only in "early discussions", the first new episodes probably wouldn't be ready before the 2006-07 NFL season ends. Of course, then there's the chance that Fox talks NASCAR into holding at least one Sunday race that runs until 8:00 Eastern...
-- Don