Comedy Central/20th Century Fox Television have ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, six years after Fox officially axed it. Recently we've had four feature-length specials that premiered on DVD/Blu-ray and were later chopped up into half-hour episodes for transmission on Comedy Central (and Sky1 in the UK). These specials and repeats have proven popular enough to make reviving the series a no-brainer...
Great news! Futurama is easily the funniest and cleverest animation around. Family Guy is just hit-and-miss gags for people with attention spans of goldfish; South Park always feels infantile and boringly "controversial"; and The Simpsons continues its emperor's new clothes trick on the masses, having been terrible far longer than it was ever excellent.
Gary Newman and Dana Walden, 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen:
Matt Groening, co-creator:
Great news! Futurama is easily the funniest and cleverest animation around. Family Guy is just hit-and-miss gags for people with attention spans of goldfish; South Park always feels infantile and boringly "controversial"; and The Simpsons continues its emperor's new clothes trick on the masses, having been terrible far longer than it was ever excellent.
Gary Newman and Dana Walden, 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen:
"Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt [Groening] and David [X. Cohen] agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell."Ahem. I hear fans demand Firefly back, too. Joss Whedon has more stories to tell, see. Guys? Guys?
Matt Groening, co-creator:
"We're thrilled Futurama is coming back. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000."The new episodes will likely begin broadcasting on Comedy Central mid-2010.
