New ‘Futurama’ Will Replace Popular ‘Everybody Loves Hypnotoad’ on Fox

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 10, 2009 Share

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The puny and gullible citizens of Earth were shocked today by the news that one of their favorite television shows would be making new episodes.

Yes, yes and yes. Finally after crushing the market on DVD sales and having a solid run in syndication over at Comedy Central, “Futurama” will be returning to the place that birthed it – Fox. Matt Groening and David X. Cohen will be busy creating 26 new episodes for Fox after going off the air six years ago.

According to Comingsoon.net, the episodes will first be shown on Comedy Central starting in mid 2010 with Fox retaining broadcast rights.

This is fantastic, incredible, awesome news that can only inevitably lead to my personal dream of their being a spin-off show for Dr. Zoidberg.

How do you plan on celebrating?

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mtgarrity

Who knows...maybe they will finally listen (FOX) to all the Firefly fans and re-start the series? We can all hope!

Phoghat

Not Going To Happen. Joss has already said that because of the death of some of the crew in "Serenity" that makes it impossible.

HGMIV

You beat me to it! I'm surprised even in the four comments before you, Firefly wasn't mentioned. However, I still don't think that's likely. A cartoon probably is a lot cheaper to get back on the air than a live action show is. And no, "90210" Doesn't count.

And to keep with the topic, I'll go and buy the Futurama DVDs and watch them all in one sitting on my three week break from school.

TheMarquis

I will celebrate by popping a 40 oz bottle of Slurm.

GuiltyTrace

I don't really care for Futurama that much. I was pissed when Comedy Central took it from Adult Swim, though. Comedy Central didn't even want Futurama until Cartoon Network started airing it.

And I agree - Carlos Mencia's a doucher. You see what South Park did with him on the "Fish Dicks" episode? Hilarious...

Andy III

This IS fantastic news...It still amazes me that I can watch reruns of a show that ended years ago and wasn't even on all that long in the first place.

Plus, as the DVD movies proved out, it works MUCH better as a series...much better.

Can't wait...thanks Comedy Central...this makes up for employing 'Carlos' Mencia.

Bob Saget

This is fantastic news. I miss this show dearly. The straight to DVD releases were nice but having the show back on the air is icing on the cake. All we need is Al Gore to come back and I'm in heaven.