Futurama Returns 386
riflemann writes "Another 26 episodes of Futurama will shortly go into production! This news comes from none other than Billy West (voice of Fry) himself, in a short post to his own message board. No further details are available, except that it's likely to be on TV, not straight to DVD." The best news is that means fresh quotes for slashteam to hide in the source code.
Futurama returns (Score:5, Funny)
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Not so good after all
In another post [billywest.com] on the blog, Billy West says:
Guys,I'm sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD's but I appearently had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've died or something.
All eyes on the skies,
Billy
That's very interesting (Score:3, Funny)
Good news, everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
You left out the most important part (Score:5, Funny)
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In fact, forget the cartoon!
...and the blackjack.
Re:You left out the most important part (Score:5, Funny)
i don't think i get the joke...
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Shouldn't the article title be more like... (Score:5, Funny)
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Because the episodes they made before were not funny, and I think making funny shows would be a great way to improve the series.
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Now it's time to kill The Simpsons (Score:5, Insightful)
PLEASE kill The Simpsons already. The longer it goes on, the darker the future is for all of us.
Re:Now it's time to kill The Simpsons (Score:3, Insightful)
Family Guy? Meh, if you've seen one episode you've seen 'em all. It's a cookie cutter show and every episode is nearly identical. It's like South Park or other "shock shows", meh... infantile, boring, and pointless.
American Dad? Meh, I have only watched bits and p
They want to beat Gunsmoke... (Score:2)
Goddess help us all. That's 15 more seasons than they should have ran. The Simpsons jumped the shark after S5.
It's really coming back? (Score:5, Funny)
HTTP headers (Score:5, Informative)
Here's an example of one (hidden in the HTTP headers that /. returns):
X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!
Re:HTTP headers (Score:4, Informative)
Slash has X-Fry and X-Bender headers it sends on every page (randomised). Press Ctrl+I to see that in Firefox, Konqueror, or pretty much any web browser.
Slashcode.com also uses those quotes in its random quote of the moment thinger at the bottom of the page.
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"I'm not a machine, I don't like having disks crammed into me. Unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth."
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"What? My mother was a saint!"
Yay! (Score:2, Funny)
Good news Everyone! (Score:2)
Two Down, One to Go... (Score:2, Redundant)
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
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Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Another great service... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Two Down, One to Go... (Score:4, Interesting)
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
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They aquired Stargate when it was looking like it was going to wrap up in its 5th season (or was it 6th?), and its now going into its 10th? (and done rather decently including letter the characters grow and evolve).
They spun off Stargate Atlantis, and its now into its 2nd Season and looking forward to a 3rd.
Battlestar Gallactica is looking forward to a 3rd season as well, and getting rave reviews from critics, and some interesting re-imagining that I think most fans are appreciating, except for a few die-hards (Heck, my wife who isn't a big SciFi junky like I am has really gotten into the character driven stories of both SG:Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica! amazes the heck out of me).
Andromeda had already jumped the shark before Sci-Fi got hold of it (some would argue the same for Sliders), so I find it hard to blame them for the shows last season. Rather, I find it encouraging that they at least gave it a home for a last season, and an opportunity to finish telling their story (to admitedly medocre success).
I am also looking forward to their new show "Eureka" that looks very intreaging, and I hope shines as well as "The Invisible Man" and "The Chronicle" did. Granted they didn't last as long as they should have (both being fun and entertaining shows in my opinion), but they were both allowed something rare in the Network world, the chance for a satisfying conclusion and the wrapping of most major plot threads.
They've made mistakes (Farscape not getting a 5th Season for instance, which I think most fans are still sore about, even after the mini-series), but they have certainly made more positive moves as far as dramatic content goes
I won't get into their original half-hour shows which are usually more schlocky (and not so much my taste) considering "Ghost Hunters", "Scare Tactics", and "Tripping the Rift" (the last of which is at least somewhat amusing, while completely offensive
I'm sure, since this is Slashdot, someone will correct my facts if they think they are blatantly out of line with reality
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds30578.html [digitalspy.co.uk]
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And they all start with F and from FOX. :) (Score:2)
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Not a Fox show.
Wrong series but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Best News Ever
Please let it not have jumped the shark (Score:2)
You people.... (Score:5, Funny)
You people disgust me! There is currently a war in Iraq, american rights being taken away daily, a buggy operating system on almost every computer, and starving children in africa. With all this going you call another 16 episodes of a cartoon news? Blah!
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Loved the show, not happy about this. (Score:5, Interesting)
Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy.
TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want, Star Wars EPI-III anyone? The last two Red Dwarf series (bringing back Rimmer) were horrible. Niles and Daphne getting together was at the point when Frasier turned bad
When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
The moral of the story is -
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Our policy is: If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, I hate you.
Re:Loved the show, not happy about this. (Score:3, Funny)
You're right that keeping a series going too long is usually a bad idea - to my mind, though, that's a reason to kill off The Simpsons; Futurama still had some life in it.
As for resurrections of old shows: w
Re:Loved the show, not happy about this. (Score:2)
Point of order: Seinfeld had been circling the drain for a while before they finally gave up the ghost. The last 2 seasons were just far-fetched plotlines and catchphrases.
Two Words.... (Score:2)
Family Guy
wbs.
Re:Loved the show, not happy about this. (Score:2)
Of course this is the last thing fans
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1st corollary: TV stations that find a revinue stream that is independant of what people would actually like to watch will stay on the air regardless of content. e.g. PBS.
You're watching Futurama... (Score:5, Informative)
This is great news for all us nerdlingers. For those of you who don't know already, here's a look at the backgrounds of some of the writers on the show:
J. Stewart Burns: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992. His senior thesis was on "The Structure of Group Algebras." He received his master's degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1993.
David X. Cohen: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1988. He received his master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1992. He published the following article with Manuel Blum: On the Problem of Sorting Burnt Pancakes. Discrete Appl. Math. 61 (1995), no. 2, 105--120.
Ken Keeler: Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1983. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in applied math from Harvard University. The title of his doctoral thesis was Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation. He also published the following article with Jeff Westbrook: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
Bill Odenkirk: Has a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995.
Jeff Westbrook: Majored in physics and the history of science at Harvard University and he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1989. The title of his doctoral thesis was Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and also worked at AT&T Labs before writing for Futurama. He published the following article with Ken Keeler: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.
And with that the show also has some great voice actors (Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Dave Herman...), a great 3D department (praised for its ability to blend 3D scenes almost seamlessly into 2D backgrounds), and the show even uses a full orchestra to record its music (composed by Christopher Tyng). And with the huge scope of ideas possible in the SF universe the show is set in, I imagine it'll take a long time yet for this show to burn out.
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Here is the abstract:
The "pancake problem" is a well-known open combinatorial problem that recently has been shown to have applications to parallel processing. Given a stack of n
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What's an "actual writer" supposed to be? You think writers have a degree in writology?
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My fave quote ... (Score:2)
Fuck yeah, only downside is that animation takes longer to produce but the good stuff is always worth waiting for.
Capitalism at its finest.... (Score:3, Insightful)
I for one believe the quality of this product is top notch and am glad to see it coming back. I welcome back our sardine craving, can get no loving, lobster overlord.
Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama (Score:2)
Never underestimate the power of the Hypnotoad!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Futurama Returns (Score:2, Funny)
Finally... (Score:2, Insightful)
FYI: The Simpsons are moving onto a movie in couple years.
Will Fry and Leela finally get together? (Score:2)
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One can only hope that you're not serious about that. Instead I'll choose to believe that you are setting up the first quarter of some sort of ridiculously circuitous joke. Be forewarned however that you'll get no credit if we fail to see the irony.
Re:Will Fry and Leela finally get together? (Score:2)
I liked these four best:
The Sting
The Why Of Fry
The Farnsworth Parabox
Three Hundred Big Boys
Billy West (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, it is just me or is there something not funny about a Futurama thread that consists mainly of Futurama quotes? Oh well, I guess we can at least look forward to the next phase of the Scientology wars, Scientology vs. Robotology.
May seem obvious, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Medieval times: jester makes everyone laugh but the king. King has jester beheaded.
Modern times: show makes everyone laugh but company has show cancelled. Show does astromical DVD figures and comes back.
It's a testament to the power of the masses' will. The almighty buck is powerful, but the almighty buck plus thousands of people writing Fox to call them idiots is even more powerful.
P.s. Don't stop calling Fox idiots.
Re:I don't own a television (Score:2)
(and before someone asks, I enjoy downloading series legally and I consider it ethically positive!)
Re:I don't own a television (Score:3, Informative)
The main way people can help to do something about the quality of TV is by actually watching/buying DVDs of the decent shows, but not watching the crap. The ratings are what is important to Fox, not the 'quality'.
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Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
The BBC: Mishal Husain. NPR: Carl Kassell. PSB: Jim Lehrer. FOX: Bill O'Reilly.
In the words of one of the great PBS productions, "one of these things is not like the others."
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These views are only "balanced" if you puree them all together. The first three are lopsided to the left.
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In addition, can we stop pretending the news needs to be "balanced"? Not every issue or event has "sides" and when they do they often don't have equal merit.
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Yeah. Geraldo's reporting was so accurate [americandaily.com] that it got him booted out of his unit. Broadcasting troop positions aside, how is Fox any more accurate than the other outlets?
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Perl one, html two (Score:2, Funny)
Perl is just as much a programming language is as html. Dweeb!
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Re:Optimism? (Score:2)
That's definately a lofty goal. I've laughed at some of those episodes harder than I did for the ones in the first 3 seasons.
Re:Old news: this dates to July 2005 (see within) (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Whew! (Score:2)
Is "tally" some kind of Britishism or something? Even after they rebuild the factory and go into production, it will still take nine months for the first episode to roll off the assembly line. Animation is not like producing a reality series.