No New Series of Futurama 176
Nikoth writes "It seems that Billy West got it wrong when he announced that there are 26 new episodes of Futurama on the way, and instead there will only be the 4 movies as planned. "
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
Oops (Score:4, Funny)
- Andrew
Is That All? (Score:2)
Only four movies? What a disappointment.
The first one isn't even out yet, and already the movie franchise is well underway. Is this isn't success, then I don't know what is.
Re:Is That All? (Score:3, Interesting)
The series were nice tho, i think it's one of the funniest tv cartoons that we have had in the last 10 years.
Must kill all humans
Re:Is That All? (Score:2)
Re: Sequels (Score:2)
Several counter-examples:
(O.K., those last four were just to see if you were paying attention.)
Re:Is That All? (Score:2, Funny)
oh wait, wrong series...
Re:Oops (Score:2)
Stop screwing with shows (Score:2)
What's it going to take to get them to listen to the fans again?
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2, Interesting)
It almost seems like tv execs are trying to make money rather than pander to you personally.
What an unfair world we live in.
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:1)
When we really like a show, we ought to immediately start writing relevent corporations to tell them how much we love the show and how much money we have to spend. That would probably be more effective than a bunch of obssessives starting petitions and whining on messageboards. Producers are morons, but they can smell money and will
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2)
My God, that would make him 26 years old! No one that old should be making such important decisions, anyway. Leave the programming decisions to the young guys, grandpa!
-Eric
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:1)
Love Monkey (Score:2)
-M
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:1)
Programs that would still be around today if it was up to the fans; "Dead Like Me", "Firefly", "Rome", "Babylon 5". The list grows ever longer.
This has been true since the early days of radio when Barbersol sold shaving soap.
The smartest programming still seems to be on PBS and they only have a fraction of the budgets of major net
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:5, Insightful)
Advertising revenue. When you're dealing with the people who watch nerdy niche programming, you're dealing with an uncommonly tech-savvy crowd that owns TiVos, refuses to watch commercials and never pays for anything anyway. You've got a fan base of freeloading music and software and movie pirates. Just look at the ads that run during reruns of Star Trek. It's all penis enlargement and debt relief. It's pretty obvious that this isn't a crowd that has much disposable income to squeeze out of it.
There's a lot of demand for the 18-35 male population, because it spends a lot of money. But our niche, for whatever reason, is VERY undesirable. The above reasons are probably why.
Note: I am not suggesting that everything in the first paragraph is TRUE, and certainly not of every single person who watches Futurama. But look at the commercials that run on Spike and during Next Gen rebroadcasts... it's obvious what their advertisers think of us, and they hate us. Hence, you can run Battlestar Galactica at 10:00pm on a Friday and get record numbers of us to tune in - they know we're not doing anything else on Friday night from 10-11 pm.
Anyway ... there's some assumptions being made about their demographics and those assumptions fuel the types of advertisers they get and thus their revenue off broadcasting. I think some of those assumptions can be borne out, as uncomfortable as that may make some of you.
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:3, Informative)
Well, except for TiVos, HD sets, fancy home theater gear and the like.
You've got a fan base of freeloading music and software and movie pirates. Just look at the ads that run during reruns of Star Trek. It's all penis enlargement and debt relief. It's pretty obvious that this isn't a crowd that has much
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2, Interesting)
Hmm...you know, I've seen this argument before, and now that I think of it, I'm not so sure about its accuracy. I mean, take someone outside of the usual "Sci Fi watcher" sterotype, i.e. someone who goes out into the world on Fridays. The bars & clubs don't really get hopping until 11/midnight anyway. Why not watch some Sci Fi w
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2)
What I don't get.. (Score:2)
I've twice had the opportunity to become a television-watcher (or whatever you call those). I made SURE that for that month I didn't watch -anything- that I thought sucked, and I DID NOT MISS a single episode of my favourite shows. I mean, why the hell not? It's like voting crap off the t
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2)
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2)
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Stop screwing with shows (Score:2, Insightful)
I'll make my own series! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll make my own series! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll make my own series! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll make my own series! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll make my own series! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Deja vu (Score:1)
A Farnsworth Paradox (Score:5, Funny)
Come on guys (Score:2)
Well, bite my shiny metal ass! (Score:5, Insightful)
*howls in anguish* (Score:2)
"You win again, Gravity!"
Re:*howls in anguish* (Score:1)
F*** YOU, FOX!!!!
Looks like I'll keep timeshifting the two FOX shows I bother to watch, make sure I fast forward through advertisements.
Well... (Score:5, Insightful)
The return of Famly Guy was a sign, we can vote with our wallets here we don't need to stand for being told what we like anymore.
Re:Well... (Score:2, Insightful)
Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for a sexy party.
Re:Well... (Score:2)
Re:Well... (Score:2)
Re:Well... (Score:2)
Re:Well... (Score:2)
You know, as a fan of Family Guy, I'm getting more than a little tired of hearing this shit. People seem to forget that the show has ALWAYS been like this. It's the basis of the show: paper-thin plot, lots and lots of little in-jokes that attack social morays, pop culture, etc. If you don't like it
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Is that like, a friendly fish, or a metaphor, like "Lounge Lizard"?
Re:Well... (Score:1, Flamebait)
The difference between then and now is that then they managed to at least put some of the in-jokes and pop culture references into the scenes themselves instead of needing to do a remember when and flash back for every single reference. Between that and Stewie getting less and less homicidal (and somehow more and more absurd to make up for it), I have felt very free to not watch it since around episode 5 or 6 of
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Social morays? Like, eels that socialize? And why on earth do they attack such a thing? I think it's good if fish want to make friends.
Re:Well... (Score:2)
Mr. Flyingsquid? You do realize squids cannot truely fly? Do you? DO YOU!?! Ha, I now moral superiority over a random internet poster. I am pleased.
Or is there... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Or is there... (Score:2)
So, yeah, I can see why they'd want to keep that a secret... They wouldn't want to, you know, make money...
Early adopters (Score:5, Funny)
Here comes the quotes! (Score:5, Funny)
CmdrTaco: Hey, I heard that Futurama is back
Hemos: No. we just thought you would enjoy that for a moment.
Anyway, that was the best nanosecond of my life
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:1)
It only just got debunked.
This news will return soon, I'm sure. Just waiting for the official press-release.
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:1)
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:1)
Only if you don't have any real hope...
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:2)
There's another kind!?!?
-Eric
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:3, Funny)
Think this was bad? Just wait until the dupes start showing up.
Re:Here comes the quotes! (Score:2)
No, this one was.... No, this one.... This one was slightly worse... So far so good on this one!
Life... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Life... (Score:2)
So sad... (Score:2)
GRRR!!! (Score:3)
Re:GRRR!!! (Score:1)
Fox, like all the other networks driven by commercials, exist to sell product. They obviously thought that the numbers and the demographics of the Futurama audience wasn't appropriate for the products they were trying to sell. They do not exist to provide quality programming. Only channels such as HBO need to produce something that is actually watchable, because they are content providers rather than product pushers.
Re:GRRR!!! (Score:1)
Which is precisely why I tape the two FOX shows I watch (Simpsons and Family Guy), and fast forward through the advertisements. I make this publicly known on FOX messageboards (notably Arrested Development) and have emailed them to this effect. Why do I make a big deal out of this?
Because we as viewers are not the networks' customers. Networks don't give a flying **** what you or I think unless we understand how it works, e.g., b
Oblig. Futurama (Score:5, Funny)
er...
Good news everyone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good news everyone (Score:2)
Where is my +1, Funny when I need it?
Re:Oblig. Futurama (Score:2)
No new series! Wait... that's not good news at all!
Re:Oblig. Futurama (Score:2)
Foresight can be difficult... (Score:1)
Re:Foresight can be difficult... (Score:2)
Ignore the fact that she was Peggy Bundy for a number of years. While she's been pretty much typecast by that role, you've got to admit she does an excellent job on Futurama.
Ob. Tinny Tim (Score:5, Funny)
It's for the best I guess because... (Score:3, Funny)
dolphins (Score:2, Funny)
so long and thanks for all the fish
Aw Crap (Score:1)
Re:Aw Crap (Score:2)
26 episodes --> 13 hours --> 2 season box sets --> $80 sales
4 movies --> 6 hours --> 4 DVDs --> $80 sales.
Half the work for the same amount of sales. Ugh.
Just look at that retarded Stewie movie for the Family Guy series. It costs half as much as a full season, yet contains only three episodes.
Re:Aw Crap (Score:2)
Mozilla Futurama (Score:2, Funny)
-> Mozilla Futurama
-> SpreadFuturama.com
-> Fundraising (i would pay)
-> Mozilla Futurama NY Times ad
-> FuturamaFlicks.com
FanFlicks? (Score:3, Interesting)
ah.clem
Re:FanFlicks? (Score:2)
As an animator... (Score:3, Informative)
A student film typically runs about 45 seconds to 2 minutes. It takes one person about four months to storyboard, do layout, animate, clean up and colour. You need a 12-field scanner, which isn't cheap. You need thousands of dollars worth of proprietary software licenses if you want to actually distribute your film. Student films also tend to be simple... 20 cuts at most.
Now, you can knock out a flash film in much less time, but Futurama it won't be. Futurama had very high-quality traditional animat
Re:FanFlicks? (Score:2)
If anyone needs me... (Score:5, Funny)
how interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Futurama? I think not... (Score:2)
Sweet Zombie Jesus! (Score:2, Funny)
News, everyone! (Score:2)
Wow (Score:2)
Hopes up (Score:2, Funny)
So Sad (Score:3, Insightful)
I've seen every episode multiple times, own the DVDs, and I'll still sit down and watch it if it's on when I wander past the television. How the hell King of the Hill remains on television while Futurama can't catch a break is beyond me.
Don't worry (Score:2)
Six weeks ago (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Fill Me In (Score:2, Funny)
from BillyWest.com: I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've died or something.
Isn't it obvious? He has a brain slug!
Re:Fill Me In (Score:3, Interesting)
I think the buzz was there, but they just didn't pick it up. At least fans get the movies, though.
Anyway, I was pretty clear about it when I read the previous report about Futurama that it was speculation and hearsay. Fortunately, some of us know how to take a source into context and realize that this is a quasi-news site, not a
Re:Fill Me In (Score:5, Funny)
A courtroom-style format would be a breath of fresh air.
Moderators: Objection! Poster is a troll!
Meta-mods: I'll allow it.
Re:Fill Me In (Score:1)
I think the parent should be modded "flame bait", but I'll give a better answer than it deserves anyway.
If you loved the show and listened to the DVD commentaries, it's obvious that everyone connected with the show loved working on it.
Re:Fill Me In (Score:2)
Fortunately, it's just a TV show, so rumors aren't a big deal. I mean, at least this time there weren't a bunch of coal miners' families who were devastated when told their loved ones were actually dead, when the rumor a half hour previous was that they were alive.
Re:Fill Me In (Score:2)
No, this is much worse.
Re:Fill Me In (Score:2, Insightful)
And yet I read this morning on Yahoo News that Fox is renewing the dreck that is "King of the Hill" [yahoo.com] for an 11th season, and that "King of the Hill" has been a subject of frequent pre-emptions for Fox's NFL football coverage, the network has enough fresh episodes for the rest of this season.
WTF?? That was exactly the reason "Futurama" was cancelled in the first place, because Fox claimed it was getting low ratings. Of course it was getting low ratings, it was always pre-empted by football! Mike Judge must
Re:Fill Me In (Score:2)
-Eric
Re:Lrrr is outraged...yet again (Score:2)
No.
1) Because Vasquez would do better if he made an R rated Johnny the Homicidal Maniac cartoon for HBO or slightly bleeped version on Adult Swim.
2) Because Nick Studios doesn't really exist anymore.
3) Because adult Swim would be better for the new series of Invader Zim, but see reason #1.
Re:Really want Futurama back? (Score:2)
Re:Really want Futurama back? (Score:2)
(The preceding is a joke)
AW, COME ON, MODERATORS.... (Score:2)