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That’s pretty good for a second lease on life: Comedy Central is finalizing a deal for a 26-episode seventh-season pickup of Futurama. Comedy Central resurrected Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated sci-fi comedy in 2009, six years after it was cancelled by Fox, with a 26-episode sixth-season order. The first batch of 13 episodes from Season 6 averaged 2.5 million viewers, with the remaining 13 airing this summer. The 26 newly ordered episodes will follow the same pattern, airing in two installments of 13 episodes in 2012 and 2013. Futurama has been a big hit online, growing from 1 million Facebook fans at its launch on Comedy Central to 11 million.
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Excellent. The new season has been fantastic. Futurama’s back!
Great !
I hated Futurama when it debuted, but since then I’ve warmed to it in reruns, and love the straight to dvd films. It’s a peculiar show, it just needs some getting used to…over a five year period….
LOVE IT! The writers are getting back into a groove, too, so the episodes should only get better – which is like improving an already amazing slice of pizza.
I really thought they stopped making new episodes of this 7 years ago.
I think the creators are still shocked too.
Hey, Fox Television Executives:
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass!
Fox still owns the rights to Futurama and is still making money off of it. Sad, but true.
You do realize you owe Fox $ for writing that!
Next time headline should read “Good news everybody!…”
Good news, everyone!
I’d like to see a lot more HOT Leela and Zapp Brannigan “action” in ALL future episodes…
Of course, that’s just one incredibly sexy man’s opinion.
“Sigh…sexlexia.”
Love this show. Glad to hear it’s coming back.
I purchased Vol 5 this past December. Once this current series is over, immediately release it on DVD so I can but it.
What do the long-running Simpsons and hard-to-kill Futurama have in common? Little or no network notes. Everyone knows that twenty years ago, after the Simpsons premiered with great ratings, that James L. Brooks went to the network and told them they couldn’t give notes any more. And look! The show ran for two decades and keeps the lights on at Fox.
Futurama is written by incredibly smart and funny people (I don’t work on the show and don’t know anyone there personally) and it just keeps coming back.
Here’s a simple lesson: network executives, with all their stupid questions and lack of education and sense of humor, don’t make shows successful. Writers and producers do.
Eff off brain slugs!
Or it’s just an animated show that doesn’t have to worry about it’s characters aging. Family Guy came back as well and that has nothing to do with Groening, Jim Brooks, Sakai or Sam Simon.
I always thought “Futurama” was funnier than “The Simpsons.” Those of you who don’t agree can “kiss my shiney metal ass!”
yes comedy central has taste for futurama proved just like family guy it refuses to die. as for fox . good news fox futurama still lives. the only good choice fox made was canceling futurama so it could find the home it deserved.
Yay! Futurama is 1 of the few funny shows on TV!
Great, genuinely funny Sci Fi spoof & satire.
What’s not to love?
Comedy Central could making money off of ad revenue for old episodes of futurama and new episodes of Futurama.
Just out of couristy does anyone know how much money Comedy Central has to pay for the rights to show new episodes of Futurama.
If so how much?