When Does Futurama Begin?
01-06-08 | 03:00 PM
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It's not getting new episodes, per se. They are going to cut up the recently released DVD movie into episode sized bits.
01-06-08 | 03:58 PM
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I can't imagine that they are ONLY going to do that. I don't think Comedy Central would buy a series to ONLY show 16 episodes, I would imagine more would be produced after those are aired.
01-06-08 | 05:03 PM
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From: Formerly known as Groucho AND Bandoman/Death Moans, Iowa
If the DVDs and subsequent airings do well, I imagine they will. I saw some news that Bender's Big Score has sold a million copies, so I imagine fox is happy.
01-06-08 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by The Monkees
I can't imagine that they are ONLY going to do that. I don't think Comedy Central would buy a series to ONLY show 16 episodes, I would imagine more would be produced after those are aired.
01-06-08 | 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Deftones
Right now they are ONLY doing that. In the future, maybe they'll bring the show back. However, as of this point, if you've seen the DVD you'll already know what happens when the "episodes" air.
01-07-08 | 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
So when are they airing the 16 'episodes?'
I'm thinking that the episodic versions of each movie will not premiere until after they've been released on DVD first, so it depends on if Comedy Central wants to occasionally air a few new episodes as the DVDs come out, of will save them all up to air as one season.
01-07-08 | 08:17 AM
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From: Formerly known as Groucho AND Bandoman/Death Moans, Iowa
Originally Posted by critterdvd
Basically what is happening is FOX is producing 4 DVD-Movies, that will be broken up into 16-episodes with a few more scenes here and there to add filler as well as continuity between the episodes. The episodes will air on Comedy Central to see if their is a bigger market for new episodes. If the ratings are high enough, then FOX will start producing regular episodes once again.
01-07-08 | 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
They interviews I've read said they would be cutting things for the individual episodes, not adding them.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/comi.../1657186/2.php
RT: You're re-cutting the four DVD movies into television episodes. How is that working out?
RM: Each movie's going to be divided into four parts. It's not going to be just cut, cut, cut. They're going to try and edit them into separate pieces of a story.
RT: Is new animation going to be produced for the episodes?
RM: No. It's written in a way so that we can, like, move the third act [of one movie into an earlier part of an episode]. We'll tell Fry's story in one episode. We'll tell Bender's story in one episode.
RT: So it's like multiple perspectives on one long event.
RM: Each movie's going to be divided into four parts. It's not going to be just cut, cut, cut. They're going to try and edit them into separate pieces of a story.
RT: Is new animation going to be produced for the episodes?
RM: No. It's written in a way so that we can, like, move the third act [of one movie into an earlier part of an episode]. We'll tell Fry's story in one episode. We'll tell Bender's story in one episode.
RT: So it's like multiple perspectives on one long event.
01-07-08 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ben12
Are they showing episodes of the actual show, too?
*And looking at TV listings it's on Mon-Fri at 9PM and at least for tonight it's also on again from Midnight till 1AM
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