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Cloud 9
Bending Unit
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If Fox makes a show that similar to Futurama, I'm gonna revolt! Cause it sounds worse, and I'll bet they won't cancel it after only four seasons! *walks off grumbling about the unfairness of life*
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Lord Cecil
Poppler
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If the new season of Family Guy next year is a success to fox, then maybe they'll consider bringing back Futurama as well if enough people buy the DVD's.
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Lord Cecil
Poppler
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Since when does Fox hate Matt Groening though? I mean I've never heard of that. As far as them hating Futurama they hate anything that decreases in ratings even though it's their own fault.
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noisemaker
Crustacean
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one can only hope that somebody with lotsa lotsa cash and is a futurama fan, would pay the team to make more shows :P
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PCC Fred
Space Pope
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Originally posted by Prof. Wernstrum: You're probably right that it's too late now but C4 have been putting Futurama on at the worst possible time slot since before the cancellation of the show. And when they had it on at a sensible time it was subject to excessive and often inexplicable censorship. That's true, but it's pointless to blame C4 for it's demise, because they didn't make any desicions concering the production of the show. Once they've bought it off FOX then that's it as far as FOX is concerned. They've got their money, for all they care C4 can dump the tapes in the garbage. As for Sky showing the episodes first, just about every American show appears on sattelite before making it to terrestrial TV but as a general rule the channel doesn't feel the need to hide it away where noone will ever find it (Except for BBC with the X-Files which changed time, day and even channel on an almost weekly basis). The majority of people in Britain do not have Sky and so there is still an audience when another channel shows it. What about Angel, Seinfeld, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Stargate SG1, Enterprise and recent seasons of Frasier and South Park? Satellite networks aired all these first, and the BBC/C4 have shown them all at erratic times, and in the case of C4, usually heavily edited.
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keiji
Crustacean
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The people in FOX don't know the real essence of cartoons!!! They cancelled Family Guy and especially Futurama which made them earn an EMMY award for best cartoon series!!!!! It's a big-big mistake!!
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SpaceCase
Liquid Emperor
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Who says F*x needed a reason? Television is a business, so F*x's decision boiled down to money and viewers. F*x sells advertizing time. The more viewers they have at a given time, the more money they can charge for said time. That's why there are 'ratings'. But that's only half the equasion. TV shows are hideously expensive to make. So, essentially, it's a question of return on expenditure. One ep of Futurama cost on the order of a million dollars ($1,000,000) to produce. I've no clue how much money an ep of Futurama made for F*x. My point? F*x didn't see enough money coming in to justify the expense of continuing production (espescially compared to so-called "reality shows" that are vastly cheaper to make). Read as low ratings. Given, it's F*x's own fault Futurama's ratings were high enough: The Management put it in the worst coneivable time slot, didn't promote the show, and shuffled it around like the pea in a shell-game. Not even to mention the "creative tension" between MG & F*x. But remember the golden rule: Them that got the gold, make the rules. Unless somebody out there has a few tens-of-millions of dollars to throw at the problem, there is essentially nothing any of us can do about it. <Farnsworth> I made myself sad... </Farnsworth>
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bender+fry
Professor
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maybe theres some work after all....
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Anarchist
Professor
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Come on guys, don't be do pessimistic! We can make our own Futurama episodes! With blackjack, and hookers!
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