Quote from DXC:
One big decision we have not yet made is how, once again, to “end” the series—hopefully not for the last time.

I want to believe that this is the start of a multi-season or multi DVD-set run, but it does seem like they're aiming for a very limited scope of work. What do you make of the "hopefully not for the last time" part? Sounds to me like they're planning a single season with a series finale and hoping that it goes well enough that they get extended for more seasons (or DVDs). I'm going to try not to stress about the hard to predict revenues and the whims of executives higher and mightier than MG and DXC and just be glad that we've got at least one more season coming at us.

Lets just buy three or four copies each to give them the figures.

I hope all my friends and family will appreciate their Futurama DVDs for Xmas 2008! Here you go, great auntie Maude, but I'm warning you - the young people on this use curse words!

Maybe I can use them as currency.
"That'll be $72.50, sir."
"Here's two box sets.  Keep the change."

I do believe the Hypnotoad thing was intended as a joke.
Most likely...
...Although...

No.

Unless...

You have to like it. There's no choice in the matter.

I was looking throught Wikipedia and I read
 

Originally posted by *Wikipedia*:
*The new season will be set two years after the events of the last season, and will re-visit Fry and Leela's relationship and unanswered questions about Nibbler, dark matter and Seymour the dog. A new character has been confirmed, an evil alien nudist named Nudar.

The first movie, currently under the working title Futurama: Bender's Big Score, is in production. The film is written by Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen, and will include return appearances by the Nibblonians, Seymour, Barbados Slim, Morbo, Robot Santa, the "God" space entity, Al Gore, and Zapp Brannigan.[15] In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Al Gore confirmed that he would appear in the movie, playing his disembodied head. David. X. Cohen later confirmed that he would also appear in the new season, and would be involved in a storyline which will show "what really determined the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election".
*

Has this been mentioned before one CGEF? Am I blind or has this been completley over looked, is there anything elses I've missed that might make me buzz with excitment?

First, good to see you back again, Sal. Second, you're blind. CGEF's last few news stories have been about the movie/new seasons, with Cohen's interview the last story (after the Xmas thing).

Ah, somebody else I've never heard of. You've been here since the 10th, so I won't say "Welcome to PEEL" and all the rest. To the topic, F_G, that has been debated on PEEL before. The consensus is Groening/DXC/the rest want to have a movie that goes back to the comedy that is Futurama to get some new people interested into the show, as well as get the interest of old fans, and then try other stories, such as Fry/Leela and all that jazz. Don't fret. There will surely be shippiness in the new season, and possibly some in a movie. But, the point is, the purpose of Bender's Big Score is bringing funny back (yeah!).*

* That was a horrible joke and it's only made worse since it's a joke related to Justin Timberlake.

Looks like the Futurama movie is due late this year!  I just checked it on the IMDB!  Sounds promising! 

One could dream this delay was due to Groenings relentless devotion to the Futurama Movie.

To i_c_weiner: I was aware of the movie and last I heard it was in the writing stages. Its the detail (like Nudar and the inclusion of Seymour) and the fact it's being animated I'm amazed and excited about. This is real. It's solid you can't change your mind once somthings animated (I hope) you can't just scrap it. Its for Keepsies!

Somewhere, someone very lucky is watching new Futurama. Its nostalgic to me now and intensly stimulating. I can not wait.

Billy West stated on his site that the crew wrapped up recording four more eps (one DVD) in November, making eight eps and two DVD's voice work already finished.

she also was a mum in a show called Tucker but it only lasted 1 series

Futurama movie, eh? Aw, crap, it won't be out here in England for about a hundred years!

So,

Just so I can sort things out in my head, as I've read many different views... will there be 13 episodes that are going to be released on Comedy Central or will there be 4 DVDs that go straight to stores?

I had a dream last night I saw the movie. It Molder and Scully in it but it wasn't the same voices of the same people like in the show the X-files. Also the reason that the place wanted to keep Bender was because he could steal flat screen TVs.

What a fucked up dream. 

   

Originally posted by iliketowankalot:
 Katey was in Lost?

OMG GUYZ I herd a rummer she was also in Futururma! !!!!!!!!!! 11111 OneOneOne

   

Just for anybody who didn't get it, the smily indicates sarcastic amazement.   

Edit: ^^ Look, I'm dumbing myself down for offtopic! ^^

^ So far as I know...it's totally unclear.

First the movies were announced, then the new season. My instinct is that the new season pick-up will pretty much eliminate/delay the straight-to-DVD movies--but that's just a guess, of course.

No one in a position to really know has said yet.

So, how much of the movies are going to be new footage?  Do you think the writers will use any old stuff?

maybe they will re-use the fry falling into the freezer scene as they reveal a new angel and deepen the plot - dun dun dun

 http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Showbiz/2007/01/24/3437830-sun.html

 

Around one of many corners of the crowded bistro was the man himself, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. (Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer, was also at the party.) Groening was happy to talk about his other baby, Futurama, coming back with four new DVD features. They'll also be cut down into 16 new episodes airing in the U.S. on Comedy Central. Hopefully someone in Canada will snap them up.

"All the cast was excited about coming back - Katey Sagal, Billy West, all of them,'' said Groening, who never hides his displeasure at Fox's premature cancellation of the edgy sci-fi 'toon.

Told Groening my kids, 16 and 14, have never known life without The Simpsons, now in its 18th season and closing in on 400 episodes. He laughed when I told him my son Daniel, at around age seven, ran into the room once yelling, "Dad, there's a guy on TV who sounds just like Mayor Quimby!''

Turns out it was a clip of John F. Kennedy giving his inauguration address.

"Let me offer you an apology,'' joked Groening.