Have you noticed?

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Ever since people found out Family Guy is back on air. More people have been doing more things to get Futurama back on air? 

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Its because they have seen that FOX is open to bring back cancelled series b/c they have potential to make more $. They saw Family Guy was bringing in huge amounts of $ for DVD sales and they believe that they can make even more $ from new episodes.

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The difference, in terms of Fox, between Futurama and Family guy is it costs a lot more $ to make Futurama than it does Family Guy. I'm not saying it can't happen, but the $ is stacked up against it some what...

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Not neccessarily.  I heard somewhere that Family Guy costs $1 million an episode to make, which is still pretty expensive.

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A standard million dollar episode of Family Guy and a 5 minute dirt cheap HomestarRunner.com short both give me the same amount of laffs. It's amazing the dough some'll spend..

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I thought it was Cartoon Network that was bringing it back. I am probably wrong.

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As I understand it, FOX are funding the episodes, but CN will air them (and presumably pay FOX a syndication fee), while FOX can also sell DVDs.

FOX also have an option to air the episodes before CN.

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Why would FOX allow CN to show it when they can and make more money for themselves?
P.S. FOX is a load of greedy nerds

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I'm guessing that CN may pay a bigger fee if the episodes haven't already aired on FOX.

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Greedy? Yes. Nerdy? I think not!

What nerd in his/her right mind would cancel a classic show like Futurama?

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I wouldn't say that they were nerds when they canceled the show..Just drunk.   

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Originally posted by Lucky Clover:
Ever since people found out Family Guy is back on air. More people have been doing more things to get Futurama back on air?   

It's good that there's a healthy amount of action and interest. I know Groening's appearances and the DVD sales don't sound too amazing, but I remember waiting months and months for action on Sealab 2021 (AS Show) with not so much as a new COMMERCIAL for the show. The small fan following of Sealab had to go on the release of a new Sealab T-shirt as the only assurance that the show wasn't cancelled.