Comedy Central Gives Futurama a Present Day
Lucky there's a Family Guy. To set a precedent, that is.
Comedy Central has ordered up 26 new episodes of Matt Groening's Futurama, six years after the cleverly goofy animated sitcom was canceled by Fox—for seemingly no good raisin!
Similar to how DVD sales of the once-canceled Family Guy prompted Fox to give the gasp-and-giggle-inducing cartoon another chance in 2005 after a three-year hiatus, enough attention has been paid to Futurama repeats on Adult Swim and four straight-to-DVD movies to inspire a comeback.
Comedy Central started airing old Futurama episodes last year and apparently agreed with producer 20th Century Fox that there's more to be be mined from Fry, Bender, Leela and their 30th-century shenanigans.
The return of Futurama is expected in mid-2010.
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