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Futurama back from dead again

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Dan 73

Bender 

Does this mean I don't have to make my own Futurama, with blackjack and hookers?

Anonymous Coward

May I be the first (probably not) to say.... 

kiss my shiny metal butt.

Rob

YAY! 

Go

Pass me some Slurm!

Martin Lyne

Cool 

Go

Hopefully be better than the movies though. They seriously lacked in laughs for the most part.

The ending of teh last implied something new for the franchise.. but I doubt it'll carry over (maybe first new episode)

Next up: FIREFLY, BITCHES.

Michelle Knight

In the words of Dr. Zoiberg... 

Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

Fraser

Yay! 

That is all.

Anonymous Coward

Good news, everyone! 

This has got to be a better move than unpicking the DVD movies and turning them into some uneven episodes, although once again Fox prove themselves to be clueless morons who deserve nothing more than to be ground down into a fine pink powder.

Lunatik

Sweet Zombie Jesus! 

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Great news, anything that puts more Morbo on the box has to be a good thing.

mark 63

Good news everyone! 

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Good news everyone!

now bring back Firefly too

h00f zillá

A title is required. 

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Good news!

"Hey, what kinda party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker."

Feef Lovecraft

This is how 

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Whine whine whine Sarah Connor/Fringe/etc, etc, etc.

Shut up and pay attention, this how to revive your show, like family guy, like futuruama show the network that there's money in it.

Jon Pain

The should now resurrect 

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Firefly, the brilliant Sci-Fi - Western from Joss Whedon!

Shades

Good news people... 

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but it bloody ruins my complete series box set though. The recent specials were sold as films, even though they were shown as half-hour episodes on TV, so the box set claim of "complete series" was just about holding on! This completely buggers it! Ah well, what do I care...

FUTURAMA IS BACK BABY!!!

Tony S

Call me Cynical 

I actually liked the programme - I thought it had some good plots. Plus Leela was quite fit!

However, the real reason that they are bringing it back? The same reason that we see so many other "sequels" and "remakes" - they are running out of fresh ideas. In addition, the men in suits don't want to take a chance on new formats in case they tank.

327 channels and nothing on.

Colin Miller

Sara Conner 

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Hopefully strong ticket sales for Terminator:Redemption will encourage Fox to commission new series of The Sara Conner Chronicles

Ed Blackshaw

Buy Johnson's Teeth! 

The only teeth strong enough to chew other teeth!

Anonymous Coward

(untitled) 

All hail the Hypno-toad

Luis Ogando

Is it just me or.... 

Heart

.. does anyone else find Leela strangely alluring....

Yorkshirepudding

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD 

Go

Puny humans today were elated by the news!

epic wins all round folks

Thomas 4

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD. 

Boffin

<glare>

Liam Tipler

yeah.... 

firefly and 4400!

why do they can the good stuff and keep pumping out the shite?

Wade Burchette

Excellent ... 

Oh wait, that was the other Matt Groening show.

In any event, it has to be better than the movies.

Anonymous Coward

Me want snoo snoo!! 

Alien

Morbo the Annihilator also approves

Dave 129

Yay! 

Heart

Woo hoo! That is the best news so far this week :) I can't wait. Futurama rules.

Hermes

Yippee 

I'm happier than a greensnake in a sugarcane field!

mark l 2

everybody loves hipno toad 

Happy

Perhaps the hipno-toad has brought the TV execs round.

Good news for the fans, ie me

Olaf 1

And 

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You've watched it, you can't unwatch it.

Anonymous Coward

Fry being frozen 

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Without meaning to nit pick too much, it was wasn't an accident Fry was frozen, Nibbler did it!

Not that is really matters, the main thing is we'll be seeing one of the best animated shows back on our screens.

Long live the Hypno-toad

Tom 15

Good news but... 

...I hope they actually make them funny. The movies were seriously crap. Better to let it die than keep it going on like the Simpsons!

Scott 19

Nice 

Happy

Just have to get the box sets for Xmas so i can catch up before next year.

David S

May I be the first... 

Happy

...to welcome our shiny-metal-assed overlord.

Lexxy

Great bongo in the congo! 

Argh! My Bones!!

My one regret is... that I have... boneitis.

Dave Ross

I for one welcome.. 

Happy

the return of hypnotoad....

Paul Hates Handles

In fact... 

...forget the futurama and the blackjack. I'll just take the hookers.

Seriously awesome news :)

Dai 2

Meh 

Hooray, they're too lazy to think up anything new so they are going to recycle a cartoon for us for another thrimptyfivesquillion episodes so we can have yet more endless repeats.

dan russell

About time 

Now howsabout re-commissioning Eli Stone...

Marvin the Martian

Sweet gorilla from Manila 

Flame

Who said the movies weren't that funny? They were atrociously, heartstoppingly unfunny, is what they were.

I tried to sit through the first one, and halfway I realized I hadn't laughed, grinned nor vaguely smiled up to then --- it was just a set of cruder reruns of older jokes, with some efforts at slapstick, as if some suit thought "a dash of S P will perk up this thing; ah screw that, let's just have people falling down stairs". Even if the rest were comic masterpieces, on average it would be bad... I dunno, don't have the time to waste, they've all credit burned up (while I'm an owner of a boxed-set first four series), and flicks removed from my LoveFilm queue.

Simon Ward

Re: Cool 

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"Hopefully be better than the movies though. They seriously lacked in laughs for the most part."

Could they be any worse? Really?

After enduring "Bender's Big Score" I was beginning to think that the writers had been afflicted by brain slugs.

Sarah Bee

Re: Is it just me or.... 

(Written by Reg staff)

It's the Reg, you silly, Leela is what half the commentards see when they close their eyes to go to sleep.

Hello little man. I WILL DESTROY YOU.

Anonymous Coward

Good News Everyone! 

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Huzzah!

just hope they're better then the mini movies. first one was good for a chuckle but the others seemed like they had the same non existant dry wit that the simpsons has been peddling for a few years.

futurama was funny in its day and still is now. i hope it remains so!

"she's built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro"

Sarah Davis

Fox wouldn't know good television if... 

Coat

...it bit their fat dull meatridden butts.

Yee-ha, once again clueless Fox execs are guided to the light by the actual desires of the people. Hope that catches on over here, who knows we may even get some good TV out of it

go Beneder, go Bender

(mines the one with the finglongerer in the pocket)

Stevie

Bah! 

*Yawn*

Why on Earth whould anyone watch this waste of good ink?

The jokes have already appeared on The Simpsons years ago.

Anonymous Coward

@Luis Ogando - does anyone else find Leela strangely alluring.... 

Happy

I've had my eye on her.....

Anonymous Coward

Woohoo 

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My second favourite Cartoon is coming back...

That + Family guy = life complete.. well actually all they need to do now is bring back Firefly :D

Combat Wombat

Leela hot? 

Alien

I would go with Leela, but I'd be thinking of Amy..

NoCo37

FInally 

Go

i need more Dr. Zoidberg in my life!I

"it's been years since medical school, so remind me. Disemboweling in your species, fatal or non-fatal?"

Anonymous Coward

@Sarah Bee 

Heart

Are you implying that Reg readers take a liking to mutants who were rejected by the mutant community and kicked out?

That is just not a problem for a diverse guy like me. Set a course for that asteroid belt. I'll be busy entertaining Leela in my stateroom.

-Zapp Brannigan

steven kraft

Looking forward to the return 

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of my role model--Zap Brannigan!

"Stop dying, you cowards!!"

Hanin Elias

stop the madness! 

Pirate

the movies speak volumes about the class the new series will run at... stale and boring is putting it lightly...

as for the firefly whiners... that show should never have been put on the air. the movie was like sitting through every movie ewe boll ever made back to back... all in 90 minutes... i feel humanity is far worse off for ever knowing of it's existence...

Jaowon

Patiently waiting... 

...for them to bring back B5 and Firefly.

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