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Archive for April 2003
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Things are getting unclear here... The line-up:
Sun 06th: FUTURAMA "The Why of Fry"
Sun 13th: NO FUTURAMA - KotH repeat *
Sun 20th: NO FUTURAMA - X-Men 2 prview
So, tomorrow we'll finally see "The Why of Fry", (*) but TVGuide lists a King of the Hill repeat for next week and an X-Men 2 preview for the week after. In other words: If the KotH repeat holds true, tomorrow could be the season's finale due to FOX supposedly not airing Futurama during May sweeps. This would mean that Season 5 consisted out of 8 episodes aired over a 5 months time span unless possible summer runs of the remaining 8 episodes would be counted towards this season. |
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The region 2 (Europe) Futurama Season 3 DVD set is now up for preordering at amazon.co.uk for £35.19 (12% off). Orders placed over this link help us pay our server bills.
The release is scheduled for June, 2nd and the 4 disc set will feature 22 episodes. More details on our Futurama DVD Season 3 preview page.
A pre-order for the German discs should be available soon (currently only lists an import). |
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 FrysGIRL submitted 1 picture, yes you read it correctly. By this I have set the record for World's Smallest Update. This update is also dedicated to a) #futuramachat b) The Fanart Zone c) my mom. This is TGIF signing off for today  |
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 GC Europe has an official trailer for the Futurama Game up and game.uk has a longer preview. Expect the release date for Game Cube, Playstation 2 and XBox to be around start of June 2003 if everything goes well. Preorders in the UK are available at amazon.co.uk for £34.99 (PS2/XBOX) and £24.99 (Game Cube). No signs of US preorders yet. The US publisher FOXi was recently sold to Vivendi Universal. |
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Next season 2 Sounds & Quotes are up. This time it's for the Nixon-heavy episode "A Head in the Polls".
Bender: "Game's over, losers. I have all the money. Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves." (listen)
Go read and listen to them. |
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As The Why of Fry is likely to trigger a bit of response, both the episode reviews and the episode capsule are already up, now that it aired on the East Coast. If you haven't seen it yet, beware that these include heavy SPOILERS. Be strong and wait the few hours.
Quotes, sounds, framegrabs and - Andie willing - trivia will be there by tomorrow morning. |
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 Today is your last chance to take part in our region 1 Futurama Season 1 DVD contest. To stand a chance, you'll definitely have to have all five trivia questions right. The five winners will be picked at midnight (PDT) and have 72 hours to respond to the notification email. Good luck. |
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Midnight passed and my edelfied random number generator picked 5 lucky people among the 98 correct entries (692 total). Without further ado: - David Ho.
- Tom Gr.
- Eric Gar.
- Abby P.
- Justin B.
All five of them have been notified by email and have until Saturday ends to claim their free Futurama Season 1 DVD set. To the rest of you: Tough luck, suckers. Just go and buy it (plus preorder Season 2) 
Thanks goes to FOX HE for enabling us to give out these goodies. |
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The sounds and quotes for "Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love?" are now up for you to enjoy.
Farnsworth: "We, by which I mean you, will have to rush him to his ancient homeworld, which will shortly erupt in an orgy of invertebrate sex."
Fry: "Oh, baby. I'm there!"
Leela: "Fry, do you even understand the word invertebrate?"
Fry: "Nope, but that's not the word I'm interested in. No need to pack pants, people. Let's roll!"
(listen to it) |
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We're back in the No Futurama domain:
April 13th: No Futurama (KotH repeat)
April 20th: No Futurama (X-Men 2 Special)
April 27th: No Futurama (Simpsons repeat)
Going from there, we can expect "No Futurama", "No Futurama", "No Futurama" and "No Futurama", due to May Sweeps during which FOX will try to get high ratings Futurama can't produce in its "never on, never promoted" state. Unaired episodes are expected to be shown starting June.
We'll still have a weekly outlook for FOX - just in case. |
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The Futurama Season 3 DVD set scheduled for release in the UK on June 2nd got a new preorder price on amazon.co.uk: £29.99 instead of £35.19 previously and £39.99 list price.
If you already preordered at the higher price, go check your account page to see if they updated it (otherwise you can always cancel and preorder again).
Update: The Futurama Season 3 DVD set currently has sales rank 17 and preorder rank 5 at amazon.co.uk among the DVDs (updated hourly). |
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Metered market Nielsen ratings for Sunday are in and I thought I'd just let you know even though no Futurama was on.
The 7-7:30PM slot was dominated by a 11.0/19 PGA Masters overrun on CBS, followed by a 5.8/10 Dateline half-hour on NBC. ABC's Dr. Dolittle repeat finished with 4.5/7 average between 7 and 9PM. FOX's Futurama replacement "King of the Hill" episode (repeat) came in fourth with a low 3.4/6 rating.
This compares to:
Futurama - The Why of Fry 3.8/6
Futurama - Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles 4.3/7
Reading ratings: Generally higher = better. First number indicates how many people watched, second tells what percentage of the watching people that is. Advertisers like the first number better, but these highly depend on the time slot as less people watch TV during the nights/dinner time etc. |
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From May 25th onwards, Futurama will be removed from the Sunday 11PM time slot in Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block when Home Movies takes its spot. However, Futurama will continue to air Mondays through Thursdays at 11PM.
Starting this Sunday, Family Guy will follow up Futurama at 11:30PM but Cartoon Network won't be showing the first season (1ACX) for the time being. Luckily, the Family Guy Season 1 & 2 DVD combi set just came out today in the USA. |
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 I got a first picture of the Futurama 2004 Calendar cover for you. The list price is $12.99 and release date should be August 2003. Preorders are available at $10.39. The picture looks like a reference to M.C. Escher's "Hand with Reflecting Sphere". This might hint at an art theme. I'll try to find out. |
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At the end of May, Cartoon Network will bump Futurama back to 11:30PM on Sundays with Home Movies taking the 11PM slot. Coming up this week:
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