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Archive for February 2004
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Action Jacktion from PEEL notified me about a roughly half hour radio interview 88.1 The 'Burg did with Maurice Lamarche on their Weekly Geek cast. The interview wasn't Futurama centered but talk on Maurice's work as Morbo and Kif did ensue.
With permission of 88.1, the interview in 3 files:
part 1 (9min, 8.7MB)
part 2 (8min, 7.9MB)
part 3 (15min, 14.3MB)
Maurice mentions his work on The Critic and together with Billy West on "Comic Book - The Movie", which both came out on DVD the other day. In addition, the hosts ask him when the next Futurama seasons come out on DVD. He didn't know, so: March 9th for Season 3. The date for Season 4 isn't known yet. |
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According to Variety, the two Annie categories Futurama was nominated for went to its sibling show "The Simpsons".
For "Music in an Animated Television Production", Ken Keeler's song from "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" was beaten by a song from The Simpsons "Dude, Where's My Ranch" - written by Ken Keeler et al.
In "Writing in an Animated Television Production" Patric Verrone's Futurama episode "The Sting" had to bow to The Simpsons "Three Gays of the Condo" in which Homer shares rooms with said guys after getting in trouble with Marge again. This is the second time that episode beat a Futuarma one and to be honest... I didn't think "Three Gays" was that great compared to the first Simpsons episode with a gay theme.
The upcoming WGA awards will again pit "The Sting" against Simpsons episodes. So let's hope I don't have to rant again. |
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 One more month to go!
On March 9th the Americans among us will finally get to see the Season 3 DVD set arrive. If you are still undecided, curse you! That, or read our review of the European version which we'll be updating to reflect the expected changes (packaging, languages, subtitles and menus) once we got our sample.
Amazon offers 30% off if you preorder. That's only 35$ for 22 episodes.
We'll be looking into starting some give-away contest soon. You can always cancel your preorder with amazon should you win  |
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The Comic Contest only has three more days to go, so hurry with the submissions! I submitted a comic, but evil-marc wouldn't let it be in the contest for some dumb reason.* But I'm going to let you people see it anyway! So without further ado, my entry!
*cause I work on CGEF, I guess, spluh. Lame excuse. |
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The deadline for the comic contest has been reached. We received more than 50 entries, so judging them will take a bit. If everything goes fine, the results will be up tonight. Tomorrow the latest.
Thanks to everyone for participating! |
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Another posthumous nomination for Futurama! This time, David A. Goodman's "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is up to grab the trophy for Best Script in the Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award.
The other contenders are Finding Nemo, Minority Report, Spirited Away and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
I think it's save to say that Futurama is posed against a quite competitive field there. It also is the only TV production, which tells you something about either the quality of Futurama's writing or the quality of the heaps and heaps of scripts not nominated
The results will be in on April 17th and announced at the Westin Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA. |
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Finally, our jury team made a decision  Wasn't easy. We had to make some changes to the prize winning structure, but we're sure the winners won't mind
Speaking of which: If you are one of the lucky winners, make sure to email me your full shipping address and your pick from the pool of prizes!
But now, go head over to the results and read through them!
Any Bongo recruiters out there? |
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 Every now and then the Futurama Slurm Can becomes available online. Since it's one of the most popular non-DVD items at $8, it's usually worth a notice on here and then a few hours later tends to be out of stock again Last time it took mere 5 hours. Let's hope they stocked a few more this time.
Go to eMerchandise if you want one.
UPDATE: Told ya so, they're back ordered again. |
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After Ken Keeler won it last year with "Godfellas", the WGA Award Futurama was nominated for went to one out of the three Simpsons episodes. Thus, "The Sting" got beaten by the Simpsons yet again. But this time it at least was a different episode "The Dad Who Knew too Little" had Homer hire a private investigator to get to know Lisa better after setting her up with a phony birthday present. It managed to pull ahead of "Moe Baby Blues" and "My Mother the Carjacker" of Simpsons fame, "King of the Hill - Reborn to be Wild" and "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron - Rescue Jet Fusion". Congrats to Matt Selman. |
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Time for some trivia game!
FOX Home Entertainment sponsored 5 Futurama Season 3 DVD sets for a little contest. Get the five answers right and have a chance to win!
The contest ends March 5th so that all the winners have enough time to cancel the preorders they hopefully arranged for
So, US American Futurama fans, get guessing!
UPDATE: Canadians are fine now, too. |
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Amazon in the UK currently got a DVD boxset offer with 40% or more off of several sets. Among these are Futurama Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 for £22 each. The normal price is set at £40.
If you can wait a whole month, Play.com is taking preorders for a promotional version of all 4 sets for £15.99 each. |
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