Futurama News
Archive for October 2002
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Xmoo.com is going to auction another futurama comic soon (only for newbies) so it might be fun for you to join up for the game and try to get that comic. |
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Sorry for the long delay for the new Episode Guides made by shadowstar. Well here they are. |
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 Here is the first image of the upcoming Futurama-O-Rama by Harperperennial Library. It is scheduled to ship on October 15th and will consist out fo the first 4 comics in a hardcover. Current pre-order price at amazon is $10.36 (20% off). There also is a UK version which is published by Titan Books. |
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 Look what I found on the FOXy UK server: The Trailer to the Futurama Season 2 DVD set. They don't have their info on the Futurama DVDs up yet, but finding the trailer was easy enough guess-work.
The second Futurama DVDs are released on November 11th for region 2 (Europe). They can be preordered at 20% off (£32) at amazon in the UK or for €50 at amazon in Germany. All 19 2ACV episodes and lots of extras are packed on the 4 DVDs.
Now preorder. I said dooooo it! |
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Our Futurama petition crossed the 150,000 signature mark yesterday. Even when deducting 20% fakes/doublets, we still have one hell of an impressive number here.
While it is unlikely that FOX will change its mind on the ground of the petition alone, it does give Groening and Cohen something big to point at during negotiations. Both refered to it multiple times during interviews. |
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Farnsworth: "The circuit diagram is right in the inside of your case"
Robot: "I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe"
(download 54kb)
The sounds of The Honking are finally up, check them out. |
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This is going to be a simple news entry: Futurama on TV over the next weeks:
Today: No Futurama
Next week: No Futurama
Week after: No Futurama
There, done. |
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Some of you might have read the Channel 4 Teletext article about 3 months back in which Mat Groening said: "It's not over. We are trying to keep it alive with movies, cartoons, video games, toys and comic books"
and"if it's not Futurama, we are going to work on another project. I have a couple of series in the works and TV shows I want to do."
I recently also got similar words by David X Cohen: "It [Cartoon Network syndication] increases the chances that we can at least keep doing video games, comics, etc... maybe even a movie someday"
So, I was wondering what you think about the prospect of a possible episode-free season with toys, games and maybe a movie instead.
I know that both - understandably - are some sensitive about this issue. In my view any Futurama is better than no Futurama, but what's your comment? |
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Let's have a look at what Futurama will run up against.- NBC: The show 'Dateline' will be put on hiatus next Sunday and be succeeded by reruns of 'American Dreams'
- WB: Nothing new here - reruns of The Gilmore Girls
- ABC: Assorted movies depending on your local affiliate.
- CBS: Football up to December which is likely to run into the 7pm timeslot. Otherwise the strong going '60 minutes'.
- FOX: Football up to December which is likely to run into the 7pm timeslot.
With The Wonderyears rip-off 'Oliver Beene' being held back till January 26th FOX might decide to give the 7:30 timeslot to Futurama which would shield it some from the Football overruns. Or they just air some 'The world's most xxx yyy'.
'60 minutes' will be the big guy of the 7 to 8pm timeslot just like last year but the reruns on WB and NBC might give Futurama some air to breath. |
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Like announced last week, the Futurama-o-Rama comic collection book is now available at about $10 (20% off). It contains the first 4 Futurama Comics in a paperback version.
Also, I hear that the Futurama Season 2 DVDs are available in Spain (thanks lupo). The discs are identical to the German ones but for the labels/box.
3 more weeks and we all got them! Keep preordering them from amazon.co.uk or amazon.de to help us keeping this site pop-up free! |
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Well the title says it all, I got the guides from Episode 10 and 11 from shadowstar. They're in the fanart section. Check 'em out. I also got 3 new fan art pictures from Erdrik |
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Looks like the German TV channel Pro7 will replace Family Guy (I'm a fan, sort of, but the German dub is at least as awful as the Futurama one) with Futurama starting mid November. The Season 4 episodes will air on Saturdays at 18:00 - not exactly the late evening time slot fans had been hoping for in Germany. |
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Like announced last week, there will be no Futurama on FOX this week because FOX is showing NFL and Baseball.
Next week FOX will be showing "The Simpsons" at 7:00pm instead of Futurama as they want to show either "Die Hard" or Baseball starting at 7:30pm.
The week after, "Bendin' in the Wind" might air in the West while the East gets some more NFL juice.
Let's hope that the Futurama Season 5 (read: season 4 redux) Premiere on November 10th will not again get "in progress" or "not at all" treatment like the Season 4 got in parts of the East. |
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On my daily journey through Futurama content on the web, I recently came across a poorly done russian CGEF rip-off and I saw another one in German once, too. This made me think some. Why not have more talented people use some of our content instead of people taking our layout?
So, here we go: From now on we'll be serving our news headlines with a brief excerpt through the means of RSS 0.91 at www.gotfuturama.com/Includes/CGEF091.rss. If you got a PHP-nuke or Post-nuke website, you can easily include our headlines on your site and I think some blog systems allow syndicating RSS, too. Or just parse the XML inside the RSS-file (see a simple code sample in Perl).
If you use this feed, please try to fetch it no more than once an hour and send me a short eMail so I can see if things are working correctly.
Examples of CGEF News integrated into website designs (using a custom feed) can be seen at the Futurama Message Board PEEL or the light-weight CGEF version I set up at DOOP.org. |
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 Mediaweek reports that Cartoon Network will expand their Adult Swim block to 5 nights a week starting Sunday, January 12th. Speculation was around a bit earlier already but it looks final now.
The new timeslots will be Sunday through Thursday from 11pm to 1am with Futurama as the opener at 11pm from Monday through Thursday.
This gives us 4 episodes a week (plus maybe - just maybe - one on Sunday on FOX  ).
Interesting for the UK: Sky/NTL Digital channel CNX recently added 5 Adult Swim programs to their lineup. Hope for Futurama in the future. In the meantime, watch Futurama at 10:25am on C4 this week.
Thanks go to Corey for the leads. |
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Shannon Muir - herself a production coordinator for Nickelodeon's Invader Zim - interviewed Futurama Supervising Producer Patric Verrone on in-biz topics like prime time animation, its difference to other animation, becoming a writer and his view on unions in the business (Patric is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Western WGA):"You need to be willing and able to sit in a conference room for twelve hour days, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, rewriting scripts line by line. It also helps if you can direct actors, edit, design, compose music and lyrics, and brew beer. On FUTURAMA, everyone had to be able to do at least a majority of those things"
Read the rest in Shannon's column at DigitalMediaFX. |
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I got some more of Erdriks fanart, it's 4 new pictures. By this I also want to tell you to submit to submit@gotfuturama.com and not our personal adresses, this way it's easier for us to process them and speed things up. |
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 I turned a PEEL thread into a permanent game for CGEF: Dub The Frame! The objective is to write up a short dialog or quote for a framegrab. Try to be funny We'll start with Amy sitting on a guy in a cast and exchange the framegrab used roughly every week. |
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 "Woohoo! just received this email from TFAW!" was what I got mailed by Sebastien two days ago. What he was so happy about? He got a notice by email telling him that 'Things From Another World'  is shipping the Slurm Can + Playing Cards - for $5.99 instead of 9-something!
While it does not include real slurm (d'oh), the can is nicely done and the playing card set comes as a welcome bonus. Read Jon's detailed review and then go and order the can & cards! This thing is hard to find anywhere else. |
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Finally, I got to do the sounds & quotes for Cryonic Woman - which means we completed Season 3 regarding these.
Zoidberg: "Good bye friends! I'll miss you ... Good riddance to them. Now Zoidberg is the popular one!"
Farnsworth: "Yes, yes. Let's all talk to Zoidberg."
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Shadowstar sent us his latest reworked Futurama guides in his own unique style. These two are for "When Aliens Attack" and "Fry and the Slurm Factory" - both now on his page at CGEF.
 Speaking of which, Otis P Jivefunk mailed 2 more fan arts, too which warrants shifting him from "various submitters" to his own page.
Keep submitting your work! |
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 One year ago, on Halloween, CGEF got resurrected from the dead. And now we are going strong and celebrating yet again our first anniversary. In that year many things happened, like the cancellation of Futurama or Futurama finally winning its deserved Emmy. I hope CGEF has another fruitful year and that Futurama can live forever in our hearts and hopefully still on TV  Besides this all, have a scary Halloween you all... |
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Our fan art submitter Alexander 'Scary Movie' Gustafsson, who is known to submit scary futurama related pictures sent in another halloween'ish picture today. Check out his Fan Art Gallery. Shadowstar submitted his Episode 9 episode guide. |
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