Ladies, gentlemen, and smizmars,

Futurama is about to be reborn today. After its long absence from TV (with four DVD movies in between), Comedy Central shows the first two new episodes of Futurama at 10pm (9c) tonight!

The old voices are back, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are responsible for the production again, and the Professor is back at inventing dangerously spectacular devices in the episode aptly called "Rebirth".

Right after Rebirth, the Zapper makes his return in the second episode called "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela". The preview picture on the right promises lots of innuendo as he meets his imagined seductress Leela, who doesn't look a yahren older!

Bored waiting for the episodes? Watch a 7-minute recap of Futurama to get back into it. (Or just read through your old Futurama notebooks. You took notes, right?)

(Please no spoiling the plot in the comments and no links / hints to links. The review forms will go live after the episodes aired on TV.)

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GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
"FUTURAMA" BLASTS OFF ON COMEDY CENTRAL WITH RECORD RATINGS

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6th Season Premiere Of "Futurama" Draws 2.9 Million Total Viewers And Was Most-Watched And Highest-Rated Show In All Of Television Thursday Night Among Young Men

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Season Premiere Leads COMEDY CENTRAL To Its Highest-Rated Night Of The Year And Best Thursday Prime Ever Among Young Men

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NEW YORK, June 28, 2010 -- The Emmy® Award-winning animated sci-fi comedy "Futurama," resurrected by COMEDY CENTRAL, made an out-of-this-world return and, with 2.9 million total viewers, became the highest-rated and most-watched season premiere for an animated series on cable with the exception of "South Park."

Airing its first original episode in almost seven years, the sixth season premiere of "Futurama" titled "Rebirth" (Thursday, 10:00-10:30 p.m.) averaged a 2.0 HH rating, 1.9 Adults 18-49 rating, 4.5 Men 18-24 rating and 3.5 Men 18-34 rating, finishing the night as the most-watched and highest-rated show in all of television for Thursday Prime among M18-24 and M18-34, as well as the highest-rated show in all of television among Adults 18-49 (tie).

With 2.9 million total viewers tuning in to watch the next chapter in the lives of Leela, Fry and Bender, the premiere powered COMEDY CENTRAL to its highest-rated and most-watched night of 2010 among total viewers (1.7 million total viewers) and A18-49 (1.1 rating) and the highest-rated and most-watched Thursday night in the network's history among M18-24 (2.4 rating) and M18-34 (1.9 rating).

The second of two all-new, back-to-back premiere episodes of "Futurama" (Thursday, 10:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.), averaged a 2.1 HH rating, 1.7 A18-49 rating, 4.2 M18-24 rating, 3.2 M18-34 rating and 2.8 million total viewers to rank as the #2 program of the night in all of television among M18-34 and M18-24, and the #1 cable show in its timeslot with A18-49 (tie), M18-34 and M18-24.

Encore presentations of the season premiere of "Futurama" air Sunday at 12:00 a.m., Monday at 12:30 a.m., Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. and Thursday at 9:30 p.m. (all times ET/PT).

"Futurama" follows the life of Philip J. Fry (Billy West), a pizza delivery boy who accidentally stumbles into a freezer on December 31, 1999 and wakes up a thousand years later. In his future home of New New York City, Fry goes to work for the Planet Express Intergalactic delivery company, where he befriends Bender (John DiMaggio), a booze-fueled robot, and sets his romantic sights on Leela (Katey Sagal), a sexy cyclops who enjoys beating him up.

"Futurama," created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen, is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television, with multi-Emmy