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

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).

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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

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MorboJun 29th 2010, 07:19

WOOHOO! Really glad Futurama's back!

PaulJun 29th 2010, 09:49

Hopefully they can keep it up aye.

LyraJun 29th 2010, 16:06

awesome!!!
hopefully this means MUCH MORE futurama to come! yay!

KurtPikachu2001Jun 29th 2010, 16:21

The ratings were high! That's a great sign! Thought for sure the ratings were low. Looks like there's more Futurama to come!

GIANTmicrobesJun 29th 2010, 16:39

This is my favorite show, I pray it does not get cancelled again!

ufoJun 29th 2010, 21:12

NICE! I think there will be a lot more seasons
I mean, that was high ratings!

FUTURAMA FTW!

DirkJun 30th 2010, 14:38

Sonds like they are happy about the ratings, let's hope it continues for a long time to come

JeremyFeinJun 30th 2010, 19:25

I'm watching Rebirth as we speak and I know that the two new episodes weren't great and a little blue now that it is a 10 PM cable show but who cares Futurama is back.

CraigFoxJun 30th 2010, 19:54

Great ratings! Hopefully, the shows will get better that the first two!

JasonBJul 2nd 2010, 00:09

Fantastic news about the ratings. Thought the 2 eps were quite good. Glad its back on the air. Hope Fox sees these ratings and realizes how stupid they were.

JoeJul 8th 2010, 03:44

so about those illegal downloads?

LesnboyJul 10th 2010, 14:45

Enter your comment here. Please stay on-topic.
Still waiting in the UK!!!!!
NO TALK ABOUT ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS!

NeatomanJul 19th 2010, 23:40

Neat!