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Dexter/Rugrats Guy on Futurama

Scott Roberts - artist and writer for the Dexter's Lab and Rugrats comics - was interviewed by Rich Watson for slushfactory and talked some about the animation industry goods and bads. The topic changes to a rather long paragraph about Futurama:
RW: Why do you suppose Fox gave up on Futurama?

SR: Well, I don't want to get into the dirty laundry, but some of this was already in the press - I feel that a lot of it was punishing Matt Groening for not allowing the executives to be involved in the creative end of the show. [...] I think they kinda slapped it back at him by giving him very little support, putting it in a ridiculously early time slot, where it's constantly pre-empted. You're lucky if a new season is three or four episodes.
The interview was done in January 2003 at the Big Apple Con and published today.
Thanks to Tom S. for the lead.

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RorschachMar 11th 2003, 00:00
So if I'm not mistaking, according to this interview, there actually might be a chance for Cartoon Network to order new episodes of Futurama, once Fuckx is done showing their remaining ones. Am I right? What a great news it would be enventhough I don't even get CN here.
CyberKnightMar 11th 2003, 00:00
I think that it's more likely Maurice was talking about Groening shipping the show to another of the major US networks, rather than a cable network. Still, anything's possible, however remotely, I suppose.