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CC Press Release: Record Futurama Ratings

In their latest press release, Comedy Central reports record ratings for last week's premiere of the new Futurama season:

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).

Full press release:

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

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

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

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

View comments | Jun 29th 2010 | contributor

New Episode Discussion

Time to let us know what you thought of the new Futurama episodes. Review forms for the first episode (Rebirth) and for the second one (In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela) are open now.

For discussing your thoughts in more detail: PEEL - The Planet Express Employee Lounge (our forum).

Also, our Futurama Episode Guide now has a few frame grabs of the two episodes.

View comments | Jun 25th 2010 | contributor

Rebirth! And then some!

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.)

View comments | Jun 24th 2010 | contributor

"What of it?!!"

Well folks, we're less than 2 weeks away from all new Futurama and Comedy Central has just released the first 90 seconds of the premiere "Rebirth" on their website.
This is the first full look at footage from the new season and it looks fantastic!

Obviously we understand lots of you don't reside in the US so check out the video someone has uploaded to YouTube.

Enjoy!

View comments | Jun 11th 2010 | contributor

"You can't Un-watch it!"

We're alive!

Sorry for the extreme lack of updates on the site. My internet was down for a while and I could only do updates via Twitter on my iPhone.

But the internet's back up and I'm back with a little treat for you all.
On Monday I'll be interviewing the fantastic Maurice LaMarche, voice of Kif, Morbo, Lrrr and many more.
We'll be having a chat about his work and of course about the upcoming return of our favourite 31st centurians!
The fun part is I'll be mixing in some fan-submitted questions. So, if you want to get involved email me(reed @ gotfuturama.com), ensuring the subject line reads LAMARCHE. In the email include one question and your name as you'd like it to appear if I choose the question.
Go for it! And remember, the more interesting the question, the more likely it will get picked! You can send as many emails as you like!

Now a round up of other Futurama news:

Comedy Central continue their very cool sneak peaks at the new season.

EW.com recently did a large interview with David X Cohen about the new season where he revealed lots, including more guest stars: Chris Elliot, George Takei, Mark Mothersbaugh & Devo, Patton Oswalt(Hell yes!), the return of Coolio and the first appearance by Mr Cohen himself!

David also talks about the 'Futurama of Physics' here!

The charming Aimee Steinberger has posted on her blog about the episodes she'll be Assistant Directing this season. A nice mini-read and while you're there check out some of her own work!

Billy West appears on Adam Carolla's Podcast.

John DiMaggio talks about taking on the role of the Joker.

Not long now guys and gals, remember to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and get chatting about the show on PEEL...

View comments | Jun 4th 2010 | contributor

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