FOX Recasting Futurama

FOX is recasting Futurama

Feel free to e-mail FUTURAMA@SCOTTMULLERCASTING.COM and either inform them that recasting Futurama is stupid or attach a .mp3 of your best Bender impression.

Comedy Central orders new Futurama

Bender's Back, baby! Comedy Central ordered 13 new episodes of Futurama.

An insider told Collider.com that the network has given the series an order for 13 additional episodes to air now that the network has run through all of the series' original episodes and the four full-length DVD movies. This news has sparked rumors that production has officially started again on the series and casting is underway.

Can anyone think of any other series for which Comedy Central has done this? I can only think of MST3K.

Edit: OR Fox Ordered 26 new episodes.

Edit: OR Comedy Central ordered 26 episodes

Bender's Big Score

The good news is that there's a Futurama movie, the bad news is that its straight-to-video both in terms of its method of distribution and its overall quality The joke writing was lazy, relying on zaniness, shock value, and a contrived running gag for what I'll conservatively estimate to be 99% of the movie. Inside jokes were also present, but generally relegated to a sort of Where's Waldo meets Dane Cookian "Hey, see that? You remember that? You do? Good for you"

There was a fairly serious subplot, which featured a twist so obvious, they may have well included it in the title, and a title so contrived that it barely even describes any event in the movie.

And then there were the cameos, which probably would have been more endearing if I didn't see these characters on Futurama reruns every weekday on Adult Swim already. Since I do, however, they did little more than flesh out the waste of time.

There were a few songs, which failed in nearly every way, save for that they had a melody and lyrics, hallmarks of most music.

In short, I hated it and I wish they hadn't made it. However, they found a way to make Amy Wong more of an inconsequential character, and for that I have to give them a little credit.