Nyhed: "Futurama" vender tilbage til TV

"Futurama" vender tilbage til TV

26 nye afsnit er bestilt.

20th Century Fox TV planlægger at genoplive "Futurama", der ellers gik af luften 2003, ved at bestille 26 nye afsnit. Comedy Central skal vise de nye afsnit fra midten af 2010 med stemmer fra Billy West (Philip Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela) og John DiMaggio (Bender), der alle vender tilbage.

Da "Futurama" sluttede, producerede Fox fire film baseret på serien til DVD, hvilket satte gang i rygter om en genoplivning: "It was a little bit of putting our toe in the water to see what sort of response we could get," fortæller 20th Century Fox TV's Gary Newman. "We discovered that, like 'Family Guy,' there's a passionate core audience and a tremendous pent-up demand to see more 'Futurama.'"

Arbejdet på de nye afsnit er allerede begyndt i form af manuskriptskrivning.

"David [Cohen] and I have ideas that we knocked around before we even began the first series," udtaler seriens skaber Matt Groening. "And we haven't gotten to everything yet."