Futurama No Longer a Cartoon of the Past

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Animation, Comedy, Prime Time, Cable, FOX, Gossip, Video

Following in Family Guy’s footsteps, Comedy Central will reprise a FOX cartoon that was canceled - six years ago!

Futurama, created by Matt Groening and dropped off the FOX prime time schedule in 2003 after four seasons, will have another day in the sun…er, space. The comedy, set in 2999, has sparked high DVD sales and plenty of syndication attention.

Enough, apparently, to warrant another run. The cable network has ordered twenty-six new episodes of the animated comedy, which are expected to air in 2010.

It’s not the first time FOX has made a mistake. Family Guy was can canceled by the network, but returned after three years of great success on the Cartoon Network.

Read More | E! Online

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King of the Hill Renewed

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Prime Time, FOX, Renewals

Well - it turns out the number 13 can, in fact, be lucky for some.

FOX has just announced that one of its comedic mainstays, King of the Hill, will be returning to the airwaves fall.  Not only will fans be getting a whole new 13-episode set of the program, the upcoming season will mark the show’s 13th year on air.

Although more half hours may later be ordered, the network apparently has what it needs for the time being.  The Mike Judge series did not suffer a production shortage due to the writers strike; most of the segments had already been written prior to the work stoppage.

The Sunday staple is positioned only behind The Simpsons as the longest-running animated series ever.  The 2008-09 year will mark the 19th year for Matt Groening’s creation.

Read More | Variety

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Simpsons Keeps on Going

Posted by Wendy Michaels Categories: Animation, Prime Time, FOX, Renewals

Would you believe that The Simpsons is entering its 18th season? Would you also believe that series’ creator Matt Groening expects it to continue even longer? With no shortage of funny stories for this animated family, the series continues to be a ratings and award winner (it recently earned its 23rd Emmy). What’s more, a film version of everyone’s favorite family is expected to hit the big screen next summer. This is one show that keeps chugging.

Said Groening, “My attitude at this point is, as long as the people who work on the show are having a good time, let’s keep doing it. We’ve always tried to entertain ourselves and figured that the outside world would be entertained if we were making ourselves laugh.” Working on The Simpsons sounds like a dream job. Groening also noted that the fresh stories continue because “there’s a really good-natured spirit of competitiveness among the youngest writers on the staff who basically grew up watching the show and have a great memory for everything that’s gone before.”

Fox has renewed the series through its 19th year, so the legendary cartoon will keep going yet another year. The Simpsons season premiere will air Sunday, with Homer having a “brush with mob life.” The 400th episode of the show will air in May, spoofing Fox’s 24 and featuring vocal contributions from Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub.

Read More | CNN

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