Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the show.
- Futurama's ridiculously late season premiere will be Sunday, Dec. 9th at 7 PM (6 PM Central/Mountain) on Fox. The episode is "Roswell that Ends Well", in which the crew accidentally travels back through time and crash-lands in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. It's our first time travel episode, unless you count Fry freezing his way through a thousand years. The episode turned out great, I think -- it's definitely one of my favorites so far.
- A one-hour Xmas double-feature is currently scheduled for Sunday, December 23rd from 9 to 10 PM (in the X-Files' usual slot). It will start with a re-run of our Xmas show from 2 years ago (featuring John Goodman and Conan O'Brien), then move along to the "banned" Xmas show from last year, that was never shown because those guardians of good taste at the Fox Network network decided it was "inappropriate" for broadcast at 7 PM. You can judge for yourself. It features Coolio as "Kwanzabot".
- Some recent recognition for the show: Futurama won 2 of the 3 Annie Awards it was nominated for at the annual "Annie" animation awards ceremony in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. These were: Best Writing in an animated TV show (Ron Weiner, for "The Luck of the Fryrish" , in which Fry looks for his seven-leaf clover and learns about his brother); and Best Male Voice Performance (John Dimaggio, as Bender, in "Bendless Love", in which Bender and his nemesis Flexo vie for the love of Bending robot Angleyne).
The Simpsons won the award for Best Animated TV series, as it has every single year.
By the way, Futurama also won a primetime Emmy Award this year -- an individual animation award presented to one of our outstanding storyboard artists, Rodney Clouden.
- We have finished writing and recording 18 episodes for season 4. In all, 72 episodes of the show have now been produced or are currently in production. Lots of great ones are in the works. Upcoming guest stars include Coolio, Sigourney Weaver, Hank Aaron, Al Gore (in his 2nd appearance -- perhaps he'll become a regular?), and, in an episode that will likely be our season finale in May, all of the following: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols (also making her 2nd appearance). Yowza!
> Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > show.
> - Futurama's ridiculously late season premiere will be Sunday, Dec. 9th at 7 PM > (6 PM Central/Mountain) on Fox. The episode is "Roswell that Ends Well", in > which the crew accidentally travels back through time and crash-lands in > Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. It's our first time travel episode, unless you > count Fry freezing his way through a thousand years. The episode turned out > great, I think -- it's definitely one of my favorites so far.
> - A one-hour Xmas double-feature is currently scheduled for Sunday, December > 23rd from 9 to 10 PM (in the X-Files' usual slot). It will start with a re-run > of our Xmas show from 2 years ago (featuring John Goodman and Conan O'Brien), > then move along to the "banned" Xmas show from last year, that was never shown > because those guardians of good taste at the Fox Network network decided it was > "inappropriate" for broadcast at 7 PM. You can judge for yourself. It > features Coolio as "Kwanzabot".
Saw that in San Diego and it was very good. The show has been missed.
> Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > show. > [...]
Thanx for these precious informations Ô David X. Cohen ;-) The Broadcast of the banned X-mas episode is an excellent news !
Davidxcohen <davidxco...@aol.com> wrote: > Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > show.
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Thank you very much for your post. It's always great to have people from the show on this NG (Bill Morrison also posted here a while ago). Keep doing the good job on the show.
> "Davidxcohen" <davidxco...@aol.com> a écrit > ... > > Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may > impose). > > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > > show.
> > [...]
> Thanx for these precious informations Ô David X. Cohen ;-) > The Broadcast of the banned X-mas episode is an excellent news !
I think the fact that Futurama grabbed 9pm timeslot for it is pretty interesting news as well. -- Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right.-Dan Quayle
> Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > show.
Thanks for the information. It's nice to know that there are people associated with the show who care enough to keep the fans informed.
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davidxco...@aol.com (Davidxcohen) wrote in message <news:20011126021209.08680.00001551@mb-cs.aol.com>... >It's our first time travel episode, unless you count Fry >freezing his way through a thousand years.
No it isn't, the one I saw on Sky One last night featured Chronoton particles that were causing time to jump forward. The crew gathered them to accelerate the growth of the professor's mutant supermen, and disturbed the space-time continuum in doing so.
>> It's our first time travel episode, unless you count Fry >> freezing his way through a thousand years.
> No it isn't, the one I saw on Sky One last night featured Chronoton > particles that were causing time to jump forward. The crew gathered > them to accelerate the growth of the professor's mutant supermen, and > disturbed the space-time continuum in doing so.
> Phil.
Everyone moved ahead in time. Time travel requires certain elements travel through it, not all elements. Otherwise, we're all time traveling right now.
g...@snark.freeserve.co.uk (Phil Hibbs) wrote in message <news:a9ec249e.0111300257.74970d28@posting.google.com>... > No it isn't, the one I saw on Sky One last night featured Chronoton > particles that were causing time to jump forward. The crew gathered > them to accelerate the growth of the professor's mutant supermen, and > disturbed the space-time continuum in doing so.
If I recall correctly, the episode with Al Gore, Gary Gygax, and Stephen Hawking involved traveling back to the time when Fry fell into the cryogenic chamber.
> > No it isn't, the one I saw on Sky One last night featured Chronoton > > particles that were causing time to jump forward. The crew gathered > > them to accelerate the growth of the professor's mutant supermen, and > > disturbed the space-time continuum in doing so.
> If I recall correctly, the episode with Al Gore, Gary Gygax, and > Stephen Hawking involved traveling back to the time when Fry fell into > the cryogenic chamber.
>>> It's our first time travel episode, unless you count Fry >>> freezing his way through a thousand years.
>> No it isn't, the one I saw on Sky One last night featured Chronoton >> particles that were causing time to jump forward. The crew gathered >> them to accelerate the growth of the professor's mutant supermen, and >> disturbed the space-time continuum in doing so.
>> Phil.
> Everyone moved ahead in time. Time travel requires certain elements travel > through it, not all elements. Otherwise, we're all time traveling right > now.
We are traveling through time right now. It's just at a boring, uncontrollable, one second per one second pace.
>We are traveling through time right now. It's just at a boring, >uncontrollable, one second per one second pace.
>DGH
It's very (VERY!) slightly slower than that, due to the presence of gravitational fields. Also, there have been experiments that managed to distort time by moving one atomic clock very fast and leaving one relatively stationary. If you stay in a very high speed plane, you should be able to jump forward 1000 years in about 999.9999999999 years.
Probably not going to help with the boredom, but if you do the calculations very carefully, your daily life will seem relatively less boring. That's why it's called relativity.
<tabacco_cats.ucsc....@afakedomain.com> wrote: >>Or do we just need to beat some Fox execs around the head with a cluebat? :)
>>"Hundsfurtz" <hundsfu...@NOSPAMlasvegas.com> wrote in message >>news:u1uk2u4gb86aau95v00sjc7vm8sih7fted@4ax.com... >>> There seems to be nothing that terrible in the show which would cause >>> it to be held back for a year.
>>> A suggestion was put forth that perhaps some segments were cut and >>> substituted in the actual show that was broadcast.
>>> Would you please comment on this, or perhaps enlighten us as to what >>> was so horrific that Fox held the show back?
Davidxcohen wrote: > Greetings, Futurama fans of Earth (and Simpsonians as well, if I may impose). > David X. Cohen here, Executive Producer of Futurama, with an update on the > show.
> - Futurama's ridiculously late season premiere will be Sunday, Dec. 9th at 7 PM > (6 PM Central/Mountain) on Fox. The episode is "Roswell that Ends Well", in > which the crew accidentally travels back through time and crash-lands in > Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. It's our first time travel episode, unless you > count Fry freezing his way through a thousand years. The episode turned out > great, I think -- it's definitely one of my favorites so far.
> - A one-hour Xmas double-feature is currently scheduled for Sunday, December > 23rd from 9 to 10 PM (in the X-Files' usual slot). It will start with a re-run > of our Xmas show from 2 years ago (featuring John Goodman and Conan O'Brien), > then move along to the "banned" Xmas show from last year, that was never shown > because those guardians of good taste at the Fox Network network decided it was > "inappropriate" for broadcast at 7 PM. You can judge for yourself. It > features Coolio as "Kwanzabot".
> - Some recent recognition for the show: Futurama won 2 of the 3 Annie Awards it > was nominated for at the annual "Annie" animation awards ceremony in Los > Angeles a couple of weeks ago. These were: Best Writing in an animated TV show > (Ron Weiner, for "The Luck of the Fryrish" , in which Fry looks for his > seven-leaf clover and learns about his brother); and Best Male Voice > Performance (John Dimaggio, as Bender, in "Bendless Love", in which Bender and > his nemesis Flexo vie for the love of Bending robot Angleyne).
> The Simpsons won the award for Best Animated TV series, as it has every single > year.
> By the way, Futurama also won a primetime Emmy Award this year -- an individual > animation award presented to one of our outstanding storyboard artists, Rodney > Clouden.
> - We have finished writing and recording 18 episodes for season 4. In all, 72 > episodes of the show have now been produced or are currently in production. > Lots of great ones are in the works. Upcoming guest stars include Coolio, > Sigourney Weaver, Hank Aaron, Al Gore (in his 2nd appearance -- perhaps he'll > become a regular?), and, in an episode that will likely be our season finale in > May, all of the following: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Walter > Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols (also making her 2nd appearance). Yowza!
