Futurama Update from David X. Cohen
Davidxcohen
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!
Yours,
-David X. Cohen
Ian Boothby
Davidxcohen <david...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Saw that in San Diego and it was very good. The show has been missed.
Ian Boothby
*****Greg Unit 21*****
...
> 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 !
--
greg
Martin Schmidt
> 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.
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.
BTW, congratulations for the awards.
Michael Zaite
"*****Greg Unit 21*****" <gr...@futurafan.com> wrote in message
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I think the fact that Futurama grabbed 9pm timeslot for it is pretty
interesting news as well.
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I can't wait for the new season!
Luther
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> 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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Paul Hyett
considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -
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>>
>> 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.
I wonder what Sky One will do with it though?
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Phil Hibbs
>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.
petben
g...@snark.freeserve.co.uk wrote on 11/30/01 2:57 AM:
Everyone moved ahead in time. Time travel requires certain elements travel
through it, not all elements. Otherwise, we're all time traveling right
now.
Steve Poole
> 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.
Steve
Bender
of Fry NOT going back in time.
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doug holverson
> From: petben <pet...@pacbell.net>
> Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com
> Newsgroups: alt.tv.futurama
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:33:12 GMT
> Subject: Re: Futurama Update from David X. Cohen
We are traveling through time right now. It's just at a boring,
uncontrollable, one second per one second pace.
DGH
Larry
<glenn-m...@home.com> wrote:
>
>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.
--Larry
Doug Tabacco
"Hundsfurtz" <hunds...@NOSPAMlasvegas.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> Thank you.
Gerald T. Abrahamson
and more appropriate, response, IMO.
Jerry
