Even so, the four-year gap was evident at first: though it ended strongly, this grand re-opening celebration started out a bit uneven. The first of these movies, Bender's Big Score, was released to DVD last November and received generally solid reviews from fans and critics alike (including yours truly).
These negotiations led to the announcement of four direct-to-DVD movies, which would later be reconfigured as sixteen episodes airing on the Comedy Central network. Groening approached the studio in 2006 with a proposal to create a new direct-to-DVD Futurama adventure, paving the way for rumors about a proper weekly revival for the series.
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The series was eventually cancelled in August of 2003, though subsequent DVD releases (broken into four "volumes", due to the erratic broadcast schedule) reinforced Futurama's rabid fanbase.Īs creations like Fox's own Family Guy would prove, strong DVD sales make executives take notice. As the Simpsons machine rolled on, Futurama's timeslot was shuffled around for a time, the series' broadcast directly followed Groening's most famous creation, but it didn't last long.
Not in quality, of course: this tale of a man frozen for a millennium only got funnier as the series progressed, though network support dwindled during its four-year lifespan. It wasn't the first Fox series to be canceled too early (and it certainly won't be the last), but the demise of Matt Groening's Futurama proved to be slow and steady.
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