[Baron MacDoblin]

Well ... no, not yet, anyway ... however ...

Mike Lazzo, Spokesman for Cartoon Network
Family Guy has sold a large number of DVDs for FOX, so there has been interest to a degree in that property. We've been talking for months about that type of thing [a joint effort] with FOX. [...] There hasn't been an equivalent situation with Futurama to date. It did quite well on DVD but didn’t sell the numbers that Family Guy sold.

You can find it in-context here.

In other news, VOTE FOR FUTURAMA ON THE COMMIES! Go to http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/commies/poll.jhtml?catid=18 , even though the link seems to be dead! Do your patriotic duty as citizens of Earth! Do it unless you want that horribly unsatisfying season finale to be all there is!

[Stryke 9]

Don't you love how TV has to be so bland that everyone likes it passably or it gets scratched?


Incidentially, that article raises a good question. How in the holy ****ing **** did King of the Hill manage to get better ratings than Futurama or Family Guy? It's worse than either in every measurable category except that it panders shamelessly to the hick demographic. Are rednecks really that much of a driving force in TV?

[aldo_14]

Well, they do run the country.........

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]'Lookie maw, we's on t.v.',
'Shut up George'.
[/color]

[aldo_14]

hyuck

[diamondgeezer]

uh-huh

[01010]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Don't you love how TV has to be so bland that everyone likes it passably or it gets scratched?


Incidentially, that article raises a good question. How in the holy ****ing **** did King of the Hill manage to get better ratings than Futurama or Family Guy? It's worse than either in every measurable category except that it panders shamelessly to the hick demographic. Are rednecks really that much of a driving force in TV?

Why was Family Guy even cancelled? That show is so ****ing funny it hurts to watch it sometimes. Though rumours abound that astoundingly high DVD sales on that are going to result in a new series, I can only hope.

[Stryke 9]

No clue, I thought it kicked ass, too. Except that damn baby took all my really good ideas. Anyway, at least it didn't last to become some washed-out corporate whore; Simpsons, for example, definitely hit a permanent dry spell a few years back.

[01010]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
No clue, I thought it kicked ass, too. Except that damn baby took all my really good ideas. Anyway, at least it didn't last to become some washed-out corporate whore; Simpsons, for example, definitely hit a permanent dry spell a few years back.

I'd still rather watch The Simpsons over anything on T.V now, such is a testament to its quality. I just think they've run out of ideas now.

Family guy though, any cartoon that could (potentially) offend every single demographic that watches it is special and I love it so much, it's like The Simpsons on crack and speed and a wee smidgen of acid, thrown in a blender with all of the most un-P.C things you can think of and boiled to make a nice thick goo.

Actually, I started watching South Park again after a long period of losing interest (halfway through season 3) and I was suprised at how funny (and downright nasty) the later seasons have become.

[diamondgeezer]

You know the new series of Transformers and HeMan both suck

[Skaarj]

yeah the new series of Transformers is to lack of a better word NICE, i h8 those kids! in it, and dont get me started on the Robots in disguise series that was on cartoon network!, they should of kept it like the original or beast machines thats was good and was "dark".

Now why was Futurama canned? i thought it was doing well, well at least in the UK? i thought i was a really entertaining and funny,

[diamondgeezer]

I heard it suffered S:AAB's fate - Fox kept putting it on at funny times then wondering why viewing figures were plummeting...

[Baron MacDoblin]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I heard it suffered S:AAB's fate - Fox kept putting it on at funny times then wondering why viewing figures were plummeting...

“Futurama had a loyal, but a relatively small core audience,” Grogin said. “It connected very strongly with 18-34 year old men, but it didn’t do so well with 12-17 year olds and it didn’t appeal to women at all – very similar to The Family Guy, by the way. By comparison, The Simpsons has high demographics across the board.”

“It happens all the time: great little shows just tend to get lost,” explains Lazzo. “Audiences are fickle and you have to have a critical mass there or it just doesn’t make sense for the programmer to stick with it. Very often shows are stopped before they can find that audience. It’s a sad state of affairs, but I understand why it happens.”

Unless viewers make an effort or have the luck to revisit a series after it’s worked out its early kinks or moved around the schedule, the networks will take it as a rejection on the audience’s part. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that usually ends with (in the eyes of the show’s partisans) a premature cancellation. Anyone (like this author) who watched Futurama get pre-empted week after week by lengthy football telecasts or double runs of The Simpsons can tell when a network has given up on a series long before it actually leaves the air.

[Ulala]

Beast Machines transformers or whatever it was back in the day was so 1337. That was one of my favorite shows.. and anyone remember that old cg show Reboot? I don't remember much about it except that I liked it a lot when I was a kid... err.. guess I still am a kid since I'd watch Beast Machines if I could.
Also, when FOX puts shows at whacked out times or Friday night, I swear they just go off the air. I dunno, the average family maybe used to watch tv on Friday night (in America anyway, dunno how it goes anywhere else) with TGIF and all that crap back in the day.. but seriously, when they put a good show that I like on Friday at 9:00 pm, I don't get to watch it and then it gets cancelled like a month later. I swear I've seen it happen to at least 3 good shows. Makes me angry.. put the crap on Friday nights!!
Sorry, kinda went off there...

[Bobboau]

next thing you know they'll be bringing Zim back into production