Futurama Update II

Finally! An update on exactly what they're doing with Futurama and the "episodes" that will air on Comedy Central. From an interview with Matt Groening at Rotten Tomatoes.

"I was frustrated when it got cancelled, but Fox, 20th Television is the one who came back and said, 'Would you like to do a DVD movie?'" Groening recalled. We said, 'Let's do two' and they said, 'Well, why not three?' and we said, 'Well, why not four?' and they said, 'Okay, four' and then that's it.

"After this, Comedy Central won a bid to air the films as new "Futurama" episodes. "We're writing them as movies and then we're going to chop them up, reconfigure them, write new material and try to make them work as separate episodes. Chopped up is an indelicate way of putting it but we are doing them as movies and then we are reconfiguring them and writing new material and narration and this that and the other so that they'll stand on their own as episodes."

This isn't exactly what I wanted to hear as I'd rather have an ongoing production of new episodes, but hey, it's much, much better than nothing. If the eps do well on Comedy Central, perhaps the show will be picked up.