Excitement blends with anticipatory exhaustion as the first TV panels announcement for Comic-Con 2013 has appeared. This year, 20th Century Fox Television gets the nod for First Post, with newbie How I Met Your Mother saying Hi and Bye, and [...]
Read more20th Century Fox Television has announced its 2012 Comic-Con schedule, which we therefore present to you here. Not that they're offering much that we cover here at SciFi Mafia, except for one of my top two shows. HEY WAIT A [...]
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And just in time for the holidays. Whew! December 20 marks the release date of Futurama Volume 6 in DVD and Blu-ray, and about time, too. Two discs, thirteen episodes including the triply delicious OMG-this-is-so-great season-ending previewed-at-Comic-Con “Reincarnation”. The bonus [...]
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Yay, it’s here, it’s finally here! Okay, sorry, backing up. The season 6 finale of Futurama airs September 8 - tonight! - with an episode entitled “Reincarnation.” The brief description: “Futurama is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, [...]
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The Futurama panel was a shipful o’ fun. Panelists were Matt Groening, Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio. It started with a clip of the finale – started at the wrong speed, “awkward” but fixed – and YOU MUST [...]
Read moreWhew! We made it through the lean days of programming between the end of May sweeps and the beginning of the Summer Season. We’ve now had the recent premieres of Falling Skies (TNT Sundays at 10/9c), Teen Wolf (MTV Mondays [...]
Read moreGreat news, Futurama fans! According to sources close to the production, Comedy Central has renewed the animated series for an additional two years of thirteen episodes each, keeping the show on air through 2013. Futurama returns this June with all [...]
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Tonight’s episode of Futurama will reveal a “scarily accurate” parody of what Comic-Con may be like in the future. Guest starring in this episode are the voices of show creator Matt Groening, executive producer David X. Cohen, MAD Magazine cartoonist [...]
Read moreThursday, July 22 12:00-1:00: Caprica, Battlestar, and Beyond— Hosted by actor/author Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek, Capt. Apollo, So Say We All), this panel features composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar, Eureka, Caprica), producer/writer Michael Tayler (Battlestar, Caprica, Star [...]
Read moreThe eagerly awaited return of the animated series “Futurama” on Comedy Central this June has garnered strong ratings. It logged 2.9 million viewers last week and snagged the crown for the network’s winning show among young men for Thursdays as [...]
Read moreThank Comedy Central for resurrecting the animated series “Futurama” tonight. The sixth season premiere is tonight and features the original voice cast, including Billy West (who voices Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan), Katey Sagal (who voices Leela), John [...]
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Are you up to speed on the return of “Futurama”? Show co-creator David X. Cohen spells it out for you here in a quick crib sheet of facts on the new season of the animated series that premieres tonight on [...]
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