Bender and Fry fans rejoice! Futurama is in your future!

Comedy Central has annouced that the network has ordered 26 new (!) episodes of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's intergalactic cartoon for the 2009-2010 season, 6 years after the show went off air.

Bring to mind another certain cartoon comedy reborn in the face of fan demand? Not surprising, since Comedy Central's parent 20th Century Fox TV are also the people who brought back Family Guy.




"When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once in a lifetime thing -- that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived," 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden said in their joint annoucement of the news. "But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell."

Matt Groening added, "We're thrilled Futurama is coming back. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000."

Don't put it past him. Groening's no stranger to the longterm: his behemoth, The Simpsons, just wrapped its 20th season this year, putting it at 441 episodes to date.



-Meghan Carlson, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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