The End of the Future

Posted on May 15, 2003 by Gene

Fox announced its fall lineup today, and Futurama is officially, finally, history.
I hate Fox.
According to some reckonings, there are at least 6 completed episodes which still have not aired, some of which are from the first few seasons.
Fox actually cancelled production of the show some time ago, and because they have a habit of only showing a minimum number of episodes each year, they have been sliding by on the backlog.
Since then, according to gotfuturama.com, the following things have happened:

- FOX keeps pre-empting Futurama, ending season 4 after no more than 12 episodes.
- Futurama’s Roswell that Ends well is nominated for the Emmy and wins it, too.
- Season 2 DVDs are released in Europe – a huge success.
- The Animation Writing Award goes to Futurama producer/writer Patric Verrone.
- Futurama McSeason 5 starts and only gets to show 8 episodes in the traditional season time.
- Futurama gets two Annie nominations and wins one for director Rich Moore.
- Cartoon Network starts airing Futurama late the evening – with huge success for the station.
- Futurama Executive Producer gets a Writers Guild of America Award nomination and beats KotH and 3 Simpsons episodes to it.
- Season 1 is dispatched on DVD in the USA – and about everyone gives it great reviews (scifi.com as the latest).