| HISTORY OF FUTURAMA |
| Futurama was created by Matt Groening, who was also of course responsible for The Simpsons, as a follow-up to the super-long-running, smash-hit animated series. To its fans, Futurama is one of the funniest things on TV, and I think that for humour and satire, Futurama at its best matches anything The Simpsons has done. |
| Futurama premiered on 28 March 1999 on Fox Television in North America, with the first episode Space Pilot 3000, when Fry is cryogenically frozen and awakes on 31 December 2999. Its first run on Fox lasted 9 episodes, but season 2 (1999-2000) was 20 eps long and put Futurama on the map as a potential long-running animation. But - what now? Fox have seemingly ended it. There are protests and petitions signed by about 4 billion people to try to get the show back, but it seems like it's over. |
| The digital satellite channel Sky One, who premiere most US series in Britain, were the first to show Futurama, a few months after it was shown in the States. Now they're showing the fourth season. Commercial broadcaster Channel 4 has the terrestrial TV rights to Futurama, and showed the first 13 episodes in 2000, and the next 16 in 2001. BUT! Since the beginning, they have been cutting certain 'offensive' segments out of the show: giving their viewers the impression of what was going on, but leaving some parts of the programme unseen by the majority of British Futurama viewers (because more see it on C4 than on Sky). |
| So, because I want to show everyone what they've been missing (for no financial gain, may I add), I've started Futurama Cuts, as a list of the parts of Futurama that have been censored! How useful. |
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| FUTURAMA - WHERE & WHEN each season was shown in the US and GB SEASON 1 2 3 4 5 Fox scumbags (US) Mar 1999 Sep 1999 Nov 2000 Dec 2001 Nov 2002 Sky One (GB) 1999 2000 2001 mid-2002 mid-2003 Channel 4 (GB) late 2000 Jul 2001 late 2002 early 2004 |