| FUTURAMA SEASON 4 ON CHANNEL 4 24 January 2004 It's a case of good news and bad news for C4 Futurama viewers; as 2004 begins, Channel 4 UK have finally found time in their schedule, among the reality shows and Friends repeats, for the fourth season of Futurama (having shown season 3 as far back as autumn 2002). That's good! Unfortunately, it's been given a time slot after 1am on Friday nights. That's bad. I know "late night Futurama fest" sounds cool (to an uncool individual like me, anyway), and we can always tape it, but it's still a shame, and an inevitable result of scheduling; Futurama just cannot be shown between 7pm and midnight, because that's prime time and apparently we, the public, expect popular programmes like Home Garden Relocation Decorating Challenge, and Wife Swap. C4 do show US imports like The Osbournes, Friends and Scrubs (anything with a pluralised name, really) on Friday evenings, but I can't imagine Futurama being given that kind of time slot, even if its name was changed to Futuramas. So, many possible new fans will be lost. On the plus side, there won't be any cuts. In season 3, even though it was shown at 18:30 on weekdays, there was a massive reduction in censoring episodes, and whenever Channel 4 have shown Futurama repeats at night, they've been uncut. I wouldn't expect any different from this new series, so I won't be updating the site weekly like I did for season 3 in 2002. |
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