More Futurama in our future?

Good news everyone!

There had been rumblings about it and it appears that FOX Home Video is giving great consideration towards bringing back the animated series Futurama with straight-to-DVD movies. Voice talent Billy West confirmed on his web-site yesterday:

Top of the morning to you---and the rest of the day to myself. Ladies and gentlemen, boisenberries, pestals and stamens.... there's encouraging news.
Well, I spoke to David X.Cohen because we did promos for a new Futurama compilation and he said that they did have talks with the top guys at FOX and they were extremely impressed with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. The idea was to make a Futurama movie right to DVD and then a 2nd and a 3rd. That's what's being discussed. Fox is trying to figure out a budget for the whole project, and it sounded like David X. was very jazzed!
I would love more than anything to do that show again. I thought it was best experience on every level... creatively, voice-wise, writing, animation and the laughs. The laughs. Writers and performers that respected each other.
No derelict genius looking down the barrel of his own complacency wrecking everything in his wake.
Wouldn't it be nice?
A great day to be us. What's better than that?

Bye all,
Billy

FOX does not have a great track record with their animation series. Nor any series for that matter. But Family Guy and Futurama both went through the ringers a couple times and both still proved to be fan favorites and very profitable when it came time for their DVD releases. I love Futurama and this news bring great joy. Huzzah!

via RottenTomatoes.com