New 'Futurama' Update

The original cast will return to the new series of Futurama!

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'Futurama' without original voices?

When “Futurama” returns to TV next year, it may be without the show’s original voice cast.

Talks have broken down between 20th Century Fox TV and stars Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille over how much they should be paid to take part in the show.

The studio announced last month that it would produce 26 new episodes of “Futurama,” with Comedy Central onboard to begin airing the new episodes in mid-2010. As part of the announcement, the show’s producers said stars including West, Sagal and DiMaggio had all signed on to return.

Turns out that wasn’t true.


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'My Name Is Earl' - canceled

My Name Is Earl has officially been canceled. I guess it had to happen sooner than later since FOX produced it, they sure do like to cancel shows!

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The Cleveland Show

Recently announced by the FOX network, The Cleveland Show will coming to a screen near you in 2009. As you've probably guessed its a Family Guy spin-off and will likely be a rip of The Cosby Show but with the addition of Seth MacFarlane's twisted sense of humour.

Looking at the only picture available at the moment it seems Cleveland now has three kids (including a black version of Stewie and Chris Griffin) and a new wife. He has white neighbours (probably British or German at a guess) on one side so expect a load of racial humour and on the other side it looks like the neighbours are massive guinea pigs that probably talk. What's that about?

Family Guy is a very hit and miss show for me. Don't get me wrong, when the jokes and flashbacks seem relevant its hilarious but its just not consistently good when compared to South Park for example, one of my most favourite comedies.

Cleveland isn't my most favourite character from Family Guy (I really don't like the slow and boring way he speaks) but I'm willing to give the pilot episode a chance when it becomes available next year.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

I'm happy to say that 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' has made it onto the Fox network after 2007's pilot. How long it will air for before Fox pulls the plug is another thing!

I've watched episode 2 (through some dodgy video streaming site) and it looks like the show could get pretty interesting if allowed to develop.

Like the Terminator films, there's always someone sent back to protect the person the Terminator is after. From the pilot we already know that Sarah & John have their own terminator (called Cameron) already protecting them but it now appears (from watching episode 2) that there are also several resistant fighters from the future living as sleeper cells, awaiting for the day when the shit hits the fan. Sarah had already met one of them without knowing, a guy who taught her how to use guns, I thought that was a kinda cool and ties in with the original story set after the original Terminator movie.

I'll be on the lookout for the next episode.