Futurama-ama

An interesting update on the upcoming Futurama revival:

More Futurama In The Future

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening told IFmagazine.com that Fox will produce four direct-to-DVD movies of his Futurama show, with the first, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, due for release in December. The films will then be carved up into 16 episodes of the SF animated series, to begin appearing on Comedy Central starting in 2008, the site reported.

"We're doing four DVD movies, around 90 minutes [each], and then we're going to reconfigure those, and they'll be episodes on Comedy Central," Groening told the site. "The impolite way of saying it is we're chopping them up, and the polite way is to say we're reconfiguring, and we're going to add narration and more stuff. We're going to be doing some fun extras on the DVD show. There's going to be Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad, a whole show of it. The DVDs are going to be self-contained packages, but the episodes will also work, we hope. That's the goal."