From the SciFi.com website:

Fox Open To More Futurama

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/graphics/P.gif eter Liguori, president, entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Co., told reporters he's leaving the door open to resurrecting the canceled SF animated series Futurama. Liguori, speaking in a news conference at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., referred to the network's decision last year to bring back Family Guy after the show became a hit on DVD.

"There's no doubt that the Family Guy model worked outstandingly," Liguori said. "It's great to be a network exec and have a decision made for you by the audience."

Liguori added: "In terms of Futurama, there haven't really been any active negotiations at this point. But I'd be an ostrich to just stick my head in the dirt and not realize what's going on with Futurama as well."

Variety reported earlier that initial talks were underway between the production company, 20th Century Fox TV, and producers of the show, about a 21st-century guy who is frozen and wakes up in the year 3000. The show has sold well on DVD.

Before Futurama comes back into being, 20th first must secure deals with the show's production team, as well as voice stars including Billy West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela) and John DiMaggio (Bender), the trade paper reported. It's also unclear where Futurama would end up if it is revived.

That is great news except that the show peaked with "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". After that the show simply tanked....

;)

José

I really wanted to like Futurama, I always thought The Simpsons was a seriously underated show. But while Futurama looked better than The Simpsons, it just never seemed quite as funny. It had it's moments though, and I loved the theme song.

Futurama is just one of those odd things - the more I watch it, the funnier it gets. Some of the episodes are funnier the 5th time than the 1st time. Not sure why, exactly, it's not the world's most complex humor.

I agree.
Just got done watching another rerun on the Cartoon Network.

I love the show when it was still on, and still love it now.

Over on TrekBBS they're reporting that the final destination will be a series of four direct-to-DVD 2-hour movies.

This would be nice, but how about bringing The Critic back to television? Ahhh-acckum!

Futurama seems dated now, with all the references to late 1990's stuff.

I loved it! Great stuff, some if it had me LMAO. It was the kind of humor that would be funnier the more you thought about it and then they'd often build on that one joke to make it all the more funny.

I'd love to see it come back as a series.

Mee too! I'll watch the reruns over & over again on Cartoon network. It would be easy enough to pick up where the series left off & just do more current humor.