November/December 2007
Futurama's Big Score
The return of Futurama.
After a four-year absence, Futurama, the Harvard-influenced animated sitcom set a thousand years in the future, is back: On November 27, Fox is releasing the first of four new DVDs of the Emmy-winning satire. Debuting in 1999, Futurama was developed by Simpsons creator Matt Groening and computer-scientist-turned-comedy-writer David Cohen. Over the next five years, a dozen fellow Harvard grads helped write and produce the show. They were not your typical screenwriters: Two have Ph.Ds, one has a J.D., and four have A.M.s. Ken Keeler, who wrote two of the films, has a doctorate in applied mathematics. “Basically, I can do more than one thing,” Keeler says, “and most of the people I know can do more than one thing.” After 72 episodes, Fox cancelled Futurama in 2003, but the show enjoyed strong DVD sales, prompting the network to commission the new films. Once the DVDs are released, the films will air on Comedy Central as 16 episodes.
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