Futurama Debuts on Comedy Central

NEW YORK, December 18: Comedy Central will air Matt
Groening’s Emmy Award-winning animated series Futurama, beginning Monday, January 2, 2008, at 8 p.m.

The network will broadcast all 72 existing episodes, as well
as four Futurama DVD movies: Bender’s
Big Score, Bender’s Game, The Beast with a Billion Backs and Into the Wild Green Yonder. Bender’s Big Score, released on DVD this year, will air in the first
quarter of 2008.

Futurama follows the
life of Phillip Fry (voiced by Billy West), a 25-year-old pizza delivery boy
who accidentally freezes himself on December 31, 1999. He wakes up 1,000 years
later and has a new start at life and new friends: Turanga LeeLa (Katey Sagal),
a tough, but lovely one-eyed alien, and Bender (John DiMaggio), a robot who
possesses human characteristics and flaws. The show also features guest stars
such as Sarah Silverman, Hank Azaria, Bob Odenkirk, Pamela Anderson, Beatrice
Arthur, Lucy Liu, Beck and Coolio.

The series, which aired on FOX from 1999 to 2003, was
nominated five years in a row and won three Emmys, including the award for
outstanding animated program in 2002. It is produced and distributed by
Twentieth Century Fox Television. The show is created and executive produced by
Matt Groening with co-executive producers David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler and Eric Horsted.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski