Joy of joys — Futurama returns! The progressive and utterly subversive brilliance of the Matt Groening-created sci-fi cartoon has been picked up by Comedy Central – the hitmakers responsible for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle’s Show — for 13 episodes. Which is to say, a brand new season!

Futurama was axed after its fourth season, and found a second life in DVD format and in syndication on the also-excellent Adult Swim block on the Cartoon Network. It is not unique in being poorly understood and undervalued by the chronically clueless Fox, which also dumped Family Guy (which was also resurrected following a DVD-sales resurgence; Seth MacFarlane, unfortunately, still receives his paychecks from Fox) and Arrested Development. Fox’s programs and their audiences repeatedly prove themselves smarter and more forward-thinking than the Rupert Murdoch-owned network that initially funded them.

[Link here, via Gizmodo]

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Ok, one last dig at Fox and its hellspawn, Fox (Faux) News … Here’s MSNBC’s liberal commentator Keith Olbermann launching another ball-crushing salvo against Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly.

“Fox’s ratings are lower than they were five years ago. Bill-Oh, 267,000 of your nightly viewers have vanished since last June. Call Fox Security, they are missing,” he noted.

Olbermann also speaks of dropping viewer numbers of other Fox shows, “All eleven of Fox’s regular shows rating are down, four of them are down by 15 percent or more,” noted Olbermann. 

Full text and video here.

[via Huffington Post]