It was one festive occasion at this year's Florida Animation Con.
The cause of celebration was the headliners, many of the key people of "Futurama." This included Billy West (the voice of Fry, Zoidberg and the Professor), John DiMaggio (your ever loving robot pal, Bender), Phil LaMarr (Hermes) and the multi-talented Maurice LaMarche (Kif Kroker, Mordo, you name it). .
Yet the man who ended up the star of the show, when DiMaggio would let him, was David X. Cohen. Co-creator (he prefers "co-developer") and head writer of this Matt Groening-created cartoon confection, this show has come back from the dead more times than any costumed superhero. It currently airs as repeats on Comedy Central. Still, as any hardcore fan knows, and they are apparently as many as the stars in the sky, new episodes are now being produced.
"Over the last couple of years we had four DVD movies which you might have seen," Cohen said, "and it's turned into an order for 26 episodes for Comedy Central. Those are going to begin, I believe, next June. They will probably run 13 this summer, and then run another 13 in 2011. They are stretching it out in the Hamburger Helper style. You will have two new seasons of Futurama."
Backing this up, Cohen then presented a three-minute animatic of the first episode of the new season.
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It's gonna be fun on the bun!!