No strangers to voice work, television’s dynamic duo will lend those famous voices to Futurama in its upcoming, and sadly final, season. Adam West, who can regularly be found as Mayor West on Family Guy, and Burt Ward, who appeared with West in a 2002 episode of The Simpsons, will play themselves in the usual Futurama fashion of heads in jars. But just check out the cool bodies they get along with those jars,

West with the body of a giant bat and Ward with that very familiar, tri-color scheme; I love it! And I’m so glad the two got to record a guest stint before Futurama went off the air, again, and for what looks to be the last time. Their episode will air August 7th and is titled, “Leela and the Genestalk“.

Futurama returns to Comedy Central on June 19th at 10/9c.

Source: Comedy Central via Comics Alliance

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While many of us are still coping with the cancellation of Futurama, for the second time in our lives, there’s still lots to look forward to in the coming season. Futurama returns on June 19th with 12 more episodes, and in the second to last episode Game of Thrones‘ own Mother of Dragons, Emilie Clarke is guest-starring!

Her role will be as a flower stand owner with no sense of smell who falls in love with Dr. Zoidberg. Yes, after years of disaster in love – or really any kind of relationship – Zoidberg finally catches a break. Executive producer David X. Cohen puts it like this,

She falls in love with Dr. Zoidberg — the smelliest character on Earth in the future — but she can’t smell him, so it’s a match made in heaven. However, being a doctor, he has the opportunity to perform a nose transplant and give her a sense of smell, which would destroy their romance, so it’s a big dilemma.

A dilemma indeed! Come on, give Zoidberg his happy ending before the series ends Sept. 4th!

Source: EW via The Mary Sue

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Recent NerdBastards interviewee Chris Hardwick is well on his way to becoming the most successful celebrity nerd this side of Simon Pegg.

Hardwick started in stand-up comedy before co-hosting MTV‘s Singled Out with Jenny McCarthy. Later, he began what is easily the most well-known nerd podcast in existence: The Nerdist, which is now also a talk show on BBC America. For 2 years he did Web Soup for G4, and on AMC he hosts The Talking Dead, a panel show that focuses exclusively on the popular zombie drama.

This fall Hardwick will begin hosting what Deadline describes as a “comedic panel show that will utilize social media participation” with Funny Or Die and Reno 911! creators Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant on Comedy Central. The as yet untitled late night show will air 4 nights a week after The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

This looks to be not only a new kind of show for Comedy Central, but a new kind of late night talk show: A genre that has not often been known to cater to nerddom.

We will, naturally, keep you posted on any developments.

Source: Screenrant

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Sigh. Yes, you read that right. Futurama has been cancelled. Again. Or rather, Comedy Central has decided – with heavy fuckin’ hearts I hope – to not renew the series after its seventh season; the second half of which is airing this summer beginning June 19 at 10 p.m. This “cancellation” isn’t anything new to long time fans of Futurama – a series that’s been revived three times – and there’s still a glimmer of hope this isn’t truly the end.

Executive producer David X. Cohen and creator Matt Groening spoke exclusively to Entertainment Weekly about the decision and how neither are all that shocked. “It was what I had expected two years earlier,” said Cohen, “At this point I keep a suitcase by my office door so I can be cancelled at a moment’s notice.”

Groening added,

We’ve been in this situation before and it’s tempting when you’re doing episodes that are as good or better than anything you’ve ever done to continue doing it. We’re catching our breath and seeing what the fans have to say. The experience of this show has been so much fun from the very beginning to now — everybody is so happy to work on this show — that it’d be a shame if we all went our separate ways… We would love to continue. We have many more stories to tell. But if we don’t, this is a really great way to go out… I think these episodes are the best ones we’ve ever done.

Dave Bernath, Comedy Central’s EVP of Programming, explains the non-renewal as, “the natural end” to the series’ string of comebacks.

That’s a helluva run that few shows achieve, and especially given the fact that it came back to life, it’s really an amazing story. I’m more thankful and feel a sense of gratitude toward the whole process — and that we found a way to keep going for 52 more episodes — than I really am even thinking about the ending. It’s a blessing that it came back and lasted so long.

In the end, the news is bittersweet. You can’t forget the opportunities allowed Futurama – after the Fox cancellation a direct-to-DVD comeback led to two new seasons on Comedy Central – are almost unheard of, but, how many seasons has The Simpson’s lasted? What about Family Guy!? It’s lasted well beyond seven seasons after its initial cancellation. Grr! Argh!

I’m going to remain optimistic. There’s still 13 more episodes coming this year, and from there, who knows!

Groening: Perhaps Futurama will return in another form, on the Internet, or as a puppet show in the park, or maybe as a puppet show in the park on the Internet.

Cohen: As I said three times before, this is definitely the absolute end of the show. I don’t know why nobody believes me when I say that.

Make sure you tune in June 19th! Until then, I’ll just wait here, hopeful for news about Futurama living on, somewhere, somehow.

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If there’s one show that connects with the heart of the nerd/geek community, it’s Futurama. Fry, Leela, Bender, the Professor, Hermes, Amy, and, uh, oh right, Zoidberg; the Planet Express crew is much like the families we all have. Those made through camaraderie, not blood. Well, maybe a little blood. And after being one of the few shows to ever be resurrected from dreaded cancellation they’re all returning for the second half of Season 7 this summer.

Check out this hilarious highlight reel, courtesy of Comedy Central and Vulture,

Fry with rainbow teeth? Leela with tentacles? Two Zoidbergs!? What is going on? And is that the return of Fry’s ever faithful dog, Seymour?

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It’s been 15 years since South Park exploded onto the airwaves (fuck, where did the time go?). Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker must be sick of it by now, right? Seriously, the show has surely run its course, who’s left for them to offend? 

Parker and Stone, have reached a new deal to extend the adventures of the Colorado town well into 2016. Michele Ganeless, president of the network, inked the deal with the pair to air three additional seasons of original episodes from the top-rated Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series.

“The collective genius of Matt and Trey knows no bounds,” said Ganeless. “Week after week and season after season they continue to surprise and delight ‘South Park’ fans, and that includes all of us here at Comedy Central. We’re thrilled that the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman will continue through 2016.”

Parker and Stone will continue to write, direct, edit and executive produce every episode of “South Park,” along with Anne Garefino. Frank C. Agnone II will continue being supervising producer, with Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman as producers.

“Comedy Central has been our home for 15 years  and we love working there,” said Parker and Stone. “‘South Park’ is a blast and we can’t wait to make more.”

We can’t wait either, let’s see how they’ll top this season next year.

Via: Coming Soon

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Saturday is the biggest, bestest day of the Comic-Con. Making it your best chance to play Comic-Con Bingo! These cards from Comedy Central are the perfect time-waster when you’re standing in line. And even though I’m not at Comic-Con, I know standing in line is all part of the fun. Or should I say, “fun.”

I think the toughest thing to find will be an excited goth, but you know what will be really easy, a grown man posing with toys or a slutty furry or a humongous sword or anyone blogging or, wait, I think all of these should be pretty easy to find. Get crackin’! And tweet your best squares to @CCinsider and feel free to share with us either in the comments or @nerdbastards.

source: TDW: Geeks

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What will you be doing tonight at 10pm, eastern time? Watching the premiere of new Futurama, right? You damn well better be. We nerds have worked too hard to stop our beloved animated program from disappearing, we can’t drop the ball now. Everyone should be watching tonight in the hopes we can top the numbers of their big return to television last year, which brought in 3 million viewers! Futurama currently has over 14 million fans on Facebook so if even half of those fans watch the not one, but two new episodes tonight Futurama will set records.

Tonight starts the second half of season six with 13 episodes, completing the full order of 26. Comedy Central has already, smartly, ordered another 26 episodes which will air in two chunks keeping us hopped up on Bender into 2013. Below we’ve got some special sneak peak clips of the upcoming episodes just in case you were considering skipping out. Which you weren’t, right? Good.

Let’s recap, new Futurama tonight, 10pm (e) on Comedy Central. There will not only one but two new episodes, so that’s a whole hour of new Futurama. You better be there, or it’s some terrible level of robot hell for you. Most likely with singing.

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Futurama is the little, nerdy show that won’t die. Well, it has died before. So I guess that makes it the little, nerdy-zombie show that won’t die. Which is way cooler anyhow. And unlike other re-animated animated series ::cough::FamilyGuy::cough::, Futurama only gets better with every new episode. Comedy Central has renewed the show for two more years with a total of 26 new episodes ordered. Hooray! The whole Planet Express crew will be back in our hearts and on our TV screens. Even Zoidberg!

News broke a couple days ago out of the mouth of Maurice LaMarche (Kif of the clan, Kroker) to Big Shiny Robot,

Thirteen new episodes have been ordered, with an additional 13 optional. This is apart from the 13 episodes that will air beginning in June, 2011, on Comedy Central. So, yes, they will air in 13 episode blocks (Comedy Central loves those, for some reason), so that means there will be new Futurama in summer of 2012, and most probably in summer of 2013 as well, all off of this one order. Pretty good news, actually, don’tcha think? Because we kind of spread it out, so there are always new episodes to look forward to. That’s how I look at it, anyway.

I’m not complaining, a 13 episode season of Futurama is waaaaaaay better than about 85% of the shit on TV nowadays. Shit TV shows that some channels have the gall to offer over 20 episodes! The nerve. Tune in to Comedy Central this June for Season 6…or is the continuation of Season 5? Or were the movies considered Season 5? The most recent 13 episodes were compiled into Volume 5, sooo, I’m confused. Oh who cares, new Futurama, yay!

source: The Daily What

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While Futurama has been resurrected on Comedy Central and became one of their biggest hits it seems not everyone is a fan. Recently a 22-year-old man was punched in the face when his Zoidberg impression was mistaken for insult. Which is absurd! There is nothing insulting about Zoidberg.

Geekologie reports,

The man told police he was “just playing around” Feb. 11 near King and Calhoun streets when he began imitating Zoidberg. The report says the 22-year-old described Zoidberg as “a lobster doctor that walks sideways with his claws out and makes noise.”

When “Zoidberg” passed another man on the street, the other man reportedly asked, “What did you say to me?” The 22-year-old’s friends pulled him away from the man, “telling him, ‘keep going, he said nothing to you,’ ” according to the report.

The man reportedly followed for about 20 feet and threw the punch. The alleged assailant, who is known by the 22-year-old, reportedly ran away, the report states.

Either the impression really needed some work or walking sideways with your hands in a claw shape and going, “Woop. Woop, woop, woop, woop,” is really offensive to some people.

In related news the official Futurama Facebook page has reached it’s 10 millionth “Like.” Hooray! In celebration of this milestone Comedy Central has blessed us with a gift, two new images from next season of the animated show. From the episode titled “Neutopia” the images features some frightening female versions of Zoidberg and Fry. The Zoidberg one is particularly disturbing. If I saw this thing walking down the street “wooping” and clacking it’s claws I’d probably punch it in the face too. See the images below the cut.

source: Geekologie, Geeks Of Doom

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