I Think I've Figured Out the Futurama Right's Issue...

neuroheart wrote:

efin98 wrote:
Firefly had a constant timeslot...

You're joking.

September 20 (Train Job; the second episode produced)
September 27 (Bushwhacked; the third episode produced)
October 4 (Our Mrs. Reynolds; the sixth episode produced)
October 11 Baseball game
October 18 (Jaynestown; the seventh episode produced) (ratings have dropped by nearly a million viewers)
October 25 (Out of Gas; the eighth episode produced)
November 1 (Shindig; the fourth episode produced)
November 8 (Safe; the fifth episode produced)
November 15 (Ariel; the ninth episode produced)
November 22 an Adam Sandler movie is run
November 29 The made-for-tv movie "Brady Bunch in the White House"is run.
December 6 (War Stories; the tenth episode produced) (ratings have dropped by nearly a million viewers. Have we spotted the pattern yet of what happens when it's not on every week?)
December 13 (Objects in Space; the thirteenth episode produced) (show has already been cancelled)
December 20 (Serenity; the original pilot)

So, not only was it not aired consistently, it was not aired in order.
But I'm sure the network had nothing to do with that, either.

With all due respect Neuroheart, I believe you are mistaking two different things for one another. What was aired and when the show was aired is two different things.

The time slot, that slice of time when the show airs, never changed during the show's brief run. It aired at exactly the same time during its brief run. I know this for a fact because I watched several of them myself when they aired as I was a fan of the other show that aired after it, John Doe.


But getting on point and ending this I go back again to the video game issue. Futuruama had a video game released in 2003 that was a flop, but it was still released. The company that published it went out of business and there hasn't been any video games released since. This company could still hold the rights to a Futurama game, and this company may not want to give up the rights even if it doesn't exist except on paper. If/when the rights expire, then we could see the characters in the game...

Another theory: maybe the co-creator doesn't want them in the game? Or they are having a problem integrating them into the game without using the work of a writer or having an issue with a writer? Or maybe it's all a red herring and the characters were never going to be involved in the game except as a way to make people talk about the show.