Simpsorama

bluyoshi88810 wrote:
If Family Guy can have an American Dad! event, why can't The Simpsons do a small Futurama tie-in? I understand TQFS is supposed to be more irrelevant so they're allowed to have more random characters, but Seth McFarlane also created both FG and AD. If they can't do a tie-in, why not give Futurama it's own tapped-out style game?

I dont know how theyd do a Futurama game, most of the show takes place off world. It'd be tricky to build and expand.

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

neuroheart wrote:

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

If they held an actual ownership stake in the show that would make sense but they only hold only the syndication rights to the show. Everything else is still held by Fox and Goening, and Groening holds all of the creative rights making anything involving the show directly involve him.

rasmusreckew wrote:

roxypup wrote:
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lol. i didn't even read the thread, but this is how i feel if Futurama is coming to TSTO.

panopticnic wrote:
whatever they do I hope it isn't needed to move on or anything. I don't want Futurama Characters in my SF.

Agree. But I wouldn't be against them making it available for premium purchase - just don't require anyone to get it in order to progress through the levels if they'd rather only have Simpsons content.

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

... they only hold only the syndication rights to the show.

That's not true. The last three (or was it two?) seasons of the show were made by Comedy Central. (They also aired the movies before picking up the show for new episodes.) As far as I know, those episodes never aired on Fox.

neuroheart wrote:

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

... they only hold only the syndication rights to the show.

That's not true. The last three seasons of the show were made by Comedy Central. (They also aired the movies before picking up the show for new episodes.) As far as I know, those episodes never aired on Fox.

Fox as in 20th Century Fox, not the Fox TV network. Comedy Central paid for the rights to air the show after the show's contract with Adult Swim/Turner ended 12/31/2008. They also paid for the exclusive rights to new episodes to first air on their network, but they don't actually own the show- it's still owned by Groening and Fox. At some point their license expires as it did with Adult Swim/Turner and another network could pick up the rights.

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

... they only hold only the syndication rights to the show.

That's not true. The last three seasons of the show were made by Comedy Central. (They also aired the movies before picking up the show for new episodes.) As far as I know, those episodes never aired on Fox.

Fox as in 20th Century Fox, not the Fox TV network. Comedy Central paid for the rights to air the show after the show's contract with Adult Swim/Turner ended 12/31/2008. They also paid for the exclusive rights to new episodes to first air on their network, but they don't actually own the show- it's still owned by Groening and Fox. At some point their license expires as it did with Adult Swim/Turner and another network could pick up the rights.

Well, it must be causing some kind of issue, or there wouldn't be any discussion of legal rights being an obstacle.

neuroheart wrote:

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

efin98 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

ZennGlenn wrote:
...This is All Fox property

Actually, Comedy Central/Viacom have had the rights to Futurama for the past several years. I'm sure this is where at least some of the problems lie.

... they only hold only the syndication rights to the show.

That's not true. The last three seasons of the show were made by Comedy Central. (They also aired the movies before picking up the show for new episodes.) As far as I know, those episodes never aired on Fox.

Fox as in 20th Century Fox, not the Fox TV network. Comedy Central paid for the rights to air the show after the show's contract with Adult Swim/Turner ended 12/31/2008. They also paid for the exclusive rights to new episodes to first air on their network, but they don't actually own the show- it's still owned by Groening and Fox. At some point their license expires as it did with Adult Swim/Turner and another network could pick up the rights.

Well, it must be causing some kind of issue, or there wouldn't be any discussion of legal rights being an obstacle.

That is assuming that's the actual issue and not something else, like Mr. Groening not approving of the storyline or some other issue. But even if that were the issue it wouldn't affect the pre-"season 5" episodes.