Distant Early Warning

- OR- the Future of media might be better than I thought...

FINALLY some good news in the way of TV and Movies. I have been
ranting over the last few months that TV cancels good shows and
produces very few - new and good ones. And as far as Hollywood
and movies, they have thrown in the towel with bad choices in
remakes and lame movies in general. So I bring you the good news:


FUTURAMA Gets 26 New Episodes

It's official, FUTURAMA is coming back with Comedy Central
delivering an order for twenty-six episodes to run over two seasons.

The cable network has now given the order for this new batch of
episodes with all key voice cast members expected to return for
the new episodes, along with the series' core writing team.

Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are said to be already working on
stories for the new batch of episodes which pick up where the last
special, "Into the Wild Green Yonder", left off with the main
characters fleeing death and flying into the unknown.

Groening and Cohen's much loved sci-fi cartoon comedy aired from
1999-2003 on Fox but the 72 produced episodes have proven such a
DVD sales success and ratings hit in repeats on Comedy Central
that four direct-to-DVD releases were ordered and released in
2007 & 2008.

The first half of the new episodes are slated to premiere on
Comedy Central in mid-2010.

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DEADWORLD Zombie Film

Dark Hero Studios is planning a zombie feature film franchise
adaptation of Gary Reed's comic book DEADWORLD.
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DEADWORLD veers from the popular zombie mythology of depicting
an apocalypse in which humans are overrun by flesh-eating corpses.
DEADWORLD picks up four months after that event, where the
Dead overtake the Earth, with humans few and far between.

The protagonist is King Zombie, a Harley-riding corpse who holds
a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast.

David Hayter ("Watchmen") will write the screenplay, produce,
and both conceive and design the look of the film. Bill Mechanic,
Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb will also produce.

Shooting kicks off next year.