NOTIFICATION: Futurama Season 5

Next season to start will be:

Futurama
Season 5
Initial run: 27/11/2007 - 23/02/2009

Starring:

Billy West	as	Phillip Fry
Katey Sagal	as	Turanga Leela
John DiMaggio	as	Bender Rodríguez
Billy West	as	Hubert Farnsworth
Billy West	as	John Zoidberg
Phil LaMarr	as	Hermes Conrad
Lauren Tom	as	Amy Wong
Frank Welker	as	Nibbler
Billy West	as	Zapp Brannigan
Maurice LaMarch	as	Kif Kroker

Pre-season buzz (quotes):

• "Futurama came to an end in such a non-definitive way that there was a lot more standing around scratching heads than there was taking of one's own life. It was more like the ending to our Halloween parties. You don't want it to end and a lot of people hang around talking and laughing." - Dwayne Carey-Hill (director of "Bender's Big Score" and "Bender's Game"), speaking in an interview for Cinematical, talks about the prior cancellation of Futurama.
• "It was like coming home. It was because it's all the same people, same voice people, same writers, same crew basically. It was just like we fell right back into everything again and it was a delight. It was a joy to come back and I have the fans to thank for bringing it back. They kept the resonance going." - Billy West, speaking in an interview for Canmag, talks about the feeling of coming back.
• "There's love and romance, a bit of sex and murder and mayhem." - Billy West, in the same interview, gives his insight into the new season.

Pre-season buzz (other):

• The season 4 finale saw Leela (finally) fall in love with Fry, despite the fact that he had to make a deal with the devil to do it. In the style of Futurama, it's unlikely there'll be much continuity between seasons.
• I finished watching season 4 around 2005; I don't have the exact date because it was before I started keeping any records on that. In total, it was 4 years, 3 months and 17 days between the season 4 finale broadcast and the release of the season 5 premiere. This was due to the show being cancelled and then re-born. However, since I didn't watch the show with broadcast, and it's taken me a while to get around to watching season 5, then it's been almost as long for me.
• Technically this is the sixth broadcast season, as when the episodes were originally released, Fox decided to split down the episodes into 5 broadcast seasons. However this wasn't what the creators intended, and all the DVD sets have been released as 4 separate seasons. Also, this season has been branded as season 5; no one is calling it season 6.
  
• Season 5 contains a total of 16 episodes but they have been edited into 4 films, comprising 4 episodes each. The DVDs for these films were released before broadcast, but were shown in individual parts for broadcast; these individual parts have not been released on DVD, and may not ever be. (The only difference is that we have different beginning titles for each episode, as is the style of Futurama).
• In addition to the main cast, other special guest appearances include Al Gore, Mark Hammill, Coolio, Brittany Murphy, Stephen Hawking, Snoop Dogg and Penn & Teller.
• Other characters who make guest re-appearances for this season include Cubert Farnsworth, Robot Santa, Robot Devil and Ogden Wernstrom.
  
• Another season has been confirmed, this will be season 6 (or season 7 if you follow the note above) but no one quite knows when it will be out.