20th Century Fox Television is big on resurrecting canceled shows. First, it brought "Family Guy" back and now "Futurama," Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's subversive animated sci-fi comedy. Fox
returns to production on 26 new half-hour episodes more than six years after the series aired its last original show. "Futurama" was part of Fox's Sunday night animation block from 1999 to 2003 before
ceasing production on original episodes. In June 2006, Comedy Central acquired the rights to the existing 72 episodes of "Futurama," which the channel began airing in January 2008. The new episodes
will be available in mid-2010 on Comedy Central.