This will probably kill the show as the voice cast is what makes Futurama so great damn greedy apes!!! I mean Fox producers!!!
FOX to Recast Futurama
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We'll be sat in front of The Three Stooges where it came from.Gilbert Munch said:
But on a less Older-Than-They-Think note, I believe our good friend The Spy can aptly sum up my current feelings towards Fox. [http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/d/d2/Spy_JarateHit03.wav]
But not that many people will watch it in the first place. It's kind of a niche show. So it could be one of those well it's worth it at 100k per episode with revenue at 175 but we can't pay 175 with revenue at 225.(hypothetically)TheTygerfire said:
*Dramatically falls to his knees, raking his hands through the wet sand*Glademaster said:
Damn them! Damn them all to Hell!!
Seriously though? It's gonna bomb...Fry, I never liked Fry, but Zoidberg, oh god, I love Dr.Zoidberg!
Fox has shot themself in the foot with this maneuver, and if it was a case of the actors setting their salaries too high, then they screwed up too, as they had a nice thing going for them, most likely.
Mars girl's name is Amy/Ami Wong.Mrsnugglesworth said:
If they replace the cast then as far as I'm concerned they aren't bringing it back. Go away FOX, no one likes you.
It's really FOX thats missing out here, their viewer ratings are going to plumet faster than a sperm whale that was spawned in the middle of the sky. Plus FOX is famed for making the worst business decisions imaginable so this doesn't suprise me.
Doing Futurama without Billy West and John DiMaggio would be like trying to do South Park without Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Thanks, FOX. You seem to have screwed the pooch on this one.
Not a big fan of the show, but the voice-casting was exilent and recasting them all will make it fall flat on it's ass.
Well, I have mixed opinions about Futurama.
I will say that immediatly jumping on Fox might not be the right move since we're not in possession of all the information. For example how much are these new Salary demands, especially in comparison with what they were getting paid? Plus despite all the fans one has to weigh that in comparison with what the show is making. How much are people willing to pay/bid fo an ad spot during Futurama?
The cost to produce shows has to be weighed by the amount of money that can be made by advertising/sponsorship. A lot of shows don't make it/get cancelled by simply being too expensive to produce. This is also why a lot of good shows never get picked up. This can revolve around FX, paying the actors, or other factors.
Allegedly Star Trek lasted a very long time despite claims that the networks were losing money on it. The basic claim being that they kept it alive for the fans, despite the cost to produce the episodes/pay the cast being higher than they could get from advertisers. Tie in products/promotions/etc... seeing a vast amount of the money but also seeing it split up a lot of differant ways. I use this as an example simply because of the claims over the years.
You can't keep too many things around that way due to raw love, and it takes a special kind of investment to have networks and producers find ways to contrive to make something profitable (or at least break even) so they can do it, as opposed to make money.
Fururama isn't anything like that I don't believe, and it seems to be a fight between the Network and the cast. Basically the Network feels they can make money off the show, and like it enough to want to keep it around, BUT you've got the cast demanding more money than they ever have before and apparently enough to be an issue.
Without hearing what their demands are, it's hard to say whether we should be yelling at Fox to pay them, or sticking our collective fan-worn boots up the rear of the voice actors for being a group of greedy putzs.
I mean look at it this way, the guy who does Zoidberg is funny (even if I don't watch it that often), but if the dude is like saying that it's not enough for him to have a brand new Lamborgini, but he wants his own personal private jet as well (or whatever, it's probably not that exagerrated) I'm not entirely sure I'd be screaming "Greed" at Fox.
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I will say that immediatly jumping on Fox might not be the right move since we're not in possession of all the information. For example how much are these new Salary demands, especially in comparison with what they were getting paid? Plus despite all the fans one has to weigh that in comparison with what the show is making. How much are people willing to pay/bid fo an ad spot during Futurama?
The cost to produce shows has to be weighed by the amount of money that can be made by advertising/sponsorship. A lot of shows don't make it/get cancelled by simply being too expensive to produce. This is also why a lot of good shows never get picked up. This can revolve around FX, paying the actors, or other factors.
Allegedly Star Trek lasted a very long time despite claims that the networks were losing money on it. The basic claim being that they kept it alive for the fans, despite the cost to produce the episodes/pay the cast being higher than they could get from advertisers. Tie in products/promotions/etc... seeing a vast amount of the money but also seeing it split up a lot of differant ways. I use this as an example simply because of the claims over the years.
You can't keep too many things around that way due to raw love, and it takes a special kind of investment to have networks and producers find ways to contrive to make something profitable (or at least break even) so they can do it, as opposed to make money.
Fururama isn't anything like that I don't believe, and it seems to be a fight between the Network and the cast. Basically the Network feels they can make money off the show, and like it enough to want to keep it around, BUT you've got the cast demanding more money than they ever have before and apparently enough to be an issue.
Without hearing what their demands are, it's hard to say whether we should be yelling at Fox to pay them, or sticking our collective fan-worn boots up the rear of the voice actors for being a group of greedy putzs.
I mean look at it this way, the guy who does Zoidberg is funny (even if I don't watch it that often), but if the dude is like saying that it's not enough for him to have a brand new Lamborgini, but he wants his own personal private jet as well (or whatever, it's probably not that exagerrated) I'm not entirely sure I'd be screaming "Greed" at Fox.
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I'm surprised there's such little reaction about Zap Branigan, I seriously can't see anyone else doing his voice either.
Chinese not Japanese too. Also changing the Professor but not Fry would be a little odd considering they are the same voice actor.I III II X4 said: