The Series Has Landed--Again

Well, a third reason to like Comedy Central*: they are ordering new episodes of Futurama:

Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum 13-episode run.

Comedy Central will start airing the new shows in 2008.
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The new episode order is part of a larger deal Comedy Central made with the production company last year, when they bought the syndicated rights to Futurama's 72-episode library.
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The offbeat show was the brainchild of The Simpsons mastermind Groening and writer David X. Cohen and debuted on Fox in March 1999. The series revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who is accidentally frozen for a thousand years. When he wakes up in the year 3000, he befriends a sassy one-eyed pilot, Leela, and a cranky robot, Bender, who both work for an intergalactic delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's.

In August 2003, after five seasons and three Emmys, including the 2002 award for Best Animated Series, Futurama was canceled due to low ratings.

Any why did it get low ratings? Because it was scheduled at 7:00 on Sundays and was always delayed by football, and thus it was hard to actually catch a first-run episode, especially on the West Coast where it was hardly ever shown at all during football season.

*The Daily Show and Colbert Report, natch.