Futurama returns with new episodes!
What started as a rumor on the site collider.com - citing an anonymous inside source - has now been corroborated by major TV media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood Reporter, and Variety (update: and a Comedy Central press release). Futurama is set for a return on Comedy Central with fresh episodes in mid 2010.

Emmy champ 'Futurama' has TV future! Bender will drink to that!

Past Emmy winner "Futurama" got axed by Fox network in 2003 after five seasons, but it's developed such a strong cult following since then on DVD and TV reruns that Comedy Central has picked up the show.

"A spokesperson for 20th Century Fox Television confirms that the cable net has ordered 26 new episodes of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's late, great animated series to air beginning in 2010," reports Mike Ausiello at EW.com.

"Futurama" won the Emmy as best animated program in 2002, beating "King of the Hill," "South Park" and even Groening's "The Simpsons." It was also nominated in 1999 (getting clobbered by "King of the Hill"), 2003 (crushed by "The Simpsons") and 2004 (skewered by "Samurai Jack").

Its appeal to Emmy voters is extraordinary considering how they usually eschew TV shows with such a snarky slacker sensibility -- too much like Emmyless "Beavis and Butthead. Sure, "The Simpsons" -- which has won best animated program 10 times -- is about a slacker too. Homer is that on an epic scale, in fact, but "The Simpsons" fits the traditional family formula like Emmy's past best comedy series champs "Everybody Loves Raymond" or "The Cosby Show," which feature dads who are also idiots within families where moms and (some) kids are wise. But in those cases, the setup is familiar, comfy to conservative Emmy voters.

The rebellious fratboy sensibility of "Futurama" seldom does well at any showbiz award being decided by industry leaders, who are older and part of an establishment crowd that doesn't like being threatened. Or reminded of how uncouth they were as young snarky dudes themselves years ago.

"Futurama" exults in its snarkiness about slacker dudes. The central character is nitwit pizza-delivery boy Philip J. Fray, who falls into a cryogenic chamber in 1999, is frozen and wakes up 1,000 years later where he's befriended by various misfits who include an alcoholic, kleptomaniac robot named Bender.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/100/1004973p1.html

Sounds like all new voice cast because their budget can't meet salary demands of previous cast.

the movies didn't have the tiny ass budget that comedy central gives all of its "original" programming.

I honestly don't think I could watch the show w/out the original folks voicing it.

Ok, I don't like this show at all, but if I did I can't imagine the voice actors would matter that much. Yeah, I'd prefer the old ones, but it wouldn't be a deal breaker. The new ones might be better.