{"id":1623,"date":"2007-11-27T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/good-news-everyone\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:55:05","slug":"good-news-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/good-news-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-12\/ff_futurama\">Futurama is back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-12\/ff_futurama\"><p>In 2005, Groening and Cohen met with Fox execs to discuss the possibility of bringing the show back for a feature-length DVD. &ldquo;It was a great meeting,&rdquo; Cohen says. &ldquo;One of the first things we heard was that two DVDs would work better than one.&rdquo; The network eventually agreed to fund four features, which would be divided into 16 episodes for syndication&mdash;nearly a full season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-12\/ff_futurama_geekiestshow\">David X. Cohen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-12\/ff_futurama_geekiestshow\"><p>\nAs a general rule, I hate watching TV or movies with mathematicians in it. It never rings true. They&rsquo;re portrayed as magic beings. There&rsquo;s an implication that a normal person can&rsquo;t do math because they don&rsquo;t have this magic power, which is very discouraging. You don&rsquo;t have to have Math-Ray Vision.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurama is back: In 2005, Groening and Cohen met with Fox execs to discuss the possibility of bringing the show back for a feature-length DVD. &ldquo;It was a great meeting,&rdquo; Cohen says. &ldquo;One of the first things we heard was that two DVDs would work better than one.&rdquo; The network eventually agreed to fund four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}