Comments on: FUTURAMA Cast vs. 20th Century Fox: Pick a Side!

By: simran pal

simran pal — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:50:00 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:12:12 +0000

Hay. The Cast of this show have been doing a great job for years and when Fox finally sees it’s a show that will make money they want to keep it all for themselves. Why else would they be looking at doing another season? ? ? Face it. Futurama without the original voices is nothing but a Cheap Rip Off. Forget it FOX. You do this and no one will watch. No one will care. Its like trying to do the X-Files without Scullie and Mulder. TRASH ! ! ! Drop the voices and you kill the show ! ! ! I for one will avoid it like the plague……….

By: Tuesday’s News of Note « My list of Coolness Blog

Tuesday’s News of Note « My list of Coolness Blog — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:05:53 +0000

[...] Is Futurama getting a new cast? [...]

By: A Friend Of The Show

A Friend Of The Show — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:57:52 +0000

Let’s get a couple of things straight. First, these actors aren’t milking YOU for your last dollar. That would be the IRS that does that. Actors don’t “take” from consumers, unless they adopt a life of crime because their careers are failing and they have no morals. We consumers willingly give over what we feel our entertainment dollar buys *in exchange* (important phrase there) for that which is most… entertaining to us. And we give those entertainment dollars over to mega-corporations like Newscorp, when we buy their DVDs, downloads, or give our time to their broadcasts so we can be subjected to Hypnotoad-like ads. That said, actors provide a service, for which they charge the production companies as the demand for their talents will bear. In this case, Futurama, which, as you aptly point out, has never been a cash cow, is about to *become* one. Big time. For, this order of 26 episodes will put them over the top of the magic number of 100 episodes, and make the show a viable syndication package, forever. Picture, if you will, the Mother Alien in “Aliens”, birthing those gooey alien egg-things every few seconds, and you’ve got a somewhat accurate image of what a syndication package is to a studio, because those gooey egg-things are filled with cash. Millions upon millions in cash for the studio; self-generating, without the studio ever again having to do… anything. The show just sits there, spewing ridiculous gobs of wealth at the corporation, possibly for decades.
These actors have been the most underpaid cast in primetime animation since it became a genre again. They make less than the King Of The Hill actors, less than the Family Guy or American Dad actors, and certainly less than the Simpsons actors. By a lot. This is the magic season, and they are actually asking for less than their fair share, considering their contribution, and considering what this show is about to become, in terms of earning power, for so many much higher on the totem pole than they. And BTW, $75,000.00 per episode is a made-up figure. And who would be surprised if it was made up by 20th Century Fox TV to make the actors appear greedy, when in fact, the almost entire *lack* of balking at that amount in comment threads all over the Web seems to indicate the actors’ real demand is probably, again, not high enough to garner the outrage the 20th TV spinmeisters desire from the general public, so they had to tweak it. And it is probably closer to what they should have demanded. The irony is, they underestimated their own value again. How do I know all this? Look at my display name. I can’t tell you much more than that, to protect my ties to the show, but my facts are solid.
And now you can pick sides with a bit more information at your fingertips.

By: TV Is My Pacifier » Blog Archive » TV News - 7/20/09

TV Is My Pacifier » Blog Archive » TV News - 7/20/09 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:33:19 +0000

[...] I reported a few weeks ago that Futurama was returning to TV next year on the Comedy Central, and as far as we know, it still is, but it may be without the original cast of voices! The long and the short of it is that the actors want more than the approximately $75,000 being offered per episode, so 20th Century Fox has put out a casting call. Does that mean the original actors won’t return? No, it’s still possible for them to return to the show if they accept that with bringing the show back from the dead it’s going to have a smaller budget and they’re going to have to settle for the measly $75,000 per episode. *eye rolling* For real? They want to be greedy when the show that fans love is being brought back and they are being offered a decent wage per episode, Most people don’t make that kind of money in a year! I do understand that they want the old deals, the old money, but realistically if they want the glory of coming back then they’ll have to suffer through the lower wage, which I would gladly suffer through any day of the year. All that aside it will be very difficult to love the show as much if our favorite characters don’t sound the same. What do you think? Source [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:44:59 +0000

The show isn’t making more money yet. Voice actors should do this cheaper and save the show money in the hopes show goes BOOM again. Perhaps the voice actors could reach a back door settlement: paid after the fact. Could be more money.

By: FLutterby

FLutterby — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:29:48 +0000

Putting the money aside, if you can’t get the original voice talent for the revived show, don’t bother spending the time and effort to move forward. I won’t be watching, and I doubt few other fans will either.

Would you continue to watch The Simpson’s if Dan Castellaneta or Nancy Cartwright were replaced? I didn’t think so.

By: Josh C.

Josh C. — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:16:07 +0000

i agree im also conflicted. If i had to choose a side it would be the cast tho. Ive been a loyal futurama for years and was first in line for the straight to dvd movies. I cant imagine watching one of my fav animated series without the right voices. its like watching an old episode of family guy vs a new one with megs voice

By: Hil

Hil — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:00:49 +0000

The reason people in tv get paid a lot is because there is a lot of money being generated by what they do. It is like the whole sports star argument. Why should football players be paid more than firefighters? Well, the NFL makes billions. It either is going to the players who are out there in front of the cameras sacrificing their bodies entertaining people or it is going to the owners who…well, they do something I guess. Own. Owning is hard work and all.

If anyone has a big problem with voice actors wanting $75,000 then just turn off your tvs. How much do you think the LOST actors or HOUSE actors or anyone else is making? And if those actors were not making that much it would be lining the network’s pockets or someone else’s. We are not going to be getting a check back from our cable company telling us that since the actors decided to be paid like a firefighter we the consumer will get our cash back. The money will be going to someone. I’ve got no problem with it going to the VAs.

By: Ace

Ace — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Rose “I have no doubt that they will reach a deal eventually. It’s just a shame that both sides seem to be negotiating in such a public and tacky way. Ugh.”

I thought that too. And it is weird that so many negotiations are going public now; that used to be very back doors hush hush. But I can think of three other examples just in the last few months: (1) Chad Michael Murray OTH, (2) SVU leads, and, of course, (3) Paula Abdul. Sometimes it works (see SVU) and sometimes it backfires (see CMM).