Futurama is coming back!

The animated TV show Futurama which was canceled by Fox years ago (stop me if you've heard this one before...) is coming back, the Los Angeles Times reports.
For my money, Futurama is a better show than Matt Groening's more famous creation, The Simpsons. But I'm just happy it's coming back for 26 episodes -- and hopefully much, much more.

Comedy Central has struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television to air 26 new episodes of "Futurama," the animated comedy from "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening that was canceled by the Fox network in 2003 after a four-season run.

It will be back in mid-2010, so in about a year.

Oh, and it might not be on Comedy Central:

Comedy Central may not be the only home for the second life of "Futurama." Twentieth's deal with the cable network gives it the rights to sell the newly produced episodes to a broadcast network as well -- given the series' history and the networks' corporate ties to the studio, Fox would be the most likely candidate.

The entertainment industry is so weird.