Three (3) news updates!

Futurama's back!

Futurama's back! Voice actor for Matt Groening's late cartoon, Billy West (Fry, Zoidberg, Professor), revealed this weekend from San Diego's Comic Con International that a brand-new direct-to-video Futurama movie has been greenlit. Not only that, but there is also an option for a second movie as well. With the model established by Family Guy's return – where a direct-to-video movie eventually spawned the show's return to Fox primetime as well – could the much-missed Futurama also be on the way back to a set near you? We're sure Matt Groening and the gang would love to see themselves working back on Futurama in any shape or form, so this is definitely good news no matter what the decision could spawn in the future.




Simpsons Top 100 Changes Tune

The Simpsons Top 100 has been redesigned, reformatted, and updated for your viewing. The owner has returned a form of simplicity to the site allowing ease of use and frequent updates. Gone are user ranked lists based on secondary factors like design; the site now offers one list of the 100 greatest Simpsons sites on the net and web news on the front page.




Bart Simpson Lends Helping Hand

Some churchgoers are drawing lessons about prayer from an unlikely source: Bart Simpson. The irreverent fourth-grader was the focus of discussion recently at Pasadena Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. It was the second installment of the church's series "The Gospel of the Simpsons," which uses the satirical show as a catalyst for spiritual discussions. That day, an episode of the show, "Bart Gets An F," was projected onto a screen in the church sanctuary. After watching the episode the group of 18, several of them students, read a prayer from Psalms and the Lord's Prayer and compared them to Bart's prayer from the show. "He did have faith," said Janice MacMillan, 53, of Pasadena. "He said, 'Thank you in advance.' He believed." Bill Pixley, 63, of Pasadena said that Bart's prayer showed how people often want God to rescue them even though they don't deserve it. "We want someone to cover us even though we're guilty," he said.