Futurama: Season 5 - Blu-ray in December/2011

[chip75]

Fox really needed a kick in the teeth when they started screwing around with this 'volume' crap, first was American Dad then they gave a random chunks of Family Guy episodes and tried to pass them off as seasons.

I know Futurama has gone to another distributor know (I think it's Comedy Central) so maybe we can start again but Futurama releases have been pretty consistent so far with the correct content. Generally unless they offer great value for money they can stick their volumes.

On DVD we had the correct amount of episodes in the right order (13), season 2 was right as well with 19, so was season three with 22 and seaon four was right with 18 episodes as well.

As Buddy Ackerman said the television order was all over the place but that isn't unusual Fox skipped the opening episode of Firefly!

[Buddy Ackerman]

Originally Posted by chip75

I know Futurama has gone to another distributor know (I think it's Comedy Central) so maybe we can start again but Futurama releases have been pretty consistent so far with the correct content. Generally unless they offer great value for money they can stick their volumes.

Fox still produce the episodes and the video releases so this is them as well. It's a shame this release (assuming it's the same as the US one) is season 6 split into two (as it was broadcast) as the other boxsets went through the production order rather than transmission order but I'm just pleased we're finally getting these episodes over here.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Buddy Ackerman

Fox still produce the episodes and the video releases so this is them as well. It's a shame this release (assuming it's the same as the US one) is season 6 split into two (as it was broadcast) as the other boxsets went through the production order rather than transmission order but I'm just pleased we're finally getting these episodes over here.

They're on volume 8 with Amazon/iTunes thingy so we're miles behind. I've waited ages with everyone else for new episodes on Sky1 but missed the lot!

[Buddy Ackerman]

Originally Posted by chip75

They're on volume 8 with Amazon/iTunes thingy so we're miles behind. I've waited ages with everyone else for new episodes on Sky1 but missed the lot!

I've no idea how iTunes are on Volume 8(!) but this is how the episodes are broken down on their home releases, broadcast and production. (Chip, I realise you probably know all of this, it's more for those who aren't big Futurama nerds)

The production and home video releases for seasons 1 - 4 were the same. The broadcasts in the US split the production seasons across 5 broadcast runs - which is why the US DVD sets are labelled as 'volumes' so as not to confuse people who remember their being 5 seasons broadcast.

The movies were made and released on DVD (and blu-ray for the last two) as just individual movies (and collected up for a boxset). Broadcast-wise these were also split up into 4 parts each and shown as 16 episodes. Thus the movies are the broadcast and production 5th season, but not the home releases as they were never split into episodes.

The broadcast and production's sixth season is the new batch of 26 episodes that was split over two years. So the 5th volume home release - and our 5th season home release - was the first year's 13 episodes. The 6th volume is out at the end of the year in the US and will be the rest of the season 6 episodes - which, presumably, will be our season 6 set when that's released.

So after this release we will be one set - or 13 episodes - behind the US! And, ironically, will have a season 6 boxset with season 6 episodes in. Until season 7 is released as volumes/seasons 7 and 8...

[geraint1990]

Don't think that this is the movies that are being released as season 5. On Play they've got the artwork which is the same as US Volume 5 release and in the item description it says '13 new episodes.' So hopefully it will the same set that was released in the US last year.

http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/2...bBlu-ray%7d%2b