The nice thing about an animated series is that they can always just pick it back up, or substantially reuse a lot of the material for something new without a lot of production headaches. Futurama was canceled by Fox, got picked up again years later by Comedy Central, and is getting new episodes on Hulu as we speak a decade after it last aired. I'm hopeful, as hinted in the article, that the current run is ending because of the premise stretching thin (perhaps also for dipshit studio business reasons) and not because they're done making animated Trek shows. While the show itself is great, I do appreciate that they might want to escape the lower decks concept and do something different.
I don't think it was through choice since season 5 is probably near the end of production by now and they've has the possibility of cancelation looming every single season. L
One good thing about ending it early is that is makes it more likely it could come back. If they run it into the ground then that's all she wrote.
It always blows my mind how TNG had like 28 hour long episodes per season. That is absolutely absurd and I can only imagine how tired the actors would get from shooting.
Very very very tired. And they were the ones with time off between seasons, writers got 2 weeks and then they're writing the next season and crew would be taking down and building sets or doing other gigs.
Same but I'm very certain they could have gotten another 5 seasons or more out of it. In the end it's gonna be 50 episodes, which ain't much.
The nice thing about an animated series is that they can always just pick it back up, or substantially reuse a lot of the material for something new without a lot of production headaches. Futurama was canceled by Fox, got picked up again years later by Comedy Central, and is getting new episodes on Hulu as we speak a decade after it last aired. I'm hopeful, as hinted in the article, that the current run is ending because of the premise stretching thin (perhaps also for dipshit studio business reasons) and not because they're done making animated Trek shows. While the show itself is great, I do appreciate that they might want to escape the lower decks concept and do something different.
I don't think it was through choice since season 5 is probably near the end of production by now and they've has the possibility of cancelation looming every single season. L
One good thing about ending it early is that is makes it more likely it could come back. If they run it into the ground then that's all she wrote.
It always blows my mind how TNG had like 28 hour long episodes per season. That is absolutely absurd and I can only imagine how tired the actors would get from shooting.
Very very very tired. And they were the ones with time off between seasons, writers got 2 weeks and then they're writing the next season and crew would be taking down and building sets or doing other gigs.