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Back to ‘Futurama’ for Comedy Central

The animated science-fiction comedy “Futurama,” below, will be getting a new lease on life at Comedy Central, which has ordered 26 new episodes of the show, the network said in a news release. The series, created by Matt Groening (of “The Simpsons”) and David X. Cohen, follows the adventures of a present-day pizza deliveryman who wakes up a thousand years in the future. It enjoyed a five-season, 72-episode run on Fox, which was repeated on Cartoon Network and then on Comedy Central. In 2005 a deal was struck to produce four “Futurama” movies that were released first on DVD, then broadcast on Comedy Central as half-hour episodes. The DVDs were successful enough to spawn the new episodes, which Comedy Central plans to start showing in mid-2010.