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Article: 'Futurama' central for Comedy net.(Comedy Central Inc.)(Brief Article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- October 28, 2005
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Comedy Central has engineered the biggest series rerun buy in its 14-year history, laying out $400,000 a half hour for exclusive cable-TV rights to Twentieth TV'S animated comedy "Futurama."
"Futurama," whose reruns are scoring solid numbers on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim after a five-year primetime stint on the Fox Network (1999-2003), arrives at Comedy Central with 72 episodes in January 2008 for a five-year license term. The show's Adult Swim contract expires in December 2007.
In July, Comedy Central bought a shared window to 117 rerun half-hours of Buena Vista TV's "Scrubs," the network's most aggressive off-network purchase tip to that time. ...