COUNTDOWN 50 DAYS TIL FUTURAMA WITH @COMEDYCENTRAL!!

Comedy Central isn’t letting up on its promoting of Futurama and have actually announced that they will be doing a weekly podcast to talk with some of the talent(both literary and voice-over) about the upcoming premier of Futurama! We also know that the first episode will be called “The Bots and the Bees”. We are about 50 days from the premier of all-new Futurama on June 20th, 2012, and you can check out a clip after the jump together with the recent press release!

COMEDY CENTRAL is taking “Futurama” fans on a 50 day multi-platform journey leading up to the series’ seventh season premiere on Wednesday, June 20 at 10:00 p.m.  The “Countdown To ‘Futurama’” launches on Facebook on Tuesday, May 1 and for 50 consecutive days  will provide fans with exclusive content including preview clips, character designs, episode stills, story boards and more each day.  For the countdown kick-off, COMEDY CENTRAL will post a sneak peek clip from the season premiere episode, “The Bots and the Bees.”  “Futurama’s” Facebook page has over 20 million fans and ranks among the top five animated television show pages.

Beginning on Monday, May 7, CC Digital will feature the first of seven weekly podcasts, which will include a week’s worth of “Countdown To ‘Futurama’” content. Hosted by Executive Producer David X. Cohen, who will be joined by a rotating cast of other “Futurama” writers and producers, this all-new feature will provide viewers with inside commentary on each piece of exclusive content along with a first look at images from upcoming episodes, as well as character designs, stills, storyboards and concept sketches. The “Futurama” weekly podcasts will only be available on iTunes^®.