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Matt Groening’s sci-fi romantic comedy Futurama, canceled by Fox six years ago and recently revived for a series of straight-to-DVD movies, will come back to the small screen in 2010 with 26 new episodes on Comedy Central, according to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello.

Like Family Guy before it, Futurama’s return has been credited mostly to what fox calls “blockbuster” performance on DVD (although in the case of Futurama, they had to make some feature films before the decision was made–Family Guy, if you remember correctly, was resurrected and THEN there was Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story just before new episodes hit the airwaves. Can this mean there’ll be one more Futurama movie in the offing? Maybe something to untie all the loose ends nicely tied up at the end of Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder?

In related news, actress Jaime Pressly suggested to E! News yesterday that an announcement may be forthcoming today regarding the future of Fox Television’s other embattled comedy, My Name is Earl. According to Pressly, Fox and TBS were in the midst of a crucial, 24-hour negotiation window as of press time for E! yesterday.

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