We can but hope. Digital Spy have a little article about it. This tends to pop up every six months or so, so it’s something of a regular cycle these days. Still, it’ll be nice if it does come back. Family Guy went through the same rumour process though. I wouldn’t mind betting Fox pretty much flipped a coin on whether to bring back Futurama or Family Guy – both were equally as popular on DVD and in syndication. I assume Family Guy has been doing well since coming back, so Fox will probably look to bring back Futurama eventually.
I’m a little miffed with how BBC Two have handled showing Family Guy and American Dad though. They started off back-to-back on Friday nights, just after 10pm. Just before Christmas they started to show them every night, and shove them about within the 10pm-11pm timeslot, then they suddenly disappeared. I didn’t even know they had moved. Obviously, BBC Two were moving them around the schedules to give the other programmes a chance, as they were far too successful.
I just know that in a few months, the BBC will come out with some half-hearted excuse about how hardly anybody was watching them, and drop them both altogether. Hardly surprising considering how it’s hard to find them.