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Great show, but I sort of lost interest for some reason after the movies came out. Regardless it's had 7 seasons which is just as much as Star Trek TNG.

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You know, I somewhat think this is because fans distrust the fate of what will happen to futurama. However, if it were picked up by another party which produced smaller amounts and for quality, Futurama could continue forever. (I'm thinking mini-series 4-7 episodes a season).

I think the biggest problem tv-media is the hiatus, the blanks between seasons cause an eraser from the general public. If they good give a consist stream of content, fans would be much more in-tune with it, and less to forget about.

Who knows, maybe Netflix will pick it up.

I think that is a matter of expectation. In England (AFAIK), series aren't (necessarily) expected to be as continuous, nor even to run through the whole year. So, for instance, Doctor Who could "get away" with a specials-only year, between the 4th and 5th series.

Doctor Who could "get away" with 15 years of hiatus.

He just skipped those 15 years, for now, but he'll get to them eventually.

They happened, just in "other media" then the last part was time locked, then the whole universe was rebooted, and time restarted, and a whole bunch of other things that I forgot in silence.

I was wondering why I had these tally marks on the back of my left hand.

You should take a look at your right arm.

Oh dear. Why am I holding this knife? What the hell is that dead thing in the corner?

Yes, it's quite common here to have series where a season is 6-8 episodes, once a year or less frequent.

E.g. Red Dwarf have had seasons ranging from 3 (if you count "Back to Earth") to 8 episodes, with most seasons having 6, and occasional multi-year gaps between seasons.

I wouldn't just say 'quite common'. I'd say it's the norm.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishBrevity

...usual warning about a tvtropes link, and your subsequent drop in productivity

The quality never quite returned to the heights it reached during the original FOX run, so I'm not terribly sad to see it go. Better that than limp on towards true mediocrity like The Simpsons.

There's definitely an argument to be made for that but I still loved that show immensely and I'm sad to see it go.

It was less consistent, but there some brilliant ones. The brain switching episodes is one of my all-time favorites.

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