'Futurama' Shock

How can Dalton Ross suggest that Futurama ''just wasn't all that funny'' when he, and millions of other people, never got a chance to see it (Television: What to Watch)? Anyone who has tried to support this hilarious show can tell you that Fox sometimes preempted it for football, and gives it little advertising and less support than its trashy reality shows that took someone 30 seconds to develop. These are the real reasons why Futurama has never enjoyed the enormous success it deserves. ERIC CLARK numskullduggery@cs.com West Springfield, Mass.

CORRECTIONS: The film Empire is codistributed by Arenas, not Arias, and Universal (Movies). The HP commercial in our On the Spot box uses the song ''L'allemeuse'' by Les Sans Culottes (Music).

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