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Thank you, Hari and Phil, for answering Claudia's question. You are both correct. And Phil is right, native speakers take liberties with grammatical rules. The reason they get away with it is that they know instinctively when they can break the rules and still be understood perfectly. In the case of Future tenses, if it is irrelevant whether the future event is an intention (going to do), an arrangement (be doing) , or a timetable (it happens), they tend to use the Future Continuous as a 'one size fits all' replacement. In conclusion, both tenses are correct, one strictly grammatically, and the other in everyday usage.

Sorry for my irrelevant meddling but I can't stop singing this song: "I woke up this morning and got myself a beer, the future's uncertain and the end is always near". Sorry, excuse me, I tiptoed out.