Futurama

Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company, and later revived by Comedy Central and then Hulu. The series follows Philip J. Fry, a young man who is cryogenically preserved for 1,000 years and revived on December 31, 2999. Fry finds work at the interplanetary delivery company Planet Express, working alongside the one-eyed mutant Leela and the robot Bender. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons; he brought Cohen, a Simpsons writer, aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. Following its initial cancellation by Fox, Futurama began airing reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, which lasted from 2003 to 2007. It was revived in 2007 as four direct-to-video films, the last of which was released in early 2009. Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, constituting a fifth production season, or the sixth to be broadcast (2008–2009). In June 2009, Comedy Central picked up the series for 26 new half-hour episodes, which aired in 2010 and 2011, constituting the sixth production season, or the seventh (2010) and eighth (2011) to be broadcast. The show was renewed for a seventh production season, airing as the ninth (2012) and tenth (2013) broadcast seasons. On February 9, 2022, Hulu revived the series with a twenty-episode order, which was released as two separate production and broadcast seasons. In November 2023, the series was renewed by Hulu for a further twenty episodes, taking the series through to an eleventh production (fourteenth broadcast) season. Futurama resumed airing new episodes on August 3, 2026. Three further extended-length specials...