“Futurama” has been renewed for two more new seasons at Hulu, Variety has learned.
The revival of the beloved adult animated series has been picked up for an additional 20 episodes at the streaming service. Hulu had picked the show up for 20 episodes back in February 2022, the first 10 of which were released starting in July. The premiere date for the second batch of 10 from that order has yet to be announced, though it is expected to debut in 2024. The new order will bring the show to Seasons 13 and 14 (or 10 and 11 depending on how you break it down).
Hulu’s revival of the series marks the second time the show has been brought back since it originally launched in 1999. After its initial four-season run on Fox, reruns of the show found new life as part of the Adult Swim lineup on Cartoon Network and on DVD. Four direct-to-video films were then produced, which were later re-edited into a fifth season that aired on Comedy Central starting in 2008. Comedy Central would go on to air two more seasons consisting of 26 episodes each between 2010 and 2013.
The official description for the new season states, “After a brief ten-year hiatus, ‘Futurama’ has crawled triumphantly from the cryogenic tube, its full original cast and satirical spirit intact. The ten all-new episodes of season eleven have something for everyone. New viewers will be able to pick up the series from here, while long-time fans will recognize payoffs to decades-long mysteries – including developments in the epic love story of Fry and Leela, the mysterious contents of Nibbler’s litter box, the secret history of evil Robot Santa, and the whereabouts of Kif and Amy’s tadpoles. Meanwhile there’s a whole new pandemic in town as the crew explores the future of vaccines, bitcoin, cancel culture, and streaming TV.”
The entire main cast of the original series — John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman — returned for the new Hulu episodes. “Futurama” is created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen. Executive producers include Groening, Cohen, Ken Keeler, and Claudia Katz. 20th Television Animation is the studio.
“Futurama” is a key part of Hulu’s recently launched “Animayhem” brand, a hub on Hulu that serves as the home to the streamer’s expansive library of adult animation and anime content.
I hope the next season has content and not just pop culture references.
Yea i love futurama, but this latest season is just weird. The Dune episode was terrible. Im continuing to watch i as its a good background show while im at lunch at work, but I was surprised by how much I didnt like it. Was trying to figure out if pissibly it was related to the writers strike, because of how poor some of the jokes and references are
… Futurama has always been about pop culture references, this can be seen literally from the first season.
They said not just pop culture references, not zero pop culture references.
Yes; I read that, too.
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Oh boy how much more can they assassinate Leela’s character
She was insufferable for 95% of the latest season
Can you explain why? I haven’t seen any of the new episodes-no Hulu
There were only like… 2 or 3 jokes around her character repeated a few times throughout the season.
- Leela is an alcoholic
- Leela is unfaithful to fry flirting with random men
- Leela has settled for fry
squeal! New Futurama!
…oh wait they’re just gonna dilute the quality even more… fuck
it won’t change the quality of the previous seasons. and unlike a narrative based show like game of thrones, bad later seasons don’t have any impact on the enjoyment of the overall show. just like the simpsons. no amount of terrible seasons now changes the gold that was seasons 2-8 (and debatably up to 12)
Good news everyone!
Watching the new season made me wonder if I Futurama was ever actually good. Are my fond memories of the old episodes just nostalgia?
The joke that really illustrates how creatively bankrupt the new season was for me is the non-binary robot. It’s a joke I’d already heard before, complete with the same stand up framing. It was just someone seeing something funny online and just sticking it in their TV show completely wholesale. It got a laugh out of me just because I was surprised to see something so blatant.
Every time it’d do a “topical” episode, it was just them going to beat a dead horse whose bones were already bleaching. Late to the party on Amazon, Crypto, and NFTs, showing up with only the shallowest, most well trodden observations.
