Futurama is an American animated science fiction television series
created by Matt Groening that aired on Fox from March 28, 1999 to
August 10, 2003 and on Comedy Central from March 23, 2008 to September
4, 2013. The series follows the adventures of slacker Philip J. Fry,
who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and is revived in the
31st century. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company,
working alongside the one-eyed Turanga Leela and robot Bender Bending
Rodriguez. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s
while working on The Simpsons; he brought David X. Cohen 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 that year 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 season.In June 2009, Comedy Central picked up the
show for 26 new half-hour episodes, which began airing in 2010 and
2011. The show was renewed for a final, seventh season, with the first
half airing in 2012 and the second in 2013. An audio-only episode
featuring the original cast members was released in 2017 as an episode
of The Nerdist Podcast.
created by Matt Groening that aired on Fox from March 28, 1999 to
August 10, 2003 and on Comedy Central from March 23, 2008 to September
4, 2013. The series follows the adventures of slacker Philip J. Fry,
who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and is revived in the
31st century. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company,
working alongside the one-eyed Turanga Leela and robot Bender Bending
Rodriguez. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s
while working on The Simpsons; he brought David X. Cohen 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 that year 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 season.In June 2009, Comedy Central picked up the
show for 26 new half-hour episodes, which began airing in 2010 and
2011. The show was renewed for a final, seventh season, with the first
half airing in 2012 and the second in 2013. An audio-only episode
featuring the original cast members was released in 2017 as an episode
of The Nerdist Podcast.
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