The cast and creators of futurama are returning for a brand new. The name futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1939 new york worlds fair. From battling between the sexes, shuttling to robot hell and back, and ensuring that no planet express delivery goes as planned, this futuristic gang of misfits are pushing their ridiculousness beyond the year 3000. And against a backdrop of pesky aliens, exasperatin.
The network simply stopped purchasing new episodes of futurama, and the series went out of production ahead of the fall 2003 broadcast season. References back to the futurama w cocreator david x. The legend behind the simpsons and futurama is in talks with netflix for a new animated show. Deadline was among the first to report that syfy picked up the futurama rights, under a multiyear nonexclusive deal.
Futurama is coming to syfy, now can it get another season. His new show disenchantment came to netflix in august 2018. Phillip fry, a 25yearold pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out new years eve 2999. Futurama is no stranger to cancellation, of course. Season 6b of futurama consists of the final thirteen episodes of the original sixthseason order. For fans of matt groenings animated scifi farce futurama. The network also plans a superman prequel in 2018 called krypton. Fans spot futurama easter egg in matt groenings new. Bender, fry, leela and the rest of the crew are back for all new episodes. Matt groenings first netflix series will go all futurama.
When fry gets trapped in ice during oktoberfest he is mistaken for a caveman and accepted in the isolated world of the neanderthals. Comedy central also chose to air the parts of season 6 and 7 out of order as well. However, here and now i promise a different avenue of. Futurama was an animated series from simpsons creator matt groening that ran from 1999 to. If youre a fan of futurama there are also several cool futurama easter eggs in the new show too. Leela, accountant hermes, intern amy, obnoxious robot bender and lobsterlike moocher dr. The last four episodes were preempted by sporting events and pushed into the second broadcast season. From there, futurama will air on monday and tuesday nights from 8. Matt groenings futurama celebrates 20th anniversary variety. While on futurama it stood out more that was ok because it was a sci fi show, this isnt so it needs to blend in with the new painted backgrounds which for the most part it does very well. The complete futurama series kicks off on syfy on saturday. Convinced he is a neanderthal himself he decides to plot a war against the stuck up homo sapiens. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century new new york after a cryonics lab accident. While im no authority on this aspect of the show, i do say with a certain level of confidence that no, there will not be an 11th season.
Just like right now, life in the future is a complex mix of the wonderful and horrible, where things are still laughable no matter how wild and crazy they get. Futurama is coming back, with all new stories, with groening, original executive producer david x. In contrast, the simpsons evolved quite a bit during its initial seasons, and season 1 today looks rather antiquated not so for futurama. The show was renewed for a final, seventh season, with the first half airing in 2012 and the second in. While i love futurama and am always eager for new content, i feel like it would be a mist. The writing is incredibly good with lots of clever satire and parodies, resulting in ridiculously hilarious episodes like roswell. Nearly 20 years after its premiere, futurama still offers the ideal blend of scifi and comedy. Syfy may not be going that far, but there are apparently plans in place for futurama to have a launch event on saturday, november 11. For those who dont speak fluent fox, heres some background. It aired for four seasons on fox, before moving to comedy central after a. The big futurama reference in disenchantment season 2. Futurama is back, and this time hopefully no one can. According to entertainment weekly, futurama cast members billy west, maurice lamarche. And while there arent currently plans to produce a new season, this may be the best hope that the show has for another revival.
This list follows the season box sets, which feature the episodes in the original, intended production season order, ignoring the order of. However, here and now i promise a different avenue of exciting futurama news later this summer, no kidding. The planet express crew gets into all new adventures with fry building a robot leela. The first ten episodes of the season will premiere on august 17th, with ten more to come later. Netflix announced last july that it would be teaming up with matt groening, creator of the simpsons and futurama, for a new animated series called disenchantment. Cohen took to reddit along with cocreator matt groening and voice actors billy west fry and john dimaggio bender to promote the new mobile app, futurama. Syfy has picked up all 140 hd episodes of matt groenings animated futurama tv show. I wish they would, though not as full seasons but what futurama creators did between fox and comedy central seasons, the movies. Some of the stuff in the movies is my all time favorite. Fry, a young everyman, finds himself accidentally transported 1,000 years in the future. Cohen, and much of the original cast, according to a press release. It will be interesting to see what flourishes they come up with as the show gets going and gets more adventurous with plots and locations.
Netflix has picked up futurama new season starting in 2018. Futurama s01e01 space pilot 3000 video dailymotion. New episodes of the crazy futurama gang are coming in june. Volume 4, with entirely different packaging to match the newer season releases on july 17, 2012. Weve compiled the best nods to the simpsons and futurama in matt groenings new netflix series disenchantment. Matt groenings futurama garnered a cult following over time, but. This is the last season that composer, christopher tyng, used a live orchestra before switching to a produced score, starting with season 5. Fox began to express interest in a new show from groening during the 1990s. After a successful run of straighttovideo movies, futurama is revived by comedy central for a sixth season. He is taken in by his sole descendant, an elderly and addled scientist who owns a. Today, netflix will premiered the 10episode first season of disenchantment, the new series by matt groening.
Riproaringly fun, futurama delivers nonstop laughs in season 4. In addition, just last month the cast of futurama reunited to record a brand new episode in the form of a radio drama. Comedy central picked up the movies and then ordered three more seasons that ran between 2010 and 20. Futurama is an american adult animated sciencefiction sitcom created by matt groening that. He is taken in by his sole descendant, an elderly and addled scientist who owns a small cargo delivery service. Syfy has picked up the rights to broadcast all 140 episodes of futurama. After being reprogrammed bender is completely changed robot. Indeed, futurama is one of those rare shows that debuted pretty much fully formed and at peak quality. As revealed at the shows comiccon panel today, the series will return on appropriately enough september 30. Syfy brings futuramas spacebased comedy back to tv space. The original 72episode run of futurama was produced as four seasons. Hatched from matt groenings brain, futurama follows pizza guy philip j. Simpsons and futurama cocreator matt groening has a new show on netflix, and its packed with futurama stars. Matt groenings first new show since futurama debuts on.
The entire season is included within the volume one dvd box set, which was released on march 25, 2003. And while there arent currently plans to produce a new season, this. It is officially labelled season 6b by comedy central. Futurama fans have spotted a futurama easter egg in creator matt groenings new netflix show, disenchantment the new series, which launched on the streaming service on friday august 17, is.
By its very definition, futurama was ahead of its time, and then ahead of its time once again when it returned in 2007, and then again in 2010. Fox and every other network had been chasing a new series from groening ever since the simpsons had become a megahit. A new futurama episode is set to air later this week instead of a tv episode, the team are reuniting the original cast of the show to tell a 42minute tale in the form of a radio drama. All 140 episodes of futurama will air on syfy starting nov. Futurama cocreator says the show will return but in. The american animated science fiction sitcom futurama, created by matt groening for the fox. Futurama follows the comic exploits of fry, a pizza delivery boy, who was accidentally cryogenically frozen in 1999, and awakens in. There are no new tv episodes or movies in the pipeline at the moment, he said. Futurama episode guide comedy central official site. Fox broadcasting company broadcast many episodes of the original four production seasons of futurama out of order, resulting in five broadcast seasons. There are no new tv episodes or movies in the pipeline at the moment however, here and now i promise a different avenue of exciting futurama news later this summer, no kidding. The new show isnt quite as good as futurama or the simpsons at its best, but its got a long way to go with new episodes coming soon.