Futurama
Sign in to saveFuturama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening 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 David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the sh
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Futurama is an animated science fiction comedy series created by Matt Groening that follows a young man named Fry who wakes up 1,000 years in the future and gets a job at an interplanetary delivery company alongside a one-eyed mutant and a robot. The show aired on Fox, Comedy Central, and Hulu, and became a notable example of animated sci-fi comedy that blended humor with imaginative futuristic storytelling.
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- Matt Groening
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- "Theme from Futurama"
- Television.composer
- Christopher Tyng
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- United States
- Television.language
- English
- Television.num_seasons
- 10
- Television.num_episodes
- 170
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- List of Futurama episodes
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- 22 minutes
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- Fox
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- Comedy Central
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- Animation
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- Opening sequence
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- 30th Century Fox
- Humor
- Cancellations, syndications and revivals
- Fox cancellation
- Adult Swim reruns
- Comedy Central revival
- Comedy Central cancellation
- ''Simpsorama''
- Syndication
- Hulu revival
- Reception
- Critical response
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- Other media
- Comic books
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Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening 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 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 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 (in 2008 and 2009).
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