‘Futurama’ Renewed for Two More Seasons at Hulu
‘Futurama’ Renewed for Two More Seasons at Hulu
"Futurama" has been renewed for two more new seasons at Hulu, Variety has learned.
“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.
Honestly last season was not good. It was rehashed and had no life. Maybe if they get longer to script and come up with something clever and fresh.
Bitcoin COVID and just randomness. Was not good
There were definitely several painful episodes, but there were a couple good ones too. The final episode in the season was excellent in my opinion.
They finally hit a stride right there at the end!
If they had 26 episodes then it would have evened out and there'd be more gems. It can't be easy write, get the episodes thru the board, get the actors to do it well, and still have good content after composing with executives and panels. But if they made more it'd be easier to overlook.
I'm only a few episodes in, but so far it doesn't feel like the same show. I don't want any more of this. Maybe some day I'll finish this season... maybe not.
I felt the same. Felt like a different show. Dropped it after 2-3 episodes. It’s OK for things to end. I don’t know why they always try to milk series until they are just no good anymore. This idea that they need years and years of seasons just because some fans are asking for it is the wrong way to go about creating good original content.
Watch episode 10 at least. The rest are very skippable.
I watch like ine episode a month and it feels just weird. It looks the same, it's not simpsons bad, the jokes land sometimes, but i would be totally fine to not finish the season
Yeah, I was supremely disappointed with the whole season. It was just boring and humorless.
Agree
That was pretty predictable to be fair. I hate the fact that we can't let shows just die, they have to be milked to death.
The first few seasons were gold. Now it's Simpson just parroting what's going on in the world.
Felt the same way. The soul was gone, the delivery felt off and stilted. The show just felt different. I kept on thinking to myself “they would have never done that or done it like that in the old show”.
Charm just isn’t there and I really wanted to like it. I even watched every episode twice and while there are some enjoyable moments the tone just is off-key enough it becomes frustrating because it’s close but not the same.
In particular as one example the universe simulation episode and particularly Bender’s actions (in the face of what he and the characters thought they meant would happen to him) just seemed out of character and random, like forced for the sake of delivering the point. As a speculative what-if machine episode it would have worked.
Yeah I concur. Like they are going through the motions but they just don't have the passion. It's a real shame.
It felt like they were old scripts. I still thought most of them were pretty good though.
The first two episodes were sorta alright... It gave me hope. That only made the rest of the season more of a letdown. It just got too wacky and topical without the subtlety and cleverness it used to have
It is really hard to stop and start something like this... Forget a writing team getting back in the groove of things, it's like writing season one over and over again, but without the energy and freedom of building something new. Instead, you have a room still working out their dynamic, a ton of preexisting baggage, and a high bar to meet to live up to the height of the show's quality + years of nostalgia
With 4 seasons in a row, the next one could be much stronger now that they have space (and hopefully learned we don't want such direct modern references), and the next might be good enough to keep it going
Or, maybe Hulu will force them to pump it out on a shoestring budget and it'll become a hollow cash grab using beloved IP until it's so painful I avoid even the originals. That is Disney's style these days, and I hear they just bought out Hulu...
Episode 9 has to be the most random Futurama episode ever. I did not like it.
You lost the last 23 years of your life, but you still have Zoidberg. YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG
Oh my god, people here are so over theirself it's so sad.
Enjoy it or stop watching. You don't need to suffer.
I loved old Futurama, and I choose to watch the new episodes because I really like the show. Some more than others, that's it. I'm really grateful they are making more episodes.
the only bad episode of futurama i watched was zapp gets cancelled and zoidberg and his movie relativr
Absurd. My wife and I quote this all the time.
I dont even watch it and Im happy the fans got more time.
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.
The Covid episode made me bail on the reboot altogether. It was the worst offender in every way that the season was bad, including the pacing of the episode.
All the episodes in the newest season resolve the plot in the last like thirty seconds of the episode. It's like the writers kept writing until they ran out of runway, then just yelled, "oh crap!" and wrapped everything up as fast as they possibly could. Which is bizarre because the episodes are so full of tepid puns and "phone bad" boomer humor you would think the writers were starved for ideas.
Watching the new season made me wonder if I Futurama was ever actually good. Are my fond memories of the old episodes just nostalgia?
No, I started rewatching the old seasons and in my opinion the general quality of the jokes and writing was much higher then. The over-reliance on current-day events just doesn't work for Futurama, either. But there were some good episodes. For example, I really liked the season finale, the anthology episode.
I think they can make it good again, if they just stick with what made Futurama great in the first place, instead of trying to recreate is into something new.
You perfectly described my thoughts on this season.
It seems like they are doing a Simpsons. They think about one semi good joke and write a whole episode around it.
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)
Sigh. Yeah
Cool, maybe they can make actually good episodes this time. Its so annoying how hulu shoved its dick into every title screen and gets constant references, it totally ruins the show
"At Hulu". Then Disney shuts down Hulu, like next year.
Well I liked the last season and so did my wife. Even though it was certainly not the best season, enough people liked it so much Hulu ordered 2 more seasons. They would not do that if people did not like it. That's what I'm telling the haters.
Velma got renewed for a new season, so obviously it is really good.
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
Neat!
The new order will bring the show to Seasons 13 and 14 (or 10 and 11 depending on how you break it down).
I've heard this year's season called either 8 or 11, but never 9 or 12. I wonder how this article was counting them.
Yeah. I think the article was counting the approved 8th (2023) and 9th (2024) seasons, adding 10th and 11th. Just wasn’t super clear first read and made it feel like 9th was current or all 20 episodes were a single season. That first paragraph is crappy.
We still have 10 more from the 20 approved episodes, and now 20 more on top of that. So an easy 3 years of futurama to look forward to. Yay!
I think Futurama is a show that could always be renewed for new seasons each couple of years.
FUUUUUUCK yyeaaaaa. Shut up and take my money! I don't care how much people didn't like the new season, I love the show and I'm gonna enjoy it!