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The acclaimed science fiction comedy animated series Futurama has been renewed once again, this time taking the adventures of the Planet Express crew to Hulu with brand-new episodes. With the first wave of episodes premiering this past summer, Futurama is poised to return for more hilarious hijinks on Hulu, with the series receiving a renewal for two additional seasons. Philip J. Fry and his friends in the 31st century face futuristically comedic twists on the follies and foibles affecting contemporary audiences, including riffs on cryptocurrency and systemically disinformation campaigns.

In a roundtable interview at New York Comic-Con 2023 attended by Cbr, Futurama executive producers David X. Cohen and Claudia Katz, producer Lee Supercinski, and supervising directors Peter Avanzino, Edmund Fong, and Crystal Chesney-Thompson detail bringing Futurama back with new episodes on Hulu a decade since its last revival.

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Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video Justin Timberlake, Host Outstanding Animated Program Futurama • The Late Philip J. Fry • Comedy Central • The Curiosity Company in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television Matt Groening, Executive Producer David X. Cohen, Executive Producer Ken Keeler, Executive Producer Dan Vebber, Co-Executive Producer Patric M. Verrone, Co-Executive Producer Josh Weinstein, Co-Executive Producer Eric Horsted, Co-Executive Producer Michael Rowe, Co-Executive Producer Lee Supercinski, Produced By Claudia Katz, Produced By Gregg Vanzo, Animation Executive Producer Lewis Morton, Written by Peter Avanzino, Supervising Director/Directed By Scott Vanzo, Director of Computer Graphics Ira Sherak, Assistant Director Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake (Song Title: Justin Timberlake Monologue) • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video Katreese Barnes, Music by Seth Meyers, Lyrics by Justin Timberlake,...

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video Justin Timberlake, Host Outstanding Animated Program Futurama • The Late Philip J. Fry • Comedy Central • The Curiosity Company in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television Matt Groening, Executive Producer David X. Cohen, Executive Producer Ken Keeler, Executive Producer Dan Vebber, Co-Executive Producer Patric M. Verrone, Co-Executive Producer Josh Weinstein, Co-Executive Producer Eric Horsted, Co-Executive Producer Michael Rowe, Co-Executive Producer Lee Supercinski, Produced By Claudia Katz, Produced By Gregg Vanzo, Animation Executive Producer Lewis Morton, Written by Peter Avanzino, Supervising Director/Directed By Scott Vanzo, Director of Computer Graphics Ira Sherak, Assistant Director Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake (Song Title: Justin Timberlake Monologue) • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video Katreese Barnes, Music by Seth Meyers, Lyrics by Justin Timberlake,...

Fans of a popular sci-fi animated series can get the entire legacy of the series in one hefty set this October. Futurama: The Complete Collection will be released on DVD on October 13. This massive 19-disc set contains all 72 episodes of the original series plus all four DVD films - Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Futurama: Bender's Game and Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder. The complete set is priced at $169.98 Srp and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below.

Looking to get your Futurama fix in great, big, hilarious, planet-sized chunks? Then this is your lucky light year! Now, in one shiny collection, you'll find all seventy-two original TV episodes and four epically amusing, feature-length adventures starring your favorite spaced-out space crew, plus enough extras to fill a moon base, if you're into that sort of thing.

To coincide with the good news from Fox that new episodes of Futurama are coming, we review the Blu-ray release of what once looked like the series finale, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.

In some respects Futurama could be considered the poor cousin of The Simpsons. Both shows were created by Matt Groening and both share the same style of animation and satirical humour. Yet, Futurama has not enjoyed the same widespread popularity as its Fox stablemate. Whereas The Simpsons (no relation) has been running for 20 seasons on that network, Futurama lasted only four (a fifth aired but was comprised of episodes that had not been shown in previous years).

Despite that relatively short run, Futurama attracted a dedicated following. This prompted the Cartoon Network, and later Comedy Central, to pick up the show for syndication. The viewing figures convinced the latter to commit to sixteen new episodes that...

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder brings the Futurama series back from the lesser performances of the second and third direct to DVD releases. When I slid the Blu-ray into my PS3 about five different thoughts flitted through my head: please be great, please be really great, please be great, please be funny, please be great. I wasn't being all that creative at the time as my mind's obsession with a suitable ending(?) to the Futurama series had been plaguing my thoughts since the third Futurama movie failed to impress. Bender's Game took stale jokes and put them into the Futurama universe. I recognized the necessity to pay lip service to a genre of nerdery that had been neglected thus far in the Futurama movies - but it had gone too far on too little material. Into the Wild Green Yonder makes no such mistake.

The first ten minutes alone...

Chicago – Still trying to get over an Oscar hangover? There’s no better way to deflate the pomposity of awards season than with a wicked car chase. Of course, one of the best of all time hit Blu-Ray this week in the controversial Blu-Ray release of “The French Connection,” but the same studio also released another pair of movies dedicated to automobile aficionados and an animated sci-fi comedy when all the metal destruction gets too much to take.

Two of the best car movies of all time - 1971’s “Vanishing Point” and 1998’s “Ronin” - hit Blu-Ray for the first time this week and the final “Futurama” movie, “Into the Wild Green Yonder” also hit the format. All three of these titles were released on February 24th, 2009.

“Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”

Photo credit: Fox I was as excited about the “Futurama” movies as much as anyone, but now...