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New Futurama episodes are hitting Hulu in July:
One of the greatest cartoons of the modern era is making a return after a 10-year layoff, and you won't have to wait long to start enjoying brand new episodes. The first new episode of season eight will premiere on Hulu on July 24, with subsequent episodes to follow on Mondays.
Hulu ordered a 20-episode run of Futurama in February of last year that will see much of the original show's voice actors and crew return, including executive producers Matt Groening (The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (Beavis and Butt-Head). Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman are all back, as is John DiMaggio who voices Bender.
Futurama premiered on Fox in the spring of 1999 and ran on the network for five seasons before getting canceled. The show would return in 2010 for a two season run on Comedy Central, with the final episode of that deal airing on September 4, 2013. The order with Hulu will mark the program's third platform, or fourth if you count the direct to DVD movies.
Season eight will initially consist of 10 episodes. It is unclear if the remaining 10 episodes from the original order will arrive as a second half of season eight or a new season entirely.
According to Hulu's description, new viewers will be able to pick up the series from here while Futurama diehards will be rewarded with payoffs to longstanding mysteries. Highlights are said to include developments in the relationship of Fry and Leela, the contents of Nibbler's litter box, the whereabouts of Kif and Amy's tadpoles, and the history of evil Robot Santa.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21, @09:10PM (1 child)
I finally caught a Rick and Morty episode in a motel room last year. I don't pay for all this crap. It's just not a priority. It came with the room. I might be out of touch with popular culture, but popular culture can suck it. The Rick and Morty episode? It was OK. I can see how you'd be really in to it if you had the right combination of time and disposable income. I don't. Futurama was great back in the day on Fox. Even my mom liked it. You know what though? Hulu can bite my shiny metal ass.
Remember shared culture? It was shared culture because once you got a TV and a radio, that was it. The wealthiest people were watching the same shit the poors were. Even migrant shacks had TV--I remember seeing it on news magazine show, might have even been Dan Rather interviewing them. Now a bunch of Danes are holding culture for ransom. I'm not paying the danegelt. It only encourages the Danes.
(Score: 3, Informative) by darkpixel on Monday May 22, @03:12PM
Naah. The poor we watching TV. The wealthy were watching HBO.