Futurama (document en anglais)

Futurama

is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening

and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company

. The

series follows the adventures of a late

-

20th

-

century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip

J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds

employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in

the retro

-

futuristic 31st

century. The series was envisioned by Groening in the late 1990s while working on

The

Simpsons

, later bringing Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show

to Fox.

In the United States, the series aired on F

ox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003, before

ceasing production.

Futurama

was then aired in reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim

from 2003 to 2007, until the network's contract expired. It was revived in 2008 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 season.

In June 2009, producing studio

20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked

up the show for 26 new half

-

hour episodes, which began airing in 2010 and 2011.

The show

was renewed for a seventh season, with the first half airing in June 2012 and the second set

for early summer

2013

.

It was later revealed that the seventh season would be the final

season, as Comedy Central announced that they would not be commissioning any further

episodes. The series finale aired on September 4, 2013

,

though

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