#Bendergate Is Over: John DiMaggio To Reprise “Bender” For Futurama Revival

Maybe they listened? Even if they didn’t this is good news amid a newscycle of constantly shittier news that seems to be going on in the world. This, in the form of, John DiMaggio has ended his holdout from the 20-episode Futurama revival coming to Hulu and will be returning as the voice of “Bender”.

Set to premiere in 2023, Hulu has ordered a revival of legendary animated sitcom Futurama. The series is expected to return with Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman but not John DiMaggio who is still negotiating his return as “Bender”. Twenty episodes of the David X. Cohen/Matt Groening series are on the way with Rough Draft Studios producing with 20th Television who is distributing.

This will mark the third time Futurama has been revived with stints that started at FOX, then Comedy Central, and now Hulu/Disney Star where it is streaming worldwide. Futurama is essentially a workplace sitcom, the plot of which revolves around the Planet Express interplanetary delivery company and its employees,[12] a small group that largely fails to conform to future society. Fry is frozen in the year 2000 and wakes up almost a thousand years later.

Synopsis:

While delivering pizza on New Year’s Eve 1999, Philip J. Fry is accidentally cryonically frozen and thawed out one thousand years into the future. From the creator of “The Simpsons,” “Futurama” is a sci-fi animated comedy.