“Futurama” Revival Green-lit For Hulu! But, No John DiMaggio…Yet.
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.
Our Take
C’MON JOHN! Don’t be THAT guy, agree to do the fucking show. Hulu, pay the man!
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs