According to Deadline, Hulu has renewed adult animated series Futurama for 13th and 14th season. The series was rebooted with 20 new episodes by Hulu in 2022. The revived 11th season debuted on Hulu on July 24 and spent six weeks on Nielsen’s Top 10 original series list, Deadline reports.
The 12th season is set to premiere on Hulu in 2024. The new two-season order is for 20 episodes.
Futurama first premiered on Fox on March 29, 1999 and received two primetime Emmy awards for Outstanding Animated Program. It follows a New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who is accidentally frozen in 1999 and is defrosted in the year 3000. Fry befriends a robot, Bender, and falls in love with a cyclops, Leela. The three work at Planet Express Delivery Company, which was founded by a descendant of Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth. Throughout the series the trio goes on adventures across the universe with alien lobster Dr. John Zoidberg, assistant Amy Wong, and accountant Hermes Conrad.
The series stars Billy West (The Ren & Stimpy Show, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score) as Fry and Dr. John Zoidberg, John DiMaggio (Adventure Time, Chowder) as Bender, Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy, The Big Bang Theory) as Leela, Lauren Tom (King of the Hill, Andi Mack) as Amy Wong, and Phil Lamaarr (Samurai Jack, Static Shock) as Hermes Conrad.
The cast also features David Herman (Brickleberry, Paradise PD) as Scruffy, Tress MacNeille (Disenchantment, Animaniacs) as Linda, and Maurice LaMarche (Rick and Morty, Zootopia) as Kif Kroker.
Futurama was previously revived by Comedy Central from 2010-13 after the series finished its run on Fox in 2003.
The series was created by Matt Groening (Childhood Thoughts, Playdate with Destiny), who developed it with David X. Cohen (Disenchantment, The Simpsons). Cohen and Groening executive produce the series with Claudia Kats (Tarantula, Clash-A-Rama!) and Ken Keeler (The Simpsons, The Naked Truth).