‘Futurama’ returns July 24th as a Hulu original after a 10-year hiatus

Hulu has somewhat of “just right information” for Futurama lovers. The streaming supplier introduced on Twitter nowadays that Bender and the group (sure, John DiMaggio might be reprising his position as Bender) will go back for season 8 on July twenty fourth. After the 8th season’s announcement in early 2022, DiMaggio stated in a tweet that he would now not be returning to the display after a pay war of words with Disney and Hulu, regardless that he temporarily modified route. Sequence writer Matt Groening and manufacturer David X. Cohen are returning to steer Futurama as soon as once more.

As reported by way of Selection, the 8th season will consist of 2 portions, with an preliminary run of 10 episodes. The brand new season airs on Mondays, on a weekly foundation on Hulu. Significantly, that is the second one time (or fourth time, relying on who’s asking) the display has been introduced again, and the primary time the display might be airing first on a streaming platform. Hulu didn’t announce an air date for section two, which is able to come with an extra 10 episodes.

Futurama initially debuted in 1999, with the primary 4 seasons airing on Fox. The display then had a brand new house on Comedy Central, which aired seasons six and 7, which led to 2013. The so-called “5th season”, which was once additionally below Comedy Central, was once a sequence of 4 films that have been sooner or later cut up into short-length episodes. Now, after being canceled and renewed a number of instances by way of a number of cable networks, the following season lives on within the streaming global just about 10 years after the ultimate season had aired.