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Futurama Season 14's Fate: The Answer Fans Have Been Waiting For

Futurama Season 14's Fate: The Answer Fans Have Been Waiting For
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Futurama’s Hulu revival has fans on edge—will the cult favorite land Season 14 or face the chopping block? Here’s the latest on the show’s fate.

Futurama fans, you can stop holding your breath. The show is not heading back into the cryo-tube just yet.

So, is Futurama coming back?

Yes. Hulu renewed Futurama in November 2023, locking in two additional seasons after its recent revival. That means Season 14 is officially on the way. The renewal came after the 2023 comeback did what it needed to do: bring the show back with new episodes for the first time in over a decade and prove there is still an audience for Planet Express chaos.

No premiere date yet for Season 14. Hulu is keeping it in their adult animation lineup alongside the usual suspects, but they have not put a pin in the calendar.

What Hulu says Season 14 is doing

Hulu shared a Season 14 description that leans on the revival pitch: the show returns after roughly a decade off with its classic satirical bite and is built to work for both first-timers and lifers. This batch is 10 episodes and promises a mix of long-teased payoffs and brand-new targets.

  • Long-running arcs getting attention: Fry and Leela’s forever thing, whatever is going on with Nibbler’s litter box, the backstory on evil Robot Santa, and updates on Kif and Amy’s tadpoles.
  • New swings: pandemic fallout, vaccines, bitcoin, NFTs, cancel culture, and the streaming TV machine.
  • Episode count: 10 new installments.

Who is coming back?

The official Season 14 blurb talks up the full original cast returning. At the same time, Hulu has not re-inked the whole cast list in a fresh announcement. Expect the regulars to be there: John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman. That is the lineup fans know, and the expectation is they are back in the booth.

Quick refresher if you are new here

Futurama follows Philip J. Fry, a slacker pizza guy from 1999 who gets accidentally frozen for a thousand years and wakes up in 3000. He lands a job at Planet Express, the delivery company run by his very distant, very elderly nephew, Professor Farnsworth, and teams up with a lovable crew of weirdos to deliver packages and cause problems across the galaxy.

About that season numbering

This franchise has messy numbering depending on where you watched it, but Hulu is calling the upcoming run Season 14. The important part: after a long gap, the 2023 revival brought the show back, it hit, and Hulu wants more. When Hulu finally drops a date, I will update this space.