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It’s again to the Futurama!
More than a decade since Season 10, Matt Groening’s hit animated sequence has returned to Hulu for 10 contemporary episodes. Season 11 options “a complete new pandemic on the town because the crew explores the way forward for vaccines, bitcoin, cancel tradition, and streaming TV,” reads the present’s official synopsis.
Voice actor John DiMaggio will reprise his position because the foulmouthed, human-hating robotic. DiMaggio was initially not connected to the reboot when it was first introduced in 2022 as a consequence of a deadlocked wage negotiation with the streamer. But a month later, amid fan campaigns to boycott any revival with out DiMaggio, the actor and Hulu collectively revealed he had formally signed on to the sequence.
“I didn’t need, nor did my agent need, me standing exterior of a home that I ought to have been having Thanksgiving dinner in,” DiMaggio informed Variety earlier this month, hours earlier than the actors strike commenced. “It was similar to, OK, I gotta say sure, as a result of I don’t need the demise of the present on my shoulders.’ They had been prepared to usher in different folks. It was what it was.”
New New York additionally options the voices of Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman. “Futurama” was created by Groening and is govt produced by Groening, Cohen, Ken Keeler and Claudia Katz.
“The sequence acknowledges its new streaming residence, Hulu, which has ushered in a brand new strategy to view TV whereas making the roles of many writers and actors untenable,” writes Variety TV critic Alison Herman in her evaluate. “From these quippy jokes within the title sequence, Fry’s imbecilic antics, to a stunning cameo by an iconic rapper, there’s something within the newly reemerged sequence for everybody.”
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