WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICAN television, if a new series makes it on air and manages to last a season, that’s almost a miracle. If that series becomes a hit and lives on for multiple seasons, the creators have truly beaten the odds. And then sometimes you get a unicorn like Futurama.
The animated series created by Matt Groening () and David X Cohen premiered in 1999 on the Fox Network, where it aired for four seasons before it was cancelled. Based on the strengths of its reruns, was revived by Comedy Central in 2008, where it lived for three more seasons. Ten years later, in an unprecedented turn of events for any TV series, is again back from the dead with two new seasons made for the streaming network Hulu.
