The adventures of Fry, Bender, Leela, Dr. Hubert or Zoidberg They remained in our memories as one of the best comic series that we have been able to witness. In fact, its creator, Matt Groenning, it is the same that was responsible for giving life to 'The Simpsons', the animated series that has had the greatest impact.
It is for this reason that both are in a similar line in terms of valuations, since it is a very similar humor and sarcasm. However, it seems that the prestige that the series of yellow drawings did were not able to achieve it Futurama.
The American series began to broadcast in Fox In 1999, but It was canceled 4 years later by the chain itself in 2003. A few months later a new contract would be announced with Cartoon Network, which would emit your episodes in Adult Swim for another four years between 2003 and 2007.
Once the contractual agreement has expired, Futurama He stayed again ‘on the street’ until Central Comedy, in 2008, he decided to broadcast the fifth season that was a success among fans. This caused its creators to put the work monkey again to launch in 2010 the sixth and seventh season that led Central Comedy to historical audience records. However, in 2013 the cancellation of the series was announced again and until today new chapters of the mythical series have not been broadcast.
But not everyone knows the truth of the Futurama case. The truth is that its two cancellations produced between 1999 and 2013 was because of its low audience and other business aspects that we explained here, in Fiking.
The first one has to do with Fox, who He did not support too much To the creator of the comic series, Matt Groening. His projects prior to futurama proposed to the chain to launch a new series were not approved by the Committee. However, the futuristic series did fit in a way and that is why they decided to bet on the new Groening project.
Although everything collapsed over the seasons, Futurama He fell into audience levels until in the fourth season they decided to close and put an end to the project before it was too late. The author himself publicly accused the chain of not enhancing his project and betting on ‘Family father’.
After several years tried to resurrect in a stable way, Comedy Central would appear that would bet on a rescue after observing that the audience levels of previous chapters continued to remain stable. A bet that the series itself would be responsible for rewarding with Historical audience levels, but it did not help him stay as much as he would like on antenna.
After the end of the seventh season, the chain decided that everything was already said by Futurama and launched a farewell chapter that put the closure.
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