Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Futurama Might Not Actually Be Cancelled for Good

Transcript

Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Futurama Might Not Actually Be Cancelled for Good · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: On Monday, Futurama, the long-running animated sci-fi series created by
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: the Simpsons mastermind, Matt Groening, wrapped up its 14th and
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: final season with its series finale, Hidden Hulu, but did
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: it actually really truly wrap?
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: Fans aren't willing to 100% say goodbye to the show,
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: and turns out neither is Groening, who tells Variety, Yeah,
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: he said that he isn't worried about this being the finale,
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: and he's got a pretty good reason to be cocky
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: about its demise, because Futurama.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Has already been canceled twice before.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: This being the third time it aired first on Fox
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: around the year 2000 for four years. Then Comedy Central
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: gave it the old reboot for five years, starting in
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: 2013 before Hulu picked it back up in 23.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: And that's why they're having fun with the series finale episode,
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: calling it Final Ending, The Last Conclusion.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: And Groening says at this point, the team has a
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: whistle past the graveyard attitude whenever Futurama is canceled because
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: it keeps coming back. And he promises they've got plenty
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: more stories to tell, if possible. Somebody else greenlights a
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: new season. In the meantime, the series finale, Futurama, is
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: on Hulu.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.