Matt Groening created Futurama in 1999.What is Futurama you ask? Well it's the brain child of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Matt G. has been a cartoonist for almost two decades working on the Simpsons and his own weekly comic strip titled 'life is hell.' David X. has been working on the Simpsons for many years before getting the idea of Futurama with Matt Groening. Matt and David have stated that they just wanted to try something new. So around 1997 started brainstorming ideas for a new show. They came up with the idea of "the jetsons meet the simpsons" and thus the idea of Futurama was created. On March 28th 1999 in the United States, 'Space Pilot 3000' aired on the Fox network. The ratings were shattering, one of the most groundbreaking pilot episodes ever on Fox. But soon after that Fox felt that Futurama needed a new time slot, so within two years, Futurama had more time-slots than you could have ever imagined. Because it was changed from time slot to time slot, Futurama could never really get a solid audience, this ratings lowered. And now, it seems fox has pulled the plug on Futurama, not ordering a 5th season. Instead, Fox will air the remaining episodes from season 3 and season 4 to make a season 5.
To find out more on Matt Greoning and Futurama go to these links:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=matt+groening&spell=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama
http://collectorama.murderhorn.com/whatisfuturama.shtml
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/
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