Who created the animated series "Futurama"?

Matt Groening created the animated science-fiction sitcom Futurama. The series was developed for television with writer and producer David X. Cohen, who helped shape its characters, stories, and futuristic comic style, but Groening is credited as its creator.

Groening conceived Futurama in the 1990s while he was already famous for The Simpsons. He wanted to build a broader science-fiction world filled with robots, aliens, invented technologies, and jokes about the future. The show follows Philip J. Fry, a delivery worker who is accidentally cryogenically frozen on New Year’s Eve 1999 and wakes 1,000 years later.

Futurama first premiered on Fox on March 28, 1999. Its original run ended in 2003, after which Comedy Central revived it for new episodes beginning in 2008. Hulu later revived the series again in 2023. A common mix-up is crediting David X. Cohen alone: he was a major co-developer and writer, but Matt Groening remains the show’s credited creator. Groening also created The Simpsons and Disenchantment.