News Good news, everybody! New audio-only Futurama episode is coming soon!

[The Nth Doctor]

Good news, everybody! Deadline reports that a new episode Futurama will be released on September 14! While it's audio only, it is 42 minutes long!

While on a routine mission to Junkleon 7, the crew encounters Klaxxon, a nefarious life form composed entirely of soundwaves from 21st-century podcasts. The crew must then save Earth from Klaxxon.

“Last year I cornered two fine gentlemen–Matt Groening and David X. Cohen–and pitched the idea of doing a new Futurama episode as a podcast/radio play because it’s one of my favorite things and I need more of it, said Chris Hardwick, the comedian who runs nerdist.com. “Today, I am drooling with unfiltered joy to say that a) it’s actually happening, b) I got to voice the villain (Klaxxon) and c) I’m a freaking head in a jar in Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow, a game I’ve been feverishly playing since it came out. Galaxies of thanks to Matt, David and TinyCo for acquiescing to the maniacal ravings of a well-meaning fanboy.”​

While I was very happy with "Meanwhile" as the series finale and I'm content with never getting any more episodes, I am excited about this episode. It's a return of the old gang but in a new way. Should be fun.

A.V. Club has a preview of the episode.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I'll listen to the episode, but the game it's promoting is a freemium nightmare.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I tried to play the game but I couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll give it another go since it ignited my most recent marathon of the show which I just finished.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Sweeeeet. Futurama as OTR-- it is the show that will not die.

 

[Kor]

Here's hoping for many more.

Kor

 

[Christopher]

This is out now:

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Not bad. It's presented a lot like an old-style radio show, with a narrator (Maurice LaMarche, of course) telling the story and reading live commercials for the sponsor's product, with product placements inserted in the story as well (both for an in-universe joke product and for the Worlds of Tomorrow game app). There are a lot of jokes based in the audio format and in descriptions of things we can't see, so it's very much tailored to the medium.

Some of the concepts are a bit derivative -- the idea of the 31st-century world being endangered by the accumulated trash thrown out by the society of our time has been done before -- but it's treated like a genuine continuation with some real and significant character-arc developments. Plus they reunited the whole cast and have the theme music and everything. This isn't like that disappointing fan film -- it's the real deal.