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Each Episode of Futurama Takes at Least a Year to Make
As series developer, head writer, and executive producer, Cohen has shepherded Futurama through its many ups and downs since 1999. In advance of the series’ seventh-season premiere, Cohen explains the complex, collaborative creative process that goes into creating each new episode of Futurama, and shares storyboards from tonight’s first episode, “The Bots and the Bees.” […]
“It’s usually somewhere in the vicinity of a year from the beginning of a Futurama episode to the day when you can see it on TV. With ‘The Bots and The Bees,’ we actually started working last March. It’s a very long haul, and most of it is taken up by the animation. It all starts with a general discussion—’What are some stories we haven’t done before?’—which is becoming tricky, now that we’re up to almost 140 episodes.”
— David X. Cohen, executive producer of Futurama
