The series finale of “Futurama” airs Wednesday — and no, you’re not having déjà 🅺vu. The♊re have been four “series finales” for the cartoon that refuses to die.
“It feels like it’s really the end to me this time. I think we’re done,” executive producer David X. Cohen tells The Post. “However, people don’t seem to believe me when I say that, because I did ꦇsaꦏy the same thing two or three times before.”
The series began🐻 in 1999 on Fox. And after winning an Em🏅my in 2001 for Outstanding Animated Program, it was canceled in 2003.
It was brought 𓃲back to life in 2007 when there were four direct-to-video films made. Comedy Central ran those in half-hour increments as a 16-episode fifth season. And, finally, Comedy Central wen🌠t ahead and ordered a sixth and then a seventh season.
In April, the network announced they wouldn’t be r🌠enewing the sci-fi car𓆉toon.
“It’s taken us 13 years to get seven seasons of shows out there,” Cohen points out. “ꦰBut that’s the difference to me. We have a greater body of work behind us now. Before it was like, ‘If we only had one or two more seasons.’ ”
Central character Fry, the New York City pizza delivery man who was cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, and his motley crew of robots and humans were conceived by Cohen and Matt Groening, the famed creator of “The Simpsons.” The two have ta༺lked a lot about the possibility of re🃏viving Fry & Co. one more time.
“An Internet series seems more likely than [a theatrical film] because we’ve talked about a film a few times and haven’t been ♏able to drum up enough interest from Fox,” Cohen says.
But noℱ formal discussions have happened and Cohen has taken a vow to take some time off, get some R&R anꦗd regroup later this fall.
Wednesday night, Cohen and Groening will host a live chat with fans on Comedy Central’s We꧟b site.
“I’m excited for fans to see this episode,൲” Cohen says. “It’s my favorite of the series finales.”