Infosphere:Featured article for fortnight 8 of 2011

Season 6is the current season of Futurama, and the first season of the second run. With 26 episodes, season 6 is the largest season of the series, beating season 3 which had 22 episodes.

The production season is spread out over two broadcast seasons, the seventh and eighth, with 13 episodes in 2010 and 13 in 2011. Both seasons end with a non-canon segmented episode: the seventh broadcast season ended with "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" and the eight will end with "Reincarnation". Broadcast season 8 is scheduled to begin during the summer of 2011.

Season 6 was long the last known season of Futurama before it was announced to have been renewed for a seventh season in March, 2011, and the finale episode of the season was constructed to work as a series finale (as was "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder). (more...)