Futurama is an American science fiction sitcom created by
Matt Groening for the
Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy,
Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly
cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the
retro-futuristic 31st century. The series was envisioned by Groening in the late 1990s while working on
The Simpsons, later bringing Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox.