Season 7

Season 7 is the upcoming season to succeed season 6 in 2012. It has been confirmed by Comedy Central and Twentieth Century Fox Television, as well as voice actors and various media outlets. With 26 episodes, it will tie with season 6 as the Futurama season with the most episodes.

Production
On 16 June, Maurice LaMarche announced on his that he had started recording the first episode of season 7.

Pre-production speculation
On 22 March, 2011, Maurice LaMarche announced on that there was going to be a seventh season of Futurama, as he stated he just closed his deal. In addition, according to Maurice LaMarche, the deal contains at least 13 episodes, to air in 2012, with an optional 13 extra, to air in 2013, making 26 in total, just like season 6. On 24 March, media reports including  began announcing that Comedy Central has indeed picked up the series for 26 episodes to be split up into the ninth and tenth broadcast seasons, each consisting of 13 episodes to be shown in 2012 and 2013. On 28 March, Comedy Central and Twentieth Century Fox Television announced the pick-up of broadcast seasons 9 and 10 (branded Seasons '7-A' and '7-B', respectively).

Revelations from the production team
In a June 2011 interview with UGO.com, on the day of the broadcast season 8 premiere, David X. Cohen revealed the first plot points of season 7. He said that they had just recorded an episode that he believed would be the season 7 premiere, in which Planet Express gets a new soda machine and Bender impregnates it. He also said that they were going a bit more topical - they are doing an episode about the 3012 presidential elections to mirror the 2012 USA elections, and they are doing an episode about someone predicting a 3012 doomsday, to mirror the.