Matt Groening created the American animated sitcom Futurama.
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company . Matt Groening . In 1997 , Groening and former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama , an animated series about life in the year 3000 , which premiered in 1999 , running for four years on Fox , then picked up by Comedy Central for additional seasons . Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards , ten for The Simpsons and two for Futurama as well as a British Comedy Award for `` outstanding contribution to comedy '' in 2004 .