“I don’t think they’re giving you enough information, Dad.” – Lisa Simpson “I’ll figure it out. I’m gonna use all the power of my brain.” – Homer Simpson The NFL escaped from its lockout basically unscathed, the NBA is getting into serious crunch time with theirs, and now Zombie Simpsons has added its name to this year’s list of labor-management disputes between millionaires and billionaires. This morning, gossip and media columnist Lloyd Grove published an anonymously sourced article on The Daily Beast reporting that contract negotiations between FOX and the voice cast aren’t going well (thanks to Gran2 in comments). …
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Zombie Simpsons Scenarios: Season 24 and Beyond
“I want to get off.” – Bart Simpson “You can’t get off, we have five more continents to visit.” – Selma Bouvier Between Comic-Con and the fact that FOX opened up the animation department to a bunch of reporters a couple of weeks ago, there has been a flurry of news-ish reports in my inbox of late. Most of these are fluff and contain nothing in the way of real news for the already plugged-in Simpsons fan. However, a few interesting tidbits did slip out, and it’s worth taking a look at the available production, calendar and contract information to…
Bad News
“Stop, stop, he’s already dead.” – Adorable Child The headline here tells you everything you didn’t want to know: The Simpsons Renewed, Will Pass 500 Episodes On one level, this is expected. While the show was only officially renewed through Season 22, they’ve already talked publically about a Season 23 Christmas episode that was in production. Contained within the article is both good news and bad news. The good news: Vulture has learned that Fox has renewed The Simpsons for a 23rd season of animated adventures, taking it through its landmark 500th episode (specifically, it takes the show up to…
Will There Be a Season 23?
“We’re through the looking glass here people.” – Milhouse van Houten A little more than a year ago, news broke that Zombie Simpsons had been renewed for two more years, through Season 22. It wasn’t news that there was going to be a Season 21. The old contract may have only run through Season 20 but, given the lag between production and broadcast, if Season 20 was going to be the end they’d have shut down production long before last year. Plus, sites like http://www.epgudies.com already had listings for Season 21. What made the renewal news so unfortunate was that…