A shame, but I would have a hard time accepting a 45% pay cut too.


I really had no idea this was still even on. I think it’s time to let it go 
guys. It started going downhill somewhere around season 9 and has been in free 
fall since then:

It looks like The Simpsons—20th Century Fox Television’s multibillion-dollar 
cash cow, the anchor of the Fox network’s Sunday primetime schedule, and the 
longest-running sitcom in the history of broadcasting—might stop production 
after the current 23rd season ends next spring.

The reason is a negotiating impasse between the studio and the six principal 
actors who voice the beloved characters on the animated series that hilariously 
satirizes middle-class Midwestern angst.

Difficult bargaining is nothing new for the show, which was created by James L. 
Brooks and Matt Groening. Fox studio execs have occasionally threatened to 
replace uncooperative cast members with sound-alike actors. But for the first 
time in nearly a quarter century of haggling, the executives have insisted that 
if the cast doesn’t accept a draconian 45 percent pay cut, The Simpsons will 
die an abrupt death as a first-run series.



 


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