Mark Jeffries, 8/30/2017: > Alf Clausen, after over 560 episodes, 23 Emmy nominations and 2 wins (30 > Emmy nominations in total, the most for a composer--six of the other seven > were for "Moonlighting" and the last for ABC's 1981 attempt to reboot > "Omnibus"), has been fired by the "Simpsons" in an attempt to cut costs > (which for music are in the millions per season, thanks to Matt Groening's > insistence on a 35-piece orchestra for every episode)--his replacement > hasn't been announced: > > > http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/simpsons-composer-alf-clausen-fired-1202543183/ >
He is suing Fox, Disney, and Gracie Films, alleging age discrimination, noting his successor “was substantially younger in age, [and] was not only paid less, but was not disabled.” https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/simpsons-composer-lawsuit-fox-wrongful-termination-1203292605/ (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7dde5a37-b5c1-4c03-ba21-a83bc3d38080%40googlegroups.com.
