The Simpsons May Continue! UPDATE: It’s renewed

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By Nads | | 1:46 pm | 3 Comments
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I don’t know if you’ve been following The Simpsons drama with the cast, but Fox was threatening to cancel the series unless the actors took a huge pay cut. Well, the actors budged and they’re willing to lower their rates, but not as much as Fox wanted.

Fox wanted them to lower their rates from $400,000/episode to $250,000/episode. So what does this all mean? The show should be coming back if they can all agree to a number.  That means Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, and others), Julie Kavner (Marge and others),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart and others), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum and Apu), and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner, and Ned Flanders, among others) are all in negotiations as we speak. Time will tell where they land, but at least they’re trying to make it work!

I remember a time when there was a ban on Bart Simpson t-shirts at my elementary school because it was too edgy…my, my have times changed!

**UPDATE** It’s officially renewed…

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

3 Comments

  1. 1
    Shawn
    Posted October 7, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    yeah they take a pay cut while fox rakes in an estimated 3 billion. just gotta say wow.

  2. 2
    Posted October 7, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    I’m a die-hard Simpsons fan, but if the season premiere was any indication of the quality of the rest of the season, it may be time to pull the plug. And I’ve always defended this show.

    Plus, as much as I love the cast, I really don’t have a lot of sympathy for multi-millionaires lowering their multi-million paychecks.

  3. 3
    Posted October 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    They were just renewed for 2 cromulent seasons, of course. How many times has this exact same thing happened? 5? 6?

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