‘The Simpsons’ renewed through 2025, will pass 800-episode place

The long-running challenging comedy has been renewed by Fox for two more seasons, as accept as true with ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Bob’s Burgers.’

Nope, The Simpsons is now not seemingly going anyplace. Rather then into seasons 35 and 36.

Fox introduced on Thursday that it has renewed the forever-running, story-breaking, oft-quoted challenging comedy for two more seasons. The upcoming season 34 finale will advantage because the 750th episode, and factoring in a handful of further installments already in reserve, The Simpsons will pass the jaw-shedding 800-episode milestone with this extension.

The network has picked up The Simpsons in two-season intervals for the explanation that renewal for seasons 27 and 28. While experiencing a scores decline like most ancient network displays over the years, The Simpsons continues to invent strongly within the 18- to 49-yr-passe demo. And the series is now not actual the longest-running comedy or longest-running challenging imprint, or now not it’s the longest-running primetime scripted series in TV historical previous. The imprint claimed that title (beforehand held by Gunsmoke) with its 637th episode in 2018, and now will extend its story. “Eight hundred episodes — now not even The Simpsons also can accept as true with predicted this,” govt producer Matt Selman tells EW.

This renewal, which runs during the 2024-25 TV season, enables Fox to withhold the cornerstone of its Sunday animation block for now. Disney’s 2019 acquisition of twenty first Century Fox entails 20th Television, the studio that produces The Simpsons, and the firm is centered on growing its streamer Disney+, where the expansive and precious Simpsons library now resides. (The new season’s episodes stream on Disney-owned Hulu).

Created by Matt Groening and launched as a series of shorts in 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Demonstrate, The Simpsons became a weekly series in 1989. It has won 35 Emmy Awards and hit the immense conceal with 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, which grossed more than $530 million worldwide. The exclaim forged entails Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria. The season 34 customer roster entails Anna Faris, Jane Kaczmarek, Jay Pharaoh, Megan Mullally, Drew Barrymore, Aubrey Plaza, Melissa McCarthy, Simu Liu, and Natasha Lyonne.

Fox also introduced two-season renewals for the diversified two key Disney-owned displays in its Sunday animation block. Family Guy is being picked up for seasons 22 and 23, whereas Bob’s Burgers has been prolonged through seasons 14 and 15.

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