Fox Threatens Simpsons Cast: Take Pay Cut or Die!

Fox can't support a 23rd season without profitable the frame 45 per centum less.

Regular my ten year old self didn't think The Simpsons was going to be approximately for more than cardinal decades. Heck, I thought the Christmas unscheduled was funny and all simply I firmly believed that America wasn't ready for a prime metre cartoon. Like the pillow, I was dead wrong. Even though the quality hasn't been at its mid-90s level for a while, The Simpsons remains a pinnacle of Land satire that's been aped by everyone from Mike Judge to South-central Park to Set MacFarlane. Unfortunately, the series' ratings put up no thirster support paying the six independent cast members who interpreter the legal age of the characters on the show up their $8 million period of time pay. Unless they each accept a pay cut, Fob executives would cost forced to cancel the show even though so much a drastic move would be regretful for all parties involved.

"23 seasons in, The Simpsons is A creatively vibrant as ever and beloved away millions around the world," Fox said in a statement yesterday. "We believe this brainy serial can and should continue, but we cannot produce next seasons under its current financial example. We are hopeful that we derriere reach an concord with the voice cast that allows The Simpsons to go on amusing audiences with original episodes for many years to come."

Dan Castellaneta (Kor, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, and others), Julie Kavner (Marge and others), Nancy Cartwright (Bart and others), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe Szyslak, Gaffer Wiggum and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon), and Harry Shearer (Mr. Nathan Birnbaum, Principal sum Skinner, Ned Flanders, and others) make their salaries for providing the voices for the 22 episodes each year, but they claim that Fox makes billions of dollars from syndication and merchandising.

The cast wonders why the paycut is necessary and have offered a tabulator-proposal to lease a 30 percent paycut in commute for a dower of the winnings from syndication. "The show has made billions in profits over the years and bequeath retain to DO so as far equally the eye can see dejected the road," aforementioned "an insider" from the negotiations A reported by the The Daily Beast. "The actors are willing to assume a pay trim of roughly a third base, but that's non good sufficient for Fox."

When contract negotiations plague a 23rd season of a cartoon, nobelium one wins. Perhaps IT's sentence to rent out the series end.

Source: The Daily Beast

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