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¡Ay, caramba! The longest-running primetime scripted series in television history keeps carrying on. Fox has renewed Emmy-winning The Simpsons for its 33rd and 34th seasons, taking the series to 2023 and a total of 757 episodes, both new records. “Woo Hoo! With any luck the show will soon be older than I am," noted…

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has spoken out about the Fox show’s decision in 2020 to stop white actors voicing characters from other ethnic backgrounds. Days after it was confirmed that Simpsons vet Harry Shearer had been replaced by voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson in the role of Dr. Julius Hibbert…

Elfo is gone. Dreamland is deserted. Princess Bean is on a mission. Time for the return of Disenchantment. Netflix has slotted Friday, September 20, for Disenchantment Part Two, the remaining 10 episodes of the first 20-episode season of the adult animated fantasy comedy series created by The Simpsons' Matt Groening. D…

“Simpsons, eh? Never heard of it.” Well, Mr. Burns might say that, but any comedy and/or animation fan who has owned a TV in the past three decades knows about The Simpsons, and Fox and FXX are marking the toon’s 30th anniversary with a pair of special events this month. The FX Networks cable net has scheduled a…

Netflix has renewed Disenchantment, the adult animated comedy series created by The Simpsons‘ Matt Groening. The streaming network, which bowed the first 10 episodes of Season 1 in August, said the remaining 10 episodes will now premiere in 2019. A second season of 20 episodes has been ordered to roll out in 2020 and…

Launching on Netflix on August 17, Disenchantment is Matt Groening's first new series since 1999's Futurama, and The Simpsons' creator latest effort is stuck in the past, literally and figuratively. Despite a strong vocal effort from Broad City's Abbi Jacobson as the hard-drinking and convention-busting Princess Bean…

This is not your typical Disney princess tale. Broad City's Abbi Jacobson found herself attracted to Bean, the less-than-perfect princess at the center of Matt Groening's animated comedy-fantasy series, Disenchantment. “I would have auditioned for anything with Matt’s name on it. I didn't know how great this would be,&#8221…

Forget Meghan Markle and Prince Whatshisname: The more important royal wedding was that of Princess Bean and the Prince of Bentwood. Except that she jilted him and he became head-impaled on an iron throne. Pity. Here’s the new trailer for Disenchantment, the upcoming Netflix series from The Simpsons and Futurama…

As the narrator for Netflix’s Disenchantment teaser explains, we’ve seen Matt Groening’s take on the future in Futurama, the present in The Simpsons, so all that’s left is…Disenchantment. In a past, Middle Ages-type kingdom, a monk-robed prisoner is brought before a King for judgement, and the “pile of scum” certainly…

After gestating for almost two years, Matt Groening’s upcoming Netflix animated series Disenchantment is set to premiere this year but we have yet to catch a glimpse of the characters. Well, the wait is over because the show’s official Twitter account launched today with the first look at the characters…kind of. The…

Syfy is venturing into animation, acquiring the cult Matt Groening series Futurama from Twentieth Television. It marks the first fully animated series in Syfy’s lineup. Under the multi-year non-exclusive deal, Syfy will have access to all 140 HD episodes of the series, which will debut in a special weekend stunt…

Futurama creator Matt Groening and the original cast of the bygone television animated series have returned in a 42-minute podcast episode available at various online sites. Created as part of the Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow mobile game, the episode was helmed by Groening, series head writer and executive producer Dav…