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The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully tweeted up a storm on Sunday in support of the WGA membership's vote this week on a new Agency Code of Conduct that would ban packaging fees and force talent agencies to sever their ties with affiliated production companies. The WGA and the Association of Talent Agents will return to…

The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully is extending his longtime relationship with 20th Century Fox TV, signing a new multi-year overall deal with the studio where he has been for more than quarter of a century. Scully is showrunner of Fox’s new fall multi-camera comedy series Rel starring Lil Rel Howery, and also is…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to a multi-camera comedy starring Lil Rel Howery, from 20th Century Fox TV. It is the first project under the overall deal The Carmichael Show co-creator/star Jerrod Carmichael recently signed with 20th TV. Carmichael is executive producing alongside Mike Scully. Written/executive…

Fox has ordered a script and pilot presentation for a half-hour animated comedy from Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite Productions, The Simpsons‘ veteran Mike Scully and his wife, former Simpsons writer-producer Julie Scully. 20th Century Fox TV and Universal TV, where Poehler is under a development deal, are the…

The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully and his wife, former Simpsons writer/producer Julie Scully, have sold multi-camera comedy project Raising Adults to ABC. It hails from 20th Century Fox TV where Mike Scully is under an overall deal. Raising Adults, based on a spec script that the duo wrote, is loosely based on the…

On the heels of the premiere of Red Band Society, based on the praised Spanish drama, Fox has put in development another adaptation of a successful Spanish series, multi-camera comedy Los Serrano. The single-camera Fox version will be written by The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully and his wife, former Simpsons…

EXCLUSIVE: The Simpsons veteran Mike Scully has signed a multi-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Under the seven-figure pact, he will join 20th TV’s upcoming Ryan Murphy-Ali Adler NBC comedy series The New Normal and will develop new live-action or animated projects for the studio. Additionally, Scully will…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. At today's TCA panel on Fox’s new animated series Napoleon Dynamite, executive producer Mike Scully, also a longtime producer of The Simpsons, joked that the creative team behind Dynamite should be called “Two Mormons and an Atheist Productions.” That's…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. When a comedy writer moderates a WGA panel of his peers, the audience is bound to get more jokes than straight answers. That’s what happened tonight at this year's ‘Primetime Sublime’ panel featuring Emmy-nominated writers moderated by The Simpsons' Mike Scully. <a href="http://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/small_veena_sud_imagem110914062609.jpg"…

Veteran Simpsons writer Mike Scully will receive the Writers Guild of America, West Animation Writers Caucus' 13th annual Animation Writing Award, a lifetime achievement honor, which will be presented to him tonight at the AWC's annual awards ceremony. "Whether penning episodes of The Simpsons, one of the most…

Fox has picked up two animated series eyed for next season, Napoleon Dynamite, an adaptation of the hit 2004 movie, and Allen Gregory, co-written and executive produced by Jonah Hill. Both series are produced by 20th Century Fox TV; Allen Gregory is a co-production with studio-based Chernin Entertainment. The order to…