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Details Revealed On The Upcoming 3D ‘Simpsons’ Short Film, ‘The Longest Daycare’

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:47AM - By

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A new 3D Simpsons four-minute short film featuring Maggie Simpson will play in front of Ice Age: Continental Drift when the film opens on July 13. Why Maggie? Well, according to executive producer Al Jean: “It’s hard to do a 20-minute Maggie episode, but in four minutes it’s great. She’s like Charlie Chaplin.”  More details after the jump.

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TV Renewal Roundup: ‘The Office,’ ‘Nikita,’ And ‘Whitney’ Are Spared, ‘The Ringer,’ ‘Awake,’ And More Get Axed

Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33PM - By

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Well, it’s that time of year again, when TV networks decide which TV programs are profitable enough to save, and which are unsuccessful enough to deserve a summary execution.  Up for the chopping block this year were such shows of wildly varying quality like The Office, Nikita, Parks and Recreation,  Whitney, Community,  Awake, and many, many more.  What’s surprising, however, is how many flailing shows actually made it, and how many decent shows have been effectively cancelled. 

Be sure to keep checking back, as the information is constantly updating!

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Seth McFarlane Is Moving Forward With ‘The Flintstones’ TV Reboot; States It Will Be Like ‘The Simpons’

Monday, March 12, 2012 10:34AM - By

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At a recent South By Southwest panel, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane made an appearance entitled “A Conversation with Seth McFarlane,” in which he discussed not only his career, but the his upcoming reboot of the The Flinstones TV series.  He also noted that the new Flintstones cartoon will be a lot like The Simpsons in the mid-‘90s.  So it will basically be like everything else McFarlane does, then (rimshot!).

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New Year’s Special: Five TV Shows That Should End In 2012

Monday, December 19, 2011 10:00AM - By

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2012 is now looming around the corner, and with it comes another year of TV watching (if you’re like us, that is).  Unfortunately, though, for every Breaking Bad, Mad Men, or Boardwalk Empire, there are about a dozen clunkers that just keep rolling onward, shows which should have ended years ago.  With that in mind, we here at ScreenCrave decided to group together the five TV shows that most desperately need to be put out of their misery.  From former classics to programs that were never good to begin with, these are the shows we hope fade to black in 2012.

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Fox Is Pushing To Cancel ‘The Simpsons’

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 12:30PM - By

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Making a move that will pretty much engender the hatred of, well, probably just about everyone, it appears as if the Fox network will be attempting to bring the axe down on the long-running The Simpsons cartoon.  Why?  As is the case with almost all things—money.

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Fox May Launch A Channel That Plays Nothing But ‘The Simpsons’

Friday, September 16, 2011 11:22AM - By

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In what may be the best news since the creation of, well, existence itself, /Film has it that Fox is mulling the creation of a channel that would broadcast nothing but episodes of The Simpsons.  Seriously—the long running cartoon that will soon air its 500th (!) episode, may get its own network.

Well, maybe, that is.

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Fox Renews The Simpsons for Season 23

Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:24AM - By

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The Simpsons” can’t and won’t be stopped! The animated series is the most successful spin-off of all time, as well as the longest running comedy in television history. According to the Fox Network, they’ve just renewed the series for another year, which will bring its grand total to 23 seasons. Who would have thought that Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie would have lasted this long?

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Daniel Radcliffe Spoofs Robert Pattinson on The Simpsons

Monday, October 18, 2010 12:42PM - By

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We knew this would happen sooner or later. Robert Pattinson and Daniel Radcliffe have somehow morphed into the same person — sort of. Both actors headline lucrative and youth driven film franchises with Twilight and Harry Potter, and they both have die hard fans all over the world. But what would happen if they switched places? What if Radcliffe played an emo, manorexic vampire who sparkles in the sun? Find out when you tune in to a special episode of ” The Simpsons.”

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Watch The Simpsons Get Political With Banksy Opening Sequence

Monday, October 11, 2010 9:30AM - By

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On Sunday night, “The Simpsons” started off on a dark note. A really, dark note. The opening credit sequence, which we all know and love was altered and blended with a blatant political statement about South Korea. It was created by a UK graffitti artist named Banksy (as you can see on Krusty’s face) and what starts off as normal Simpsons’ fun gets real depressing, real quick, take a look…

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