Stupid reason to end the series but it hasn't actually been good for well over 10 years anyways.

Every now and then I catch an episode and I really just have to wonder why that show is still running.

Well all you Simpson fans can be relieved the cast and crew negotiated a pay cut that will allow the show to continue to be produced for at least another season. Fact is the Simpsons crew is one of the highest paid cartoon development teams in the world, I guess if they are willing to take this steep pay cut they must realize the importance of Simpsons to their careers and livelihoods.

However I do have to wonder if Fox executives are taking pay cuts? I mean television shows on Fox and other channels are becoming more and more expensive to produce and less and less revenue is coming in. It used to be a show got 3-million views it would remain on the air for a season it was acceptable. But this season a show got 5-million views and was dropped after three episodes.

Its like all the banks that laid off tons of staff and accepted bail outs, yet their executives barely saw a cut in their pay checks while everyone else within the companies suffered. I like Nintendo's approach where the companies leadership actually takes responsibility for the poor sales and takes a pay cut alongside any other staff receiving the cut.

A company is supposed to be a team, the boss is no good without the team. Sure the boss is important and deserves higher pay but why should the whole team take a pay cut while the executives remain unaffected. I mean really is it the teams fault that sales are winding down or bad business decisions were made by those in leadership? No, so why should the executives be protected at the cost of the developers who actually make the products?

Troy McClure lied to me! He said until the show becomes unprofitable... it's still profitable.

Show is terrible, lets hope it goes and frees up a lot of revenue for better shows.

lol wait, people think the Simpsons are actually bold?  It was an important show in the 90's for a variety of reasons but the show has never been really bold.  It tries to take a stance every now and then but still always fails to deliver an actual message.

A great example would be Lisa being a vegetarian.  It would be bold to come out and say nobody should eat meat and then stick to it.  If Lisa converted everyone in the show to being a vegetarian and they stuck to it that would be bold.  Instead, they turn it into a joke where Lisa sticks to her side and everyone else sticks to their side.  Nothing gained, nothing lost, nobody pissed off, and no message.   

For a good example of a bold show watch Southpark.

Great example. As a vegetarian myself I wish they'd do that, make Lisa convert tons of people into permanent vegetarians.

LOL, you got it the other wat around. In the past the top 10 shows used to average close to, or even more than 20 million viewers/episode. Nowadays a show is considered a hit if it manages to get 9-10 million viewers. A show that made just 3 million viewers would've been canceled after 1 episode in the past (granted, 3 million is jsut too low even for today's standards, unless we're talking about The CW).

That just seems ridiculous. How would Lisa manage to 'convert' the whole town into vegetarianism? It's just really implausible. She became a vegetarian, the whole town was against her, and she stuck to her guns (while simoltaneously realizing that she can't force other people to be like her). And the animal rights message was made pretty clear. Seemed like the most logical conclusion to the episode.

I've never liked South Park. Always seemd quite lame to me.

I wouldn't be sad to see it go to be honest never really watched other than when nothing else was on.

Simpsons Renewed Thru Season 25; Cast Comes to Agreement on Pay Cuts
In order for the long-running animated series to continue, the voice actors back down.

UPDATE: FOX has now officially confirmed The Simpsons will be back and that they have in fact renewed the series for not just one but two more seasons, meaning Season 24 and Season 25 of The Simpsons are on the way. This will bring the series to an astounding 559 episodes.

Not made explicit one way or the other is whether they intend for the show to end with Season 25… which likely means that decision is still not made yet.

Original story follows.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Simpsons' voice cast has agreed to a pay cut.

No, it won't be as severe as the 45% cut that FOX originally wanted last Monday, which would have dropped the $400,000 they get per episode to around $250,000. So this is somewhat of a small victory for the cast. But on the flip side of this is the fact that they still will not get any back-end percentage of the Simpsons franchise profits like they had originally countered with.

The cast includes: Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, and others), Julie Kavner (Marge and others), Nancy Cartwright (Bart and others), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum and Apu), and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner, and Ned Flanders, more…). Their decision to take a cut in salary follows the series producers themselves agreeing to a pay cut earlier this morning. But the big difference there is that the several of the producers, in fact, have the kind of "back end" deal that the cast wanted.

In fact, just this morning Harry Shearer released a statement where he said "I'm willing to let them cut my salary not just 45% but more than 70% – down to half of what they said they would be willing to pay us. All I would ask in return is that I be allowed a small share of the eventual profits."

On a final note here, there was some talk that this, being probably the last salary negotiation the cast would ever go through, would be for one more, 24th and final season. As of this time there has been no update as to whether that is true or whether these cuts will allow the series to continue on past Season 24.

Source: http://tv.ign.com/articles/119/1199000p1.html

Yay!