Nancy with Jack and Lucy
OMYGOD—400 episodes already!! It seems to me that it was just yesterday that we were announced on the Fox line-up as having our own half-hour show!
Fox threw us a big bash on the lot on New York Street, famous for the set of Hello, Dolly! About 1,000 peeps attended, mostly artists and staff. There were plenty of media there and I spent about 1 1/2 hours doing tons of interviews for the promotion of our record-breaking 400th.
The only other show that tops ours is Gunsmoke. It was on the air from 1955-1975.
The Simpsons first aired in 1990 as a sitcom; however we made our television debut on The Tracey Ullman Show back in 1987, making it a 20-year-run.
My vision is to see that we do no less than 500! Fox will throw us another party—bigger balloons, better food.
America’s favorite spiky-headed, yellow-faced, trouble-making, skateboarding ten-year-old is back. Fox announced last week that it is picking up two more seasons of the animation juggernaut The Simpsons, extending its amazing run to 19 seasons.
UK’s Industry magazine, Broadcast, conducted a survey of the best, and worst U.S.-imported shows to air in the United Kingdom. To no one’s surprise, the sarcastic family from Springfield topped the list of “the best” followed by “Dallas” and “M.A.S.H.” It seems the Brits love their smart humor and smart soaps. Worst? “Baywatch,” “The Anna Nicole Show,” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Nancy has just returned from an exciting engagement in Toronto. She did two performances of her one-woman show to ebullient fans on October 16th in the lovely John Basset Theater in the convention center downtown. Her “warm up act,” a star in his own right, was the inestimable Simpsons director, David Silverman. He gave an extraordinary retrospective on the art of the Simpsons from its inception as a part of the “Tracey Ullman Show” to the half hour we know and love today, capping his performance with a drawing demonstration not to be missed.
Congratulations to Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson! Dan has won this year’s Emmy award for voice over performance.
Castellaneta took the 2004 award for his roles as Homer, Krusty the Clown, Grampa Simpson, Groundskeeper Willie, Barney Gumble and Mel in The Simpsons episode “Today I Am a Clown.”
