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The Simpsons turns its season premiere into a relief effort for Puerto Rico hurricane victims
Sunday’s episode, a spoof of Game of Thrones, ended with an image displayed for five seconds encouraging viewers to donate...
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Posted Thursday 9/28/17 at 4:23PM EDT
Hugh Hefner was a TV pioneer in the way he put black artists on TV in the fifties
As Keli Goff notes, the Playboy founder “put black artists front and center on his television programs, first on Playboy’s...
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Posted Thursday 9/28/17 at 4:23PM EDT
The Simpsons’ Apu is taken to task in the truTV documentary The Problem With Apu
Watch the trailer for South Asian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu’s exploration of the legacy of the Indian convenience store owner, voiced...
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Posted Monday 9/25/17 at 1:26PM EDT
A Mexican TV network used a Simpsons episode to mock a rival for falling for a fake missing girl
Televisa was criticized for devoting extensive coverage to the missing girl "Frida Sofia" — who, it turns out, never existed.
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Posted Wednesday 9/13/17 at 10:02PM EDT
Nancy Cartwright didn’t realize her Bart Simpson voice has changed so much over the years
“Recently, I’ve been looking at the oldest episodes and realizing, God, there was so much happening,” The Simpsons star said on the...
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The Simpsons producers say fired composer Alf Clausen will still have an “ongoing role”
One day after the two-time Emmy-winning Clausen was unceremoniously dropped after 27 seasons, the producers released a statement saying: “We...
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Posted Thursday 8/31/17 at 4:54AM EDT
Presenting a list of Labor Day TV marathons
From Harry Potter to The Walking Dead.
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Posted Thursday 8/31/17 at 2:44AM EDT
Matt Groening once called Alf Clausen, the newly-fired Simpsons composer, the show’s “secret weapon”
In looking back Clausen’s work, Jesse David Fox says that his “impact on the show’s music is second to none.
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Posted Wednesday 8/30/17 at 3:50PM EDT
The Simpsons fires its composer after 27 years
Alf Clausen, a two-time Emmy winner, tells Variety he got a call from a Simpsons producer that the show is...
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Posted Friday 8/25/17 at 10:15PM EDT
The hoopla surrounding the Mayweather-McGregor fight is captured in a classic Simpsons episode
The 1991 episode "Homer vs Lisa and the 8th Commandment" -- which features a spoof of Mike Tyson -- perfectly encapsulates...
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Posted Tuesday 8/22/17 at 9:14PM EDT
The 15 best TV presidents, ranked
Lisa Simpson, Selina Mayer and Josiah Bartlet are among the top POTUSes to ever grace the small screen.
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Posted Friday 8/18/17 at 8:43PM EDT
The Simpsons now has its own skincare line
Simpsons fans can now buy Springfield versions of sunscreen, deodorant and hair removal cream.
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Posted Friday 8/18/17 at 8:43PM EDT
TV’s most memorable couches
From Friends to The Wire and Insecure.
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Posted Thursday 8/17/17 at 10:16PM EDT
Amy Poehler is getting animated for a FOX comedy
Poehler will voice several roles on an untitled cartoon she created about a 15-year-old boy who aspires to become a...
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Posted Tuesday 8/15/17 at 10:46PM EDT
The Simpsons books The Exorcist director William Friedkin for "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII"
The Oscar-winning director of The French Connection will play a character named Dr.