In every half hour of every day, an episode of The Simpsons is broadcasting somewhere around the globe. Now in its 23rd season (and contracted to run through a 25th), the show is the world’s most-watched U.S. television series with an average weekly global viewership of over 150 million viewers, and also lures in an average of nearly 8 million viewers in its regular Sunday-night primetime slot in the U.S. on Fox.
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Birthed from the antsy mind of creator Matt Groening — and first part of the then-fledgling network’s sketch series The Tracey Ullman Show — the 1989 premiere of The Simpsons resurrected the animated primetime comedy, not seen since The Flintstones had gone extinct 23 years earlier.
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“The Simpsons came from the old world of television,” one-time series writer Conan O’Brien tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Fox was an upstart, it was just the big three networks and The Cosby Show was still dominant. And now, 23 years later, we’re living in this world of 650,000 channels and literally nine cake shows. And yet The Simpsons is still with us. It’s probably the only real bridge from the old world of media into the new world of media.”
Today, The Simpsons is not only the chief creative linchpin for 20th Century Fox Television (Simpsons has won 27 primetime
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