Fox renews 'The Simpsons' through season 22

Fox says it's renewing "The Simpsons" for another two seasons, which will secure its place as TV's longest-running prime-time series. Now in its 20th season, "The Simpsons" already had tied record-holder "Gunsmoke." The Western drama series aired for two decades on CBS before it ended in 1975.

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Venezuela TV punished for 'Simpsons' run

Venezuelan regulators are forcing a local TV station to show public service announcements as punishment for broadcasting "The Simpsons" during a time slot reserved for children's programs.

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`The Simpsons' return on Venezuela television

"The Simpsons" animated series has returned to Venezuelan television — shifting to a nighttime slot after regulators ordered it off the air in the morning.

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'The Simpsons' Yanked From Venezuelan TV

D'oh! A Venezuelan TV channel has yanked "The Simpsons" off the air because it may be inappropriate for children. Taking its place: "Baywatch Hawaii."

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Brown Says No Cameo on `The Simpsons'

He's gone to great lengths to shake off his once dour image, but a trip to Springfield is a step too far for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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U.N. Agency Rules for 'The Simpsons'

Woo-hoo! "The Simpsons Movie" has won its name back on the Internet. A U.N. agency has ruled that ownership of the domain name thesimpsonsmovie.com must be handed to News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox, which owns the rights to the film and the popular TV series.

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`Simpsons Movie': `Woo-Hoo' or `D'Oh'?

For a cartoon comedy dependent on how much ruination one homely yellow family can cause, there's an awful lot of drama behind "The Simpsons."

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Marge Simpson -- the blue beehived matriarch of America's most loved dysfunctional family - is Playboy magazine's November cover, the magazine said on Friday.

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On the same day that Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) gets invited to judge the Miss America pageant, comes the biggest news of all: Marge Simpson will be on the cover of the the November issue of Playboy magazine.

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Marge is about to do something Homer might not approve of. Playboy magazine is turning over its cover to the matriarch of Springfield's first family: Marge Simpson.

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According to E!Online, the Simpsons matriarch will be doing a full 3-page spread au naturel for the November edition of Playboy, indeed to celebrate the show's venerable 20th complete with data sheet and interview.

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Arsonists have attacked a large doughnut sculpture in New Zealand's town of Springfield.

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Comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen is to make a guest appearance in animated comedy The Simpsons, a spokeswoman for makers 20th Century Fox has confirmed.

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A tectonic shift has taken place for the digital age: ad rates for popular shows like The Simpsons and CSI are higher online than they are on prime-time TV.

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I never realized how much happened in 1989. This covers the fall of the berlin wall to rave culture, Its another excellent piece done by TIME.

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Valentine's 14 Favourite TV Couples

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated by many people around the world and with it the word love appears throughout the day. In recent years, the word love has been thrown around a lot and thus, the meaning gets lost into so many different forms of the expression.

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Scientologist Nancy Cartwright, who does the voice of Bart Simpson on "The Simpsons," has recorded a message in the voice of the iconic animated character promoting the controversial quasi-religious organization.

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CARTOON characters are people too, a judge has ruled in the case of a man convicted over cartoons based on The Simpsons, in which children are shown having sex.

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There is nothing meh about the journey of the latest entry in the Collins English Dictionary. Rather, it illustrates how e-mail and the internet are creating language.

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The origins of "meh" are murky, but the term grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of The Simpsons in which Homer suggests a day trip to his children Bart and Lisa.

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I love both of those shows.

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Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama in the '08 election...

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"The Kremlin was accused of a return to Soviet-style indoctrination yesterday after Russia moved to ban American cartoons such as "South Park" and "The Simpsons" and replace them with programs teaching children to be patriotic."

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For your amusement.

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A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country's king, a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.

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Groening also said there will be a second "Simpsons" movie, but not to get in line yet. "It will happen at some point, but I have no idea when," he said. "The first one took us four years - mainly because we don't like to work any harder than we usually do."

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Venezuelan regulators are forcing a local TV station to show public service announcements as punishment for broadcasting "The Simpsons" during a time slot reserved for kids' shows.

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The Simpsons has returned to TV in Venezuela after it was deemed unsuitable for children - and was replaced by Baywatch. A spokeswoman for the station Televen said the popular US cartoon about the yellow dysfunctional family would now be shown in an early evening slot.

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The Simpsons has been taken off air in Venezuela because it was deemed "inappropriate for children". The country's television regulator received a number of complaints about the animated series, which was filling an 11am weekday timeslot.

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The Simpsons has been dropped from morning TV in Venezuela after being deemed unsuitable for children - and has been replaced by Baywatch.

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The Simpsons is one of the longest running cartoon sitcoms in entertainment history. Ever wonder where they get their inspiration? These are some classic movies which where parody from the Simpsons.

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An article about the cult show set in Sunnyvale Trailer Park that features the inimitable characters Bubbles, Ricky, Julian, Lahey and Randy.

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