Next Season Of The Simpsons To Be The Last

The next season of The Simpsons will be the show's last, a senior Fox executive has said.

Bosses at Fox want the stars of the show to take a 45 per cent pay cut, with a counter offer of 30 per cent plus a percentage of back end profits swiftly rejected.

Producers of the show have indicated a willingness to take the pay hit, but it seems that even this won't save the current longest running show in US television history.

The Fox executive told The Wrap: "The cuts proposed to actors are in line with cuts proposed to others involved in the show. The object here is not for the actors to pay personally for the reduction. The cost is that the cast is a component of the show, all of which is being downsized to do a final season."

First shown as an interlude on the Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons first aired in December 1989, and has now been running for 23 seasons.

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