Seeing Lisa completely wrong step Homer makes this exercise worthwhile for me.
Big news from the UK: after 20 years Channel 4 is removing The Simpsons from its early evening slot (6:30 currently, but for many years it ran at 6pm.) Instead, E4 will run three episodes a night. But that’s not the biggest news…
After 34 years (!!!) on Sky, new episodes will now premiere on Disney+. Then E4 will show them some months after their premiere on Disney+. Though Sky will continue to repeat older episodes, at least to begin with.
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“I imagine that soon enough, artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than 100 voices I created for characters on The Simpsons over almost four decades,” he wrote in the New York Times piece. “It makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention, it seems just plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound — or anyone else’s.”
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It wouldn’t be the same.
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But Disney won’t care.
That’s less money to spend on talent, and more money in the back pocket.
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Disney in a nutshell.
I’m not sure what it is with Disney but they seem to be Draging the Simpsons out.
Fox were doing the same for years - as long as it still generates a profit, they will do everything they can to keep it going.
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except write decent episodes.
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No matter how old the main voice actors get.
That doesn’t mater these days - they’ll just use AI
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Which will become a lesson in just because you could, doesn’t mean you should.
They have been saying this for years about AI. Yes, it will probably be able to do lots of different things but at the end of the day there is a lot of things you would rather a human do the task rather than AI.
800 episodes… and it’s been crap for at least 500. That’s some legacy.
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I would always watch the new Simpsons but ever since it completely went to Disney I don’t watch it. And not because I don’t have Disney + its basically just crap now.
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As discussed in the other thread, The Simpsons is returning to FTA in New Zealand which means it can’t be too far away from returning to FTA in Australia. Nine/9go would be the obvious choice
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I know you used to get a lot of flak for banging on about this constantly but it seems to be the only thing that ever worked for Channel 10 at 6.
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