Sky One returns next week and it will air 5-6 and at 7pm every night
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In the UK, did Disney’s purchase of Fox / Disney Plus launch affect the show in the UK too? Like it did here. (e.g.) Swift removal, at least initially, along with other content from FTA and Pay TV. Putting them behind svod and tvod, protecting Disney+.
Like what happened with Nine/Stan (Disney content) & Foxtel (Disney Channel) 6 years ago and Simpsons on the latter (Fox 8) in 2022.
Don’t recall this lasting long either? Then Fox would terminate the output in mid-2017 (affecting Eleven).
It lasted until sometime in 2014 when it was replaced by Modern Family and Family Feud.
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And this turned out to be fairly successful, along with a resurgence for the network after a horror year or two lead by BBL, Sochi, Glasgow, MasterChef and Offspring and would last until about 2017/2018 IIRC, also eventually handing Grant Denyer a controversial Gold Logie (though some argued represented his wider career as well to that point). And funny how he’s there again now at 6:30 with another game show.
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No, not at all. Sky did eventually lose first-run rights (at the end of 2024) but that was obviously years after Disney+ launched.
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I guess UK money talks vs Australia then. And/or their strategy in the Australia/NZ territory was more aggressive perhaps.
Is this from the same idiots who think Australia doesn’t exist? 
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The Simpsons: Yellow Mirror
Release Date: August 26
A defective lamp reveals a heartbreaking truth about what Homer believes is reality, and an AI-powered tablet befriends and controls Maggie. The Simpsons struggle to find the light through two dark tales of the curious and bizarre in this Disney+ exclusive.
The first story in this episode was fantastic.
Sounds NOTHING like the original. Truly awful.
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I feel like this would’ve worked better during 2020, when the both the Groening and McFarlane cartoons recast a lot of their non-white (or in this case non-yellow) roles with voice actors of colour, might’ve been a nice bone thrown to the Indian-American community during all that. Instead it’s now been almost a decade since the whole Apu controversy and not only is The Simpsons still chugging along somehow it has pretty much completely outgrown the need for him and his character, which in a meta sense is what this latest TOH special was all about. It’s really just kinda odd that now is the time they bring him back after so long.
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Didn’t they kill off Apu?
Yes, they did. It’s Disney, though, so y’know.
Apu had a brother in the series as well. Why couldn’t the writers have simply promoted him to the main cast as the new Kwik-E-Mart clerk?
No, they didn’t. Hank stopped voicing him in 2017 and the character continued to appear in a non speaking role and then disappeared completely.
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