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A speculative script Judd Apatow wrote for The Simpsons 22 years ago is to finally make it to air, the screenwriter, director and producer reveals.

ON THE FOX LOT IN LOS ANGELES yesterday, the brilliant folks behind “The Simpsons” gathered to celebrate the show’s 500th episode this Sunday. “A bust of Homer was unveiled,” “Simpsons” writer Tom Gammill tells Comic Riffs, “and there were free donuts for everyone!

Steve Carell said goodbye to The Office earlier this year, but he’ll be back in prime time next year to lend his voice to an episode of The Simpsons, EW has learned exclusively. Carell will play Dan Gillick, a tightly wound accountant for Fat Tony (returning guest Joe Mantegna), who may go from crunching numbers to crunching skulls when he’s put in charge of the mob by Fat Tony while the big boss serves jury duty.

The man behind the show wishes the program would end as he expands his empire with "The Flintstones," a singing career and talk of a potential "Star Trek" reboot.

Fans of "The Simpsons" can breathe a "d'oh!" of relief: The animated series was renewed Friday for two more seasons. A contract dispute with the show's voice cast had threatened to end the series, but Fox announced it will air through seasons 24 and 25.

Several top-level producers of "The Simpsons" have agreed to take pay cuts to keep the long-running animated show on the air, sources confirm.

The future of the longest-running scripted series on television, Fox’s The Simpsons, is once again in doubt over c

Beer-swilling, doughnut-lover Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years.

Producers of "South Park" said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad....

A radical Muslim group has warned the creators of "South Park" that they could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit during last week's episode....