‘The Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Is Making A New Animated Series For Netflix
By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2016 8:00 am EST
According to Variety, Netflix is eyeing a straight-to-series order of two seasons of ten episodes each. The trade points out that a large initial order could help offset the long lead time and large production costs of an animated series. But it’d be far from the first Netflix series to begin with a two-season order; House of Cards, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Judd Apatow’s upcoming Love were all picked up that way.
No details have been given about the content of the show itself. We don’t know what it’ll be called, or who’ll star in it, or what it’ll be about, or when it’ll hit Netflix. But given that it’s coming from Groening, I think we’ve got a pretty good reason to be excited about it already. In addition to several animated children’s series, Netflix currently offers two grown-up animated sitcoms, BoJack Horseman and Bill Burr’s F Is for Family.
Groening’s The Simpsons began in 1987 as a series of interstitial shorts on The Tracey Ullman show. In 1989, the family got their own now-iconic half-hour series. The Simpsons entered its 22nd season last fall, and in 2009 became the longest-running scripted show on television. The show is no longer as sharp as it was in its ’90s heyday, but it still turns out buzzworthy material on occasion, and the classic episodes are every bit as funny today as they were when they first aired.
