{"id":25081,"date":"2019-11-29T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25081"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:34:01","slug":"the-simpsons-has-no-plans-to-end-showrunner-al-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25081","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; has no plans to end: showrunner Al Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 10.85pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">\u00a0Al Jean, the showrunner of long-running animated sitcom &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;, has denied that the show is coming to an end.<\/span>His response came after Danny Elfman, the composer behind the show&#8217;s iconic opening theme, said he has heard rumours that the show could be &#8220;in its last year&#8221;.<span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Jean, however, said the show will continue to live on, post its season 32, which will come out next year.<\/span>&#8220;No disrespect to Mr. Elfman but we are producing season 32 starting next year and have no plans to end after that,&#8221; the showrunner told Metro.<\/span>Speaking to website JOE, Elfman had said that he was &#8220;flabbergasted and amazed&#8221; that the show stayed on screens for more than 30 years.<\/span>&#8220;Well, from what I&#8217;ve heard, it is coming to an end. So, that argument (about whether the show should be cancelled) will also come to an end. I don&#8217;t know for a fact, but I&#8217;ve heard that it will be in its last year,&#8221; Elfman said.&#8221;When I scored &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217;, I wrote this crazy piece of music, and I expected no-one would hear it, because I really did not think the show had a chance in hell. Really, I expected it would run for three episodes and get cancelled, and that would be that, because it was so weird at the time, and I just didn&#8217;t think it had a chance. So believe me, that is one of the truly big surprises in my life,&#8221; he added.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;, which premiered in December 1989, is one of the longest running animated sitcoms on American TV.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Al Jean, the showrunner of long-running animated sitcom &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;, has denied that the show is coming to an end.His response came after Danny Elfman, the composer behind the show&#8217;s iconic opening theme, said he has heard rumours that the show could be &#8220;in its last year&#8221;. Jean, however, said the show will continue to live on, post its season 32, which will come out next year.&#8220;No disrespect to Mr. Elfman but we are producing season 32 starting next year and have no plans to end after that,&#8221; the showrunner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25085,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions\/25085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}