Harry Shearer Has Left The Simpsons
 

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http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/05/1...f-the-simpsons

Not sure how the hell they are going to get around this. " more Seasons have been green lit. What will happen???:cry::cry:

Its hard to believe the show was just renewed for a Season 27 and 28 too. I wonder how they're going to do two full seasons without a guy who voiced so many major characters.

He voiced Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Lenny, Otto, Smithers, etc....the list goes on. So many important characters here

Wow that's a lot of characters. Usually people are just replaced with a close-enough voice actor but this is big.

It'll be interesting to see how the new voices turn out. There's no way they'd get rid of those characters. Not 1 of them.

I wonder if Fox regrets giving it a two season renewal now. Odd, I thought voice actor contracts are agreed upon when a show is renewed, so I wonder why he left now?

They can just hire Leo. He said he can impersonate pretty much every Simspons character's voice. :P

Seems this public declaration of stepping down is some kind of hardball tactic for negotiations. He seems to want more time for work outside of the show, since he has a few projects running

I wonder if it's time to pull the plug, impossible to do the show without him.

If they can't renegotiate ASAP, then its HAS to be over:cry::cry::cry:

Sad to hear he's leaving, but it's not surprising if the contract isn't what he wants to do and if he wants more time away. They could always hire different VAs to reprise those roles, or just kill them off for good.

UPDATE: Shearer has revealed to CNN there is still time for him to remain part of the cast, but only if producers enable him to do other work.

Reiterating what he said in his tweets, Shearer told the site: "In last four years, I've created and starred in a UK TV series and starred on London stage. Not stopping."

When asked whether he could still continue on the show, he answered: "I think that's a question better posed to them."

For now, it seems like negotiations are ongoing but Shearer's decision to push them into the public domain is his way of playing hardball.

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So it sounds like there is some hope. I can't say with his amount of money and the fact he is 71, that he would want to do much else that would conflict with the Simpsons.

Al Jean confirms he's gone and that his characters WON'T be rested

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/598831976418795520

I think this sets the unfortunate precedent that even if the original voice cast succumb to old age and pass on, this show will still be on the air somehow, someway

Unless they get really close sound-a-likes, this sounds like a terrible decision. Show should end.

Yea, I agree, but lets hope they just go to season 30 with the original cast and call it quits with a movie send off.

Why do you care if ends? You don't even watch it anymore.

Its a show I watched for over two decades. I think even most people who don't watch it anymore still have a budding interest in what happens to the cast or how it ends. Even people who haven't watched the show in years would definitely tune in when a "final episode" is made.

I don't think it should end just because an actor is leaving. Hell, Jason Biggs left TMNT, so they had someone replace him until Seth Green was able to take on the role permanently. So they can do the same here and still keep going. It would be stupid to end the show for good when it's already been renewed for two more seasons. I say finish those season, end it with a movie if they want to, and that's it.

It should end because it hasn't been good in years.

It's nice to pretend his departure went a little like this

Nick TMNT has years of life left in it. Simpsons has been a cancerous and unfunny tumor almost longer than it was ever a genuine cultural revolution. It should have ended with "Homer's Enemy"

But it isn't ending. I'd say let it end if it wasn't renewed for two more seasons, but since it has been, the best thing to do is to just let those seasons play out and end it from there. But I agree that it definitely hasn't been good. I can barely watch it anymore.



Nice one, Zar. And it makes sense, too.

As for Nick TMNT, that may be true, but it still hasn't been greenlit for a fifth season yet, so season four may be the last for all we know. As I said before, Simpsons hasn't been good, but you know they're going to milk it for all it's worth. That's just what they do.

Simpsons should have ended by Season 10 at the latest. Season 10 aired over 15 years ago for god sakes.

Meh. I haven't watched the show in years (well, the newer seasons anyway). I think it should have ended after the Simpsons movie was released in 2007.