For the Simpsons cast, it’s less d’oh and more dough. Finally.
After months of negotiations that, until now, have put production on the latest season on hold, the voices of Springfield’s finest (and not so finest) have signed a new four-year deal with 20th Century Fox, bumping up the top cast’s salaries to roughly $400,000 per episode.
The new payday takes effect for the just announced 20th season of the series, which goes into production this morning, and which puts the show on par with Gunsmoke as the longest running prime-time series in TV history.
