someguy1231 wrote...
For all the naysayers in this thread:
"They're making a Simpsons game based on Grand Theft Auto?! WTF?! This game will be horrible! It's just going to be a lame cash-grab! How can anyone find this game enjoyable?! It's going to get poor reviews and be a massive bomb!! The Simpsons are now officially over!!!"
Google "Simpsons Hit and Run" to see the result.
Dude, that game was amazing. And it did really well, too.
Also, show is hardly dead -
http://www.popcrunch...ratings-record/ - as last year's seaon premiere was one of the highest rated for the series ever.
It's scheduled to run for at least 20 seasons... you can count the number of shows that ran for 20 straight seasons on basically one hand. Ignoring sports, news, and other non-fiction shows, you've got soap operas and children's shows (Seasame Street, Captain Kangaroo, Power Rangers).... moving past that, you have late night shows like The Tonight Show, anthology shows like Masterpiece Theater and Mystery and of course variety shows like Ed Sullivan or Red Skelton or Saturday night live...
You finally get to 20 seasons or more with scripted ongoing shows with Simpsons, Gunsmoke, Law & Order and...
that's it.
Unless you count soap operas, children's programming and reality shows like Survivor, there's only three scripted fiction shows that have run twenty seasons or more. Cable or no.