I remember the cast of Friends wanted to stop after season 8 I think.
Then they got offered $1 million per episode along with residuals.
It’s not just corporations that want to keep things going. The actors actually “unionized” (so they all got paid the same amount) and agreed that they wouldn’t continue the show unless they all wanted to.
How I Met Your Mother got to the point that Jason Segal wanted to leave. The last season was just awful and you could tell that he was phoning it in.
I don’t think there’s Simpsons will ever die, even if all the voice actors pass on. They have way more than enough audio to train AI on their voices, and the Simpsons predates any agreement to not train on their voices. It’ll go for 60 years if it continues to bring in money.
You don’t need AI, you can just find some one to recast, the Simpsons has done it before and recently Rick and Morty recast their primary voice actor that dies the voices for both titular characters.
Classic TV shows never had endings. They were always ridden into the ground before being surprise-cancelled.
It was rare that a show would have an actual last episode like MASH or Cheers. Those too went far longer than they should have.
I remember the cast of Friends wanted to stop after season 8 I think.
Then they got offered $1 million per episode along with residuals.
It’s not just corporations that want to keep things going. The actors actually “unionized” (so they all got paid the same amount) and agreed that they wouldn’t continue the show unless they all wanted to.
How I Met Your Mother got to the point that Jason Segal wanted to leave. The last season was just awful and you could tell that he was phoning it in.
If I recall correctly, MASH didn’t even have comedy anymore in the end. Just some bleak dark meh.
That’s because it wasn’t a chicken.
Well that turned dark.
I don’t think there’s Simpsons will ever die, even if all the voice actors pass on. They have way more than enough audio to train AI on their voices, and the Simpsons predates any agreement to not train on their voices. It’ll go for 60 years if it continues to bring in money.
You don’t need AI, you can just find some one to recast, the Simpsons has done it before and recently Rick and Morty recast their primary voice actor that dies the voices for both titular characters.