Already the longest running American sitcom and animated program in television history, 'The Simpsons' will becomes the longest running TV show -- period -- on Sunday, when the FOX hit takes the title from 'Gunsmoke.'
"The Simpsons" has officially recast the voice actor behind one of its Black characters originally voiced by longtime cast member Harry Shearer.
Springfield’s jovial physician Dr. Julius Hibbert will no longer be voiced by Shearer moving forward after the Fox series announced in June that it will no longer have its Black characters voiced by White actors. Shearer has played Hibbert and several other characters on the show for more than 30 years.