Back at Starz

A large part of my later afternoon was spent at the Starz Media building, where there are now multiple studios residing within ....

The Hasbro Studio has moved in its administration but as yet no artists. Hasbro execs inform me they come over from Beverly Hills (where they have temporary digs) at the end of the month.

Marvel is working on super hero shows in another part of the building ...

In yet another area story development on Dan Vs. is going on. (Board artists, directors and designers busily working away.) And the [deleted to be on the safe side] ...

And of course The Simpsons takes up a major chunk of square footage, where many have come back from hiatus and a highly placed person today told me:

"I don't see how this show [Simpsons] doesn't go several more seasons. Fox wants to keep its Sunday night Animation Domination block together. [The Yellow Family] might be as potent as it used to be, but their still an anchor to the whole thing ..."

I pointed out (as I generally do), that if Fox stops making original Simpsons episodes, the whole franchise (merchandise, dynidication deals, DVDs, foreign markets, etc.) being winding down. And Fox is unlikely to want that to happen.