The Simpsons veteran writer Tim Long has officially been added as a showrunner for Bloom County, an upcoming animated series on Fox. Long, who has been involved with The Simpsons for over twenty years, will join Bloom County co-showrunner Berkeley Breathed to produce the new series for Fox Entertainment.
Originally based on a 1980s comic strip by Berkeley Breathed, according to Variety, Bloom County will center around a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat, and an overly-carbonated penguin immigrant “living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of [email protected]%!#OVER country,” or, as Variety calls it, “today’s America at a glance.”
Before it was picked up by The Washington Post, Berkeley Breathed first wrote Bloom County in its original comic strip form for The Daily Texan, the University of Texas’s student newspaper. Deadline reports that Breathed ran the comic from 1980 and 1989 before bringing it back on Facebook in 2015, likely prompting the eventual development of the Fox animated series.
Who is Tim Long?
Though he’s best known for his work on The Simpsons, Tim Long’s writing career began with a position on the TV series Politically Incorrect, where he wrote seven episodes between 1994 and 1995. Long also wrote over 300 episodes for The Late Night Show with David Letterman between 1995 and 98 before signing onto The Simpsons in 1999. In addition to the main animated series of The Simpsons, Long has also been involved in various other pieces of The Simpsons franchise, including video games like The Simpsons: Road Rage (2001) and The Simpsons: Hit and Run (2003), in addition to serving as a consulting writer for The Simpsons Movie (2007). Tim Long’s work with The Simpsons continues into 2022.
Bloom County with Tim Long and Berkeley Breathed will be produced by Fox Entertainment, Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers), Miramax (From Dawn Till Dusk: The Series), Spyglass Media Group (Project Runway), and Project X Entertainment (Scream).
