No laughing matter: how can The Simpsons solve its problem with Apu?

It is now the longest-running scripted US TV show. But celebrations are tainted by a race row over its Indian storekeeper…Twenty-nine seasons in and 636 episodes since it first aired, The Simpsons last week officially became the longest-running scripted show in American primetime television history. But celebrations have been overshadowed. Once considered to be the high-water mark for biting satire, The Simpsons is the subject of a furore over racist stereotyping that is dividing cast and