MIPCOM is rolling out the red carpet for The Simpsons. Some of the minds behind the longest-running primetime series in the history of television will be honored in Cannes with the inaugural MIPCOM Creative Icon Award. Series creator and executive producer Matt Groening and executive producer Al Jean will be on hand, and will deliver the Creative Keynote.

Now in it’s twentieth year, The Simpsons is a Gracie Films Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television. James L. Brooks exec produces with Groening and Jean. Film Roman is the animation house.