by Team TVWriter Press Service
TVBizWire reports that Don Payne, co-executive producer of THE SIMPSONS, has died at 48 of cancer.
Payne, who earned four Emmys with “The Simpsons” after joining its writing staff in 1998, wrote 16 episodes of the series. One of them, “Fraudcast News,” was awarded the 2005 Writers Guild Paul Selvin Award.