American Dad!

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Hulett) Disney Channel has greenlighted "Fish Hooks," its first animated series in three years. And American Dad gets a pickup for one more circuit on the merry-go-round. Fox has given a sixth-season order to "American Dad," keeping the animated skein on the air through at least the 2010-11 TV sea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Hulett) Fox Animation, where I spent my morning hours, is a small empire of continuity. Artists are working on new seasons of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show, and nobody seems worried about getting laid off when a show shuts down, since all three are continuing into the foreseeable...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Hulett) In teevee, while Cartoon Network, Warners Animation and Disney TVA are far below previous staffing highs, Fox Animation has got most of its artists for Family Guy and American Dad back to work, and crew is slowly ramping up for the thirteen new episodes of The Cleveland Show, the FG spinof...

By Steve Hulett The crews of Guy/Dad are departing at about the same rate .. and pace ... as The Simpsons and King of the Hill staffs over the mountains at Starz Media. Some left in December, others depart in January and February, and the final groups exit in March. An artist scheduled to bail out in March said: "I was...