Family Guy

By Brad Trechak With a show like The Simpsons, it's always tough to find new concepts and new characters. The popular theory is that television ideas can be recycled every seven years, but The Simpsons has been around for twenty. Let's hope Ricardo Bomba can inject some life into the franchise. 

By Jason Hughes Starring Jon Lovitz in some brilliant voice work, The Critic ran through two networks in two seasons. Like Futurama and Family Guy, it found some success with reruns on cable -- in this case, Comedy Central -- and a subsequent DVD release. But unlike those series, The Critic remains but a dis...

By Jane Boursaw I'll say right off the bat that I didn't watch Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Variety Show, which aired this past Sunday. But I've been hearing about it for days, because my 15-year-old son is a huge fan of Family Guy.

By Bob Sassone Last night FOX aired Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, and they're getting a little heat about it today. They re-enacted a scene from a Family Guy episode that made fun of deaf actress Marlee Matlin. Then they took it a step further and had Alex Borstein imitate Matlin singing a pop so...

By Allison Waldman Microsoft backed out of Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show when they caught a run through of the program and objected to the humor. Goodness only knows what they thought they were getting with Seth, but it's all water under the bridge now.Continue reading Sherlo...

By Allison Waldman Well, it seemed like an unusual pairing when it was announced. Kind of like oil and water. Well, the oil slick has hit the proverbial fan. Microsoft has withdrawn its sole sponsorship of Fox's Seth MacFarlane comedy special. That's the special that Fox was promoting like crazy yesterday all d...

By Brad Trechak Is The Cleveland Show going to end up being more popular than its progenitor Family Guy? Do these ratings simply represent a high initial interest in the new show that will wane over time? I have used the analogy of The Jeffersons spinning off from All In The Family, but did The Jeffersons ev...

By Brad Trechak The show is called Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show. It'll be broadcast on November 8th and be commercial-free thanks to Microsoft (who will be promoting Windows 7). The special will be a mix of animated and live performances. I've seen Seth MacFarlane and Alex Bo...

By Bob Sassone This isn't too far from me, so I should check it out. Someone has mowed a maze into the shape of Family Guy characters Brian and Stewie. And yes, FOX says that they're OK with the Connors family using the characters at their farm.

By Bob Sassone TBS has Baseball Playoffs all night.At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Three Rivers, and Cold Case.NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, then the Colts vs. the Titans.FOX has a new Brothers at 7.At 7:30, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos (...

By Bob Sassone TBS has a Family Guy marathon all night.At 7, Lifetime has the series premiere of Sherri, then the season premiere of Rita Rocks.At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Dancing with the Stars, then a new Castle.CBS has a new How I Met Your Mother, followed by new episodes of Accidentally on Purpose, Two an...

By Brad Trechak Obviously, Seth Green is already involved with the Sunday night Fox animated shows, since he's the voice of Chris Griffin on Family Guy. That show even throws in lines occasionally promoting a fictitious Family Guy/Robot Chicken feud. I wonder if this news will change the dynamic of that "...

By Brad Trechak Based on the pilot episode, the analogy that can be made is this: Family Guy is to All In The Family what The Cleveland Show is to The Jeffersons (with a little What's Happening!! and Good Times thrown in). Even the theme music is reminiscent of a 70's black sitcom, plus a few visual cues from So...

By Bob Sassone At 7, ABC has the two-hour season premiere of Extreme Makeover, followed by the season premieres of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters.CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then the two-hour season premiere of The Amazing Race and the season premiere of Cold Case.NBC has a new Footbal...

By Brad Trechak The first episode (airing Sunday at 8:30 ET on FOX) begins in Quahog with the cast of Family Guy. The entire circumstance behind Cleveland's departure from that show is explained before the opening theme song. And what a theme song! It's better than Family Guy's. Very catchy. It's the sort tha...

By Brad Trechak You've heard it before. The character of Cleveland Brown is the last person in the cast you'd expect to get a spin-off from Family Guy (well, except maybe Herbert, the pedophile down the street). Well, he did in the form of The Cleveland Show. Fox is trying to promote the hell out of this program...

 CA Seeing Peter and Meg having sex and Lois wanting to have sex with Stewie were much more disturbing than seeing Peter kill Meg. this episode was pretty brutal. a couple funny moments here and there, but they need some new material. Family Guy has been ...

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 CA Think of the cartoons that have succeeded in prime time: The Flintstones/The Jetsons, The Simpsons/Futurama, King of the Hill and Family Guy/American Dad. They all had a uniform look for their humans, and they weren't too proportionally out of the ...

 CA Anyway, here's a scene (episode also here) from last night's episode of Family Guy. I have no idea why Stewie is dressed as Kathy Bates and I don't know why Brian is James Caan, but the ending of this clip is really bizarre. The ONLY funny thing last ...

By Danny Gallagher Instead, it accomplished something much greater than just ratings or ad dollars. It gave TV cartoons and animation a serious edge. Creator Mike Judge and his team of writers turned the tiny fictional town of Arlen into something very real and genuine and relied on strong characters and viv...

By Jay Black I mean, I've seen Bill Maher throw his anti-religion grenades, but that's HBO and that's Bill Maher. To my knowledge no network -- even a network like Fox, which once had a line-up made up entirely of World's Scariest Alien Autoposies -- had ever come down this hard on the beliefs of its viewe...

 CA NBC has a new Dateline at 7, followed by new episodes of Kings and Celebrity Apprentice. At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, then new episodes of King of the Hill, Family Guy, and American Dad. MTV has a new Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory at 9, followed by new ...

By Jonathan Toomey Following in the footsteps of the recent Colbert Report and 30 Rock shows at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theatre in NYC, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane along with Alex Borstein (she voices Lois) are putting on a benefit show for the WGA East at Carnegie Hall on January 31st. Janeane Ga...

By Brad Trechak Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews(S06E08) In a mild parody of the movie Super Size Me, Peter suffers a stroke after eating too many fast-food hamburgers. Meanwhile, Stewie becomes the most popular student at James Woods High School, despite being a baby.

By Brad Trechak I never liked episodes which end up saying "the whole episode you just watched never happened", but the nice thing about Family Guy is its tendency to call itself out on its own crap before the viewer can. I believe Brian described it best when he called it giving the audience a giant middle fi...

By Richard Keller S06E04) During last Festivus I mentioned the secret constitution that the networks have to regulate their industry. This is the document that says the Regis Philbin robot must have a full check-out every six months and that one network or another must produce a musical-based drama every...

By Brad Trechak Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews S06E02) This is the 100th episode of Family Guy (if the three edited-for-TV episodes of Stewie Griffin: the Untold Story are counted). Not bad for a show that was canceled for a few years. Continue reading Family Guy: Movin' Out (Brian's Song)

By Brett Love Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation(S05E14) The up and down season of Family Guy continues, and I thought this one was a bit of a valley, rather than a peak. It had its moments, to be sure, but as a whole, it was somewhat lacking. Peter summed up my feelings for this episo...

By Brett Love Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation(S05E12) Looking back on this one, as an admitted Stewie fan, I'm surprised that I liked it as much as I did. For the most part, my favorite Family Guy episodes are those where Stewie gets his own feature plot. He was relegated to Meg o...

By Adam Finley A little over one year ago I mentioned that Brian and Stewie of Family Guy would be starring in their own online talk show. Tonight, before you settle in with a bag of Skittles and jar of moonshine (or whatever snacks you happen to enjoy) to watch the Oscars, head over to FOX.com to see Up Late wit...

By Brett Love That made for a nice tie-in to the Lois and Stewie subplot. That was also well done. I like that even though Stewie is operating on an adult level most of the time, they still have him dealing with baby issues like the "mine" phase. Not unlike how Brian the talking dog still has issues with draggin...

By Brett Love Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation(S05E08) December is a tough month for TV. "Barely Legal" is the only new Family Guy episode for the month, as they are off again next Sunday. But hey, if you are only going to do one episode in a month, might as well make it a good one. And...

By Julia Ward Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Family Guy, Animation, The Office, CelebritiesThis may come as a shock to you, readers, but the writers of scripted television programs hate reality TV. And, do you know what they...

By Brett Love Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation(S05E07) Again this week things are split up into Family Guy and The Brian and Stewie Show. I don't mind the split stories as the Stewie and Brian stuff is usually my favorite anyway. It is about time for a big family outing or somethi...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Comedy, FOX, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Family Guy, AnimationOf all the shows on TV, the last one I ever expected to see reviewed in the pages of The New Yorker was Family Guy. Not that the show doesn't have any sophisticated humor; it's just that the sophistication is burie...

By Ryan j Budke Filed under: Animation, Comedy, FOX, OpEd, Family GuyWhat's better than last week's A-Team references? Well, nothing really. But Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Transformers references are a very, very close second. Tonight was another great episode of Family Guy. I can't believe...

By Ryan j Budke This show had some great moments and while it was funny through-out, where was everyone else? This was the Peter, Brian, James half hour. Stewie had a hilarious bit about reading the DaVinci code, but we got no payoff. Lois and Quagmire only had a few lines between them and I can only think of Ch...

By Ryan j Budke The episode starts with Chris preparing for his first day of high school before getting a few words of warning from Peter and the guys about the "freshman hunt", the ritualistic paddling of the freshman by the seniors. Chris is suddenly less excited. We see a little continuity between episo...