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The executive producers of the animated comedy Family Guy on Fox say they are phasing out jokes about gay people. Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin told Deadline’s sister publication TV Line that the long-running show is evolving, although still decidedly politically incorrect. The Seth MacFarlane series features the…

It’s been almost a decade since Family Guy started an Emmy campaign tradition with its tongue-and-cheek mailers that urge TV Academy members to vote for the animated comedy series via some not-so-subtle messages. Over the years, Family Guy's designated Emmy pitchman, Peter Griffin, as well as Stewie have channeled…

In one of the first significant buys of the 2015 pitch season, which slowly is getting underway, Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Where Are They Now?, a single-camera comedy written/executive produced by Alec Sulkin and Julius "Goldie" Sharpe. In Where Are They Now, from 20th Century Fox TV, the hilarious…

After testing the multi-camera waters with Dads last season, Fox is back at it with a multi-camera project from a duo of Dads writer-producers. The network has given the comedy, from Dads co-creator/executive producer Alec Sulkin and co-executive producer Julius “Goldie” Sharpe, a big put pilot commitment. The 20th…

Ted co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have closed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Sulkin and Wild have been at the studio since 2004 when they joined 20th TV’s Fox series Family Guy. The duo spent the last nine seasons on Seth MacFarlane’s raunchy animated comedy, working their way up…

EXCLUSIVE: Ted co-writers writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have signed with UTA. This comes as FBC picked up their untitled pilot and moved it right to series, one of the few large commitments of the season. The writers had  been repped by WME. The scribes co-wrote the Universal hit comedy with Seth MacFarlane…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg, who’s coming off the summer hit The Other Guys with Will Ferrell, is negotiating to star in another buddy comedy. You might think we’ve seen it all on the well trodden buddy comedy trail, but how about one with a guy and his life-size, walking-talking teddy bear? Wahlberg will star in Ted…

Veteran Family Guy writers-producers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have signed overall deals with the animated series’ producer 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, the duo’s first, they will continue on Family Guy, where they serve as non-showrunning executive producers, while also taking a crack at development…