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UPDATED with details: 20th Television Animation has agreed to voluntarily recognize the Animation Guild as the collective bargaining representative of production workers employed on The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! According to the guild, an arbitrator will be conducting a formal card count to certify the…

Production workers at The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! have filed to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, and begin collective bargaining for their first union contract. "Together, they boast more than 750 years of industry experience in animation," the guild said. "It’s time they receive the benefits…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of American Dad!’s Season 17 premiere, TBS has renewed the hit animated comedy series for two more seasons, 18 and 19. Series co-creator/executive producer Matt Weitzman and executive producer Brian Boyle have signed new deals to continue as showrunners. Season 17th season of American Dad!, from 20th…

TNT and TBS have set winter premiere dates for three of their top series. The third-season bow of TNT’s Snowpiercer is set for Monday, January 24. TNT’s late-nighter Full Frontal with Samantha Bee returns for Season 7 on Thursday, January 20, with Season 17 of its Seth McFarlane toon American Dad! set for Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox continues to draw on animation as a major source of development with workplace comedy Greater Good from American Dad co-creator Mike Barker and Comedy Bang! Bang! director Stoney Sharp its latest bet. The network has committed to a script for the animated comedy, which is being developed internally at…

Father’s Day is coming a little early this year. TBS said today that Seth MacFarlane's top-rated adult animated comedy American Dad! will return with new Season 16 episodes at 10 p.m. Monday, April 13. Watch the first promo above. The toon, which scored a two-year renewal in January, is marking its 15th anniversary…

American Dad! is going to be around awhile longer. TBS has ordered two more seasons of Seth MacFarlane’s top-rated adult animated comedy, which will mark its milestone 300th episode this year. The renewal was announced Wednesday during Turner’s presentation at the TCA Winter Press Tour. A consistent, solid ratings…

Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad! returns for Season 16 on Feb. 11, TBS announced today. MacFarlane, of course, stars as the dad of the title, CIA agent Stan Smith, husband to the ever-loyal (and perpetually clueless) Francine (Wendy Schaal), and father to left-wing Hayley (Rachael MacFarlane) and “geeky yet confident&#8221…

Twentieth Century Fox TV is invading New York Comic Con with their new fantasy thriller The Passage, The Orville, The Gifted as well as their fan-favorite animated comedies Family Guy and American Dad! Deadline exclusively reported that Fox’s Marvel series The Gifted would be headed to the East Coast fanboy/fangirl…

Ahead of American Dad!’s Season 12 premiere on Monday, Feb. 12, the veteran animated comedy has been renewed by TBS for two more seasons. Then, on Feb. 26, American Dad! will be joined on Mondays by the Conan O’Brien-produced new animated intergalactic space saga Final Space at 10:30 PM top form a 10-11 PM animation…

Hulu is expanding its library of hit animated series. In a new deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution, beginning today Hulu is offering the full run of Emmy-winning comedy Bob's Burgers, as well as all seasons of The Cleveland Show. The complete library of Futurama and all past seasons of American Dad!…

TBS is proving to be a very welcoming new home to American Dad!, which moved to cable last fall after nine seasons on Fox. Ahead of the Season 11 premiere, TBS has ordered two more seasons – 12 and 13 — of the animated comedy. This marks the second time in less than year that the Turner network has renewed the series…