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Over the past year or so, Fox Entertainment has ordered four new animated comedy series. The push into animation kicked into high gear just as Disney started the process of acquiring key Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox Television, the studio behind Fox’s venerable animated trio of The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bo…

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is starting to own the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Emmy category. Since the category was established in 2014, he has won three of the six years, including tonight at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Including the pre-2014 split Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category…

Fox has set a slew of celebrity guest voices for the return of its Sunday night Animation Domination block including John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Asia Kate Dillon, Jim Parsons and Holly Hunter. The block, which first ran between 2005-14, returns on September 20 with The Simpsons at 8 p.m., new series Bless The Harts…

Family Guy will return to Fox in the fall with more animated parodies and Griffin family adventures. The team behind the series unveiled a four-minute preview of the new season today during the show’s Comic-Con peanel in San Diego. The video shows Peter lounging on a coach — and laughing uncontrollably — with Beavis…

EXCLUSIVE: Known for its topical humor, Fox’s Family Guy surprisingly took a pop culture approach to its Emmy mailers this year, ribbing time-slot rival and the biggest drama on television, HBO's Game of Thrones, in pursuit of votes. But the irreverent animated comedy is staying true to its Emmy campaign roots with a…

Family Guy is paying tribute to the late Adam West on tonight’s season 17 finale. In a preview clip, Brian the dog suggests changing the name of James Woods High School to Adam West High. At first, the family questions Brian’s proposal. But he states his case by mocking conservative actor Woods and wins everyone…

Fox’s Family Guy is waging a battle of Winterfell proportions on time-slot rival and the biggest drama on television, HBO’s Game of Thrones, in its annual Emmy mailer. After a string of mailers tackling Donald Trump and members of his inner circle as well as the Hollywood sexual harassment scandal, Family…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, FX Networks has landed off-network rights to hit Fox animated series Family Guy, starting with its 16th (2017-18) season. Beginning next week, Seth MacFarlane’s pop culture phenom will air on the comedy-focused FXX network, joining another blockbuster off-network animated series…

It was 20 years ago today — Seth MacFarlane got his gang to play. Yes, Family Guy premiered on Fox exactly two decades ago, and the network is marking the occasion with a trio of clips reels that follow the Griffin family’s toon journey. Check them out below. “In 1999, one animated series redefined family comedy,” the…

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…

On Sunday night, Family Guy made a thoughtful and emotional tribute to the late Carrie Fisher — but still managed to balance it with its on-brand humor. In the episode, Peter makes a eulogy at Angela’s (voiced by Fisher) funeral that started off with an out-of-context definition of the word “class” and an offering of…

Marci Proietto, a 26-year veteran of 20th Century Fox TV, has been promoted to EVP Animation. The move rewards Proietto, who first joined The Simpsons in its sixth season and has worked on every other Fox animated property since its inception, forging relationships with the likes of Matt Groening (The Simpsons and Futu…