It’s official. Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi adventure series The Orville will return for a third season on Fox. The renewal is not unexpected. Things were looking bright for a Season 2 renewal when the series received approval for $15.8 million in the latest round of TV tax credits for a third season, up from the $14.5…

“When we began this, it was designed to be a little bit more of a hybrid, straddling the line pretty evenly between comedy and drama,” said Seth MacFarlane, creator of Fox’s sci-fi adventure series, The Orville. Speaking at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy confab on the Paramount lot, MacFarlane — who is known for his…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The Help stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer will be working together again in Universal’s upcoming female ensemble comedy Fairy Tale Ending.  Universal recently acquired the pitch from Jim Hecht (A Wizard's Tale, Ice Age: The Meltdown) and Tracy McMillan (Marvel’s Runaways and Mad Men…

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…

Seth MacFarlane (The Orville), Sienna Miller (Live by Night), Simon McBurney (The Theory of Everything) and Annabelle Wallis(Peaky Blinders) are set to star opposite Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts in Showtime’s upcoming eight-episode limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Crowe. All four will play…

EXCLUSIVE: Seth MacFarlane is taking another major step in the ramp-up of his Fuzzy Door production company with the hire of veteran executive and producer Erica Huggins as President. Huggins is coming off a 14-year stint at Imagine Entertainment, the last five as President. Huggins’ appointment comes two years after…

Fox Television Group Chairman/CEO Gary Newman is not expecting any Fox Broadcast talent or creators to bail in protest over Fox News Channel. The scrum question was a natural given last month’s outrage over some of the more “fringe sh*t” coming out of Fox News Channel stars these days, as Seth MacFarlane described it…

It’s been an extraordinary confluence of events. Seth MacFarlane’s Saturday tweet slamming Fox News for their “fringe” appeals to viewers to not believe any other news organizations was quickly magnified by the conservative-leaning news channel’s coverage of the immigrant child separation crisis. As Fox News hosts and…

Paul Feig, whose movies at 20th Century Fox include the Melissa McCarthy comedies Spy and The Heat, has condemned the movie studio’s sibling Fox News Channel for its coverage of the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies. The writer-director-producer joins the likes of fellow producer-director Judd Apatow…

EXCLUSIVE: Days after Seth MacFarlane’s outrage over Fox News host Tucker Carlson's suggestion that viewers should discount any other media besides Fox News ignited the Internet, the Family Guy creator is acting on it with a $2 million donation to NPR and $500,000 to Los Angeles' NPR membership station, KPCC, the top…

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…