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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…

Seth MacFarlane’s space adventure series The Orville is moving to Hulu from Fox for its upcoming third season. The series will be available exclusively on the streaming service as a Hulu Original in late 2020. MacFarlane made the announcement today during the show’s panel at Comic-Con in San Diego. As for the decision…

EXCLUSIVE: Seth MacFarlane is bringing The Orville to San Diego this week in a big way — and not just for the fans attending Comic-Con International. A sprawling exhibit called The Orville Experience will bring the sci-fi show’s 25th century universe to the historic Carnation Dairy Building (390 11th Avenue)with a…

Space may be the final frontier but, according to Bill Maher, it’s the last place the United States needs to be going right now. The realpolitik host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher mocked,  minimized, and maligned the Trump administration’s extraterrestrial ambitions on Friday night’s show while also taunting the…

Joy Fehily is reportedly leaving PR firm PMK-BNC. Her previous firm Prime PR was acquired by PMK-BNC in 2016. Fehily’s partner of that firm, Michael Donkis, will remain at PMK-BNC, but publicist Cassy Brewer is coming with her. Fehily will segue to managing client Seth MacFarlane, his production label Fuzzy Door and…

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…