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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…

Family Guy and The Orville creator Seth MacFarlane is leaving his longtime studio home at 20th Century Fox Television after more than two decades for a giant nine-figure television deal at NBCUniversal Content Studios. No one would comment but I hear the pact is for five years and worth at least $200 million. NBCU…

Disney boss Bob Iger, Nickelodeon and Oxygen co-founder Geraldine Laybourne, director Jay Sendrich and performers Seth MacFarlane and Cicely Tyson have been chosen as the latest members of the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame. The 25th Hall class unveiled Tuesday will be inducted in a ceremony January 28 at the TV…

Charlize Theron became the 33rd recipient, and 7th woman, and first South African to get the American Cinematheque Award on Friday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Created in 1986 as a sort of antidote to the AFI Life Achievement Award it is meant to honor someone in the middle of their career,  not the end as so…

EXCLUSIVE: Anne Winters (13 Reasons Why) is set as a new series regular on the upcoming third season of Seth MacFarlane’s epic space adventure series The Orville, its first season on Hulu. Created and written by MacFarlane, in season 3 of The Orville, set 400 years in the future, the crew of the U.S.S. Orville…

Just in time for Halloween, Hulu is finalizing deals on Books of Blood, an original film based on Clive Barker’s horror anthology, from The Orville duo of Brannon Braga, who is co-writing, executive producing and will direct in his feature directorial debut, and Seth MacFarlane, who is exec producing. Anna Friel (Marce…

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…

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…

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…