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Family Guy‘s entire catalog of past seasons soon will be available only on Disney-owned networks and platforms. Beginning on Sept. 20, comedy-focused FXX and corporate sibling Freeform will become the exclusive cable homes to the series’ reruns from Seasons 1-19. Hulu continues to be the exclusive Family Guy streaming…

One of the final roles of Norm Macdonald, who died Tuesday at the age of 61, was voicing Lieutenant Yaphit, a recurring character on Seth MacFarlane’s hourlong space odyssey The Orville. Macdonald played Yaphit, the gelatinous, shapeshifting engineer on the Orville, in the first two seasons of the Fox series, and…

The Orville is finally heading towards season three. Seth MacFarlane's sci-fi drama, which moved from Fox to Hulu in 2019 for its third season, was hit by the pandemic disrupting production, meaning fans were in for a pretty long wait after the second season premiered in 2018. However, Jordan Helman, head of scripted…

Seth MacFarlane once again took extreme displeasure in comments made by a host of Fox News, another episode in a long saga between the Family Guy creator and Fox News corporate sibling Fox Entertainment, which airs his long-running animated series Family Guy. “Tucker Carlson’s latest opinion piece once again makes me…

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to Ted, a live-action comedy series based on Seth MacFarlane’s hit 2012 movie, from UCP and MRC Television. MacFarlane is in negotiations to reprise the voice of the lovable foul-mouthed teddy bear. MacFarlane and Erica Huggins will executive produce through MacFarlane’s…

Seth MacFarlane has teamed up with Amy Pascal to adapt Elan Mastai's novel All Our Wrong Todays for Peacock. The pair are developing a series adaptation for the NBCU streamer. Published in 2018, the book is a mind-bending time-travel love story that explores alternate versions of ourselves in dramatically surprising…

This is an attention-getter: Smokey and the Bandit is being remade for television by Halloween's David Gordon Green and Brian Sides. The pair are developing the adaptation of the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie with UCP and Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door. The movie, which was directed by stuntman Hal Needham, follows Reynolds'…

Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door is expanding the executive team under president Erica Huggins with the hire of former Marvel Television exec Aimee Carlson as SVP. Reporting to Huggins, Carlson will work to grow Fuzzy Door’s slate spanning drama, comedy and areas such as science, history, politics and music across film…

More than a year after season two of sci-fi adventure series The Orville came to an end, leading man and executive producer Seth MacFarlane finally has an update for season three. “All I can say is we are working on it. We’re working on it very hard, we got hit by this just like everyone else but we’re working on it,&#8221…

Netflix has given a series order to an animated version of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom Good Times. The project hails from Lear and his Act III Productions, NBA star Steph Curry and his Unanimous Media, Seth MacFarlane and his Fuzzy Door, and Sony Pictures TV. Based on his iconic ’70s series, Good Times is…

UCP is ramping up its development on unscripted programming and is moving into the family space. The company is working on family-friendly projects with Seth MacFarlane, Jim Henson Company and Wondery. This comes after the division of Universal Studio Group has produced a slew of true-crime series and investigative…

A dystopian sci-fi project from a former Pixar employee has landed at Peacock with UCP and Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door producing. The streamer is adapting Skywatch, based on a short film written and directed by ex-Pixar artist Colin Levy, into a series after landing the rights in a competitive situation. Skywatch…