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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…

Seth MacFarlane has teamed up with She's Gotta Have It writer Eisa Davis and Chadwick Boseman to develop a drama about Carlotta Walls, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. It marks the Family Guy creator's second development project with UCP, a division Universal Studio Group, since striking an overall deal…

Seth MacFarlane has set his first project under his overall deal with NBCUniversal inked earlier this year. UCP has put in development The Winds of War (working title), a limited series based on Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, with MacFarlane and Seth Fisher (The Alienist) set to pen the…

It was a Monk revival of sorts in the first episode of Peacock’s At-Home Variety Show, hosted by Seth MacFarlane. In the episode titled “Mr. Monk Shelters In Place”, Tony Shalhoub reprised his memorable titular germophobic character Adrian Monk, whom you might guess is having a tough time during the coronavirus…

Peacock will begin streaming The At-Home Variety Show, a short-form weekday series featuring stars from the NBCUniversal family to aid in COVID-19 relief efforts. Each installment will be introduced by Seth MacFarlane in his first major NBCU gig since the Family Guy creator and star signed a mega overall deal with the…

It’s déjà vu for Seth MacFarlane and Fox Corp. Family Guy creator MacFarlane slammed Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday for a comment she made in a tweet in which she shared a Washington Post story about experts saying it may be unrealistic to reopen the U.S. economy by May 1. Ingraham, who has more than 3.2 million…

Father’s Day is coming a little early this year. TBS said today that Seth MacFarlane's top-rated adult animated comedy American Dad! will return with new Season 16 episodes at 10 p.m. Monday, April 13. Watch the first promo above. The toon, which scored a two-year renewal in January, is marking its 15th anniversary…