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20 Best TV Characters of the Past 20 Years (#12-#9)

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Today, we present the next four characters...  read more

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The Cleveland Show adds female voices

If we were in Quahog, this would probably be a news flash, broken by Tom Tucker or Diane Simmons, but seeing as this is about the upcoming Family Guy spin-off, that might be just a little too meta, even for Seth McFarland....  read more

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Family Guy’s MacFarlane signs enormous deal with 20th Century Fox TV

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Family Guy survived two cancellations by 20th Century Fox before it became the cultural phenomenon it is today. Now, after a similarly bumpy process, show creator Seth MacFarlane has signed quite the lucrative deal with Fox. Over two years of negotiations have finally come to fruition for MacFarlane, who has just signed a deal that would make him the highest-paid TV writer-producer according to Hollywood Reporter. The deal is said to be worth more than $100 million and keeps MacFarlane at 20th Century Fox TV through 2012 as executive producer of Family Guy, American Dad and the upcoming Family Guy...  read more

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Cleveland Rocks: Family Guy spin-off in early stages

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A spin-off of Fox’s hit animated comedy series Family Guy is in the works, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The show, tentatively titled Cleveland, will center on the Griffin family’s mellow neighbor of same name, a series regular meant to skewer black stereotypes. MacFarlane has already started writing with Family Guy writer/producer Mike Henry and Rich Appel, executive producer of MacFarlane’s other animated series American Dad. Family Guy has defied all odds to become Fox's top-rated comedy. The show premiered in 1999, but was abruptly canceled in 2000, and again in 2002. Cartoon Network started showing reruns of the show...  read more

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