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I read somewhere yesterday that Family Guy is probably coming back. It said that due to overwhelming success of the DVDs released that it would be the first show brought back based on that. The series will be produced by Fox again, but probably shown on the Cartoon Network, like now. Read that much and then work intervened.

Great news, but I can't find the article again! Did I dream this?
 
Found it!

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm


'Family Guy' may return
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
Baby Stewie could be staging a comeback.

Family Guy could return with as many as 35 new episodes for January 2005.
Fox

In a sign of the growing importance of DVD sales to Hollywood, 20th Century Fox is considering a plan to resume production of Family Guy, a sometimes crude animated comedy that the Fox network took off the air more than 18 months ago.

As many as 35 new episodes could return in January 2005, marking the first time that a canceled series has been revived based on strong DVD demand and ratings in syndication.

Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman Sandy Grushow said a decision is expected soon and called the series a late-blooming phenomenon that may have aired before its time.

A DVD set of the show's first 28 episodes released in April has sold nearly 1 million copies, making it this year's top-selling TV show and the No. 4 television title ever, according to Video Store magazine. A second collection, of 22 episodes, has sold 520,000 copies. And the series is Cartoon Network's most popular among adults.

Family Guy premiered with a big audience — 22 million viewers — and some controversy after Fox's 1999 Super Bowl telecast. In the pilot episode, Stewie, a talking toddler with a clipped British accent, was openly contemptuous of his loutish dad and bent on killing his sweet-natured mother in a quest for world domination.

Creator Seth MacFarlane, then 24, wrote scripts, drew characters, provided voices and infused the show with rapid-fire sight gags, a nod to The Simpsons. But ratings faded, and the show ended with a whimper early last year.

The relatively short network run may have helped DVD sales, Video Store's Judith McCourt says. "It really speaks to something that had a following, was cut off network TV, and people said, 'What did I miss?' "

DVD and cable viewers have "created kind of a groundswell that could lead to better ratings" on Fox, Grushow says, although new episodes could end up going directly to Cartoon Network.

A decision to restart the show suggests a reversal from the old TV business model, in which a network hit predicts a profit windfall in syndication. This time, the promise of DVD and syndication gold could justify a show's return even if low network ratings didn't.

But canceled favorites aren't likely to rise from the grave en masse. Family Guy has one major advantage: With no actors and no sets, it can simply be drawn back into existence.
 
The world is too cruel to me to bring back Al. I love that show! I miss that one, it's not even on in reruns here. :(
 
Originally posted by The Radius Kid
I really miss Al too,but Stewy rocks!:)

Ditto. i have almost all the episodes on cd-rom! man they are sooo politically incorrect. man i love FOX!



i would love to see new episodes on FX or even pay TV!

Dathan
 
did anyone notice how the new SIMPSON'S halloween special ........... completely ripped off the family guys episode WHERE PETER BECOMES DEATH ???

GOOD JOB FOX!!!
 
Family Guy.........always said.....greatest show ever cancelled.

Would be great if it comes back.....Stewie Rules.
 
Originally posted by 1BADVEEE6
did anyone notice how the new SIMPSON'S halloween special ........... completely ripped off the family guys episode WHERE PETER BECOMES DEATH ???

GOOD JOB FOX!!!
Just remember, half of the family guy gags are ripped off the Simpsons....

Really hope the show comes back though, it's definately one of my favorites. If any of you are fans and haven't done so yet please GO BUY THE DVDs. If sales of these stay strong through the holidays hopefully it'll convince Fox to make some new episodes. This would be pretty groundbreaking in the TV world and maybe convince the execs to start listening to viewers a little more.

-Jade
 
Oh man, I can't wait. I hope those damn Jemimah's Witnesses feel stupid for ditching it in the first place!

Can anybody guess what word I'm thinking of? (And it's definitely not 'kitty')
 
I have an army to raise and I must get to Managua at once. I require a window seat and an in-flight Happy Meal. BUT NO PICKLES. OH, GOD HELP YOU IF I FIND PICKLES.


I LOVE that show!!! Last night i was up till 111:30 watching the seasons 1 and 2 dvd. I have to get season 3 soon! Ha ha. Oh, this is so good it just HAS to be fattening.


if they would just make the manshow dvd i'd be in heaven...

hey brian, look my alphabets sent me a message, it says ooooooooo
peter, those are cherios.
 
DCEPTCN...The word your thinking of is "kitty" ;)

I never really got into it during the original run, but I watch it every night on the cartoon network. Stewie does rock!!
 
I would LOVE new Family Guy episodes as long as they are still as edgy as before! I love how they just cut to funnya$$ stuff in the middle of nowhere.
 
I am a huge Family Guy fan, I watch it every night as I go to bed on DVD. From what I have read theyt are working on 35 new epsodes!

Here is a great website, Family Guy It has a ton of refrences to all the pop culture that the show uses. Take the quiz. I have succesfully gotten a perfect score on the hard level! (I know, I have no life)

Not a day goes by that my wife and I don't quote the show.

"Holy crip he's a crapple!"

I could discuss this show for hours I love it!!! It spark's a lot more to home for me because I am from Rhode Island. So all the local humor is especially funny. Like, "Buddy Cianci Junior High" That is the name of the Mob linked Mayor of Providence. (Until recently also known to be made of teflon.) There are a bunch of others too. Can't get enough, have been watching it for years.
 
Originally posted by BLACK6PACK
DCEPTCN...The word your thinking of is "kitty" ;)

I never really got into it during the original run, but I watch it every night on the cartoon network. Stewie does rock!!
Get outta my head!!!!
 
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