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Shanksgiving
The eighteenth season of ''Family Guy'' was announced on February 12, 2019. It aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from September 29, 2019, to May 17, 2020. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter Griffin, Peter, mother Lois Griffin, Lois, daughter Meg Griffin, Meg, son Chris Griffin, Chris, baby Stewie Griffin, Stewie, and the family dog Brian Griffin, Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The season included a crossover with ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' guest starring Mike Judge reprising his roles as Beavis and Butt-Head. In April 2020, the show joined the rest of Fox's Animation Domination lineup in a partnership with Caffeine (service), Caffeine for the ''AniDom Beyond Show'', a recap show hosted by Andy Richter. The hour-long program featured interviews with guests and live interactivity with fans online, with recaps for the episodes that aired through April and May. The ''Family Guy'' episode aired on May 10, 2020, featuring R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations and additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and the Fox Media Center in Tempe. Launched as a competitor to the Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC) on October 9, 1986, Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network. It was the highest- rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and again in 2020, and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, but these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate, either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green ( ''né'' Gesshel-Green; born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and writer. Green's film debut came with a role in the comedy-drama film ''The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), and he went on to have supporting roles in comedy films throughout the 1980s, including ''Can't Buy Me Love'' (1987) and ''My Stepmother Is an Alien'' (1988). During the 1990s and 2000s, Green began starring in comedy films such as ''Can't Hardly Wait'' (1998), ''Rat Race'', ''America's Sweethearts'' (both 2001), '' Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed'', and ''Without a Paddle'' (both 2004), and became known for his portrayal of Scott Evil, Dr. Evil's son, in the ''Austin Powers'' film series (1997–2002). Also during this time, he began taking more serious roles in action films, including ''Knockaround Guys'' (2001) and ''The Italian Job'' (2003). He has provided the voice for Howard the Duck in a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe films and series, most notably in ''Guar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV2
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households. The channel is primarily aimed at the 16/18–34 age group, just like BBC Three, E4 and Sky Max and is known for American programming such as adult animations '' Family Guy,'' '' American Dad!'' and ''Bob's Burgers'', repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV such as '' Coronation Street'' and ''Emmerdale''; 60-second entertainment news bulletin ''FYI Daily'', which airs in-between films; and original programming such as '' Celebrity Juice'' and '' Love Island''. In November 2021, the channel moved into the true-crime genre with ''Social Media Murders'' a three-part documentary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
Cherry T. Chevapravatdumrong (; born 1977), also known as Cherry Cheva, is an American author, screenwriter, comedian, and producer. She serves as an executive producer of ''Family Guy'' and a co-executive producer of ''The Orville'' and ''Resident Alien''. Early life Chevapravatdumrong, a Thai American, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from Huron High School in 1995. She majored in psychology at Yale University, where she wrote for ''The Yale Record'', Yale's humor magazine. She later earned a Juris Doctor degree from New York University Law School, where she wrote for the comedic Law Revue. During law school, she spent her summers working at law firms and her winter breaks waiting tables at her parents' restaurant. Career She then moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing. Before working on ''Family Guy'', she was a writer's assistant on '' Listen Up!'' She released two young adult novels, ''She's So Money'' and ''DupliKate'', under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Devanney
Thomas Devanney is an American writer and producer. He has written several episodes of the animated series ''Family Guy''. Devanney also wrote briefly for ''The Fresh Prince of Bel Air'', and was a producer on '' Perfect Strangers'' in the 1991–92 season. Devanney and his ''Perfect Strangers'' producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox sitcom '' Shaky Ground'', which ran during the 1992–93 season and starred Matt Frewer, Robin Riker and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Devanney met fellow ''Family Guy'' writer Chris Sheridan while writing for the 1993 series ''Thea''. While not only writing for several episodes of Family Guy including the famous "You Have AIDS" song, as well as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he voiced Marilyn Manson in an episode of Family guy. In the 2020 episode "CutawayLand" (S19 E4), the Griffins travel to a land of the past episode's cut aways and you hear the famous AIDS song, at which Peter says that the patient's name is Tom Devan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hentemann
Mark Henry Hentemann is an American screenwriter, creator and producer for television and film. He is a writer, executive producer and former showrunner of the animated series ''Family Guy'', where he started as a writer in its first season. In addition, Hentemann has also provided voices for many minor characters on ''Family Guy'', including the "Phony Guy", Opie, and Eddie the Ostrich. Hentemann has also written for the ''Late Show with David Letterman'', created the series '' 3 South'' for MTV, and also the animated series, '' Bordertown'' for Fox in 2016 on the network's ''Sunday Funday'' lineup, which Seth MacFarlane and he executive produced. He is currently working on a reboot of The Naked Gun franchise for Paramount. Hentemann is also a long-time real estate investor. Having moved to Los Angeles penniless in 1998, he began investing his script earnings into multifamily. He is founder of Quantum Capital, an investment firm. Career Hentemann grew up in Albuquerque, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Vallow
Kara Vallow is an American television animation producer who works with Seth MacFarlane on the four television series produced by Fuzzy Door Productions for Fox, '' Family Guy'', '' American Dad!'' (now moved to TBS), ''The Cleveland Show'', and '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. Career Vallow worked at the New York City-based studio Broadcast Arts, best known for set design for ''Pee-wee's Playhouse''. She eventually moved to Los Angeles to work at Hyperion Pictures as the supervisor of the production layout department on the feature ''Bébé's Kids'', a multi-cultural animated feature film. Over the next few years, Vallow found herself at Murakami-Wolf as producer of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' TV series during its waning years. She worked at Hanna-Barbera, where she produced the series ''Johnny Bravo'', and where she met Seth MacFarlane. Vallow then went on to Sony to produce their first primetime series, ''Dilbert'', with Larry Charles, which ran on UPN for two sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Smith (writer)
Danny Smith is an American producer, writer and voice actor on the American animated television series ''Family Guy''. He has been with the show since its inception and throughout the years has contributed many episodes, such as "Holy Crap", "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", "Chitty Chitty Death Bang" and the Christmas themed episodes, "Road to the North Pole" and " A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas". Smith also voices the Evil Monkey and the Giant Chicken, otherwise known as Ernie. He is the only ''Family Guy'' writer who hails from the state of Rhode Island, where the show is set (although creator Seth MacFarlane attended the Rhode Island School of Design). Smith graduated from Smithfield High School (Rhode Island) in 1977 and from Rhode Island College in 1981. An experienced sitcom writer, he has written for several television shows, such as ''Nurses'', ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', ''Yes, Dear'' and ''Head of the Class''. Smith wrote and illustrated a regul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Callaghan
Steve Callaghan is an American screenwriter, producer and voice actor, best known for his work on ''Family Guy''. He is a graduate of the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Callaghan started his career in 1999 as a writers' assistant for ''Family Guy'', and has since worked as a writer and producer on a variety of televisions shows such as ''3 South'', ''Yes, Dear'' and ''American Dad!''. Callaghan was offered a job as a writers' assistant on the animated series ''Family Guy'' in 1999, and became one of the first members of the original writing staff of the show. He served as co-executive producer during the show's Family Guy (season 5), fifth, Family Guy (season 6), sixth, and Family Guy (season 7), seventh seasons, and as executive producer during the show's Family Guy (season 8), eighth season. During the show's cancellation from 2003 to 2005, Callaghan wrote for the CBS television sitcom ''Yes, Dear'' and the animated television series ''3 South' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Sulkin
Alexander Matthew Sulkin (born February 14, 1973) is an American screenwriter, producer, and voice actor known for his work on ''Family Guy'' and ''The Cleveland Show''. Career Sulkin began as a writer for ''The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)#Craig Kilborn (1999–2004), The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn'', during the show's first three years. On the August 18, 2014 WTF podcast, he stated that he got the job after being recommended by Wellesley Wild. Sulkin joined ''Family Guy'' in 2005, and has since produced, written and provided voices for multiple episodes, including the hour-long ''Star Wars'' homage, "Blue Harvest (Family Guy), Blue Harvest", as well as "Chick Cancer", "Stew-Roids", "Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure", "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q", "Family Guy Viewer Mail 2, Family Guy Viewer Mail #2" (with Tom Devanney and Deepak Sethi), "Into Fat Air", "Grimm Job" and "3 Acts of God". In August, 2010, Sulkin and his writing partner Wellesley Wild s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orville'' (since 2017), and co-creator of the television series ''American Dad!'' (since 2005) and ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013). He also wrote, directed, and starred in the films ''Ted (film), Ted'' (2012), its sequel ''Ted 2'' (2015), and ''A Million Ways to Die in the West'' (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation. Recruited to Hollywood, he was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for television series including ''Johnny Bravo'', ''Cow and Chicken'', ''Dexter's Laboratory'', and ''The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, Larry & Steve''. He made guest appearances as an actor on television series such as ''Gilmore Girls'', ''The War at Home (TV series), The War at Home'', ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', and ''Flash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob's Burgers
''Bob's Burgers'' is an American adult animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011. The show centers on the Belcher family—parents Bob and Linda and their three children, Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant and often go on adventures of many kinds. The show was conceived by Bouchard after he developed '' Home Movies''. ''Bob's Burgers'' is a joint production by Wilo Productions and 20th Television Animation. While reviews for the first season were mixed, feedback for subsequent seasons has been much more positive. The series premiere, "Human Flesh", drew in 9.39 million viewers, making it the highest-rated series premiere of the season and finishing ninth in the ratings for the week it aired. Since then, the show has grown to be a critical and cultural success. In 2013, ''TV Guide'' ranked ''Bob's Burgers'' as one of the 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time. The series has been nominated for several awards, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
