“Family Guy” goes on without patriarch Seth MacFarlane
Up until now, I have not been a “Family Guy” fan. I’m not sure why. It’s basically in the same vein as “Robot Chicken”, which I enjoy. Based on the actions of Seth MacFarlane, I now have a reason to start watching it… but not the episodes currently airing.
Why is that? Well, Seth is siding with the writers during the current Writers Guild of America strike. Rather than put Seth’s show on hold and run reruns instead, Fox has decided to finish up some episodes without Seth. This is the show that fans demanded be brought back from cancellation, and the series that recently celebrated its 100th episode.
“Family Guy” will be going on the air without the okay of its executive producer when Fox airs “Padre de Familia” this coming Sunday, Nov. 18.
Seth said, “It would just be a colossal dick move if they did that,” and that the next three episodes of the show “are relatively close to completion, but they have not had a final pass.”
According to this Variety article, Seth said that Fox and 20th Century Fox TV, which produces the show, are “legally within their rights” to complete episodes without his sign-off.
“But they’ve never done anything like this before, in which they’ve said, ‘We’re going to finish a show without you,’ ” he said. “It’s really going to be unfortunate and damaging to our relationship if they do it.”
I’ll keep watching this situation. I’m also trying to get in touch with Seth to do an interview for Channel Frederator to talk about his Oh Yeah cartoon “Zoomates”, the current writers strike, and all things Family Guy… but I haven’t had any luck getting in touch with him yet. Keep watching this space.
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On November 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
I wonder why everyones keeping quiet about this..
On November 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I am just learning about this, and it has been quiet, this is a shock, right now i am reading up on the strike itself, i noticed the strike last night while i was watching a Jay leno episode and it was a re-rubn from like the 90’s.