Family Guys Gets Canceled Yet Again

May 20, 2022 Post a Comment

Family Guy Could Finally Exist Canceled By Seth MacFarlane's New Deal

Now that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is leaving Fob and signing a new bargain with NBCUniversal, the series runs the risks of existence canceled.

With Seth MacFarlane's new bargain with NBCUniversal, Family unit Guy runs the adventure of finally being canceled. ThoughFamily Guyis no stranger to being taken off the air, this deal is new territory for the 21-twelvemonth-old series.

Created past MacFarlane and David Zuckerman, Family unit Guydebuted on Fox in 1999, merely was canceled in 2002. Afterwards the show'south DVD sales turned out to be more successful than anticipated, Fox gave it another shot, bringing the testify dorsum in 2005. It turned out to be worthy gamble. MacFarlane built his unabridged career aroundFamily Guy,afterwards creating several other shows, includingAmerican Dad!, The Cleveland Testify,and the live-action sci-fi serial,The Orville.However, times are changing, and MacFarlane is leaving Fox as office of a new five-year deal with NBCUniversal.

Family Guy All the same Has a Future

Does this change hateful thatFamily Guyis no more? Not necessarily. Though MacFarlane will exist producing various projects through NBCUniversal,Family Guy,too equally his other Flim-flam shows, won't exist affected. And so, even though he'll reportedly exist developing a combination of live-action and animated shows across a number of NBCUniversal platforms, which include Syfy, U.s.a., and Bravo, to name a few, he'll withal have the liberty to stick with his other Fox-endemic shows. As of yet, MacFarlane hasn't confirmed any new shows for whatever specific NBCUniversal platforms.

Family Guy's Futurity Still isn't Guaranteed

Now, even thoughFamily unit Guyis officially safe through this bargain, that's non to say that at that place's any guarantee MacFarlane is planning on sticking around for the long haul (or much longer than he already has). Having already dipped his toes into writing, directing, and producing feature films, likeTed, Ted 2,andA Million Ways to Die in the West,likewise as shifting his focus from blitheness to live-action, in that location'southward no telling how long MacFarlane ultimately plans on sticking withFamily Guy.This is pure presumption at this signal in time, but the fact thatFamily Guyis safe in this new deal doesn't necessarily guarantee a long shelf life - not under MacFarlane's watch at least.

Ultimately,Family Guywill live to encounter another flavor (it was renewed terminal year into 2020 for its 18th season). And, if information technology's anything similar Fox's other staple blithe series,The Simpsons,then fans could likely expect to see Family Guystick around indefinitely. The series has been criticized for some of its not-so-family unit-friendly humor over the years, but information technology'southward made efforts to evolve. If it tin sustain its relevance, the likelihood of its survival has null to exercise with MacFarlane jumping ship from Fox, but whether or not it continues resonating with audiences.

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