Kara Vallow is an American television animation producer who works with Seth MacFarlane on the four television series produced by

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for Fox, '' Family Guy'', '' American Dad!'' (now moved to TBS), ''

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'', and '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''.

Career

Vallow worked at the

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-based studio Broadcast Arts, best known for set design for ''

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''. She eventually moved to

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to work at

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as the supervisor of the production layout department on the feature ''

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'', a multi-cultural animated feature film. Over the next few years, Vallow found herself at Murakami-Wolf as producer of ''

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'' TV series during its waning years. She worked at Hanna-Barbera, where she produced the series ''

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'', and where she met Seth MacFarlane. Vallow then went on to Sony to produce their first primetime series, ''

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'', with

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, which ran on

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for two seasons. She then took over as producer for

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of '' Family Guy'' before its brief cancellation. In 2004, Vallow created and produced the animation sequences in the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary '' In the Realms of the Unreal'' directed by Jessica Yu. She produced the MTV series '' 3 South'', the pilot for

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’s ''

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'' and the presentations for Fox's '' American Dad!'' and an untitled

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pilot, before Fox made the decision to bring back ''Family Guy'' for an unprecedented 35 episode order. In order to accommodate producing both ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'' simultaneously, she built a standalone animation studio for

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and assembled a 200+ person team. She also produced the Fox presentations ''Two Dreadful Children'' and '' Bordertown''. Nominated for five Emmys, Vallow was at one time responsible for three half-hours of programming on Sunday nights: ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', and ''The Cleveland Show''. Vallow runs two blogs, Teen Sleuth and the book blog, The Haunted Library."The Haunted Library"
Retrieved October 4, 2015.

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