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Family Guy
''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on January 31, 1999, following Super Bowl XXXIII, with the rest of the first season airing from April 11, 1999. The show centers around the Griffin family, Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter Griffin, Peter and Lois Griffin, Lois, their children, Meg Griffin, Meg, Chris Griffin, Chris, and Stewie Griffin, Stewie, and their anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian Griffin, Brian. Set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, Quahog, Rhode Island, the show exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway (filmmaking), cutaway gags that often lampoon Culture of the United States, American culture. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after he developed two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, ''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve''. MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orville'' (2017–2022), and co-creator of the television series ''American Dad!'' (since 2005) and ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013). He also co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in the films ''Ted (film), Ted'' (2012) and 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 (RISD), where he studied animation. He was recruited to Hollywood as an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera's television series ''Johnny Bravo'', ''Cow and Chicken'' and ''Dexter's Laboratory''; during this time, he created the animated short ''The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, Larry & Steve''—a loose precursor of ''Family Guy''—for ''What a Cartoon!''. In 2008, he cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animated Sitcom
An animated sitcom is a subgenre of a television sitcom that is animation, animated instead of being filmed live-action, and is generally made or created for adult animation, adult audiences in most cases. ''The Simpsons'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''South Park'', and ''Family Guy'' are four of the longest-running American animated sitcoms. History Early history ''The Flintstones'', which debuted in 1960, is considered the first example of the animated sitcom genre. A similar cartoon, ''The Jetsons'', which took place in the future rather than the past, followed in 1962. Marc Blake argued it started the "science fiction sitcom sub genre". Animated sitcoms have been more controversial than traditional cartoons from the onset. ''The Flintstones'' was originally oriented at parents, as an animated version of ''The Honeymooners'', though it was primarily popular with children. David Bennett argued that when it was originally released, it was aimed at an adult audience, and called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Murphy
Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental " A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the ''Saturday Night Fever'' soundtrack in 1977. Further classical-disco fusions followed, such as " Flight '76", " Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor" " Bolero", and " Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful. In a career spanning over five decades, Murphy has written music for numerous films and TV shows, including '' The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', ''The Savage Bees'', '' Stingray'', '' Wiseguy'', '' The Commish'', '' Profit'', '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Looney Tunes'', and '' How Murray Saved Christmas''. He has had a long-running partnership with Seth MacFarlane, composing music for his films and TV shows such as ''Family Guy'', '' American Dad'', '' The Cleveland Show,'' '' Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Roman
Film Roman, LLC, is an American animation studio currently based in Woodland Hills, California and formerly in Burbank. It was previously owned by Starz Inc., which is now a division of Lionsgate, and currently by Waterman Entertainment, the production company of producer Steve Waterman. Founded by veteran animator and director Phil Roman on October 26, 1984, it is best known for providing animation for the ''Garfield'' primetime specials, based on Jim Davis' comic strip of the same name. The studio also produced the animated series ''The Simpsons'', ''The Critic'', ''King of the Hill'', ''Family Guy'', ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'', '' The Goode Family'', and '' Dan Vs.''. History Background Phil Roman, veteran alumnus of MGM Animation/Visual Arts and Bill Melendez Productions, founded Film Roman on October 26, 1984 as a means to continue the production of the ''Garfield'' television specials, since Melendez's own studio was unable to work on both the ''Peanuts'' and ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Television Animation
20th Television Animation (formerly known as Fox Television Animation) is an American animation studio and production company that creates, develops, produces, publishes, and distributes primarily adult animated television series and specials. It is a unit of Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company. History 1999–2019: As a unit of 20th Century Fox Television / 20th Television The studio was established on May 19, 1999. Its first project was the continued production of ''Family Guy'' for its second season, which it took over from the series' previous home at Film Roman for season one, following "production differences". The studio would become the home of future animated series co-created by Seth MacFarlane: ''American Dad!'' and '' The Cleveland Show''. In 2016, Fox Television Animation assumed production of Matt Groening's ''The Simpsons'', once again taking over from Film Roman. Most animated projects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Television
20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, Inc., 20th Century-Fox Television and 20th Century Fox Television) is the television studio arm of 20th Century Studios, owned by Disney Television Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Productions from this company are distributed on/in home video, home media formats by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner. 20th Television was part of the majority of 21st Century Fox's assets acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquired by Disney in 2019. The company's current name was adopted in 2020 when Disney dropped the "Fox" word from the names of the acquired 21st Century Fox assets to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation. 20th Television has since become American Broadcasting Company, ABC's flagship television production arm with the closure of ABC Signature on October 1, 2024. Divisions 20th Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuzzy Door Productions
Fuzzy Door Productions, Inc. is an American film and television production company founded by Seth MacFarlane on July 31, 1998. The company's productions include the animated sitcoms ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'', the ''Family Guy'' spin-off '' The Cleveland Show'', the live-action sitcom '' The Winner'', the science documentary series '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'', and the sci-fi comedy drama series '' The Orville''. Established as part of 20th Century Studios, the company signed a deal with NBCUniversal in 2020, subsequently basing its headquarters at Universal City Studios in Universal City, and naming Erica Huggins as its president that same year. MacFarlane's animated series, ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'', have been produced at 20th Television Animation, while his live-action series, ''The Orville'', is filmed at the studio's Universal City headquarters and in Westlake, California. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherry Gunther
Sherry Gunther is an American television producer, creator, and entrepreneur known for her work in animation. While at Klasky Csupo, Gunther worked on the television series '' Duckman'', '' Rugrats'', and early seasons of ''The Simpsons'', for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1991. Career Gunther served in various production roles in animation before being elected senior vice president of production at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1995. Under Hanna-Barbera President Fred Seibert, she oversaw production of Turner Entertainment programs such as '' Dexter's Laboratory'', '' Johnny Bravo'', '' The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' and the '' World Premiere Toons''. She then went on to produce ''Family Guy'' and to found 20th Television's first in-house prime-time animation studio. She produced prime-time pilots for Imagine Television, Touchstone Television, 20th Television, Fox and Carsey Warner as well as theatrical ''Looney Tunes'' shorts for Warner Bros. Aside from her an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Marmel
Steven L. Marmel (born December 17, 1964) is an American television writer, producer, and stand-up comedian who has worked on many animated television series, including '' The Fairly OddParents'', '' I Am Weasel'', '' Danny Phantom'', ''Family Guy'' and '' Yin Yang Yo!''. During his work on ''The Fairly OddParents'', he frequently co-wrote episodes with creator Butch Hartman. Marmel also created the live-action series '' Sonny with a Chance'', '' So Random'' as well as the series '' Mech-X4''. Career Marmel had been a stand-up comedian since the age of 18, and was discovered while performing in 1996 by a Hanna-Barbera executive who thought he'd be ideal as a writer for '' Johnny Bravo''. He has since worked on numerous other shows for Hanna-Barbera, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel, and has been nominated for multiple Emmy and Annie Awards for his work as a writer, producer, and songwriter. He has also been noted by the conservative magazine '' The American Spectator'' for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Sharpe
Jonathan Goldblatt, who writes under the pen name Julius Sharpe, is an American television writer, producer and showrunner of ''Making History'' and ''United We Fall''. Biography Sharpe received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1995. He started his TV writing career as a writer for '' The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn'' and ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson''. He was also a writer for Comedy Central's '' Weekends at the DL'' and '' The Showbiz Show with David Spade.'' In 2014, Sharpe signed an overall deal with 20th Century FOX Television, where he created and executive produced the comedy series ''Making History''. He was also co-executive producer of ''The Grinder'' and worked as a writer, producer, and voice actor for Seth MacFarlane's ''Family Guy'', ''The Cleveland Show ''The Cleveland Show'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry (voice actor), Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company. A Spin-off ( ... [...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 (U.S. TV series), Perfect Strangers'' in the 1991–92 season. Devanney and his ''Perfect Strangers'' producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox Broadcasting Company, 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 (writer), Chris Sheridan while writing for the 1993 series ''Thea (TV series), Thea''. While not only writing for several episodes of ''Family Guy'' including the famous The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire, "You Have AIDS" song, as well as ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', he voiced Marilyn Manson in an episode of ''Family Guy''. ''Family Guy'' Devanney joined ''Family Guy'' in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Vallow
Kara Vallow is an American television producer and animator. She has worked on four television series by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions: ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', ''The Cleveland Show'', and ''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. Furthermore, she served as a producer on the first season of Cartoon Network's ''Johnny Bravo''. 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 ''Bebe's Kids'', a multi-cultural animated feature film. Over the next few years, Vallow moved to Fred Wolf Films, Murakami-Wolf as producer of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series), 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
