Kara Vallow is an American television producer and animator. She has worked on four television series by

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: ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. Furthermore, she served as a producer on the first season of

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's ''

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''.

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 moved to Murakami-Wolf as producer of ''

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'' TV series during its waning years. She worked at

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, where she produced the series ''

'', 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 ''

'' 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

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. She produced the MTV series ''

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'', the pilot for

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’s ''

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'' and the presentations for Fox's ''

'' 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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