American Dad
Seth MacFarlane will continue to dominate Sunday nights on Fox as his American Dad has been renewed for a sixth season.
What a guy! Fox, Seth MacFarlane ink $100 million deal
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Seth Macfarlane
Family Guy is making the move to live action with a new variety special set for November.
The tentatively titled Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show will air Sunday, Nov. 8 at 8:30/7:30c and feature the show's creator Seth MacFarlane and co-star Alex Borstein. MacFarlane and Borstein voice Peter and Lois Griffin, respectively.
VIDEO: Family Guy's bloody Emmy campaign
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Jon Hamm
Screen Actors Guild Awards
8 pm/ET TNT
Here's some pure peer pressure! Thespians honor their artistic peers for outstanding film and TV performances at the 15th annual glitzfest from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the evening promises to be a salute to James Earl Jones (he of the iconic, resonant voice and a veteran of stage, film and television), who is slated to receive the Life Achievement Award. Presenters include Christina Applegate, Angela Bassett, Jon Hamm, John Krasinski, Eric McCormack and Kyra Sedgwick. Read on for previews of The Last Templar, Loving Leah, American Dad and The L Word.
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My Own Worst Enemy
New releases announced today, January 20:
American Dad - Volume 4 will be coming out April 28
McLeod's Daughters - The Complete 8th Season will be coming out May 5
My Own Worst Enemy - The Complete Series will be coming out April 21
Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Desperate Housewives by Ron Tom/ABC
Sunday's ratings recap:7 pm/ETThe season premiere of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition averaged 9.55 million total viewers.8 pmThe Amazing Race 13 placed third for the hour, premiering to 10.29 mil (down 25 percent from Cycle 12's launch). The Simpsons returned to an audience of 9.3 mil, dipping just 135K from its previous opener; King of the Hill led out with seven mil. 9 pmHousewives bested NBC's coverage of the Eagles-Bears with 18.44 mil, virtually matching last season's premiere. Cold Case (11.24 mil) dropped a mil. Family Guy (9.2 mil) built on King's audience, while American Dad (6.86 mil) was up 13 percent from its previous premiere.10 pmBrothers & Sisters (12.35 mil) trailed football, but was down just seven percent from a year ago. The Unit (9.75 mil) lost nearly a mil from its previous, Tuesday-night season opener.
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Family Guy courtesy Fox, Seth MacFarlane by Michael Yarish/Fox
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has signed a landmark deal with 20th Century Fox that makes him the company's highest-paid writer-producer and keeps him there through 2012.The deal, which includes new media and retail projects, covers Family Guy, American Dad! and the upcoming Guy spinoff, The Cleveland Show. MacFarlane will also team up with Family Guy writer Gary Janetti to produce a sitcom.MacFarlane didn't hold back his feelings about signing the deal, which was finalized after nearly three years of negotiations. "I get a lot of pleasure out of making shows. It's a bonus to be getting paid well for it, and it's a double bonus to be getting paid exorbitantly for it." — J.R. Whalen
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American Dad, Vol. 3 courtesy 20th Century Fox
Stan Smith, weapons expert with the C.I.A., is a man you don't want to mess with. He packs heat, and he's not afraid to use it to protect his country, his family, or his civil liberties. Join the Smith family, Roger, their pet alien, and Klaus, the talking fish, for 18 episodes on 3 discs. The cast and crew provide hilarious commentary tracks for each episode, plus there are 66 deleted scenes and a Comic-Con table read, with a Q&A afterwards. — Gord LaceyBuy American Dad Volume 3 on Amazon.com.
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Fox's handy guide (press release) to the network's late April and May schedule landed in my inbox this morning. Here are a few of the highlights:Thursday, April 24 at 8 pm/ET A special two-hour edition of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? airsMonday, May 12/Monday, May 19 at 9 pmHouse's two-part season finale airsTuesday, May 20/Wednesday, May 21 at 8 pm American Idol's two-night season finaleSaturday, May 17 at 9 pm America's Most Wanted celebrates with a 1,000th capture special editionSunday, May 18 at 8 pm The Simpsons, King of the Hill and American Dad season finales air — Adam Bryant
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Flower on Meerkat Manor courtesy Animal Planet
New releases announced today, January 9:American Dad - Volume 3 will be coming out April 15 Meerkat Manor - Season 2 will be coming out April 8 Sabrina the Teenage Witch - The Complete Animated Series will be coming out April 29 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz by Kwaku Alston/FOX
As if the implications of the writers’ strike weren’t already giving us migraines, along comes Fox to make our heads explode with its latest incomprehensible schedule announcement, covering the strike-impacted midseason from January to April (consider most everything you read from here on subject to change). The first piece of bad news was expected: The seventh season of 24 is being postponed indefinitely, until Fox can ensure the entire season can run intact and uninterrupted. Who knows when that will be? Another blow: Fox is finally living up to its threat to move Bones to Fridays, effective Jan. 4, where it will be paired with repeats of House (the Fox equivalent of Law & Order, considering how often the hit medical drama will be peppered throughout the network’s new and unimproved lineup).To try to help make sense of it all, let’s look at the schedule night by night:Monday: With 24 out of the picture, the new big-ticket midseason item is now the action-pa...
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