Family Guy

Bean joins new series from Homeland team

Former Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean has signed up for the new FBI pilot Legends from the executive producers of Homeland.

Details for MacFarlane’s Simpsons character

Details have been revealed regarding Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming appearance in The Simpsons. The Family Guy creator will voice a character named Ben who meets up with Marge after she accidentally joins a website that arranges affairs for married people. Continue reading »

Family Guy cameo for Downton Abbey actress

Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary Crawley, will make a guest appearance on Family Guy. Dockery will “appear in a cutaway gag on the Griffins’ television playing… an aristocrat in a British period drama”.

JJ Abrams looking into Stephen King adaptation

JJ Abrams is looking at adapting the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 for television. The 2011 book follows a teacher who travels back in time in order to prevent the assassination of John F Kennedy. Continue reading »

An internet hoax has fooled some into believing that a Family Guy episode was depicting the Boston Marathon bombings.

The video was in fact two separate clips edited together from a recent episode to make it look like Peter Griffin won the Boston Marathon by detonating explosions.

The show’s creator Seth MacFarlane shut down rumours that the circulating clip was real, tweeting: “The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent. The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims.” Continue reading »

Breaking Bad script stolen

Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston has revealed that a script for the final season of the show was stolen from his car back in December. So far it appears no spoilers have been posted online.

Seth Green joins new comedy

Seth Green will team up with his Family Guy co-star Seth MacFarlane for a new comedy series called Dads. The project has already been picked up for six episodes by the Fox network. Continue reading »

New Seth MacFarlane series ordered

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has had his new comedy project Dads picked up by the Fox network. The live-action comedy series was picked up on the strength of its pilot script.

Mad Men creator confirms time shift

The creator of Mad Men says the full cast aside from Jared Harris will be returning for the sixth season of the drama. Matthew Weiner also noted that the series will move forward in time to the late 1960s. Continue reading »

8:00pm – Sunday, November 18 on FOUR

Freakin’ sweet! This week sees Peter Griffin and family celebrating as Family Guy commemorates its 200 th episode on Sunday, November 18 th at 8pm on FOUR. Coming to our screens only days after its U.S. screening, this week’s Family Guy 200 th episode, titled “Yug Ylimaf”, sees Brian (Seth MacFarlane) abuse Stewie’s (MacFarlane) time machine, causing reality to run in reverse. As a result, they have to work together to set things right before Stewie is “unborn”.

Make sure not to miss this when Family Guy turns 200-episode-old on Sunday, November 18 th at 8pm on FOUR.

COMEDY CENTRAL – Mondays & Tuesdays from 15 October, 7.40 pm

Family Guy follows the adventures of an endearingly ignorant dad, Peter Griffin, and his hilariously odd family of middle-class New Englanders in Quahog. Lois. Peter’s wife is a stay at home mom with no patience for her family’s antics; 17-year-old daughter Meg is a social outcast and the Griffin family punching bag; 13-year-old son Chris is a socially awkward teen who doesn’t have a clue about the opposite sex; and 1-year-old Stewie is a diabolically clever baby whose burgeoning sexuality is very much a work in progress. Rounding out the Griffin household is Brian the family dog, a member of Mensa with a penchant for dry martinis and dumb blondes.

8:00pm – Sunday, October 7 on FOUR

If you love your animated comedy shows you’d better be home tonight as the Griffin family return to our screens in Family Guy, premiering its 11 th season only days after the U.S. on Sunday, October 7 th at 8pm on FOUR. Family Guy follows the adventures of lovable oaf Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane) and his hilariously odd family of middle-class New Englanders. Lois (Alex Borstein) is Peter’s loving wife, a former Miss Teen Rhode Island who rules the roost but is one step away from a nervous breakdown.

Then there are their kids: frumpy, 16-year-old Meg (Mila Kunis), the family’s punching bag; 13-year-old Chris (Seth Green), a kid who can’t make sense of the opposite sex, much less the evil monkey hiding in his closet; and one-year-old Stewie (MacFarlane), a diabolically clever baby whose heterosexuality is hanging by a thread. Rounding out the Griffin household is Brian (MacFarlane), the family dog, a member of Mensa with a penchant for dry martinis and dumb blondes. Make sure not to miss this wacky family’s latest adventures when Family Guy enters its 11 th season on Sunday, October 7 th at 8pm on FOUR.

Arrested Development extended

Arrested Development’s forthcoming season has been expanded to 13 episodes according to actor David Cross, who plays Tobias. The run was initially planned to be 10 episodes.

No end in sight for Family Guy

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has said that there is currently no end in sight for the cartoon. It’s not coming to an end, not yet,” he told BBC Breakfast. “There are more [seasons] to come. Right now there’s no end in sight. It’s got another four or five years of life left. When people start getting sick of it we’ll shut it down.” Continue reading »

New role for Paget Brewster

Criminal Minds alum Paget Brewster will appear on the two-hour season 14 premiere of Law and Order: SVU as the head of Public Integrity Unit at the District Attorney’s office.

Cast shakeup for Unforgettable

Revived drama Unforgettable is set for a few cast changes for season two. Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh and Jane Curtin have signed on for the new season, but Michael Gaston, Kevin Rankin and Dava Vaidya won’t be returning. Continue reading »