Elementary, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes has stepped up to sponsor next Sunday’s Family Guy special.
The upcoming Warner Bros. film will be the sole sponsor of Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show. Last week, Microsoft abruptly backed out as sponsor of the half-hour comedy-variety program, amid complaints of offensive themes and language. A sneak preview from the December release, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, will air during the broadcast.
FOX still plans to air Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show on Nov. 8, but it will be doing so without the support of Microsoft. The network has lost the software giant as the exclusive sponsor of its upcoming Family Guy variety special after the company’s executives watched the show’s taping, Variety says.
FOX’s Family Guy special will air November 8 with an exclusive Microsoft sponsorship, the network announced Wednesday.
The half-hour episode – titled Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show -will also broadcast without its usual commercials; instead, it will be infiltrated with Microsoft Windows 7-based advertisements. Read the rest of this entry »
Family Guy has been banned, The BBC has learned. Authorities in Venezuela have warned local stations against broadcasting episodes of cult animated comedy, because the show promote the use of marijuana.
Networks refusing to drop Family Guy from its schedule will be fined, says Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami, who particularly targets a recent episode in which Brian The Talking Dog started a campaign to legalize pot.
It is not the first time that President Hugo Chavez’ government has reacted badly to a cartoon.
Last year, The Simpsons was deemed unsuitable for children after officials decided it flouted regulations prohibiting “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents.”
Stewie’s gay. (Yeah, we were shocked, too.) In an interview with the September issue of Playboy Magazine, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane reveals a number of secrets about FOX’s long-running animated series, including the fact that the homicidal tot beloved be FG fans is homosexual.
“We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out,” Seth says. “It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’
“But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a 1-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual…..”
On Sunday, Eminem shamelessly plugged the release of his first album in four years — Relapse in stores Tuesday — in an animated series of commercial promos with Family Guy’s talking tot Stewie.
Lauren Conrad is a genius -actually she just plays one on TV.
The MTV reality personality plays a “brainier” version of herself on an upcoming episode of the animated FOX comedy, Family Guy. Look for Lauren to appear as the rebound girl for an heartbroken Brian on an episode entitled “We Love You Conrad,” airing next Sunday, May 3 on Fox.
