Family Guy will be back

I know one of the animators on Family Guy, who says that they have over 35 episodes already produced. The show was only pulled so new episodes aren't wasted on Thursday night where it can't compete with wrestling. Rather then let them go to waste, the network decided to yank the show until it can find a new home for it. My vote is for Tuesday after That 70's Show, or Sunday after The Simpsons. To all those who say it's over, it's not even close to over. Do your homework before jumping to conclusions!

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Thanks for the info. It's great to hear that the show will be back.

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I was just reporting what I read not trying to cause trouble. I don't know any of the animators on the show so I don't know what "homework" you are referring to.

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But it WOULD be the first time that DOZENS of produced episodes were thrown out. Sure, lots of shows are thrown out with a few eps ready to go- and "go" they do, as filler when the shows the nitwork puts on as a replacement bombs out just as badly.

If Fox put up the money to produce dozens of eps, they're going to try to recoup their money.

To be fair, the Unmitigatedly Pathetic Nitwit's wrasslin' show IS funnier that "Frasier."

Hey bub, this is AMERICA, and in America incompetent brain-dead executives who make mind-bogglingly stupid decisions that flush millions of dollars are NOT punished. No doubt the clue-free induhvidual who brainstormed this bit of corporate sabotage has already been promoted to bigger and better things.

It's his SUCCESSOR, who had nothing to do with that bit of stupidity, who will catch hell for it and who's job will be on the line if he can't fix a compound fracture of the skull with a band-aid and some Bactine.

"Logic..... reality..... a TV programmer craves not these things."

The fact that "Family Guy" was getting great ratings in its original slot was irrelevant to the decision to move it. TV programmers have just barely enough self-awareness to realize that they're being paid as if they're not complete wastes of carbon in the food chain. They're being paid to change the schedule, and so the only way to justify their salaries is to change the schedule.

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Considering the picosecond attention spans we're dealing with, by TV standards that's actually pretty shrewd thinking.

No, a sad and pathetic piece of animation called "Futurama" is decomposing between "Simpsons" and "X-Files." I'm afraid Groening is into drugs; that's the only reason I can imagine he'd put his name on a shitcom like that.

Considering that per half-hour, "X-Files" is WAY funnier than "Futurama," putting "Family Guy" on at 8:30 Sunday nights would make more sense than anything else we're going to see on TV this year.

Call the College of Journalism at your local University, ask to speak to their TV Production department, and ask them to explain "hiatus." A useful mnemonic device is that "hibernation" also begins with "H."

Now with 35% MORE rat!!!

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks dented and beat-up.

Q: How did Kramer live with no visible occupation?

A: He was a pimp. This also explains why Elayne didn't go on welfare during her unemployed phase.

Well, how was Odin supposed to 'supervise' them with only the one eye?

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But I thought a show couldn't be syndicated until there were 100 episodes.

And who enforces that, the Syndication Sherrif? I'm trying to remember the name of the show on the Sci-Fi channel that got sold into syndication with only 5 (!!!) episodes having been made so far. Which means that they run through the entire series every week!

Now, that's not a good idea, and it guarantees that show an early death, but there's no limit as to what the suits will do if they think there's a buck in it.

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Nowhere Man was a series on WB, I think. That series only lasted one season and is in syndication on the Sci-Fi channel as we speak.

Star Trek only had seventy or so episodes. As far as I can tell, those episodes have been on once or twice since then.

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The only one close to that that i can think of is The Burning Zone which has maybe 12 episodes. Unless Mercy Point is now on the SF channel and that only has about 8 episodes.

Meaningless. It wouldn't be the first time that fully produced episodes of a show are thrown out. hell, it wouldn't even be the 100th.

Wrestling my ass, it's all about Frasier. Or have you forgotten those arrogant commercials featuring Stewie taunting Kelsey Grammer? Could a plan possibly have backfired any worse? Will the utter fool at FOX who thought Thursday at 9:00 was a good time slot be shitcanned? One can hope. The fact that "Family Guy" has been losing out to a wrestling show on, gulp, UPN simply makes the decision to move to Thursday night that much more unfathomable.

In other words, lay low until everyone forgets what a monstrous mistake it was to try to steal viewers from Frasier, and then put it on against weaker competition.

Buzz. The wildly popular X-Files follows the Simpsons.

"Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until *we* decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

"Germans?"

"Forget it, he's rolling."

It's off the air. The conclusion does not need to be jumped to.

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Believe me, they aren't going to throw out over 20 episodes. Other shows maybe have had to throw out three or four, so, again, please have a clue about what you're talking about before you make a counterpoint.

It's not about Frasier. Family Guy was going after the same young male teen audience it scored so well with (better than the Simpsons even) on Sunday night. Frasier does not score well with young male teens. Wrestling does. It always has. It's all about wrestling. Again, please have a clue.

Um, no. The wildly unfunny Futurama follows the Simpsons. The wildly unfunny Futurama which isn't coming even close to what Family Guy was doing in the time slot.

Off the air at the behest of the producers who never wanted to be on Thursday night to begin with. This show will succeed. It's too funny not to. Granted Fox has screwed up big time, but cream rises to the top nevertheless.

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DOES Fox own "Family Guy," or a major percentage thereof? Up until a few years ago, networks weren't allowed to actually own their shows, but could just 'lease' the rights to show them. The original producer/studio would then have the rights (after the network run) to syndicate them as they saw fit.

However, due to the tonnage of dollars funneled to the appropriate congressweasels, TV networks CAN own at least major percentages of their shows. I don't know if or how much of "Family Guy" Fox owns, but that could be a consideration.

Decades ago yes, that was true. However, with the modern niche cable channels available today, shows with barely a half-dozen episodes can be syndicated.

Oh CRAP!!!!! I just realized; eventually "Mercy Pointless" will be on Sci-Fi. God help us all!!!

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