FOX renews "American Dad" to 2008

Says Variety

In article , David wrote:

This is puzzling. From everything I've seen, this is the FOX animated comedy that generates the *least* amount of "heat".

IOW, no one seems particularly positively disposed towards it, unlike pretty much every other FOX animated comedy.

So why renew the show with no constituency?!...

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:12:14 GMT, "Casey McDonald's Guidance Counsellor, Ian J. Ball" wrote:

I bet the s1 DVD set is selling extremely well.

  -- rob

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:24:18 -0500, Rob Jensen wrote:

And Cartoon Network already buys the reruns.

"David" wrote in message news:[email]...

Certainly no less "heat" than "King of the Hill," which I had to check to see was still on (it is, and is rated well below "American Dad"). The season-finale of "American Dad," which riffed on George Clooney mercilessly, was as good as a typical "Family Guy" (which to me is very good).

"Milhouse Van Houten" wrote in message news:447fce63$0$16461$[email]...

Also, it holds onto its "Family Guy" lead-in pretty well.

In article , "Milhouse Van Houten" wrote:

Actually, judging by the posts I've seen about it over the years, KOTH definitely has a constituency of dedicated fans.

Yeah, well getting preempted by football every other week will tend to put a crimp in your ratings.

In article , "Casey McDonald's Guidance Counsellor, Ian J. Ball" wrote:

I guess there's a much larger world beyond what you are anecdotally aware of.

DVD sales must have been good. It's the only reason I can think of why they renewed it.

I'm not so sure about that. I purchased American Dad V1 on it's release date for $34.99 CDN at Best Buy. About 3 weeks later, it was on sale for $19.99. This could be an indicator of poor sales.

Cheers!

Xcalibur

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:08:38 GMT, Xcalibur wrote:

Not really. Best Buy does a *lot* of seasonal/holiday/weekly promotions -- and will even discount a recent set when something comparable is released. If they were doing some kind of Family Guy discount promotion that 3rd week later, such as discounting all of the FG sets to tie into the broadcast of the Stewie straight-to-DVD movie as the season finale or for a guy-centric holiday like Memorial Day, then that type of an FG promotion would include American Dad just because it's done by the same creator.

Also, Fox Home Video does periodic discounting of its first season or two of *most* of its TV-on-DVD sets down to $20 US as a loss-leader. Could have been one of those campaigns.

  -- Rob

While Family Guy has stagnated over the last season, American Dad has really developed its own personality and has gotten better.

Says Zap2IT

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-americandadrenewed,0,6981519.story?track=rss

Cheers!

Xcalibur

The first season was pretty good and refreshing, I haven't missed one episode, but the second season quickly bored me to the point I missed several episodes without knowing it, they need to return to their original emphasis on Dad's Americanness, and they need to kill that ugly alien, I creep out everytime he opens his disgusting mouth.

On 3 Jun 2006 07:47:02 -0700, "eatfastnoodle" wrote:

Roger is the best part of the show, and a total Paul Lynde impression according to Seth M.,