On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:56:49 -0800, Killfile Victim #847238
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>On Nov 14, 1:45 pm, Tom Hanks With The Aids <tehMottJu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
>> Fox to air new 'Guy' Sunday
>> MacFarlane hopes network changes plans
>> By JOSEF ADALIAN
>> It looks like Fox is planning to air an original episode of "Family
>> Guy" this Sunday -- but creator Seth MacFarlane is still hoping the
>> net will change its mind.
>>
>> "It would just be a colossal dick move if they did that," MacFarlane
>> said Tuesday. He said the next three episodes of the show "are
>> relatively close to completion, but they have not had a final pass."
>>
>> MacFarlane conceded that the Fox network and 20th Century Fox TV,
>> which produces the show, are "legally within their rights" to complete
>> episodes without his sign-off.
>>
>> "But they've never done anything like this before, in which they've
>> said, 'We're going to finish a show without you,' " MacFarlane said.
>> "It's really going to be unfortunate and damaging to our relation****p
>> if they do it."
>>
>> MacFarlane was careful not to slam his day-to-day exec contacts, i.e.,
>> 20th prexies Gary Newman and Dana Walden, and Fox entertainment
>> chairman Peter Liguori.
>>
>> "I don't think they're making the call," he said. "Those are all
>> people who I have had close, respectful relation****ps with. It's hard
>> to believe it would be coming from them."
>>
>> Like numerous other hyphenates, scribe-producer is withholding his
>> showrunner duties as a means of trying to get both sides in the labor
>> dispute back to the bargaining table. He's also opted against
>> supplying voices for future episodes.
>>
>> Many other showrunners are having to sit by while, as one wag put it,
>> "somebody else is diapering your baby." MacFarlane is particularly
>> ingrained in "Family Guy," however, since in addition to writing
>> episodes, he supplies most of the big voices on the show and drew the
>> animation templates for the characters.
>>
>> He's also been in the trenches with 20th execs over the years. Studio
>> execs stood by "Family Guy" even after the Fox network killed the
>> show. Ironically, the studio's passion for the skein was inspired in
>> part by tremendous DVD sales for episodes of the show.
>>
>> MacFarlane also has another bit of leverage over 20th: He's been in
>> "final talks" over a new deal with the studio for more than a year.
>> He's been working under an interim agreement, but he says he doesn't
>> have a signed long-term contract with the studio.
>>
>> "I'm technically in breach of nothing," he said.
>>
>> Reps for 20th and Fox said they would not comment on MacFarlane's
>> remarks.
>
>Lets hope it goes better for him than it did for John Kricfalusi and
>"Ren and Stimpy"
I heard John K likes to diss Family Guy.
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