More Family Guy on Fox in January

[livingfruitvirus]

They're lovin it.

Year Of The Guy

Looks like 2005 is shaping up to be quite a year in the world of Family Guy. In anticipation of the show’s return to the schedule this spring, FOX will be airing back-to-back encore episodes of Family Guy on three consecutive Sundays in January. Tune-in to FOX on January 16th, 23rd and 30th at 9/8c to catch 6 classic episodes of Family Guy and kick off the new year in style.
How dare they replace an hour of Malcolm! *

* sarcasm

[Zyzzybalubah]

Heh heh, I just had a funny thought. What if they thought, based off "the success" of Family Guy reruns on Friday, that they should play new episodes on Friday?

Knowing Fox, I wouldn't be surprised.

[Spongebrain2.0]

Wow, Family Guy was ignored by Fox when it ran from 1999 to early 2002.


Now...Fox is loving it and they are trying to cash in on its popularity!

That's the entertainment business for ya, go figure:rolleyes:

[Eddie G.]

Wow, Family Guy was ignored by Fox when it ran from 1999 to early 2002.


Now...Fox is loving it and they are trying to cash in on its popularity!

That's the entertainment business for ya, go figure:rolleyes:People act like Family Guy was given a death slot from the get go. I mean the show was first aired after The Superbowl and The Simpsons, two fantastic lead-ins. The truth really is that Family Guy wasn't popular when it was first on and that wasn't all Fox's fault.

Futurama was all Fox's fault.

[livingfruitvirus]

People act like Family Guy was given a death slot from the get go. I mean the show was first aired after The Superbowl and The Simpsons, two fantastic lead-ins. The truth really is that Family Guy wasn't popular when it was first on and that wasn't all Fox's fault.

Futurama was all Fox's fault.
Family Guy WAS popular at its start. Fox put it on Thursday because they thought it was popular enough to go up against Friends, and it wasn't.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

more edits to look foward to huh? :(

[CryptiniteDemon]

People act like Family Guy was given a death slot from the get go. I mean the show was first aired after The Superbowl and The Simpsons, two fantastic lead-ins. The truth really is that Family Guy wasn't popular when it was first on and that wasn't all Fox's fault.

Umm, bull crap. People loved family guy. Fox didn't like it and moved it to a new time spot each week or pre-empted it with some other POS show all the time. None of the fans could ever find the damn show. You can't expect to have a huge audience when fox was making it impossible to find.

[Naruffy]

Wow, Family Guy was ignored by Fox when it ran from 1999 to early 2002.


Now...Fox is loving it and they are trying to cash in on its popularity!

That's the entertainment business for ya, go figure:rolleyes:Your full of it, Fox pushed Family guy with all it had, People weren't interested in it at the time. Fox moved the show in places next to some of its heavy weight shows but still the show failed, There was a time it was off the air and they brought it back and it stilled failed. I don't understand why you guys come on these forums and bash on situations like this, the show had bad ratings and fox canceled it cartoon network picked it up for sindication and got high ratings, now tell me, when you read that little sentence, who do you think is to blame for the death of family guy when it first air fox or so called fans like you who weren't watching from the beginning?

[Naruffy]

Umm, bull crap. People loved family guy. Fox didn't like it and moved it to a new time spot each week or pre-empted it with some other POS show all the time. None of the fans could ever find the damn show. You can't expect to have a huge audience when fox was making it impossible to find.If its not doing well in the place where they put it why leave it there. and another thing about finding it fox runs commmercials like crazy of there shows that do good, family guy did not do good at all when it first aired on sunday, every TV critic hated the show calling it boring, not funny and stupid.

[Spongebrain2.0]

Family Guy did great during its first season. Fox thought it was TOO BIG of a hit and put it up against Friends & Survivor. It obviously could not compete with them. So Fox just moved it and moved it around their schedule to the point where noone could find it. At least Futurama ALWAYS STAYED in the same timeslot!

[Eddie G.]

Umm, bull crap. People loved family guy. Fox didn't like it and moved it to a new time spot each week or pre-empted it with some other POS show all the time.Honestly most people I know discovered FG through Cartoon Network. And honestly nothing we've heard so far would point to Fox hating FG. Even if you don't like the show's treatment it seems that Fox liked the show and was pretty nice to the creative team, Seth always seems supportive of them.

Family Guy WAS popular at its start. Fox put it on Thursday because they thought it was popular enough to go up against Friends, and it wasn't.Wasn't it on hiatus for a year (Which I'm guessing means that the show wasn't doing too hot for whatever reason) or so then moved to Wed. night and then moved into its final death slot?


At least Futurama ALWAYS STAYED in the same timeslot!
Yeah... that was actually a bad thing.

[shoujoaifan]

At least Futurama ALWAYS STAYED in the same timeslot! And pre-empted it constantly due to Matt Groening not wanting to tone it down, like getting rid of the suicide booths (remembers a newspaper article saying he told the FOX execs " **** You."

EDIT: Eddie G. just informed Spongebrain2.0 before I posted.




IN ANY CASE-is there is ANY proof, EITHER way on this Family Guy debacle?

And should we be glad they're rerunning old episodes, LET ALONE make new episodes, even if and definately was AS that saved the show?

[Spongebrain2.0]

You guys can stick up for Futurama, but not Family Guy:rolleyes:

Futurama, if I recall had MASSIVE hype when it came out, billed as "From the creator of The Simpsons". Family Guy had some hype, then after the first season, Fox fooked around with its timeslot and it started to draw bad ratings. I am not saying Futurama wasn't mistreated. Almost half of the series was most likely pre-empted, but I am saying Family Guy is much more of a bigger hit than Futurama.

[Jaime_Weinman]

Family Guy did great during its first season.Kind of a myth. FG did well after The Simpsons, but when Fox moved it to Thursday, it not only lost the night (that was inevitable, and expected), but it actually got worse ratings than the show Fox had on Thursday before that, some compilation show called "The Fox Files." The test of any show is not whether it wins the time slot, but whether it gets better ratings than what it replaces in that time slot. FG failed that test in almost every time slot it was ever in. It wasn't killed by the moving around, it was killed by the fact that no matter where it moved, it performed worse than what it replaced.

As things stand now, the show is more popular than it used to be, and will undoubtedly get good enough ratings to win in the all-powerful 18-49 demo, which will keep it on the air for several more years. But if it deserved to be revived, it also deserved to be cancelled when it was, 'cause it was a flop. (And a very bad show by a very second-rate creator, but that's neither here nor there...)

[The Landstander]

Uh, both Family Guy and Futurama were victims of Fox scheduling. FG for reasons mentioned (tough slot/changing slots), and Futurama for being put at 7 PM on Sunday (as in 'pre-empted by football' slot).
FG failed that test in almost every time slot it was ever in.Yeah, because casual viewers who liked the show but weren't huge fans (such as myself at the time) didn't know when it was on.

[ClockStomper]

Which episodes are airing? Seems like a lot of them can't be aired because FOX dosen't like words like "crap" and butt-shots (Quagmire gets the thumbs up, but babies and women don't. Come out of the closet already, Rupert Murdoch!)

[Artimus Gigan]

You guys can stick up for Futurama, but not Family Guy:rolleyes:

Futurama, if I recall had MASSIVE hype when it came out, billed as "From the creator of The Simpsons". Family Guy had some hype, then after the first season, Fox fooked around with its timeslot and it started to draw bad ratings. I am not saying Futurama wasn't mistreated. Almost half of the series was most likely pre-empted, but I am saying Family Guy is much more of a bigger hit than Futurama.
Futurama was always pre-empted by football in my area...

[RD!]

How much Family Guy does TV honestly need?

[Martianinvader]

Enough with the repeats--I don't want FG to return another time without new material.

The only reason I really watch these new showings is to catch what they cut out....kind of a twisted reason....but it works for Fox!

[Youko Recca]

Because it's not like everyone doesn't have the sets and haven't had it embraced thanks to AS, which has better atmosphere around it. If this goes well for them I'm gonna want to know why.

[Eddie G.]

Which episodes are airing? Seems like a lot of them can't be aired because FOX dosen't like words like "crap" and butt-shots (Quagmire gets the thumbs up, but babies and women don't. Come out of the closet already, Rupert Murdoch!)According to Seth Fox doesn't want to edit the show, it's not their fault. He said it's the FCC.

[Tobias]

According to Seth Fox doesn't want to edit the show, it's not their fault. He said it's the FCC.

Which is probably why we'll never see the nudist episode on network t.v. again without HEAVY censorship, or blurs covering the nudists.

[Jaime_Weinman]

According to Seth Fox doesn't want to edit the show, it's not their fault. He said it's the FCC.This is a famous cover-your-ass myth that networks now use to justify editing... the FCC almost never fines comedies or dramas anyway (they recently refused to fine the show "Keen Eddie" for a scene where a prostitute sexually arouses a horse), and at least some of the stuff they've cut out of FG would be in violation of no known FCC regulations. And besides which Arrested Development gets away with a lot of the stuff that is getting cut out of FG... Network programmers have simply gotten freaked out by how conservative some of their viewers are, and they're making cuts to avoid offending the viewers (hence the cutting of a line in a FG Christmas show that is not suggestive but might be regarded as anti-Christian), they don't want complaints from the audiences, and they're using the FCC as a convenient boogyman to excuse their fumbling and stumbling.

[herbkir]

It could have been that Family Guy didn't work in the early evening hours when viewers of all ages were watching broadcast TV. In moving to cable on AS, the show got to its core 18-34 crowd while dropping those older and younger viewers who didn't find FG appealing. It'll be interesting to see how the FG reruns on Fox work out now that the show has become a cable/DVD hit. (^_*)

[bluedeucedodge]

Yeah, because casual viewers who liked the show but weren't huge fans (such as myself at the time) didn't know when it was on.That was my problem also. I enjoyed the show, but it moved around too much for me to keep interest. I just didn't like the show enough to hunt it down to find out when it came on. I blame that on FOX. If they would have kept it a stable time spot, I am positive that it would have been a huge success on FOX. If they screw it up this time, there will be a lot of pissed off Family Guy fans.

[Carolina Red]

Some people were turned off by the initial promos for the show too. They didn't really how much other than Brian wanting a martini and Stewie wanting to commit matricide. Had they shown more things that the show had to offer or at least multiple facets of the characters more people would have been interested in the show from the start. Thanks to AS people are now realizing that the show is not one-dimensional like they thought at first.

I wish they knew that the first time around.

[ngrossm]

Actually, I think they're showing Family Guy reruns instead of the remaining episodes of My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss. Too bad. Although, I love Family Guy, I also love MBFOB. I have Family Guy on DVD, but may never see the remaining episodes of MBFOB.

[Speedy Boris]

If you didn't check the TV listings each week to see when Family Guy was airing on Fox, you weren't a TRUE Family Guy fan. ;) :D I mean I saw most all episodes in their original airing, so yeah. But if it deserved to be revived, it also deserved to be cancelled when it was, 'cause it was a flop. (And a very bad show by a very second-rate creator, but that's neither here nor there...) OT, did you happen to see the thread about your opinion on Family Guy? ;)

[RD!]

If you didn't check the TV listings each week to see when Family Guy was airing on Fox, you weren't a TRUE Family Guy fan.Yeah I'm pretty sure that was the point.

[Master Moron]

Family Guy WAS popular at its start. Fox put it on Thursday because they thought it was popular enough to go up against Friends, and it wasn't.

Well, I don't think that was the only scheduling change that occured during it's entire run. I hated Friends, so I tried to watch Family Guy after I'd found out it had moved to Thursdays, but Family Guy seemed to move so often that I could never figure out when it was on. At one point I'd thought it was cancelled when it had just moved to another night.

[Master Moron]

Actually, I think they're showing Family Guy reruns instead of the remaining episodes of My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss. Too bad. Although, I love Family Guy, I also love MBFOB. I have Family Guy on DVD, but may never see the remaining episodes of MBFOB.

I just want to know who the "mystery boss" is. I'm guessing it's the guy from "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance". Either that, or Carrot Top.

[ClockStomper]

I just want to know who the "mystery boss" is. I'm guessing it's the guy from "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance". Either that, or Carrot Top.
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And yes, it's FOX cutting the show out of FCC *fear*, not out of actual complaints/mandate from the organization. In actuality, they tend not to fine fictional shows, so FOX's edits are pointless.

[JCorey3rd]

is Family Guy the first show to get marathon rerun to death on a network (FOX), a basic cable channel (TBS) and a second tier channel (Cartoon Network)? Not to mention the fact that millions of the DVD sets have sold thus allowing fans to have their own marathons. They are beating Family Guy as if it was the offspring of Regis and William Hung.

[Starwind Amada]

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Will FG still air on CN during the new run on Fox?

[Dark Vicious]

I'm pretty sure because FG and Futurama are their two cash cows and the new episodes will air in a different time slot than the old reruns. Then everyone's happy

[Cerberus]

Heh heh, I just had a funny thought. What if they thought, based off "the success" of Family Guy reruns on Friday, that they should play new episodes on Friday?

Knowing Fox, I wouldn't be surprised.
You all dont no nothing me and my boy sitting here no everything so i dont no wat u think u r hot but not. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :p :p :D

[Beat]

According to Seth Fox doesn't want to edit the show, it's not their fault. He said it's the FCC.
Try the parental activist groups that spam all the networks the second they show something that isn't TV-G.

www.parentstv.org

[Jaguar]

You all dont no nothing me and my boy sitting here no everything so i dont no wat u think u r hot but not. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :p :p :D
Sheer brilliance.

[The Landstander]

You all dont no nothing me and my boy sitting here no everything so i dont no wat u think u r hot but not. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :p :p :DOHS HIT