Family Guy – talk about a misnomer. The animated Fox television series crossed sexual, moral and religious boundaries on Sunday evening when it aired content inappropriate for its young target audience. The controversial material was not limited to one subject, or isolated in a single scene. Image...

Filed under: Industry, Video, Animation, Reality-Free The Parents Television Council has added FOX's Family Guy to the list of shows it's going after. They are filing another complaint with the FCC, this time over last Sunday's episode of the cartoon that featured (from the PTC complaint) "bestialit...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, American Idol, How I Met Your Mother, Judges, TV Squad Lists, Chuck, Reaper, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory, TV Squad Ten So what's a second banana? Well they're certainly not second best. No, in fact they're often the main reason to tune into a particular s...

Because FCC rules stipulate you cannot use “Jesus Christ� as an exclamation unless the deity himself is present. This and other fascinating insight into Seth MacFarlane, his Family Guy empire, his creative relationship with Fox, his Google deal and perhaps most importantly, what the future of di...

End of Days Day continues here at Defamer with a proud e-alert belched from the bowels of the Fox network's Century City headquarters, informing what's left of the world that cartoon kingpin and deeply closeted spray-on hand-tanner Seth MacFarlane has been named EW's Smugest Smartest Person in TV. F...

Filed under: Animation, RumorMonger, Fandom Those manatees really know how to keep themselves busy. In one of the more irreverent news items of the day, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane -- whose voice work is currently on display in Hellboy II: The Golden Army -- has told TV Week that he hopes to g...

CENTURY CITY, Calif., March 25 The 10 remaining Idolettes are forced to sing songs from the year they were born, while the cast of the sitcom " 'Til Death" mugs in the front row of the audience and show host Ryan Seacrest pimps Coca-Cola's new cup designs....

Filed under: Industry, Family Guy, Animation, Prison Break Oh, Peter. They're breaking up that old gang of ours! There's a spin-off of Family Guy in the works at Fox. Peter's drinking buddy, Cleveland Brown, might be getting his own show. Oh no, does this mean he may be leaving Quahog? What, no more...