A fourth Seth macfarlane show announced

7:00 and 7:30 are death slots, they use those slots to burn off ending shows or show reruns. Or occasionally as a sort of temporary "holding tank" to make room for something else (like American Dad moving there to temporarily make room for other premiering shows, as was planned for Sons of Tucson).

They're not going to premiere a new series there, especially not one they have any hopes of success for.
 
Which is why I said I see American Dad moving to the 7:PM slot with reruns of something else.


Sadly, AD is going to be over in two years, as Seth is already been hinting at it since the ComicCon.


But that can change, as two years in animation can be four years, matter how many scripts they get greenlighted from now till they get the announcement..
 
Ironically, I hear the reason why AD is still around is because the show sells a lot of merchandise. Regardless, the show is safe for a few years. There's one entire season unaired, and another one in production.

My guess is that the new show will just push something expendable to Fox (probably AD) to 7:30.
 
I could actually see it in the slot Mad TV used to be in. I don't see the Wanda Sykes show lasting at all. But it's only being considered at the moment, so no big deal.
 
Bring it on. I haven't yet seen the Seth MacFarlane show I dislike. I don't want them to cancel The Simpsons by any means, but if they want to extend Animation Domination by a half-hour or start another animation block some other night, that works for me.
 
I would have found that funny if it wasn't just mostly focusing on the father, son, and talking animal characters.
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If a fourth show does get green lighted I have no problem with it. It sounds interesting. For all we know it could be completely different than the already established shows and if any show should be pulled from Animation Domination in order to make it happen I'd say it should be either The Simpsons or American Dad.

The Simpsons only has good episodes every now and again and I just don't find American Dad that funny.
I usually just look forward too The Cleveland Show and Family Guy when I watch Animation Domination.
 
The article merely said that Fox is considering the option of a 4th MacFarlane series, not that there's definitely going to be one. Not everything that's announced will ultimately ever be made.

I already feel that Seth is spreading himself a bit too thin right now, but I'll have to wait and see what (if anything) becomes of this new series before I can pass judgment on it. This isn't enough to go on.
 
I was overreacting a bit, but I still don't like the idea. I'm sure Seth could do something marvelous if he put more creativity in his shows. They're all basically the same formula. I wish he would add something new... But I doubt he will.
 
American Dad doesn't rely on cutaways and major pop culture references from what I've seen and The Cleveland Show is amazingly character driven.
 
I can't speak for "The Cleveland Show" (I have no interest in watching it), but I will say that "American Dad" is almost the polar opposite of "Family Guy". No pointless cutaways, no hollow pop culture jokes, no aimless plots, and likable characters who actually have personalities, as well as humor that comes from those personalities. "American Dad" is basically what the first season of "Family Guy" tried to be, only many times funnier - and it doesn't come across as derivative to me at all. It's about a dysfunctional family, sure, but the similarities absolutely end there.

It's proof that Seth doesn't necessarily have to lean on the same formula. And he has the sense to surround himself with people like Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman who can take his concepts and make them even stronger. If he were to do a fourth show, something that bears no attachment to any of his previous projects and working with a new crew of people, who knows what he'd come up with?
 
American Dad and Cleveland Show aren't as popular as Family Guy, but they still have way more viewers than the average FOX News broadcast.
 
That's not what I meant, really. I was talking about Seth's typical dysfunctional family, talking animal, nerdy kid, etc.

By creativity, I mean do something not involving a dysfunctional family. Like what Matt Groening did with Futurama.

And yeah, I'd say that American Dad is the best of the three, but I really dislike Steve as a character... And the others don't do much for me, either.
 
Well too be fair American Dad only came on when FG was canceled and I don't think TCS would have held up well if it was only Cleveland and Jr. but at least the talking animal in TCS is a supporting character and not apart of the main family.
 
I'm just saying I would be happy if he did a different setting, and unique characters.

TCS is a little better because Cleveland isn't a complete idiot, but the annoying side family (Rallo in particular) doesn't make up for that.
 
He dosen't even need 1 sho... no, he dosen't even deserve a show! Okay thats a bit much, leave American Dad and remove the others. I can't stand the so-called voice "acting" in any of his stuff, its as if he did hire people off the street!
 
Yay, Seth MacFarlane's name popped up in a thread title, so lets trash everything his name is attached to!

But seriously, The Simpsons is in no danger of going anywhere. I think that's pretty much a no brainer. The Cleveland Show was one of the top rated new shows of the season, so it's going to stick around for a little bit longer. It's American Dad that's in danger. 9:30 isn't a death slot, but it's the least desireable of the two hour Animation Domination block: the show that "FOX is limping to the barn with" to quote Peter. And how exactly is AD merchandise selling so well? Aside from DVDs I don't see any American Dad merchandise at all.

And IMHO I find it weird how people can say American Dad has likeable characters when Stan is a gruff, uptight jerk, Roger is amoral, nasty lush and Francine is a whiny shrew. I like Steve but that's really about it.
 
Hopefully they'll (if they actually go through with it) move it to a different night instead of sunday. Or put it at 6:30. (7:30 for you eastern-ers)

I loved that video mentioned earlier in this thread. Another reason I dislike his shows... Lack of creativity.
 
I would prefer this not happen.
First, I recently realized how genius American Dad was, I liked it before, but only recently I realized how much better it was than Family Guy. You guys are scaring me with all this "American Dad" getting the boot business.
But at the same time, you're not. "American Dad" is great and it is currently assured to a 7th season knowing fox and holdover episodes. If it ends there, thats fine, because I don't want it to outstay its welcome like Family Guy is, in my opinion.
Plus, Season 7 is when Family Guy got really, ummm, ugh is the word. And I wouldn't be able to bear that happening to "American Dad".
I would, actually, want Family Guy to go. 9 Seasons is enough. I don't want it to go for 20 seasons and by that point be a pile of.....feces. The Simpsons is fine, but cutaway jokes for 20 seasons? No. Not gonna happen. But I know Fox won't cancel Family Guy, because they'd probably be scared too. It has too much of a fanbase and someone would probably burn down the Fox building if they did that.

Anyway, if this show does happen, then I'll be interested in seeing what it's about. As long as it just isn't another Family. Unless its REALLY different. Like, no talking animals or ANYTHING like that, then I'll be impressed.
 
I think it would be best if the thread title should be changed to "FOX Considering A New Seth MacFarlane Show" to avoid confusion.

Expect that video mainly focused on Father and son characters and talking animals... nothing else. And Steve is a lot more confident and witty then the portrayal of the sons in that parody video and TCS doesn't have a talking animal being apart of the main family.
 
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