Family Guy: Is Fox really pulling this again?

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plecostomusmodel

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I just can't believe that they're doing again. Remember last season when FG barely aired and Fox went, "Well, the strike..."

Okay, I'll take that. But some other people suspected it's to control the DVD production to milk every single cent out of the normal college student. Well, I thought it was crazy especially since they've been doing this for a while.

Well, could they be right? Here we are on a Sunday night filled with premieres...except for Family Guy. Why?! The sixth season is backed up by nearly a DOZEN episodes, and the seventh season has already started production! What the hell is the point of not airing episodes?! If FG gets good ratings (which it does, and beats Simpsons quite often), why don't they, you know, take advantage of it?

And shouldn't there be syndictation contracts that restrict aganist this? The DVD theory seems implausible (you know, no matter what, they can just keep on producing 13 episode sets, and at a faster rate at that)...so what's going on?...
 
I used to think it was Fox, but I now have reason to believe it's Seth, and that he's holding new episodes back until they're "perfect" in his eyes. He was very angry when Fox aired episodes during the strike he didn't have final cut on, and for the rest of the spring re-edited versions of those episodes appeared instead of new ones (of which we only got two, in May). Fox promoted them as optimistically as they could ("Contains New Footage!") leading me to believe they WOULD air more new FGs if Seth would only let them.

Seth said he wanted the season to end with the second Star Wars special, which would put the number at 12 or 13....the same number as last season.
 
They're giving Seth FAR too much power for his own good if that's the case. If Fox spent the money to produce the episodes, they should have final say of when they air once the shows are in the can.

Edit: Next week it's ANOTHER rerun. 'Love, Blactually' reairs next week, as well as an American Dad repeat of 'Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold'.
 
At this point, my brother and I have pretty much given up on watching Family Guy as it airs and are instead just catching up with it on DVD. Trying to follow it on Fox is just too much of a pain.
 
Yeah, my Comcast cable guide did the same thing. Personally, I like it whenever Family Guy airs reruns. That way I don't have to catch up on the episodes online the next day since I watch Desperate Housewives at 9.
 
Not that I agree with Seth delaying episodes (I don't watch FG so it doesn't affect me) but isn't it good when the creator has control over their show? I thought most people were against meddling executives controlling a show.
 
If FOX has to do anything to Family Guy, they should redo what they did long ago...cancel it. :p Seriously, it was cancelled after the first three seasons, and the show just never got back the quality it had in those seasons when FOX "un-cancelled" it.
 
It's often a triple battle between your animators, your writers, and your executives, but it's never as black-and-white as one group wants you to believe. Maybe the usual scenario for a television show is the executive calling the shots on a program or process they barely understand, but as we learned from Ren & Stimpy, it's not a good idea to give the animators or writers absolute control either.

This time around, it's really all four shows that are going to be on hold for the next month and a half. Family Guy got an early start.

But WHY?

FG was using the writers' strike as an excuse for last seasons' delays, and high number of poor episodes, which I didn't buy, because they've been making bad stories and started delaying episodes well before the strike. And as we've seen from this season so far, things haven't improved much at all.

It's really just an ego trip on Seth MacFarlane's part.
 
I could quote about dozen things from this thread and simply follow them up with, "But that's just your opinion". But this one stood out so it'll be the only one I'll quote. My opinion is that this season has been pretty strong so far. Again, people are just poised these days to tear this show to pieces for a variety of reasons, so just about everything being said in this thread doesn't surprise me.



And your sure of that how?
 
They gave themselves months to fix "Love Blactually", which was supposed to air last March, and it still turned out to be a boring episode.

There aren't any real excuses for why this show keeps getting delayed. Even American Dad has been getting more episodes in lately.
 
According the production numbers, the episode that was *supposed* to be the Season 3 finale just aired on Sunday, so the next new episode will be the start of Season 4 production-wise, so yeah, AD's going to pass Family Guy at some point.
 
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