BBC buys Family Guy Season 4 and American Dad rights!

irishgeo

UK: BBC will show season 4
Sunday, October 24, 2004

The BBC has bought the rights to Family Guy season 4, and Seth's new series American Dad. The first three seasons of Family Guy were originally shown on Channel 4 on terrestrial television in the UK (after being shown on SkyOne).

From www.planet-familyguy.com

Great news lads. You just got to love the BBC.
The link below is the official press release from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/21/comedy_rights.shtml

Crucifix

Excellent. I've heard nothing about American Dad, but it's great to know I'll get to see Family Guy season 4. And hopefully the BBC will put it on at appropriate times instead of C4 and their shunting it around.

Basq

Am a big Family Guy fan (as you can probably guess from my sig!).

Saw the first 6 minutes of the pilot of 'American Dad' on the Net a few months back - thought it was very disappointing, to be honest! Watch it here: http://pilot.american-dad.com/

But good news anyways. Assumed Family Guy Season 4 wouldn't be shown over here considering the shi*ty times slots the repeats of it got.

One thing just struck me - BBC1 / BBC2 don't strike me as an 'animation station' (heh!.. rhymes) so i'm thinking they'll be shown on BBC3.

Mossy Monk

the simpsons were shown on BBC2, Ren & Stimpy were shown

bob, the devil, and god (think thats the name) was shown as was Stressed Eric

cant think of any more

eggshapedfred

the Tick was also shown on BBC2 (part of Def II, i think...)

Basq

I stand corrected!

ChumpStain

As was Monkey Dust! I hope they show it after the watershed so they can keep all of the best stuff in, and even if they don't its still great news.

BolBill

I love Family Guy, Quagmire is a legend !!!!!!

egan007

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when does it start.

Big Ears

very good news indeed :eek: .

Basq

egan007 wrote:

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when does it start.

Wouldn't expect it til at least April / May 2005.

Listened to an interview with Seth MacFarlane (creator of 'Family Guy') yesterday and he said Fox are hoping to have it on air by March 2005 in the US.

radiospan

Great news!

Sky hardly ever showed Season 1-3 even though I believe they had the rights?

steveland?

Mossy Monk wrote:

bob, the devil, and god (think thats the name)

That show was tremendous!

Does this mean Family guy season 4 will happen instead of the movie?

Either way im thrilled

Guy:Incognito

Mossy Monk wrote:

the simpsons were shown on BBC2, Ren & Stimpy were shown

bob, the devil, and god (think thats the name) was shown as was Stressed Eric

cant think of any more

Was that not all in the pre-bbc3 days?

Basq

SteveD wrote:

That show was tremendous!

Does this mean Family guy season 4 will happen instead of the movie?

Either way im thrilled

Seth MacFarlane mentioned in the interview that i mentioned above that they've a three part Family Guy episode that they're created that they're thinking of releasing on DVD next Summer, but they're not sure bout it yet.

Must try and find the Web address for that interview and i'll post it here if i do!

It's well worth a listen!

EDIT: Here you go: http://www.planet-familyguy.com/main.php?mod=article&article=seth_oct2004.php

No special plug-in's required to listen - just simply Flash! It's well worth a listen if you're interested in learning all about the new series of 'Family Guy' and also 'American Dad'. But the interviewer sounds like a bit of an arsehole!

And also an interesting argument about why 'Family Guy' fans should NOT vote for Bush!

Mossy Monk

Stekelly wrote:

Was that not all in the pre-bbc3 days?

yes but it shows/showed that BBC2 show animated programming