If Seth MacFarlane has his way, Family Guy will do a few more years then bow out gracefully.
“I don’t want to go 20 years like The Simpsons,” MacFarlane told Toronto’s Sun Media. “Ideally we would go another couple of years and then wrap it up. That would be my perfect scenario.
“I mean, I can already see it coming. I can already see the … we’re in season eight, and it gets harder, it gets harder and harder to do new stuff. I mean, every show starts to suck after a certain point. And we could already be there for all I know, I don’t know.”
MacFarlane is also the creator of American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, which makes for one busy workload, including voice-over work on all 3 shows.
“It’s a year-round job, it’s seven days a week, it gets exhausting, yeah.”
The Cleveland Show is due to air in Australia on TEN.
Source: Toronto Sun
Disappointing to see the show go but it makes sense.
I don’t this to be like another Simpsons or Southpark and go for 15 to 20 years.
American Dad is easily the best animated comedy.
Disappointing as I’m a big fan but I don’t want the show to turn into what The Simpsons has become.
Good this show is horrible.
I’d put the worst episode of The Simpsons up against Family Guy’s best and The Simpsons will always win.
Family Guy is a stupid show for stupid people. Only funny jokes they’ve had have been stolen from far superior shows.
Seth MacFarlane, the richest hack in Hollywood.
If you were wanting to own The Simpsons on DVD, seasons 1 – 10 are the ones to stick with. I’m being very kind, as most of season 10 sucks, but from then onwards the show was done for the money primarily.
How many people on this blog would have great difficulty saying beddy-bys to a show that made you (random figure) $1m USD richer every episode? I know I would have extreme trouble.
Seth is a better man than me. He also has a $18m house in Beverly Hills to sit in and contemplate the future of Family Guy.
The makers of The Simpsons will have to be dragged kicking-screaming from making new episodes. Those poor, poor, rich folk.
He’s got so many shows going, how does he keep up with them?
And now his new show “Bear Essentials” about a family of bears living in a post apocalyptic New York City after a nuclear WW3.
John Goodman will be voicing the lead role of Angus, a racist father bear with a severe drinking and drug problem
haha sounds funny and offensive!
Family guy did bow out gracefully in 2002.
Seth MacFarlane is a smart guy. The Simpsons died years ago. Fox is just doing a “Weekend at Bernies” with the remains of the once-great show.
Saw the Cleveland pilot, Do not want.
I always thought program execs realised their own expiry date and finished them off gracefully but then the NRL Footy Show is still going and that’s been dead for years.
The Simpsons should have finished years ago. Compare Marge V Monorail with todays eps – no comparison.
They are right.
Ten Years is about enough for a show of this type.Long before we had the Simpsons and Family Guy There was Roseanne,Married with Children and the Cosby Show Those things lasted about a decade and then bowed out gracefully.
The Simpsons should have been phased out a long time ago(No I am not referring to the unseen in Australia Ashlee Simpson Show or Newlyweds in this case I mean Homer and Maggie)
He’s right – it is already dead – the new seasons are all misses, no hits, it’s sad to see it bomb out so hardcore.
As for the Simpsons – whilst not at the extreme levels of hilarity of days gone, it’s still good for a chuckle – you guys are being a bit harsh.
Die simpsons Die
Well finally some common sense, I wish Matt Groening would have done the same with the simpsons- the new episodes are so lifeless.