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Seth MacFarlane was interviewed by Chris Harrison of TV Guide Network’s “Live at The Emmy Awards with Carrie Ann and Chris”.

Seth MacFarlane hosted a Family Guy pre-Emmy extravaganza at Avalon in Hollywood last Friday to celebrate receiving a nomination for the most outstanding comedy at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards. The winner won’t be announced until later today (awards ceremony live on CBS from 8pm) and the odds are stacked against a Family Guy win, but that...

Tonight Family Guy goes head to head with 30 Rock, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Weeds in the Emmys for the outstanding comedy award. Family Guy is not the favourite to win, that currently goes to 30 Rock, but anyone of these shows could win tonight. Whether the show wins or not, it has still achieved...

Last night’s Creative Arts Emmy award winners included Dan Castellaneta, as Homer Simpson (Father Knows Worst, The Simpsons), for the Outstanding Voice-Over award meaning that Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane missed out on this year’s award. Seth was nominated for his work as Peter Griffin in the season 7 episode I Dream of Jesus....

American Dad has lost out on winning this year’s Emmy award for Outstanding Animated Program to South Park. Other nominees included The Simpsons and Seth Green’s Robot Chicken. South Park episode Margaritaville won the series the award in last night’s ceremony which included Seth MacFarlane as one of the guest presenters. The...

Seth MacFarlane has been plugging some Family Guy Emmy vote videos via his Twitter feed. Family Guy has been nominated for this years best comedy award and it would appear that the guys from the show are trying to gain support for it. A month ago Family Guy writer Patrick Meighan caused a bit of a stir when he openly campaigned for an Emmy vote.

Family Guy writer Patrick Meighan has raised a few eyebrows by openly campaigning for a Family Guy win at this year’s Emmys. One recipient of Meighan’s e-mail commented to Deadline Hollywood Daily, “I’ve never seen such a naked trolling for votes.” Here’s Patrick Meighan’s e-mail in full:- Hey,...

American Dad has been nominated in the Outstanding Animated Program category of this year’s Emmy Awards. The nomination is for the show’s season 4 premiere episode, 1600 Candles. Competition comes from Robot Chicken, South Park, and The Simpsons. Family Guy has also received nominations in two other categories: Outstanding Voiceover...

As well as getting nominated for the best comedy award at this year’s Emmys, Family Guy got a second nomination for Seth MacFarlane’s voice work. Seth has been nominated in the Outstanding Voiceover Performance category for his work in I Dream of Jesus. Seth is up against Family Guy‘s Seth Green for his voiceover work in Robot...

Family Guy has received a nomination for this year’s best comedy Emmy award. This makes it only the second animated series to be nominated in this category in the Emmy awards’ history; The Flintstones was nominated back in 1961, but lost to The Jack Benny Show. Family Guy will be up against Entourage and Flight of the Conchords...

Seth MacFarlane has spoken to Variety about submitting Family Guy in the comedy category of the Emmys rather than for the best animated series award. Speaking to Variety, MacFarlane said, “we don’t produce our show the that way SpongeBob does. We’re much more analogous to traditional sitcoms. Our writers don’t come from...

Family Guy will be attempting to get nominated for the best comedy series award at the Emmy’s this year. Last year Family Guy made it to the semi-finals, but failed to make the final short-list of nominees. By targeting a nomination in the best comedy series category Family Guy forfeits a chance at the best animated series (which it has,...