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The UK Family Guy Season 8 DVD release has hit the shops a week earlier than we expected; in fact it is out in shops as of today! Basically the same as the US Volume 7 release from earlier this year, just confusingly (as always) renamed Season 8; don’t be disappointed as the 13 episodes included are taken from seasons 6 and 7, not the eighth...

The Cleveland Show is according to Kara Vallow going to premiere in the UK this December. As we’ve previously reported it will be shown on the E4 channel unlike Family Guy and American Dad which feature in the FXUK and BBC Three schedules. The new Family Guy spin-off started in the US last week with a second episode going out tonight on...

Family Guy episode 420 about Brian campaigning for the legalisation of marijuana finally gets its UK début tonight. Previously skipped by BBC, presumably due to the death of Michael Jackson, 420 is on BBC Three from 10pm. That brings an end to the run of new episodes now that the UK’s finally caught up with the US. Next week BBC Three...

Three Kings is tonight’s new episode of Family Guy on BBC Three at 10pm. Peter imagines his friends and family in three retellings of Stephen King stories. The run of new episodes ends next Sunday when the previously skipped episode 420 airs. The American Dad episode Apocalypse to Remember follows Family Guy at 10.20pm.

Tonight’s new episode of Family Guy on BBC Three is Peter’s Progress at 10pm: “Peter has a psychic palm reading and discovers he led a past life as Griffin Peterson, a dignified gentleman who followed the beautiful Lady Redbush from 17th century England, where the fierce King Stewart III reigned supreme, to the newly founded...

BBC Three continues its run of new Family Guy tonight at 10pm with the episode We Love You, Conrad, featuring Lauren Conrad from The Hills. Family Guy is followed by American Dad at 10.25pm with the season 2 episode AT the Abusive Terrestrial.

The UK première of Stew-roids is on BBC Three tonight at 10pm: Peter takes Stewie to the gym after he gets beaten up by Susie Swanson and Chris dates one of the popular girls at school. American Dad episode American Dream Factory follows at 10.25pm.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion episode of Family Guy makes its UK début on BBC Three tonight. Catch Not All Dogs Go to Heaven at 10pm, followed by American Dad episode Bush Comes to Dinner at 10.20pm.

Family Guy returns to its normal time tonight on BBC Three with Fox-y Lady at 10pm. American Dad episode Irregarding Steve follows at 10.20pm. The BBC Trust has recently rapped BBC Three for showing too many US shows like Family Guy. Family Guy consumes a significant proportion of the schedules with regular repeats throughout the week. The Trust...

Family Guy season 7 continues tonight on BBC Three in the UK with the episode The Juice Is Loose at 11pm. Peter finds an old winning raffle ticket from 1989 that entitles him to a golf outing with OJ Simpson. However, the folks of Quahog are not so keen to meet Peter’s new friend when he brings him home to meet the family. Family Guy is...

Peter participates in a medical experiment that makes him turn gay in tonight’s episode of Family Guy in the UK. Family Gay is on BBC Three at 10pm followed by the American Dad episode Iced Iced Babies at 10.25pm.

Ocean’s Three and a Half is on BBC Three in the UK tonight at 10pm, followed by the American Dad episode Dungeons and Wagons at 10.25pm.

Family Guy Season 8, the UK version of Family Guy Volume 7, will be released in the UK on the 9th November 2009. The episodes on the DVD will actually be those from seasons 6 and 7, but due to the already established naming convention will be released as season 8!

The current season of Family Guy continues on BBC Three tonight with Tales of a Third Grade Nothing tonight at 10pm: Peter is forced to go back to the third grade and Brian opens a bar with Frank Sinatra Jr, where they employ Stewie to make it a hotspot. American Dad follows at 10.25pm with Lincoln Lover in which Stan gets experimental!

Season 7 continues tonight on BBC Three in the UK with The Man with Two Brians at 10pm. This episode features the guest voices of Johnny Knoxville, Will Sasso, and Camille Guaty. It will be followed by the American Dad episode Failure is Not a Factory-Installed Option.

American Dad season 2 continues tonight on BBC Three with The American Dad After School Special. This is the episode that introduces Steve’s on-and-off girlfriend Debbie to the series. Catch it at 10.20pm straight-after a new to the UK episode of Family Guy.

Baby Not on Board is tonight’s new to the UK episode of Family Guy, a homage to the Home Alone movies. Baby Not on Board is on BBC Three at 10pm.

Better late than never, American Dad season 2 makes its BBC début tonight on BBC Three at 10.20pm with Camp Refoogee. For those looking for much newer episodes, American Dad Volume 4 was released on DVD last Monday in the UK and features episodes from seasons 3 and 4!

Family Guy season 7 continues tonight in the UK on BBC Three with Road to Germany at 10pm. However, there’s no double-bill like last week as American Dad season 2 follows Family Guy.

In the UK BBC Three’s weekend of Family Guy was a big success for the channel reports Broadcast Now: “The seventh series of the satirical show kicked off on Sunday night at 10pm with a strong 828,000 (4.2%) for 25 minutes, followed by the second episode which gained a sizeable 893,000 (5.6%), making it the most watched multichannel...

American Dad Volume 4 was released in the UK today, a week before its North American release (April 28th). The 3-disc DVD set contains 14 episodes of American Dad, each with commentary track, and a load of other extras. Full details can be found in our original news post.

Family Guy season 7 started on BBC Three last night and next Sunday sees the start of American Dad season 2 (they’re a little behind). Camp Refoogee is the first episode at 10.25pm, straight after a new episode of Family Guy at 10pm.

BBC Three’s Big Fat Family Guy Weekender kicks off tonight in the UK just after 9pm with an evening of Family Guy episodes and two new documentaries, followed tomorrow night by the UK’s première of season 7. The two documentaries, Family Guy: The Story So Far… (9.05 pm) and Creating The Chaos (10.40 pm), feature interviews with...

BBC Three, in the UK, is set to screen an evening devoted to Family Guy next Saturday (18th April) including two new documentaries and a collection of episodes in preparation for the start of season 7 on the Sunday. The two documentaries commissioned by the BBC are Family Guy: The Story So Far… (at 9.05 pm) and Creating the Chaos (at 10.40...

Channel 4 have picked up the rights to screen the first season of the new Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show, on E4 in the UK. The BBC, which screens Family Guy on the youth channel BBC Three after FXUK, bid (controversially) for the new show but lost out to its commercial rival. The BBC will continue to show Family Guy. Channel 4 used to...