According to The Hollywood Reporter, Steve Callaghan and Mark Hentemann have signed three-year deals with 20th Century Fox and have been promoted to executive producers and named showrunners for “Family Guy”.
The duo is currently overseeing the production of next season’s “Family Guy” (beginning in 2010), which will open with an hourlong whodunit episode in which, in Agatha Christie-style, a variety of regular and ancillary “Family Guy” characters will be locked up together trying to solve murders.
David Goodman and Chris Sheridan will remain on the show as executive producers alongside Callaghan, Hentemann, creator Seth MacFarlane and Danny Smith.
The following is from Variety: Per “Family Guy” tradition, both scribes have clocked screen time voicing various characters. Callaghan has played the Cocoa Puffs bird, Pontius Pilate, the guy on the DirecTV help channel, Stewie’s fast food manager and Prince.
Hentemann, meanwhile, has played Opie — Peter’s brain-damaged co-worker — as well as a studio audience ostrich.
“My niche seems to be either brain damaged or mentally handicapped characters,” he said.