Fast Company has a long (very long) article about Seth MacFarlane and his business skills relating to Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire, in its November issue. Fast company points out that “Family Guy is the highest-rated scripted program in all of television” with American Dad ranking 6th, the “second-highest-rated show among males 18 to 49” and the most-watched program on Hulu.
Perhaps of most interest to fans of Family Guy is the talk of the possibility of a Family Guy movie:-
“Among the features of his new contract with Fox is a Family Guy movie he imagines as ‘an old-style musical with dialogue’ in the vein of The Sound of Music, a poster of which hangs above his desk. ‘We’d really be trying to capture, musically, that feel,’ says MacFarlane, whose father moonlighted as a folk singer. ‘Nothing today feels like it’ll play 50 years from now, like Cole Porter or Rodgers and Hart.’”
There’s a lot more in the article including talk of Seth’s YouTube venture, the production process for Family Guy, and his future projects, so go give it a read.