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Congratulations to Family Guy director Greg Colton who has just won a Creative Arts Emmy in this year's awards. His work on the storyboard for It's a Wonderful Day for Pie from the eigth season episode Road to the Multiverse has gained him an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.

This year's Teen Choice Awards show is on Fox tonight from 8/7C, but the results are already in and Family Guy won an award! It won in the TV Choice: Animated Show category in which it was up against the likes of South Park and Star Wars Clone Wars as well as Seth MacFarlane's other shows American Dad and The Cleveland Show.

Family Guy received a nomination for the 62nd Emmy awards this week in the Outstanding Music and Lyrics category.  The nomination is for the song Down's Syndrome Girl.

This was the show's only nomination and Seth's other shows didn't get any acknowledgement this year.  The Outstanding Animated Program category had the following nominees: The Simpsons, Alien Earths, The Ricky Gervais Show, Disney Prep & Landing, and South Park.

The 2010 Teen Choice Awards are coming and they want you to vote for your favourite animated show of the year.  The nominees include: Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, South Park, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Go visit the Teen Choice website to vote (you can keep voting every 24 hours).

Last year Family Guy dressed up Stewie as Barack Obama with the slogan "Vote for Change!"; this year it's Peter as an overweight black girl - sort of - in a take on the film poster for Precious.  This is the cover art for Family Guy's Emmy bid.  They're going for a 'celebrate diversity' theme with the slogan "Vote for us or you're racist".  On the inside there's apparently a list of all writers on the show grouped by ethnicity/sexual orientation: "Family Guy - written by 8 WASPS, 6 Jews, 2 Asian and 1 Gay."

What do you make of it? Do you fancy Family Guy's chances for an Emmy this time round?

(Via deadline.com.)

The 36th annual People’s Choice Awards show is scheduled to be broadcast on January 6, 2010, and you have the power to help Family Guy become one of the official nominees for Favorite TV Comedy or Favorite TV Obsession.

There’s only a few more days remaining to vote for nominees, so for Favorite TV Comedy, click here to view the ballot and vote.

Write-in submissions are also accepted. To vote for Favorite TV Obsession, click the “Other” box , write in “Family Guy” next to it, and then cast your vote.

And be sure to nominate Seth MacFarlane for Favorite TV Comedy Actor.

The top five nominees in each category will be announced in a press conference on November 10, 2009.

Executive producer and writer of Family Guy Danny Smith is to receive an Excellence in the Arts award from the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council in honour of his work on the show which has raised the image of Rhode Island.

In the first week of release Family Guy Volume 7 has topped the DVD sales chart for television shows with 273,627 units sold ($7.6 million). HBO’s True Blood was in second place for its fifth week of release with 107,115 units (total 1,099,995 units).

Family Guy and American Dad feature on this years Teen Choice Awards nominations list for the Choice TV: Animated Show award alongside The Simpsons, South Park, and SpongeBob SquarePants. The awards celebrate the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports, and fashion and you can vote for your favourites on the Teen Choice Awards 2009 website.

The award ceremony airs on Fox August 10th.

Seth MacFarlane was honoured at this year’s Webby Awards for his hit web-animation series Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy winning the Film & Video Person of the Year award. Keeping to the tradition of five word acceptance speeches at the Webbys Seth MacFarlane said: “What is this for again?”