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Family Guy vetrans Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have both signed overall deals with 20th Century Fox TV according to Deadline. The deal means that they'll both continue to work on Family Guy as executive producers whilst getting a go at developing new shows for Fox.

It is expected that their first new show will be something live-action as opposed to another animated series.

Sulkin and Wild have been with Family Guy since it returned to Fox in 2005.

"We have always felt like 20th was our home, so we’re thrilled to solidify our relationship with the studio," Sulkin and Wild said. "We have had a tremendous opportunity working with Seth, and are excited to continue on Family Guy, and look forward to the new projects we will develop over the next three years.”

The writing duo started out on the first season of CBS's The Late Show with Craig Kilborn and have recently sold an R-rated feature film called Ted to Universal Pictures alongside Seth MacFarlane.

Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have been talking to io9.com about the third installment of their Robot Chicken Star Wars parody, a shared joke with the Family Guy retelling, and the new Star Wars comedy series.

From TBS and the producers of 'Family Guy' comes 'Neighbors from Hell' (Mondays, 10pm/9c), an animated comedy starring the voices of Patton Oswalt, Will Sasso, and Molly Shannon.

It's about the Hellman family, who tries to follow the rule of SNORFIN--"Seem Normal and Fit in" as they are sent to Earth by Satan on a mission to destroy a super-drill that could burrow to the center of the earth and potentially expose Hell. The family quickly learns that "humans can be more evil than any demon ever could."

We are hosting a giveaway of a prize package consisting of one 'Neighbors from Hell' Weber Grill and one Devil oven mitt. -Check out this post's gallery for images of the prizes. U.S. entries only.  To enter for a chance to win, tell us about your own Neighbor from Hell in a comment post to this article. One entry per person, please. The winner will be selected on August 2, 2010.     

For more information about the show, videos including full episodes, downloads, games, and more, here's the link: http://www.tbs.com/shows/neighborsfromhell/

Prizes are supplied by the Neighbors from Hell team at TBS. - Special thanks to the Neighbors from Hell team from Planet-Family Guy.

UPDATE: Congratulations to "yunet", the winner of the Neighbors from Hell prize package! You will be contacted soon to arrange for delivery of your prizes. Thanks to all who participated, and to the Neighbors from Hell team.

Family Guy's David Zuckerman has been named by FX to adapt the Australian comedy Wilfred for pilot along with Jason Gann. Gann co-created and starred in the original.  It's a live action comedy about a girl, her dog Wilfred and her boyfriend, Adam. The twist is that only Adam can see that Wilfred is actually a man dressed in a blatant dog costume:

“Wilfred is about a guy, the girl next door, and mixed-breed dog, Wilfred, who is part Labrador retriever and part Russell Crowe on a bender,” said Zuckerman.  “Jason Gann is one of the funniest, most twisted minds I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, despite being a foreigner and therefore untrustworthy.  And I’m thrilled to be part of the FX family -- their support and enthusiasm has been extraordinary.”

Family Guy writer and co-producer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (aka Cheva) has had her young-adult novel DupliKate picked up for a screen adaptation.  According to Variety Fox 2000 have snapped up the novel with Alloy Entertainment set to produce it.

DupliKate centres on Kate Larson, "who creates an avatar named Rina for the SimuLife computer game. One day Rina springs to life and demands equal time in the real world." The novel was released last September by Harper Teen.

Cheva has writte a number of Family Guy episodes including Prick Up Your Ears and We Love You, Conrad.

For a chance to win a signed copy of DupliKate with drawings by Family Guy artists and Family Guy Volume 7 DVD or some books check out her blog on MySpace.

Don't forget that tomorrow is the night, and only night, to see the Family Guy-It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Haiti benefit gig at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Tickets can be purchased from LiveNation.com and TicketMaster.com.

Full details, including a copy of the original press release, can be found on Laurie's original post about the event.

According to the LA Times Seth MacFarlane will be hosting the 2010 Writers Guild Awards (WGA) West Coast ceremony on February 20th. Speaking in a statement Seth said, “I’m honored and humbled to be chosen as host of the WGAW awards. I look forward to catching up with my strike buddies from 2007, and making some new strike buddies for 2011.”

Could another Seth MacFarlane animated series be heading its way to Fox? Well according to iF Magazine it could be:-

“He’s stretched thin,” admits Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly at today’s Winter TCA. “We’ve got one other show we’re contemplating with Seth and looking to broaden our animation brand out too. I love working with the guy, but our plan is not all Seth, all the time. He has something up his sleeve that’s animated, so we’re going to continue to be in business with him for quite a few years and I think you’ll see us to broaden out that brand a little bit.”

As yet there are no other details than this, but we will keep you posted.

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BBC3 has just commissioned a brand new show We are Mongrels which has been pitched as “Avenue Q meets Family Guy”. We Are Mongrels centers on a country fox in search of ‘the real wild life’ in the city, where he meets an array of creatures on the Isle of Dogs, including a ‘sexy’ Afghan Hound with whom he falls in love, a street cat and a sarcastic pigeon from Blackburn.

The executive producer, Steven McCrumb, has said this about the new adult puppet show; “It has a lot of cut­aways and flashbacks and it’s fast-moving – more like an animation with puppets than a traditional sitcom. It gives you the licence to do things you can’t with live action. We pitched it as Avenue Q meets Family Guy: it’s play­fully adult like Family Guy, but it’s not crude in a Two Pints way.”

Update (24 July): Information about We Are Mongrels can be found on the British Comedy Guide website.

Seth Green’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II is out on DVD today.