Planet Family Guy

EW.com's 'Hollywood Insider' reports that Seth MacFarlane made an appearance on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Thursday and revealed that his next project is to record a big band album for Universal Republic Records that will feature "swing arrangements of classic tunes." 

MacFarlane sang “Cream in My Coffee” with backup from The Tonight Show band.

Other guests on the show were Mickey Rourke and Plain White T's. 

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.

Tech Flash has been speaking with David Wester, Microsoft's chief strategy officer, and asked about the Family Guy incident earlier in the year when Microsoft pulled its sponsorship at the last minute. Microsoft had originally partnered with Fox to sponsor the half-hour commercial break free Almost Live Family Guy  special, but pulled out in the eleventh hour. When asked if anyone had actually watched the series at Microsoft David said a definite yes and went on to say: "There were many different strains of comedy within Family Guy, and I think the difference between being in a Family Guy episode and advertising in a Family Guy episode, there are some nuances there."

Twentieth TV has inked cash-plus-barter deal with Tribune and Fox stations for the second cycle off-net run of Family Guy and American Dad. The deal for Family Guy will run from 2011 through the 2014-2015 TV season. However, Family Guy remains contracted only until the 2011-2012 season. This new syndication deal may mark the way for a potential renewal deal.

Tonight Family Guy goes head to head with 30 Rock, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, and Weeds in the Emmys for the outstanding comedy award. Family Guy is not the favourite to win, that currently goes to 30 Rock, but anyone of these shows could win tonight. Whether the show wins or not, it has still achieved the incredible feat of getting a nomination; it is the first animated show in this category since The Flinstones were nominated back in 1961! That makes it the second animated show ever to be nominated.

Catch the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards live tonight on CBS from 8pm.

Good luck Family Guy and all who work on the hugely successful show.

The Family Guy Inside the Actors Studio is on Bravo tonight at 7/6C with the main cast of Family Guy, except Mila Kunis for some reason. The show’s host James Lipton has said of tonight’s edition: “I recommend seatbelts in your armchairs as the creator and cast of Family Guy assemble on our stage for a hilarious, irreverent look at themselves, each other, their characters and their spectacularly successful show. This is, quite simply, unlike any Inside the Actors Studio you’ve ever seen.”

Sneak peeks of the upcoming Season Premiere episodes of “Family Guy”, “American Dad”, and “The Cleveland Show” are available free of charge on Apple’s iTunes.

The Family Guy peek is from ‘Road to the Multiverse’ and the American Dad clip is from ‘In Country…Club’. Each of these sneak peeks is about two minutes long. The clip of The Cleveland Show is from the pilot episode, and shows Cleveland meeting his bear neighbors.

Spoiler alert -‘Read more’ to see a description of the Family Guy sneak peek…

Fox have released a series of promotional images for their new Animation Domination season that starts at the end of the month of Sunday September 27th.

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.

It’s official, Fox will not be airing the abortion episode of Family Guy. They have issued the following statement:-

“Fox will not air the ‘Partial Terms of Endearment’ episode of ‘Family Guy,’ but we fully support the producers’ right to make the episode and distribute it in whatever way they want.”