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The UK Family Guy Season 8 DVD release has hit the shops a week earlier than we expected; in fact it is out in shops as of today! Basically the same as the US Volume 7 release from earlier this year, just confusingly (as always) renamed Season 8; don’t be disappointed as the 13 episodes included are taken from seasons 6 and 7, not the eighth season.

Family Guy episode 420 about Brian campaigning for the legalisation of marijuana finally gets its UK début tonight. Previously skipped by BBC, presumably due to the death of Michael Jackson, 420 is on BBC Three from 10pm.

That brings an end to the run of new episodes now that the UK’s finally caught up with the US. Next week BBC Three will start showing repeats of Family Guy starting with the extended length episode, Blue Harvest.

Three Kings is tonight’s new episode of Family Guy on BBC Three at 10pm. Peter imagines his friends and family in three retellings of Stephen King stories. The run of new episodes ends next Sunday when the previously skipped episode 420 airs.

The American Dad episode Apocalypse to Remember follows Family Guy at 10.20pm.

Tonight’s new episode of Family Guy on BBC Three is Peter’s Progress at 10pm: “Peter has a psychic palm reading and discovers he led a past life as Griffin Peterson, a dignified gentleman who followed the beautiful Lady Redbush from 17th century England, where the fierce King Stewart III reigned supreme, to the newly founded American colony of Quahog to win her heart.”

Family Guy is followed by American Dad at 10.20pm with the episode Black Mystery Month.

BBC Three continues its run of new Family Guy tonight at 10pm with the episode We Love You, Conrad, featuring Lauren Conrad from The Hills.

Family Guy is followed by American Dad at 10.25pm with the season 2 episode AT the Abusive Terrestrial.

The UK première of Stew-roids is on BBC Three tonight at 10pm: Peter takes Stewie to the gym after he gets beaten up by Susie Swanson and Chris dates one of the popular girls at school. American Dad episode American Dream Factory follows at 10.25pm.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion episode of Family Guy makes its UK début on BBC Three tonight. Catch Not All Dogs Go to Heaven at 10pm, followed by American Dad episode Bush Comes to Dinner at 10.20pm.

Family Guy returns to its normal time tonight on BBC Three with Fox-y Lady at 10pm. American Dad episode Irregarding Steve follows at 10.20pm.

The BBC Trust has recently rapped BBC Three for showing too many US shows like Family Guy. Family Guy consumes a significant proportion of the schedules with regular repeats throughout the week. The Trust said: “We see the primary goal of the channel as being to provide new UK-originated programming for younger audiences.”

Family Guy season 7 continues tonight on BBC Three in the UK with the episode The Juice Is Loose at 11pm. Peter finds an old winning raffle ticket from 1989 that entitles him to a golf outing with OJ Simpson. However, the folks of Quahog are not so keen to meet Peter’s new friend when he brings him home to meet the family.

Family Guy is followed by the American Dad episode Of Ice and Men in which Francine discovers Stan’s secret passion for figure skating at 11.20pm.

Note that this week’s episodes are an hour later than normal; a couple of Little Britain: Abroad repeats will be shown from 10pm instead! All should be back to normal next week with Fox-y Lady at 10pm and Irregarding Steve at 10.20pm.

Peter participates in a medical experiment that makes him turn gay in tonight’s episode of Family Guy in the UK. Family Gay is on BBC Three at 10pm followed by the American Dad episode Iced Iced Babies at 10.25pm.