Those at Carnegie Hall earlier in the week will have had the privilege of seeing and hearing Mike Henry, voice of Cleveland Brown, sing the new theme tune for The Cleveland Show live on stage:
I found a place
Where everyone will know
My happy black guy face
This is The Cleveland Show
Speaking behind the scenes Seth MacFarlane spoke of Fox executives getting nervous when he puts new ideas on the table: “they tend to worry that it’s going to take focus away from Family Guy“. However, he went on to explain that The Cleveland Show has “worked out great, because it can run pretty well on its own.” The new show is under the executive production of Mike Henry and Rich Appel, a former executive producer of The Simpsons and King of the Hill, with limited involvement from MacFarlane.
The basic premise of The Cleveland Show is that newly divorced Cleveland has moved back to his home town in Virginia along with his teenage son. There he gets back together with his high-school sweetheart and her two kids and gets mixed up in zany mishaps (“like inadvertently coaching the high school baseball team to become a ruthless drug-dealing operation”).
Source: New York Times