Family Guy

Family Guy is an Animated Televison Series Created by Seth Macfarlane. The TV Series was first shown on Fox in 1999. The Series is about the lives of the Dysfunctional, Griffin Family. Which Includes the Overweight Father Peter Griffin, his wife Lois, and their three children: 18-year-old Meg, 15-year-old Chris, and highly intelligent Baby Stewie, And Also their Dog, 7-year-old - Brian, Who Talks and Behaves like a Human Adult.

Characters
Peter Griffin: Peter is the Catholic, Overweight Father of the Griffin Family. Peter Spends alot of his time Drinking Pawtucket Beer at the Drunken Clam with Best Friends Joe,Cleaveland, and Quagmire. Peter Was Born in Mexico, Despite Being of Irish and American Decent.



Lois Griffin: Lois is the wife of Peter Griffin, and the Mother of the Family. Lois was born and raised in the wealthy Pewterschimdt family with her sister Carol. She also has a Brother Carl who was sent to a mental hospital after he was revealed to be a serial killer.



Meg Griffin: Megan "Meg" Griffin is the oldest child of Peter and Lois Griffin, she is also their only child.

Early History and Cancellation
Family Guy officially premiered after Fox's broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999, with "Death Has a Shadow". The show debuted to 22 million viewers, and immediately generated controversy regarding its adult content.[54] The show returned on April 11, 1999, with "I Never Met the Dead Man". Family Guy garnered decent ratings in Fox's 8:30 pm slot on Sunday, scheduled between The Simpsons and The X-Files.[20] At the end of its first season, the show ranked at No. 33 in the Nielsen ratings, with 12.8 million households tuning in.[55] The show launched its second season in a new time slot, Thursday at 9 pm, on September 23, 1999. Family Guy was pitted against NBC's Frasier, and the series' ratings declined sharply.[20] Subsequently, Fox removed Family Guy from its schedule and began airing episodes irregularly. The show returned on March 7, 2000, at 8:30 pm on Tuesdays, where it was constantly beaten in the ratings by ABC's then-new breakout hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, coming in at No. 114 in the Nielsen ratings with 6.32 million households tuning in.[citation needed] Fox announced that the show had been canceled in May 2000, at the end of the second season.[56] However, following a last-minute reprieve, on July 24, 2000, Fox ordered 13 additional episodes of Family Guy to form a third season.[54]

The show returned on November 8, 2001, once again in a tough time slot: Thursday nights at 8:00 pm. This slot brought it into competition with Survivor and Friends (a situation that was later referenced in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story).[57] During its second and third seasons, Fox frequently moved the show around to different days and time slots with little or no notice and, consequently, the show's ratings suffered.[58] Upon Fox's annual unveiling of its 2002 fall line-up on May 15, 2002, Family Guy was absent.[20] Fox announced that the show had been officially canceled shortly thereafter.

Revival
Fox attempted to sell the rights for reruns of the show, but finding networks that were interested was difficult; Cartoon Network eventually bought the rights, "[...] basically for free", according to the president of 20th Century Fox Television.[60] Family Guy premiered in reruns on Adult Swim on April 20, 2003, and immediately became the block's top-rated program, dominating late-night viewing in its time period versus cable and broadcast competition, and boosting viewership by 239%.[20][61] The complete first and second seasons were released on DVD the same week the show premiered on Adult Swim, and the show became a cult phenomenon, selling 400,000 copies within one month.[20] Sales of the DVD set reached 2.2 million copies,[62] becoming the best-selling television DVD of 2003[63] and the second-highest-selling television DVD ever, behind the first season of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show.[64] The third-season DVD release also sold more than a million copies.[61] The show's popularity in DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest,[65] and, on May 20, 2004, Fox ordered 35 new episodes of Family Guy, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales.[64][66]

"North by North Quahog", which premiered May 1, 2005, was the first episode to be broadcast after the show's hiatus. It was written by MacFarlane and directed by Peter Shin.[67] MacFarlane believed the show's three-year hiatus was beneficial because animated shows do not normally have hiatuses, and towards the end of their seasons, "... you see a lot more sex jokes and bodily function jokes and signs of a fatigued staff that their brains are just fried".[68] With "North by North Quahog", the writing staff tried to keep the show "[...] exactly as it was" before its cancellation, and "None of us had any desire to make it look any slicker".[68] The episode was watched by 11.85 million viewers,[69] the show's highest ratings since the airing of the first season episode "Brian: Portrait of a Dog".[70]

Awards
. The series has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Guy the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time.

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