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'Family Guy' Creator Signs $100 Millon Deal
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by Jarrett Martineau | May 5, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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Not bad for the creator of a critically-panned cartoon show that was cancelled twice, resurrected by rerun viewership and DVD sales, and has gone on to become a hit animated series.
But now that MacFarlane has everyone's attention, his challenge ahead is to sustain audience interest in his particular brand of dissociative, tangential, meta-humour. Will his live-action spinoff pack the same punch as his animated antics?
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has signed a long-term deal with 20th Century Fox TV that will have him working for the studio to 2012.It took 2½ years of negotiations to reach the agreement, said to be worth nine figures (more than $100 million US).
MacFarlane is to remain as executive producer of Family Guy, new series American Dad and his next project The Cleveland Show, a live-action spinoff.
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at 14:04 on May 5th, 2008
Who knew the likes of a 9-minute Peter/chicken fight would someday earn him $100 million. Brilliant.
at 20:20 on May 5th, 2008
This is Stewie. You know him. He's watching you. From a building in Bucharest, Romania.
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at 08:52 on May 7th, 2008
Nice...