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Old 03-14-2001, 07:14 AM
kflanaga kflanaga is offline
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Can anyone tell me what happened to the Fox show Family Guy? Everyone I know loved this show, and I think it was getting good ratings. Fox put it on hiatus, I think, for some reason. But now they don't even list it on their website as one of their shows. What's the deal?
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Old 03-14-2001, 07:43 AM
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The ratings tanked. And some of the later episodes were awful (the Y2K one, for instance). Fox let it die after that.

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Old 03-14-2001, 10:06 AM
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The ratings tanked. And some of the later episodes were awful (the Y2K one, for instance.) Fox let it die after that.
Au contraire, my friend:

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The Family Guy is on vacation. And by "vacation," we mean it was yanked from the schedule and won't be back until midseason. You're more than welcome to wait here until the family returns (just try not to break anything).
The last speculation I heard was that it would come back sometime after February sweeps were safely over. 'Course, it is already mid-March...
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Old 03-14-2001, 12:33 PM
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Not a definitive answer, but I had read on a web site somewhere that it would be back sometime in June. I'm afraid don't remember which site I read that on, though.
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Old 03-14-2001, 12:41 PM
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A USA Today article from last year said that FOX was keeping some episodes of "Family Guy" around in case of a writer's strike that would eliminate much of the original programming available to them.

In such an event, I plan to catch up on a lot of reading.
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Old 03-14-2001, 04:50 PM
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I'm really hoping this show comes back, I like it better than (sacrilege) The Simpsons.
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Old 03-14-2001, 05:00 PM
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Last year, before the show went on, uh, "vacation", there was a report that KISS was to appear. Now, THAT, I've got to see.
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Old 03-14-2001, 08:48 PM
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The email I sent to Fox asking this question was answered by telling me that the show will return this coming Fall.
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