So how is FOX dealing with the writer’s strike when it comes to animated shows like Family Guy?
By carrying on without the creator and writers, that’s how!
Yep, it turns out that despite creator/writer/voice-master Seth MacFarlane pledge that last week’s "Lois Kills Stewie" episode was the last episode completed before he joined the Writers Guild strike, FOX is planning on running a brand new Family Guy, "Padre de Familia,” this Sunday.
So how did they finish it without the guy who writes and voices most of the characters? Well, it turns out that FOX and the show's production studio 20th Century Fox TV are doing the final work without him on this one, and potentially three other episodes MacFarlane says "relatively close to completion" before the strike began.
Legally, the network and studio can do this, says MacFarlane, but "it would just be a colossal d*ck move."
Well, colossal d*cks they must be, ‘cause FOX is doin’ it.
"They've never done anything like this before, in which they've said, 'We're going to finish a show without you,'” added MacFarlane. “It's really going to be unfortunate and damaging to our relationship if they do it."
But can FOX really damage its rep any worse than when it cancelled the show for two years, only to bring it back only after DVD sales proved there was an audience (which, of course, we already knew...you know, being that audience)?
Dude, I hate to say it, but these creeps will take your dang show away from you if they see you as a liability. Just ask John K about his Ren & Stimpy run-ins with Nick….and then cry….
IGN.com: Fox Finishes Family Guy Without Seth
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if they do it then family guy may not go back into seths hands, then itll suck.
Just like any other strike, crossing picket lines is a really bad idea if you actually want to work in that industry.
And this has all the potential of being like that "wrong-sounding Muppets" joke that Family Guy did once.
How the hell can you make Family Guy without the Guy?
FOX is something else, I swear.
I will say this though, to continue without McFarlane would be interesting, in that cringing while watching kind of way.
The Writers Guild allows animation writers to continue working on their shows during the strike.
"Most animated shows are covered by a different union from the Writers Guild and are unaffected by the WGA strike. In addition, the WGA has withdrawn objections to its members working in animation."
http://www.reuters.com/artic le/filmNews/idUSN0640254920071 107
"When the WGA struck three weeks later, it had quietly altered the strike rules so that WGA members would allowed to write animated features under IATSE contracts."
So in some ways, this is McFarlane's choice.
Family Guy salutes TV at the 2007 Emmys
EVERYONE WHO IS PISSED BY THIS SEND AN E-MAIL TO SOMEONE AT FOX. Check out newscorp.com and look at their executives and contacts and take your pick.
BITCHING AND MOANING ABOUT THIS ON G4'S SITE IS POINTLESS. SEND SOME PISS AND VINEGAR THEIR WAY!
i don't care who makes it.
ps. i hope the writers strike ends. reruns suck