For the first time in 20 years, Family Guy is leaving Fox’s Sunday lineup
The Animation Domination lineup is going to look different next year
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A shockwave has just ripped through the world of broadcast television, and things will… never… be… the… same. In fact, you should check on your TV right now and make sure it hasn’t burst into flames at the shock of what has just happened. And while this all may seem absurdly over-the-top, we assure you that this is indeed a big deal: Fox has just released its new midseason schedule (after a real bummer of a regular fall season), and—for the first time in about 20 years—Family Guy will not be a part of the Animation Domination Sunday lineup. Instead, it will air on Wednesdays alongside The Masked Singer and Animal Control, two shows that are apparently still on.
This comes from Variety, and this seismic shift marks the first time Family Guy will have aired on a day other than Sunday since it was resurrected by Fox in 2005. It initially aired on Thursday nights, got crummy ratings, and was killed after three seasons. Good ratings on Adult Swim’s repeats and good DVD sales convinced Fox to bring the show back, though, with Family Guy getting a prestigious time slot near The Simpsons for the next two decades or so. But now, either because Fox hates it and wants it to die again or because the network now has enough confidence in Peter, Lois, Stewie, and the rest of the Family gang to survive on a day without a football or The Simpsons bump, it’s getting dumped on Wednesday.
The new schedule begins on March 6 when the new season of Family Guy premieres (wow, that feels far away), with the Sunday Animation Domination block consisting of The Simpsons, relatively new newcomer Krapopolis, oldcomer Bob’s Burgers, the very underrated Great North, and Jon Hamm-starring newcomer Grimsburg.
And now we’re just supposed to go on with our lives, knowing that Family Guy won’t be on Sundays anymore. It’s wild.
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Oh man, this is just like that one time they switched Family Guy’s time slot.
*flashback that for some reason involves the Klan*
Cutaway where even the Klan finds Meg physically repulsive and makes her double-cloak.
no it isn’t.
the very underrated Great NorthWoooo! A shoutout for my favorite show!It’s Bob’s Burgers-style animated comedy set in Alaska. It has Nick Offerman. Watch it.
I watched the first season; it’s fine, but doesn’t outshine Bob’s Burgers to me.
It still doesn’t outshine Bob’s but Great North does get a lot better after Season 1. Like a lot of shows it finds its own groove and its own brand of weirdness after the first season. I found myself comparing it to Bob’s a lot less after that first season, and that helped me enjoy the show a lot more.
I watched a few eps and just couldn’t get into it. There’s one very funny comedienne whose voice is…just not for me. Live action, she’s funny. Just for voicework, I can’t watch her scenes.
The rest of the characters just never grabbed me as well. The whole thing felt meh, but I’m glad it’s still on for those who do enjoy it.Did I even need to bother writing this? Nope! Ignore me!
I like the premise, the cast is great (especially Offerman), and the overall tone is charming enough, but the writing just isn’t as good as it needs to be.Still 10 times better than Krapopolis, though…
I get the sass, but I’m pretty sure Masked Singer is one of Fox’s highest rated shows so it seems like they are likely trying to use that to feed into Family Guy and hoping that will all help Animal Control.
I’m also pretty sure that this very site regularly runs articles about who the most recently unmasked singer was, so acting as if they’re surprised it’s still on is fucking wild.
Yeah, I’d get it if it was a very poorly received show or one with weak ratings (or even just super old), but it’s like “yes, this highly rated show is still on the air.”
Barsanti gonna Barsanti.
Also, weird to say The Masked Singer is “apparently still on” when this very website has multiple articles a week about The Masked Singer when it’s in season.
Animal Control I get a little bit more. I didn’t see that getting renewed, but putting the two together like that was … weird.
The Simpsons will bury them all.You’re next Bob…
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
Berkeley Breathed
Family Guy can never break my heart, because it never made it soar in the first place.I can’t watch The Simpsons anymore. I just can’t. Family Guy? Yeah, whatever, I’ll give it twenty minutes every other week during its seasons. Oh, it’s going to be airing on a different day? Well, my lawyers have advised me not to tell you why that barely matters to me at all.
I do love how watching any episode from the last ten years you immediately find out what highly-specific thing pissed the writer off six months before the premier, because that’s what the ep will be about as they ran out of ideas when Obama got elected.“Oh, god, you guys, I was in the park the other week and there was this guy doing tai chi and he was really weird about it and stuff and let’s do an episode about park tai chi old guys because the guy was also old and I don’t think he was even Asian.”
Family Guy at least still has some energy, I mean it’s (usually) not good but at least it moves along quickly. The worst thing about new Simpsons is how listless and anemic it feels.
It’s still on the air?!? Huh.
So is Grey’s Anatomy
Fox is definitely trying to kill the show for good. It’s no secret there’s been hostility between them and Seth MacFarlane for a while.
Putting it on after their highest rated show that isn’t a sporting event might not be the best nail in its coffin.
If the audience of one is also the audience of the other
A lot of people tend to watch whatever is on after a popular show. That’s why new shows are so often scheduled after very successful ones. Family Guy’s audience will likely still login (or are already watching it mostly via DVR/streaming) and Fox will hope for some retention of the Masked Singer audience.
Yes, killing it by… putting it on immediately after one of their highest rated and most popular shows. You seem sharp.
Putting it after a popular show doesn’t guarantee the audience for both shows will be the same
But it’s still not an attempt at “killing a show.” When you put a show on after a popular show you’re trying to resuscitate it (like the opposite of killing) or trying to build a strong block of shows in a night to pull advertisers.
Animal Control is good, you cowards!!
don’t you dare touch my “bob’s burgers!!!!!”
I stopped watching Family Guy years (decades? ago), just kinda drifted. But I liked that it was still on. I hold no ill will and have very fond memories of that time period after it was canceled and was airing on Adult Swim.
It has had a very good run, but the quality has really seemed to drop the last 2 seasons.
Krapopolis is a great show, and man the voice talent in it: you’ve got 1/2 of Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place for starters and Hannah Waddingham. It’s a lot better than I thought it would be.
Garth Marenghi proves that Matt Berry makes everything great.
I would probably love Garth Marenghi if Berry wasn’t in it, but he definitely enhances it.
Me too. When I first heard about it, its concept, and that Fox had ordered 3 (or is it 2?) seasons before airing the first episode, I was sure I would hate it but it’s now the only thing I care about watching every week.It’s incredibly simplistic but also subversive, with none of the maliciousness that pervades other animated shows.
Really? I watched the first 3 episodes and didn’t laugh once. Not even a chuckle.Maybe it has significantly improved since then – new shows always need time to find their footing – but I seriously doubt it.
We must have been watching a different show with the same name.
Theywant to kill it
Animal Control is a great show with great potential. If I had to choose, I’d dump Family Guy in a second. Now and then, Family Guy manages a decent episode but more frequently, it’s just the same old crap. And I’ll tell you, maybe it has something to do with the state of America these days – and the world – but I’m sick and tired of hatefulness and violence as plot points in what are supposed to be comedies. That last episode with the stereotype Boston baby beating the shit out of the parents – fuck that. I stopped it and deleted it. That’s funny? A toddler beating a woman? I sure didn’t think so. Enough. We need to laugh at things that aren’t horrendous. Can we just have some humor that doesn’t require viciousness?
I didn’t bother to check who wrote this, but as soon as I saw that the author was enough of a dips**t to say that a very popular show that this very website writes about regularly is “apparently still on,” I knew with 100% certainty that it was Barsanti.
One of the side-effects of cord cutting over a decade ago is not even knowing that this is a thing people think about. By which I mean Family Guy.
Don’t worry. Stewie will use his time machine and reset everything after a couple of weeks, just like they did after they killed off Brian.
All those people who got R.I.P. Brian tattoos after that episode. LOL.
There’s still time!
so it will be back when Krapopolis and or grimburg get cancelled?
Who watches family guy?Anyone who grew up with this graduated to Rick and Morty a decade ago.
And Jon Hamm-starring newcomer Grimsburg
Everything about this show says “cancelled after one season”
I thought people liked Jon Hamm?
This show is already dead.
Is this really that surprising? Who watches that garbage besides boomers? That show has been running on fumes for at least a decade. The original seasons before it got originally cancelled were good but even now though the humour in those offends the sensitivity of the times. In the moment it was good and then it just was on forever.
Fox, girl go crazy, live a little, have a kooky fun little time, treat yourselves, cancel Family Guy just for the fun of it.