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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It used to be that if a horror movie wasn’t very good, it was probably too simplistic in its fear mechanics: stalker on the loose, ghost in the attic, don’t go in the basement. Today, though, it’s often the case that megaplex horror schlock isn’t too simple — it’s too busy, too fraught with convolutions. Instead of jump scares, we get world-building hoops to jump through.

Family Guy just yet.In a new profile with The LA Times in honour of the sitcom’s 25th anniversary, the creator reflected on the show’s impressive long-running status, saying: “At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop.“People still love it. It makes people happy and it funds some good causes.

“Family Guy” has charmed viewers for 25 years.The animated comedy has been on the air since 1999, and creator Seth MacFarlane has no intention of ending it after 23 seasons.The comedian, 50, got candid about the show’s stability in the last two decades in a Los Angeles Times profile to celebrate the series’ milestone anniversary.He noted that he’s not ready to let go of little Stewie Griffin and his cartoon family just yet.“At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop. People still love it.

Family Guy just yet.In a new profile with The LA Times in honour of the sitcom’s 25th anniversary, the creator reflected on the show’s impressive long-running status, saying: “At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop.“People still love it. It makes people happy and it funds some good causes.

Seth MacFarlane is opening up about possibly ending Family Guy after 22 seasons.

Pamela Anderson has signed on to star opposite Liam Neeson in a new “Naked Gun” movie, expected to release July 18, 2025.Neeson, 71, has been cast as the clueless police detective Frank Drebin with Anderson, 56, slated to play his love interest. The Post has reached out to both Neeson and Anderson for comment.The original film, written and directed by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, was based on the short-lived series “Police Squad,” which aired for six episodes in the 1980s. Leslie Nielsen, who died at the age of 84, originated the role of Drebin while starring opposite Priscilla Presley.

Pamela Anderson has landed a major movie role opposite Liam Neeson!

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin was wrong: Cops and women do mix, and with that we have Pamela Anderson joining Liam Neeson in Paramount Pictures’ untitled Naked Gun reboot, which Akiva Schaffer is directing and executive producing for a July 18, 2025 theatrical release.

Aramide Tinubu Fifty years ago, “Good Times” became the first sitcom to depict a two-parent Black American family. Now, Netflix is debuting a present-day animated reboot chronicling the Evanses two generations after the original. Set in Chicago’s Cabrini Green projects in the same apartment from the 1970s dramedy, the series follows Reggie (J.B.

Netflix has slotted Friday, April 12 for the premiere of Good Times, the animated series reboot of the late Norman Lear‘s groundbreaking TV sitcom. We’re also getting a first look in the trailer above.

Liam Neeson-led reboot of the iconic 1988 comedy film, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, is finally moving forward.Paramount Pictures revealed yesterday (February 28) that the upcoming reboot has secured a premiere date in July 2025. The film, which will be co-produced by Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins via Fuzzy Door, is set for release on July 18 next year, per Variety. The Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer, who is set to direct the reboot.The project has been in the works for some time now, with Neeson in talks to lead the rebooted franchise as early as 2022.

It’s Paramount earnings day, so it’s a great time to release a ton of news as the stick upticks 0.6% to $11.32.

Katcy Stephan A long-gestating reboot of the “Naked Gun” franchise with Liam Neeson is finally moving forward at Paramount, landing a release date of July 15, 2025. The currently-untitled project will be directed and executive produced by Avika Schaffer, who co-wrote the draft script alongside Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via their company Fuzzy Door.

Caroline Brew editor Seth MacFarlane will receive the Robert Forster Artist’s Award at the 51st annual Saturn Awards, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films announced on Tuesday. The event, to be hosted by Joel McHale on Feb. 4 at 4 p.m.

“Ted” star Max Burkholder’s association with series creator Seth MacFarlane dates back to Burkholder’s childhood.“I did voiceover work for [MacFarlane’s series] ‘Family Guy,’ ‘American Dad,’ ‘The Cleveland Show,’ so in a weird way I’ve been working with Seth in some capacity for 20 years,” Burkholder, 25, told The Post.“And just because I was a little kid hanging around the ‘Family Guy’ offices, when it came time for the table read for the first ‘”Ted” movie, they needed someone to play the creepy little kid character — and so I did that when I was probably around 10.” “Ted,” streaming on Peacock, is a prequel to the 2012 and 2015 movies (“Ted” and “Ted 2“) in which a foul-mouthed talking teddy bear, Ted (MacFarlane), is brought to life by his pal, 30-year-old John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg in both movies) — and eventually interferes with John’s love life.Burkholder plays 16-year-old John in the TV adaptation, set in 1993 in Framingham, Mass., as John adapts to high school — helped (or hindered) by Ted (voiced by MacFarlane and brought to life via sophisticated computer animation).Scott Grimes and Alanna Ubach play John’s Archie Bunker-type father, Matty, and good-natured mother, Susan; his older, liberal cousin, Blaire (Giorgia Whigam), attends Emerson College and lives with the family due to a sketchy situation with her parents.Burkholder said he was very conscientious about nailing John’s Boston accent.“I worked very hard on that,” he said.

Alison Herman TV Critic “Ted” is not the kind of story that begs for expansion. Once upon a time, a boy wished upon a shooting star for his stuffed teddy bear to come to life; in terms of exposition, that’s basically it. That teddy bear and his aggressive Boston accent, courtesy of creator Seth MacFarlane, went on to co-star in two hit films with Mark Wahlberg, the second of which hit theaters nearly a decade ago.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has hired Allie Cohen as a scripted TV agent.

Selome Hailu NBC saw solid ratings on Wednesday night with the airing of two Christmas specials Airing from 8-10 p.m. on Nov. 29, the annual “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special reached an audience of 7 million people when accounting for three days of delayed viewing across NBC, Peacock and digital platforms.

The NSFW trailer for the upcoming Ted prequel series was just released on Wednesday (November 29)!

It’s been over ten years since “Ted” hit theaters in 2012. Ushering in a big R-rated comedy hit for creator Seth MacFarlane and star Mark Wahlberg, it’s still the 12th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

EXCLUSIVE: Film director Michelle Danner has finished Principal Photography on The Italians, stars Abigail Breslin, Matthew Daddario, Rob Estes,  David DeLuise, Perrey Reeves, Olivia Luccardi, and Lainie Kazan.

Ted is making his comeback in a brand new series on Peacock!

Remember “Ted,” writer/director/producer Seth McFarlane’s R-rated foul-mouthed Teddy Bear movie with Mark Wahlberg that spawned a hit film and a sequel (which wasn’t so beloved). Well, it’s back as a ’90s set event prequel series that looks back on the character when Wahlberg’s character was a boy.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The “Ted” series coming to Peacock has set its premiere date. The seven-episode event series, which serves as a prequel to the two “Ted” films, will debut on Peacock on Jan. 11.

Peacock is finally ready to show the world Ted, its event series from Seth MacFarlane.

recent “Family Guy” episode that mocked the runaway royals.Sources close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claim that the pair have labeled the “savage” episode as an “outrageous slur,” according to Closer magazine.The couple found themselves the butt of the joke in a recent episode of the series, in which their money-hungry ways were mercilessly mocked by the animated show.The pair, who quit royal life in 2020, have been feeling like “they’re not being taken seriously enough by people” and that they “can’t catch a break,” the source adds.“Meghan said she won’t be humiliated like this and is desperate for a solution. They’re in full panic mode,” a source told the outlet, adding that the couple has called it an “attack from inside Hollywood.”“What’s hit them hardest and cuts the deepest of all is that it plays up the whole notion they’re self-entitled grifters or spoilt brats,” the insider added.Elsewhere, the source said that the “Suits” alum believes the only way for them to save their struggling brand is for Harry to “swallow his pride and beg for his family’s forgiveness.”The Post has reached out to reps for the Sussexes for comment.The episode in question roasted the couple over their Netflix deal, rumored to be worth $100 million, and showed Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) on an adventure to become a TV extra to make money.“I’ll go it alone, just like Meghan Markle and Prince Harry,” he says.

told the Mirror. “Enough now of their moaning and whinging, all they do is backstab and make a career out of complaining.”“It’s so bad now that we’re a laughing stock across the pond making cartoon features of the couple – it’s time for this to stop,” added Cundy, who no longer boasts a friendship with Markle.The Sussexes found themselves the butt of the joke in the latest “Family Guy” episode, in which their money-hungry ways were mercilessly mocked by the animated show.“Meghan can forget a career in politics because, with their moaning, they’ve become laughingstocks, not just here but in the States,” Cundy notes.

“Family Guy” included a reference to Del Taco during their latest (and ruthless) Sunday episode roasting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — and now the restaurant chain has spoken.In one scene of the Seth MacFarlane-created series, animated versions of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are lounging poolside unbothered.“Babe, time to do our daily $250,000 sponsored Instagram post for Del Taco,” the “Suits” alum, 42, says, a nod to the couple’s business deals since they moved to Montecito, Calif, after stepping down as senior members of the royal family.Del Taco, in response, shared via X (formerly known as Twitter): “Harry & Meghan we are still waiting for your post to go up today plz.”Some social media users got a kick out of the tweet.“I’m going to @DelTaco today just because they made me laugh,” one wrote.“Oh this is GOOOOOOOD!

Family Guy.In the third episode of season 22, which aired last Sunday (October 22), Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane) remarks that he’ll “go it alone like Meghan Markle and Prince Harry”, who stepped down as working members of the Royal Family in 2020.The show then cuts to an aside featuring a cartoon version of the couple lying by the pool, where a butler approaches Harry and says: “Sir, your millions from Netflix for… no one knows what.”After Harry says to “put it with the rest of them”, Meghan asks Harry: “Babe, time to do our daily $250,000 sponsored Instagram post for Del Taco.”“I shouldn’t have left the made-up nonsense,” Harry replies. Check out the clip below.Harry and Meghan signed a multi-year Netflix deal in September 2020 reportedly worth around $100million, although the deal’s exact worth is unknown.Following the deal, the couple have produced several shows including the documentary series Harry & Meghan, Live To Lead and 2023’s Heart Of Invictus, a project about the Invictus Games which was founded by Harry.Harry and Meghan were previously targeted by South Park in a parody earlier this year, which depicted the couple as the Prince and Princess of Canada on a “worldwide privacy tour”.Created by Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy first began in 1999 and is currently in its 22nd season.

archetypes.The adult animated comedy on Fox was not afraid to hurl a few insults towards Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in an episode that aired Sunday evening.In the show, now in its 23rd season, cartoon versions of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear poolside after the protagonist Peter Griffin compares himself to the royal couple while sitting at a bar with his friends.Worried that he won’t be able to get back the money he is owed, Griffin decides that his best bet will be to take on the world just like the royals did when they announced their plans to step back from their roles as senior members of the British monarchy in late 2022.“I’ll go it alone, just like Meghan Markle and Prince Harry,” Griffin declares.The scene cuts to Harry and Meghan, who are approached by a Butler who attempts to hand Harry a stack of envelopes. “Sir, your millions from Netflix for no one knows what,” he says.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are facing a new round of mockery from an animated series, this time from "Family Guy" on Fox. In an episode that aired Sunday night, main character Peter Griffin (voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane) is seen sitting in a bar with friends pondering how to get back money he is owed when he jokes that he’ll "go it alone, just like Meghan Markle and Prince Harry." The scene then cuts to cartoon versions of Harry and Meghan laying poolside as a butler approaches with an envelope.

EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The upcoming holiday season just got a little more merry and bright. “Family Guy” creator, director and long-time crooner Seth MacFarlane is dropping a holiday album with Liz Gillies of “Dynasty” and “Victorious” fame — and you can listen to their title track, “We Wish You The Merriest” right now. The velvety pipes of Gillies paired with MacFarlane’s baritone is the enough to soften even the most resolute of grinches.

Seth MacFarlane is donating an additional $5 million to The Entertainment Community Fund just shy of two months after an initial gift of $1 million to assist industry workers impacted by the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

An NFT-backed animated series production featuring the voices of Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Chris Rock, Dax Shepard, Jane Fonda and Seth MacFarlane has been fined $1 million for misleading investors.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The SEC charged a company called Stoner Cats 2 LLC — which produced an animated web series “Stoner Cats” funded by sales of NFTs that were priced at $800 each — with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities. The NFT sale of the Stoner Cats in July 2021 raised approximately $8 million to finance “Stoner Cats.” The voice cast of the “Stoner Cats” series included Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Chris Rock, Dax Shepard, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jane Fonda, Michael Bublé, Seth MacFarlane and Vitalik Buterin.