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On July 22, 2007, in an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter", MacFarlane announced that he may start working on a feature film, although "nothing's official."
In "TV Week" on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released "Family Guy" feature film sometime "within the next year."
He came up with an idea for the story, "something that you could not do on the show, which him is the only reason to do a movie."
He later went to say he imagines the film to be "an old-style musical with dialogue" similar to "The Sound of Music", saying that he would "really be trying to capture, musically, that feel."
On October 13, 2011, Seth MacFarlane confirmed that a deal for a "Family Guy" film had been made, and that it would be written by himself and series co-producer Ricky Blitt.
On November 30, 2012, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a "Family Guy" film. 
Although MacFarlane enjoyed working at Hanna-Barbera, he felt his real calling was for prime-time animation, which would allow a much edgier style of humor.
He first pitched "Family Guy" to Fox during his tenure at Hanna-Barbera.
A development executive for Hanna-Barbera, who was trying to get back into the prime-time business at the time, introduced MacFarlane to Leslie Kolins and Mike Darnell, heads of the alternative comedy department at Fox.
After the success of "King of the Hill" in 1997, MacFarlane called Kolins once more to ask about a possible second pitch for the series.
The company offered the young writer a strange deal: Fox gave him a budget of US$50,000 to produce a pilot that could lead to a series (most episodes of animated prime-time productions cost at least US$1 million).
Recalling the experience in an interview with "The New York Times", MacFarlane stated, "I spent about six months with no sleep and no life, just drawing like crazy in my kitchen and doing this pilot".
After six months, MacFarlane returned to Fox with a "very, very simply, crudely animated film – with just enough to get the tone of the show across" to present to the executives, who loved the pilot and ordered the series immediately.
In July 1998, the Fox Broadcast Company announced the purchase of "Family Guy" for a January 1999 debut.
"Family Guy" was originally intended to be a series of shorts on "MADtv", much in the same way "The Simpsons" had begun on "The Tracey Ullman Show" a decade earlier.
Negotiations for the show's "MADtv" connection fell through early on as a result of budgetary concerns.
At age 24, MacFarlane was television's youngest executive producer.
"Family Guy" first aired January 31, 1999.
MacFarlane's work in animating "Family Guy" has been influenced by Jackie Gleason and Hanna-Barbera along with examples from "The Simpsons" and "All in the Family".
In addition to writing three episodes, "Death Has a Shadow", "Family Guy Viewer Mail 1" and "North by North Quahog", MacFarlane voices "Family Guy"'s main male characters – Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake Tucker, and additional characters.
Bolstered by high DVD sales and established fan loyalty, "Family Guy" developed into a US$1-billion franchise.
On May 4, 2008, after approximately two and a half years of negotiations, MacFarlane reached a US$100-million agreement with Fox to keep "Family Guy" and "American Dad" until 2012.
The agreement makes him the world's highest paid television writer.
MacFarlane's success with "Family Guy" has opened doors to other ventures relating to the show.
On April 26, 2005, he and composer Walter Murphy created "".
The soundtrack features a Broadway show tune theme, and MacFarlane voiced Stewie in the track "Stewie's Sexy Party".
A fan of Broadway musicals, MacFarlane comments on using musicals as a component to "Family Guy":In addition, a "Family Guy" video game was released in 2006.
Two years later, in August 2007, he closed a digital content production deal with AdSense.
MacFarlane takes cast members on the road to voice characters in front of live audiences.
"Family Guy Live" provides fans with the opportunity to hear future scripts.
In mid-2007 Chicago fans had the opportunity to hear the then upcoming sixth season premiere "Blue Harvest".
Shows have been played in Montreal, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
On July 22, 2007, in an interview with "The Hollywood Reporter", MacFarlane announced that he may start working on a feature film, although "nothing's official".
In September 2007, Ricky Blitt gave TV.com an interview confirming that he had already started working on the script.
Then in "TV Week" on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released "Family Guy" feature film sometime "within the next year".
He came up with an idea for the story, "something that you could not do on the show, which him is the only reason to do a movie".
He later went on to say he imagines the film to be "an old-style musical with dialogue" similar to "The Sound of Music", saying that he would "really be trying to capture, musically, that feel".
Despite its popularity, "Family Guy" has often been criticized.
The Parents Television Council frequently criticizes the show for its content, once organized a letter-writing campaign aimed at removing it from FOX's lineup, and has filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission alleging that some episodes of the show contained indecent content.
MacFarlane has responded to the PTC's criticism by saying, among other things, "That's like getting hate mail from Hitler.
They're literally terrible human beings.
""Family Guy" has been cancelled twice, although strong fan support and DVD sales have caused Fox to reconsider.
MacFarlane mentioned how these cancellations affected the lineup of writers each time Fox approved the show.
"One of the positive aspects of 'Family Guy' constantly being pulled off air is that we were always having to restaff writers".
During the sixth season, episodes of "Family Guy" and "American Dad!"
were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike (which MacFarlane participated in to support the writers while FOX aired three "Family Guy" episodes without MacFarlane's permission).
On February 12, 2008, the strike ended, and the series resumed airing regularly, beginning with "Back to the Woods". 
"Family Gay" was written by at the time Executive Producer and future co-creator of the "Family Guy" spin-off "The Cleveland Show", Richard Appel.
This episode being his first and to date his only writing credit on the show.
John Viener worked as the executive story editor for the episode.
MacFarlane found a list of plot ideas from the third season that says "Peter goes gay" and he decided to make an episode with that premise.
The writers originally wanted to take "the high road" with the episode.
In the first draft, Peter's homosexuality was so subtle, that he just appeared a little more refined.
When the writers could not come up with any high road jokes, they "went with what they know".
The writers had fun "gaying up the episode" by including Peter in a different outfit during every scene after he turned gay.
The writers wanted to further the idea that sexuality is inborn, not chosen.
The episode was directed by Brian Iles.
He was assisted by James Purdum and Peter Shin worked as the supervising directors for the episode.
Other crew members that collaborated in the animation of the episode included Deborah Cone who directed the retake of the episode and Kenji Ono who was the assistant director of the episode.
Iles sketched out several clothing ideas for Peter to wear.
He got ideas by flipping through catalogs.
The name of all the horses at the race track are named after canceled Fox shows from May 2005 until this episode aired.
It is a tribute to a similar mentioning of canceled shows when "Family Guy" came back on the air in May 2005 in the episode "North by North Quahog".
When the episode got close to airing, MacFarlane kept thinking they should remove the cutaway gag with Matt Damon, due to MacFarlane liking Damon's criticism of Sarah Palin.
"Family Gay", along with the first eight episodes of the seventh season were released on DVD by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2009, one month after it had completed broadcast on television.
The "Volume 7" DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, animatics, and commentaries for every episode.
The DVD also includes four special features those being, Take me out to place tonight; "Family Guy" Cribz; Comic-Con 2008 "Family Guy" panel and the "Family Guy" Art Show.
All the main "Family Guy" cast members lent their voices to the episode, along with writers Kirker Butler, John Viener, Alec Sulkin, Mark Hentemann, and Danny Smith, who all had minor speaking roles.
Peter's boyfriend Scott was voiced by recurring voice actor John G. Brennan, who voices him in the same way he voices gay "The Jerky Boys" character Jack Tors.
Other guest stars included writer Wellesley Wild, actress Meredith Baxter-Birney, and actor Seth Rogen. 
Writers named the character Cleveland Brown in reference to the similarly named football team, although his last name wasn't revealed until after "Family Guy" returned from cancellation in 2005.
Furthering this connection, a commercial aired during Super Bowl XLV that showed many TV characters wearing NFL jerseys, with everyone in Quahog wearing New England Patriots jerseys except Cleveland, who is wearing a Cleveland Browns jersey in reference to his name.
Mike Henry voices both Cleveland Brown and Herbert, as well as some minor recurring characters like Bruce the performance artist and The Greased up Deaf Guy.
Henry met MacFarlane at the Rhode Island School of Design and kept in touch with him after they graduated.
A few years later, MacFarlane contacted him about being part of the show; he agreed and came on as both a writer and voice actor.
Henry based Cleveland's voice on one of his basketball partners in Virginia.
During the show's first four seasons, he was credited as a guest star, but beginning with season five's "Prick Up Your Ears" he has been credited as a main cast member.
During a live broadcast of "Loveline," Seth McFarlane announced that a "Family Guy" spin-off featuring Cleveland was currently in the works with the studio and writers.
The series was the first new product of MacFarlane's $100 million deal with Fox.
The series was mentioned in the final moments of the "Family Guy" season 7 episode "Baby Not on Board", with Cleveland telling Quagmire "Did I tell you I'm getting a spin-off".
It premiered on September 27, 2009 on FOX, right after "The Simpsons".
The "Cleveland Show" is an animated series focusing on the character of Cleveland Brown and his family as Cleveland moves from Rhode Island to Virginia.
His newly introduced family includes his high school sweetheart, Donna, who is now his second wife, her 15-year-old daughter, Roberta, and her 5-year-old son, Rallo.
Cleveland Jr. also is in the family but is now much fatter than he appeared on "Family Guy", and also suffers from astigmatism.
Though several of these details were changed, it was announced that Cleveland's neighbors would include a family of talking anthropomorphic bears, a redneck couple and a Victorian-era British family, and one of his son's soccer rivals includes a boy voiced by Kanye West.
Cleveland was officially written out of "Family Guy" during season eight before "The Cleveland Show" was broadcast; however, it has been hinted that he might come back for a visit in the future, including the episode "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", although fantasies and film parodies are generally accepted as non-canon Family Guy episodes.
He appeared in a cameo in "Spies Reminiscent of Us", in which he dealt with the indignity of having his new house wrecked in the same fashion as his old one in Quahog, as well as appearing in the season 8 episode "The Splendid Source", where he joins the gang on a road trip to find the source of a dirty joke Chris Griffin told at school.
In the Family Guy episode "Life of Brian", Cleveland & Donna are seen mourning over Brian's death.
Another idea has been that Peter Griffin and possibly other "Family Guy" characters will be traveling in the South and make a guest appearance on "The Cleveland Show".
Additionally, Cleveland appeared at the end of the "American Dad!"
episode "Hurricane!
", which was part of a crossover storyline with "Family Guy" and "The Cleveland Show".
"The Cleveland Show" on May 13, 2013.
On July 16, Seth MacFarlane revealed that Cleveland will return to "Family Guy" during the 12th Season in the episode "He's Bla-ack". 
MacFarlane conceived the idea for the "Family Guy" in 1998, developing it out of his two short films.
MacFarlane caught the attention of Fox, and was given $50,000 to make a pilot.
MacFarlane completed the 11 minute pilot after six months of hand animation.
Upon review, Fox gave the green light to "Family Guy" as a series.
Although "Family Guy"s cancellation was initially announced after the second season, Fox decided to make a third season, after which it was truly canceled at the end of 2003.
However, reruns on Adult Swim drove up interest in the show, and its DVD releases did quite well, selling over 2.2 million copies in one year, which renewed network interest.
"Family Guy" returned to production in 2004, making four more seasons (for a total of seven) and a straight-to-DVD special, "."
The show celebrated its official 100th episode during its sixth season in November 2007, resulting in the show's syndication.
The show is contracted to continue producing episodes until 2012.