The Cleveland Show

***The Cleveland Show*** is an animated sitcom that first aired on September 27, 2009 on the "Animation Domination" block on Fox in the United States. The show was created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel as a spin-off show from _Family Guy_.

The family was conceived by MacFarlane, he took the _Family Guy_ character, Cleveland Brown, and his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., and redesign Cleveland Brown Jr. to make him look older, and softly-spoken. Before the first episode aired it was already renewed for season 2, which had 22 episodes. On June 10, 2010, three weeks after the first season ended it was renewed for another season (season 3). It was also renewed for season 4. The show was canceled in May 2013, airing its final episode on May 19. There is four seasons of _The Cleveland Show_ and 88 episodes.

The series shows the life of Cleveland Brown, his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., his wife, Donna, and her kids, Roberta and Rallo.

The show uses a lot of profanity and sex scenes, which is why the show is rated TV-14, and rarely TV-PG.

According to critics, the show is an okay show, however some say it is a horrible show. The Parents Television Council said that the first season episodes was the worst show of the week. About 6 million people watched the show for season one. It was nominated for an award on the 36th People's Choice Awards, and on the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

## Production

At the start of the show, Cleveland Brown and his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., move from the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia.

Cleveland said to Glenn Quagmire that he is getting a spin-off on _Family Guy_ episode, "Baby Not on Board".

Originally, the theme song had a line with Cleveland Brown, he said "happy black-guy face", this was changed to "happy mustached face".

## Characters

- Cleveland Brown, an African-American male who is very polite to everyone and has a unique laugh, he used to be Peter Griffin's friend until moving.
- Donna Tubbs, second wife and current wife of Cleveland Brown.
- Cleveland Brown Jr., the son of Cleveland Brown
- Roberta Tubbs, fifteen-year-old daughter of Donna Tubbs
- Rallo Tubbs, five-year-old son of Donna Tubbs

## Voice cast

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|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Mike Henry|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Sanaa Lathan|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Reagan Gomez-Preston|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Kevin Michael Richardson|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Jason Sudeikis|style="text-align:center; width:16%;"|Seth MacFarlane|
|width=16%|Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs|width=16%|Donna Tubbs-Brown|width=16%|Roberta Tubbs|width=16%|Cleveland Brown, Jr. and Lester Krinklesac|width=16%|Holt Richter and Terry Kimple|width=16%|Tim the Bear|

## Ratings

|Season|Season premiere|Season finale|TV season|Ranking|Viewers (in millions)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1st|September 27, 2009|May 23, 2010|2009–2010|||
|2nd|September 26, 2010|May 15, 2011|2010–2011|||
|3rd|September 25, 2011|May 20, 2012|2011–2012|TBA|TBA|
|4th|October 7, 2012|May 19, 2013|2012–2013|TBA|TBA|

## International broadcast

The show was originally aired on Fox, and has been released in many other countries.
|Country|Network|First Aired||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Fox|rowspan="2"|September 27, 2009|
||Global|||
||Network Ten Eleven FOX8|December 2, 2009–January 12, 2011 January 12, 2011–present March 13, 2011–present||
||E4 FX|February 1, 2010 – present January 6, 2011 – present||
||FX Latin America|rowspan="2"|April 25, 2010|
||FX Latin America|||
|Ireland|3e|February 21, 2010||
||FOX Portugal|June 5, 2010||
||TV 2 Zulu|June 23, 2010||
|Israel|Yes Comedy|July 2, 2010||
||FX GR|March 2010||
||Comedy Central|July 7, 2010||
||2x2|September 2, 2010||
||FOX Italia 2|September 7, 2010||
||FOX Neox|July 19, 2010||
||TV2|August 13, 2010||
||Comedy Central|September 12, 2010||
||C4 Four Comedy Central|2010 February 10, 2011 - present 2011 - present||
||Jack TV|October 2010||
||Vuzu|November 29, 2010||
||Monte Carlo TV|December 18, 2010||
||Kanal 5 (Sweden)|January 3, 2011||
||Prima Cool|February 5, 2011||
||FOX Poland|February 16, 2011||
||France Ô|April 8, 2011||
||TV6 (Estonia)|June 1, 2011||
||TV6 Latvia|December 1, 2010||
|Palestinian territories|FX|July, 2011||
||FX|January 29, 2012||

## DVD releases

All seasons are available on DVD and Blu-ray.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (television)

- **image**: El Show de Cleveland (The Cleveland Show) Logo.png
- **genre**: Animation
Black comedy
Cutaway (filmmaking), Cutaway gag humor
- **creator**: Seth MacFarlane
Mike Henry (voice actor), Mike Henry
Richard Appel
- **voices**: Mike Henry
Sanaa Lathan
Kevin Michael Richardson
Reagan Gomez-Preston
Jason Sudeikis
Seth MacFarlane
- **theme music composer**: Walter Murphy
- **executive producer**: Seth MacFarlane
Mike Henry
Richard Appel

**Co-Executive Producers:**
Kirker Butler
John Viener <small>(Season 3-present)</small>
Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein <small>(Season 3-present)</small>
Jonathan Green <small>(Season 2-present)</small>
Gabe Miller <small>(Season 2-present)</small>
- **producer**: Kara Vallow
Jonathan Green <small>(Season 1)</small>
Gabe Miller <small>(Season 1)</small>
Courtney Lilly <small>(Season 2-present)</small>

**Co-Producers:**
Aseem Batra <small>(Season 1)</small>
Clarence Livingston <small>(Season 1)</small>
Aaron Lee <small>(Season 2-present)</small>
Matt Murray <small>(Season 2-present)</small>

**Supervising Producers:**
Aseem Batra <small>(Season 2-present)</small>
Clarence Livingston <small>(Season 2-present)</small>
- **editor**: Kirk Benson
- **camera**: Animation, Animated rendition of single camera setup, single camera
- **country**: United States
- **company**: Persons Unknown Productions
Happy Jack Productions
Fuzzy Door Productions
20th Television, 20th Century Fox Television
- **network**: Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox
- **runtime**: 22–23 minutes
- **language**: English language, English
- **num seasons**: 4
- **num episodes**: 88
- **list episodes**: List of The Cleveland Show episodes
- **related**: _Family Guy_
_American Dad!_