The FOX animated series American Dad will move to TBS in 2014 to air new episodes. This news has come as a shock to me. I thought that American Dad did well on FOX. May be with the cancelation of Cleveland Show and the fact it will be in syndication this fall on TBS may be they will see how the repeats do and try and revive it on their network, and have their own animation domination block.
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FOX series American Dad will move to TBS in 2014
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Fox probably has more shows than it needs for 2 hours on Sunday nights, but Cleveland hasn't officially been cancelled, just no longer in production. Maybe Fox thinks TBS might be interested in new episodes The Cleveland Show. Fox also hasn't been giving it a consistent time slot like The Simpsons or Family Guy. I expect them to move Bob's Burgers to the 7:30 (6:30 central) slot now that it has a TBS/Adult Swim deal or maybe it will also move to TBS
At least to me, Family Guy seems to be the best of McFarland and Co. work. Cleveland just doesn't have the same interplay that he had on F.G. and Bob's Burgers causes me to immediately change the channel. American Dad is just OK, nothing special. Then again, some of the plot lines on Family Guy are starting to get tiring.
Perhaps 'Dad will get a second life once it moves over to TBS. I don't recall but wasn't it a similar move that caused Fox to bring back Family Guy?
Perhaps 'Dad will get a second life once it moves over to TBS. I don't recall but wasn't it a similar move that caused Fox to bring back Family Guy?
Bill DeFelice said:
Agreed about Family Guy being the best of the 3 Fox McFarlane shows, though note that McFarlane doesn't have anything to do with Bob's Burgers.
Lkeller said:
Thanks for the clarification. I still think Bob's Burgers is a stinker of a show, though.
neomedia said:
Bring on the complaints about American Dad now being less relevant of a program just because it's no longer on an OTA network...
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: : : :I have a feeling that FOX will slowly fade the animation domination block on Sunday nights from the line up. They went down from five shows last season to start the "13 season with four and will end the "13 season with three. I think that they will just cancel off some shows like Bobs Burgers in the next season and move the remaining shows from 7-8 on Sunday and move Family Guy to the Saturday late nite animation domination block. This way they can put programs that they have more faith in in the prime hours.
neomedia said:
the animated programs are male skewing, helpful for competing with SNF on NBC in the fall, they're also getting a lot of $ in syndication, something the Simpsons can't cash in on while it's still in production
To me, this is a one-off event. You're not likely to see Fox move other shows to TBS after this. This made sense because American Dad is not drawing the numbers it used to for Fox...but TBS would love half those numbers. So, it's a win win for both networks.
I can't afford cable channels, but if I'm not mistaken, TBS is one of those channels I get like a poor analog station and it would at least be watchable. I did watch "A Christmas Story" the first year I got the basic basic package.
Sure, but are there any plans to launch a new cartoon Sunday night?
There have been a bunch of come and gone short lived shows already...
There have been a bunch of come and gone short lived shows already...
vchimpanzee said:
TBS, along with WGN, was included in lifeline basic here, it might still be
I'm not actually supposed to get TBS. And my TiVo won't. Only the TV that I still use with a VCR.nomadcowatbk said:
"American Dad," seemed to me to spoof conservative values. Now that GW Bush has been out of office for awhile, it may be lacking material.
It's like when Jay Leno said he hated to see Bill Clinton leave because Al Gore and GW Bush were just boring.
Of course I haven't watched "American Dad," in awhile so maybe it's changed. Actually I thought the fish and Roger (that's the Paul Lynde spoof right?) should go to their own show and just ditch the rest of the show.
I've seen "Bob's Burgers" at the gym if I'm there on Sunday's, it's OK but it's nothing to plan for or I'd be upset if I missed.
As for "Cleveland"? Seth missed a huge opportunity to use the show to spoof Obama.
It's like when Jay Leno said he hated to see Bill Clinton leave because Al Gore and GW Bush were just boring.
Of course I haven't watched "American Dad," in awhile so maybe it's changed. Actually I thought the fish and Roger (that's the Paul Lynde spoof right?) should go to their own show and just ditch the rest of the show.
I've seen "Bob's Burgers" at the gym if I'm there on Sunday's, it's OK but it's nothing to plan for or I'd be upset if I missed.
As for "Cleveland"? Seth missed a huge opportunity to use the show to spoof Obama.
Yeziknoradio said:
Yes sometime in midseason early 2014 FOX will launch Murder Police. I do not know if it will be on Sundays or Saturdays. But the run time is 30 min and the shows on Saturday Late Nite Animation Domination are all going to be 15 min so most likely it will either replace one of the 4 in midseason or launch at 7:30.
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