News Corporation is an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. They own loads of big well know companies such as The Sun, Fox, The Sunday Times, VOGUE, The Daily Telegraph and so on. But our main focus is them owning FOX. FOX is an American commercial broadcasting television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox. I am focusing on Family guy which is owned by FOX, but FOX have lots of world famous shows such as The Simspons, Glee, My name is Earl, Prison Break and How I Met your mother.
Family guy was created in the 1990s by a American actor, voice actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, film director, cartoonist, activist, comedian, singer, and television host called Seth MacFarlane who was born 26th of October 1973. After college MacFarlane was hired at Hanna-Barbera based on the writing content of The Life of Larry, rather than on cartooning ability. He was one of only a few people hired by the company solely based on writing talent. He worked as an animator and writer for Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons series.
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 Collins and Mike Darnell, heads of the alternative comedy department at Fox.
After the success of King of the Hill in 1997, MacFarlane called Collins 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 $50,000 to produce a pilot that could lead to a series.
Family guy is now onto its 12th season and was a success for Seth. The shows are broadcasted on the English channel BBC 3 and two American channels called FOX and Adult Swim. The Main cast members are who play the family voices are; Seth MacFarlane who plays the voices of Peter Griffin the dad of the family, Stewie Griffin the baby of the family and Brian Griffin the families dog. Alex Borstein who plays the voice of Louis Griffin the mother of the family. Seth Green who plays the voice Chris Griffin the teenage son of the family. Mila Kunis who plays the voice of Meg Griffin the daughter of the Family.
Family guy had a video game released in 2006 called 'Family Guy Video game!' which was published by 2k Games with the Genre of Action-Adventure. Family Guy Video Game! received mixed reviews. Aggregating review websites Game Rankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox version 56.89% and 53/100. the PlayStation 2 version 51.06% and 50/100 and the PlayStation Portable version 50.80% and 51/100.
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