Family Guy “Library Episodes” Returning to Adult Swim
With the 2024 year almost at a close, typically there’s not much to say as far as new/returning shows, but more syndicated programing and/or block time changes. Thankfully we just received news of the former as Family Guy will be making is triumphant return to Adult Swim.
As you may or may not be aware, Paramount announced earlier this year that they obtained a licensing deal with Disney to air the show on Comedy Central starting this past September, making it seem as though the show would never see the light of day on Adult Swim again. Even after 20+ years, I don’t claim to be an expert in licensing, but I do know that there’s ins and outs to them… what time they can air in which format in which country, etc. etc. Adult Swim is clever to note in the below press release that they will “feature library episodes” which (don’t quote me) more than likely means episodes they’ve aired prior, to a certain season, which gives the network exclusivity in airing certain episodes at certain times that none of the other networks who have permission to do so will.
At any rate, that’s good news for both FG fans as well as Adult Swim, since both have had a pretty prestigious relationship since the beginning, not to mention the fact that (besides DVD sales), Adult Swim airing FG initially is what prompted Fox to resurrect the series after cancelling it back in 2002.
Family Guy will return to Adult Swim starting Wednesday, January 1st, with a humongoid marathon of every episode AS will air from 7pm to 5am and proceeding the following Thursday and Friday. For more info, check out the press release below. We’ll have more info as we receive it.
FAMILY GUY RETURNS TO ADULT SWIM’S PRIMETIME LINEUP IN 2025 WITH EPISODES AIRING EVERY WEEKDAY AT 10PM ET/PT BURBANK (December 3, 2024) – The global leader in adult animation, Adult Swim will feature library episodes of Family Guy in its primetime weekday lineup beginning in 2025. Massively popular with Adult Swim fans since the network began airing the Seth MacFarlane created series in 2003, Family Guy episodes will air back-to-back every weekday from 10:00 – 11:30pm ET/PT beginning next year.
To mark the return of Family Guy, Adult Swim will also host a three-day marathon of episodes every evening from 7pm to 5am ET/PT beginning Wednesday, January 1.
“Adult Swim is a huge part of Family Guy’s early history, and we’re excited for the series to return to our lineup in 2025,” said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim. “Having Family Guy back on our air is a great complement to the amazing slate of animated originals we also have planned for next year.”
About Family Guy
Family Guy features the adventures of the Griffin family. Endearingly ignorant Peter and his stay-at-home wife, Lois, reside in Quahog, R.I., and have three kids. Meg, the eldest child, is a social outcast, and teenage Chris is awkward and clueless when it comes to the opposite sex. The youngest, Stewie, is a genius baby who is bent on killing his mother and destroying the world. Brian, the talking dog, keeps Stewie in check while sipping martinis and sorting through his own issues.
Family Guy continues to entertain its die-hard fan base with razor-sharp humor, spot-on parodies, spectacular animation and orchestra-backed original music. Since its debut in 1999, the series has reached cult status among fans, and its breakout star, a talking baby, has become one of the greatest TV characters of all time. Family Guy has racked up numerous awards, including an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, only the second animated series in television history to be honored with such a distinction. Most recently, series creator and lead voice actor Seth MacFarlane (voices of “Peter Griffin,” “Stewie Griffin,” “Brian Griffin” and “Glenn Quagmire”) was nominated for the 2021 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance and won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Cast member Alex Borstein (voice of “Lois Griffin”) won the 2018 Emmy Award in that same category and was just nominated in 2024. MacFarlane also was nominated in 2018. He won the 2017 and 2016 Emmy Award in the category and was nominated from 2013 to 2015. Family Guy will return to FOX in 2025 with all-new episodes and is available to stream on Hulu. The series stars Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, and Arif Zahir.
Family Guy is a 20th Television Animation production and is distributed by Disney Entertainment.Seth MacFarlane is creator and executive producer. Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin serve as executive producers and showrunners, while Steve Callaghan, Tom Devanney, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan and Alex Carter are executive producers.
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