Roughed-Up Family Guy Producer Finds Himself on TV’s Ash-Heap

Thursday, June 15

A year and a half ago, a baby-faced animator from Connecticut named Seth MacFarlane was TV’s latest Next Big Thing. At 25, Mr. MacFarlane had a $2 million-plus, three-year production deal with the Fox network, and his first cartoon sitcom, Family Guy –for which he wrote and performed many of the voices–was Read More

Doug Herzog, Cable King, Flounders at Fox

Wednesday, Oct. 6

Doug Herzog was a cable king. He’s the man who brought South Park and The Daily Show to Comedy Central, and The Real World and Unplugged to MTV. But now, in his first season as the chief programmer for Fox Broadcasting, Mr. Herzog is having a rough start as a network guy. Read More