Family Guy is heading again to Adult Swim, over three years after it stopped airing on the community and 20 years after the Warner Bros. Discovery helped revive it.
The cable community has struck a non-exclusive licensing deal for the rights to previous episodes of Seth Macfarlane’s Fox animated collection and can launch it within the new yr.
This comes after Comedy Central struck a similar deal earlier this year and launched it in a primetime block. The collection additionally airs library episodes on FX and FXX and Hulu is the unique streaming house for the collection.
Grownup Swim is a part of the rationale that Household Man nonetheless exists; the present was canceled by Fox after its second season. Cartoon Community subsequently acquired the library rights to the present, reportedly for a really low payment, and aired it on its Grownup Swim strand, the place alongside DVD gross sales, it began to draw a cult following and was then revived by Fox, the place it nonetheless airs, and can return midseason.
Adult Swim stopped airing reruns in September 2021 after its license expired and Disney had acquired Fox property together with Household Man producer 20th Tv.
It should now return to airing reruns, beginning with a three-day marathon of episodes each night from 7pm to 5am ET/PT starting Wednesday, January 1. It should then air within the community’s primetime weekday lineup between 10pm and 11:30pm.
“Grownup Swim is a large a part of Household Man’s early historical past, and we’re excited for the collection to return to our lineup in 2025,” mentioned Michael Ouweleen, President of Grownup Swim. “Having Household Man again on our air is a superb complement to the superb slate of animated originals we even have deliberate for subsequent yr.”
Household Man is produced by Disney’s twentieth Tv Animation. MacFarlane is creator and exec producer, Wealthy Appel and Alec Sulkin function govt producers and showrunners, whereas Steve Callaghan, Tom Devanney, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan and Alex Carter additionally exec produce.
