Nov.14.2007 FOX will not tolerate your striking ways
Well, when the writers strike, what’s a network to do? Not have new TV? Apparently, that’s what Fox is thinking with Family Guy as the network will continue producing programming without creator and voice provider Seth Macfarlane.
The last episode completed before the Writers Guild of America strike began November 5 aired Sunday. Fox and sibling studio 20th Century Fox TV had the choice of going into reruns or continuing the show without MacFarlane, whose outspoken defiance of his employers has made him a cause celebre for striking writers.
After a large writers rally outside the Fox lot on Friday, where he was one of the speakers, MacFarlane said the studio could proceed without him, though he hoped it would not.
20th TV had no comment on the matter Tuesday but confirmed that it remains in production on new episodes. The first episode finished without MacFarlane’s blessing has been delivered to Fox. Sources said it is one of three very close to completion, with others in various stages of production.
Something tells me this may come off as very second rate. It’s not even that FOX couldn’t duplicate the writing. Pop culture gag, flashback, wacky plot, kill Lois, whatever…it could be done. But the voices are what throws you off. Like when Fred Flintstone was replaced on The Flintstones and the guy who replaced him sounded like a 1930s gangster with a c*ck in his mouth. But Fred Flintstone didn’t have a c*ck in his mouth. So it just didn’t jibe.
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