Seth MacFarlane is on the move with a big new overall deal at NBCUniversal Content Studios, the new unit of NBCUniversal under Bonnie Hammer. The deal came in through Universal Content Productions …
and NBCUniversal International Studios — aligned under the new banner.
MacFarlane is now the latest in an ever-growing string of high-profile creators and producers to ink substantial television deals. Shonda Rhimes, Kenya Barris, and Ryan Murphy all famously signed deals with Netflix reportedly worth nine figures each. “The Good Place” creator Mike Schur also reportedly received a similar deal to stay put at, while Mindy Kaling exited UTV for a lucrative pact with Warner Bros. Television.
MacFarlane had previously been under an overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television, which expired in June. The studio currently produces his long-running animated comedies “Family Guy” and “American Dad!” as well as the live-action sci-fi drama “The Orville.” “Family Guy” airs on Fox, while “The Orville” isfor its upcoming third season and “American Dad!” moved from Fox to TBS in 2014. All three shows feature MacFarlane in front of the camera as well as behind.
On the film side, MacFarlane wrote and starred in the films “Ted” and its sequel and the Wild West comedy “A Million Ways to Die in the West.”MacFarlane has become increasingly critical of Fox as a whole in recent years, in particular the company’s news division, Fox News. He publicly said that he was “” last year in response to a segment on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in which Carlson told viewers to “always assume the opposite of what they’re telling you on the big news stations.
However, 20th Century Fox Television officially became part of Disney upon the completion of the 21st Century Fox-Disney merger back in March. The Fox broadcast network, Fox News, and Fox Sports were among the assets not acquired by Disney and spunoff into the now standalone entity, Fox Corp.hanging out in the halls of the studio,” said Dana Walden, the chairwoman of Disney TV Studios and ABC Entertainment. “He entertained all of us with his incredible wit and hilarious observations.
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