Family Guy (series)

Family Guy is an American adult animated television series created by for the.

The series is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Road Island, and stars the Griffin family, consisting of the overweight, idiot husband Peter, his nasally-voiced wife Lois, their children, the teenaged Meg and Chris, their infant Stewie, and their anthropomorphic talking dog, Brian. The show is known for its raunchy comedy style, and its use of metafictional.

MacFarlane developed the series from his two early animated short films,, with two titular characters serving as the basis for Peter and Brian, culminating in a 1998 pilot episode that led to the series being picked up by the Fox Broadcasting Company for a 1999 premiere. Though the show was initially cancelled after its third season, favourable DVD sales and high ratings from syndicated reruns led Fox to revive the show for a fourth series, from which it continues to run to this day.

The show's popularity has led to various other media, from video games to comics. A spin-off television series,, ran for four seasons from 2009 to 2013.

Family Guy and Doctor Who have a number of connections with each other, most notably in the form of a brief, officially endorsed crossover within Family Guy itself.

Crossover
Inside Family Guy was the fourth episode of the show's fifteenth season, and originally aired in the US on 23 October. The episode opens with one of its famous cutaway: in this instance, a scene of the Griffin family watching a fictional episode of Doctor Who on TV, which the announcer introduces as Doctor Who Farted.

The skit sees the Tenth Doctor, his voice provided by a returning David Tennant, exiting the TARDIS after seemingly having passed gas inside. He then tries to dissuade his unnamed companion - voiced by reoccurring Family Guy actor, and Seth MacFarlane's sister, Rachael MacFarlane - from entering the ship so as not to get caught out.

According to reports, the showrunners were granted permission by the BBC to use the Tenth Doctor in the scene, making it an official collaboration.

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Television channels
Family Guy airs in the United States on Fox, the channel on which the Doctor Who TV movie had its premiere three years prior to the animation's debut.

The BBC held the terrestrial broadcasting rights to Family Guy for the first sixteen years of its run, airing on BBC Two and, primarily, BBC Three.

In 2016, the BBC relinquished these rights to ITV; the series currently airs on ITV2. Inside Family Guy, the episode containing the Doctor Who crossover, had its UK premiere on the channel on 21 November 2016, less than a month after its US broadcast.

Due to their acquisition of 20th Century Entertainment in 2019, Family Guy is currently under the ownership of The Walt Disney Companion; as such, the whole series is available to stream on Disney+ in multiple territories via the hub.