{"id":14469,"date":"2003-11-20T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/the-family-guy-to-return\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T13:39:00","slug":"the-family-guy-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/the-family-guy-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Guy To Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/television\/news\/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/familyguy.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Family Guy\" \/><\/a>Because of brisk DVD sales of <i>The Family Guy<\/i> (the first season sold almost 1 million copies and the second has sold over 500,000), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/television\/news\/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fox is apparently considering reviving the cancelled series<\/a>.  According to <i>USA Today<\/i>, &ldquo;as many as 35 new episodes could return in January 2005, marking the first time that a canceled series has been revived based on strong DVD demand and ratings in syndication.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy at the possibility of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_09_14_archive.html#106371906601047372\" target=\"_blank\">direct-to-DVD project that was apparently in development<\/a>, but this is just great news.  Let&rsquo;s hope that it actually happens, and if it does maybe some other shows that were prematurely cancelled will get their due (<i>Freaks and Geeks<\/i> and <i>Andy Richter Controls The Universe<\/i> come immediately to mind).<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/11\/19\/2017229&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=129&amp;tid=186&amp;tid=188\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106933554803250091?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of brisk DVD sales of The Family Guy (the first season sold almost 1 million copies and the second has sold over 500,000), Fox is apparently considering reviving the cancelled series. According to USA Today, &ldquo;as many as 35 new episodes could return in January 2005, marking the first time that a canceled series &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/the-family-guy-to-return\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Family Guy To Return?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}