Seth MacFarlane On Ending ‘Family Guy’: “I Don’t See A Good Reason To Stop, People Still Love It”
deadline.comSeth MacFarlane is opening up about possibly ending Family Guy after 22 seasons. The creator and star weighed in on the show’s longevity in a new profile celebrating 25 years since the animated series started airing. “At this point, I don’t see a good reason to stop.
People still love it. It makes people happy and it funds some good causes,” MacFarlane said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “It’s a lot of extraneous cash that you can donate to Rainforest Trust and you can still go out to dinner that night.” He continued, “There was a time when I thought, it’s time to wrap it up.
At this point, we’ve reached escape velocity. I don’t know that there’s any reason to stop at this point unless people get sick of it.
Unless the numbers show that people just are, ‘Eh, we don’t care about Family Guy anymore.’ But that hasn’t happened yet.” Family Guy premiered in January 1999 on Fox and was canceled after two seasons.
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