Family Guy is an American animated series created by Seth
MacFarlane, produced by 20th Century Fox, and put on air from January 31, 1999
on the FOX channel in the United States.
Family Guy is nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11
Annie Awards, and earns three each. The series is also known as the Golden Reel
Award, winning only one. In 2009, the series was named the 61st Primetime Emmy
Awards, the first time an animated series was nominated for The Flintstones in
1961. Family Guy has also been criticized, including its similarities to The
Simpsons in 2013.
A number of products are marketed, including notably The
Incredible story of Stewie Family Guy - The evil Baby bears derived from the
animated series first aired in 2005 in the United States. A spin-off series,
The Cleveland Show, which is the main character Cleveland Brown, was originally
broadcast in the United States of 27 September 2009 to 19 May 2013.
The series focuses on the adventures of the family of Peter,
a paunchy blue collar. Peter is an Irish American and Catholic origins
speaking, in the original version, with an accent of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts individual. His wife Lois is at home mom and piano teacher,
member of a wealthy family speaking in the original version, with a focus on
New Angleterre. Peter and Lois have three children: Meg, their teenage
daughter, socially rejected at school, and is constantly ridiculed and ignored
by the family; Chris, their teenage son, overweight, mentally unstable and like
his father and younger in some ways