Family Guy has long been a fixture at Comic-Con, and that hasn’t changed even with this year’s all-digital Comic-Con@Home event. Fox will be streaming a panel featuring many of the stars and producers of the series, including creator Seth MacFarlane and actors Alex Borstein, Seth Green and Mila Kunis. The Family Guy panel will be featured on IGN’s Comic-Con@Home livestream at 2pm PT on Saturday, July 25. Check out our full Comic-Con 2020 panel schedule.
IGN can exclusively reveal that Family Guy Season 19 will debut on September 27, 2020. We also have a clip from the Comic-Con@Home panel. Check it out in the embed below or the video player above:
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The clip features MacFarlane and Borstein reflecting on which episodes from Family Guy’s 18-season run are their favorites. MacFarlane points to the Season 9’s Agatha Christie-spoofing “And Then There Were Fewer” (which placed #12 on our countdown of the Top 20 Family Guy episodes). Borstein, however, seems to favor specific moments and lines over entire episodes.
We’ll have to wait and see what other topics are covered during the panel, but no doubt we’ll see clips of the upcoming 19th season. Hopefully the cast and crew will address the recent news that voice actor Mike Henry is stepping down from his role as Cleveland Brown. Henry tweeted, “It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years. I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role.”
The Simpsons is making similar moves. Fox released a statement declaring “Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters.” We’ll be interested to see how MacFarlane and his collaborators feel about this major change to such a long-running series.
The Family Guy panel will stream on Saturday, July 25 at 2pm PT.
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Source: IGN.com Family Guy: Exclusive Preview of Fox's Comic-Con@Home Panel