Seth MacFarlane leaves Family Guy in ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike
Seth MacFarlane is leaving Family Guy until a deal is reached in Hollywood’s ongoing writers’ strike
Seth MacFarlane has reportedly left Family Guy until an agreement is reached between the Writers Guild of America and the studio.
The creator, 49, and his other showrunners – Brian Boyle, Matt Weitzman, Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin – havee walked out in a show of support for the writer’s strike.
Seth voices Peter Griffin in the cartoon and will not return until the strike is over, according to sources.
“There’s quite a bit of runway to go before the wheels come off,” an insider told me deadline.
“The animated satire has already completed about three months worth of scripts, v/o, etc. Then the studio will have to figure out what next steps to take.’
Seth MacFarlane has reportedly left Family Guy until an agreement is reached between the Writers Guild of America and the studio.
Walking away: The creator, 49, and his other showrunners — Brian Boyle, Matt Weitzman, Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin — walked out in support of the writers’ strike
Family Guy ended its 21st season with 20 episodes last week on May 7, but Seth is also working on American Dad, which started its 20th series in March.
MailOnline has reached out to Seth’s representatives for comment.
Thousands of movie and TV writers have hit the picket lines after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in 16 years.
America’s most popular late-night comedy shows were halted and re-aired last week, and the strike is now affecting scheduled TV shows and movies.
The last strike lasted 100 days, starting in 2007 and ending in 2008, and Seth joined the strikers when this happened.
Analysts are now predicting that this strike could also last three months or more.
An estimated 11,500 members have shut down the tools since midnight May 2, after talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over pay fell through.
At the center of the line is the rise of streaming — with the guild claiming that even as budgets have increased, writers’ share of that money has consistently shrunk.
Busy: Family Guy ended its 21st season with 20 episodes last week on May 7, but Seth is also working on American Dad, which began its 20th series in March.
Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin announced that the writer’s room on the spin-off series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight would close for now.
The creator of the Game of Thrones universe pledged his full support to the strikers by writing on his blogging“I’m not in LA so I can’t walk a picket line like I did in 1988, but I want to go on the record with my full and complete and unequivocal support for my Guild.”
“There are pickets in front of every studio lot and soundstage in LA, and in other cities as well. Get used to them. I expect them to stay there for a long time,” he said.
He added that filming on the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, which began April 11 in the UK, would continue.
The show is the latest in a growing list of series affected by the strike.
The creators of the Netflix hit Stranger Things confirmed last weekend that the production of season five has been delayed.
Creators Matt and Ross Duffer, both 39, known as the Duffer Brothers, took to Twitter on Saturday to break the news to fans.
They wrote, “The writing doesn’t stop when the filming begins. While we are excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, that is not possible during this strike.
We hope there will be a fair deal soon so we can all get back to work. Until then — over and out.’
Although the fifth and final season of the sci-fi horror was announced last February, no release date has been set.