Oct 13 2009
Animation Domination: Not so Dominating With the Reign of MacFarlane
You probably will say the opposite but it’s true; after the cancelation of Futurama and King of the Hill, the Sunday animation block of Fox has lose some quality that was present when there was a variety of shows and thus more developers but now after almost 10 years Seth MacFarlane is the new king and that doesn’t mean that the shows have to keep the quality they were famous for.
When he was one of the most revolutionary people in the animation industry ten years ago when Family Guy was introduced right now he’s most like a conformist Simon Cowell that don’t care about using repetition as a resource to keep the viewers interest. I can’t find a piece of differences between 3 of his 4 shows except that The Cleveland Show don’t have the talking animal as a household pet but rather than a neighbor then at the end I can’t find a difference between his 4 shows at all as they are the repetition of the repetition; four shows set in different cities but with similar characters.
FOX as a network should follow the example of other national and cable channels by offering a more interesting line-up rather than giving someone the opportunity to fill space at the cost of US$100.000.00 and not, I’m not referring to Simon Cowell who by some strange reason has kept American Idol for ten years and there no is a real American Idol but mostly many ones that had fallen really quickly to the price of fame and just a few that had been in the eye of the spotlight but not without paying the consequences first.
Probably the only decent that is right now at FOX is The Simpsons but after 20 years in the air the show is losing his touch and maybe it’s time to make room for something new and interesting but first the lineup needs to be updated as the reason is having four shows that in essence are the same then is not worth to watch the channel at all.
