(Semi) Behind the scenes of Family Guy
EDD: Found an interview on the Forbes website about Family Guy and what the producer Kara Vallow goes through with each progressive season.
LOS ANGELES -- Behind the $2 billion, testosterone-heavy cartoon empire that dominates Fox's Sunday night lineup is a snarky female from Philadelphia. Her name is Kara Vallow, and along with creator-producer-star Seth MacFarlane and a sizable staff, she produces Family Guy,American Dad! and The Cleveland Show--or in the network's parlance, three-quarters of its animation domination block.
Vallow, a School of Visual Arts-educated animation artist who cut her teeth on shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Johnny Bravo, spoke to Forbes about taboo topics, a Family Guy movie and why Brian and Stewie are the only characters you'll see in Sunday's 150th episode.
Vallow: I've really seen the genre ebb and flow so much in my career. After we got canceled our third season, I was archiving the materials and I remember asking one of the Fox executives what I should do with the archives, and she said to throw them away. She said, "Fox will never be in the business of TV animation again." And that was a reasonable statement back then--animated comedy had taken a complete nosedive, and it was expensive to produceForbes: What's been the biggest change to the genre during your tenure?
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