The network also began production of a film based on the series. Fox president Gail Berman said that it was one of her most difficult decisions to cancel the show, and was therefore happy it would return. They ordered 35 new episodes in 2004, marking the first revival of a television show based on DVD sales. The show's popularity in both DVD sales and reruns rekindled Fox's interest in it. The third season DVD release also sold more than a million copies. Sales of the DVD set reached 2.2 million copies, becoming the best-selling television DVD of 2003 and the second-highest-selling television DVD ever, behind the first season of Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. Following Family Guy 's high ratings on Adult Swim, the first and second seasons was released on DVD in April 2003. When the reruns were shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2003, Family Guy became Adult Swim's most-watched show with an average 1.9 million viewers an episode. Fox tried to sell rights for reruns of the show, but it was hard to find networks that were interested Cartoon Network eventually bought the rights, " basically for free", according to the president of 20th Century Fox Television Production. During the third season, Fox announced that the show was canceled for good. The show was first canceled after the 1999–2000 season, but following a last-minute reprieve, it returned for a third season in 2001. In 2002, Family Guy was canceled after three seasons due to low ratings. The first season's seven episodes were also included in the volume. All twenty-one of the season's episodes are included in the volume. The Volume One DVD box set was released in Region 1 on April 15, 2003, and Region 2 on November 12, 2001.
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The season received a positive reception from critics, who called the series "extremely witty and darkly hilarious," and was "unfortunately" canceled. The series returned for a total of 30 new episodes in 2005. The series was canceled again in 2002 however, high ratings on Adult Swim and high DVD sales renewed Fox's interest in the series. However, following a last-minute reprieve, it returned for a third season in 2001.
The executive producers for the second production season were David Zuckerman and MacFarlane the aired season also contained eight episodes which were holdovers from season one.īy the end of the second season, due to low ratings, Fox resorted to canceling Family Guy. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Lacey Chabert and later Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family-father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The second season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network in 21 episodes from September 23, 1999, to August 1, 2000.
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