‘American Dad!’ Poised To Return To Fox For Season 20 & Beyond – Deadline

By Nellie Andreeva
Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV
EXCLUSIVE: American Dad! is coming home. According to sources, the comedy, created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, would air on Fox starting with its upcoming 20th season, marking the second MacFarlane animated series to return to the network following a break after Family Guy did it two decades ago.

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The move of American Dad!, which has been airing on TBS since 2014, had been in the works for months, allowing the 20th Television Animation-made series to remain in production, I hear. Like on TBS, where American Dad! is coming off a string of two-year renewals, the pickup by Fox — now being finalized — is expected to be for multiple seasons. Reps for Fox and 20th TV Animation declined comment.
American Dad!‘s migration to Fox was fueled by the $1.5B deal extension Fox Entertainment and Hulu closed in November that keeps the broadcast network’s shows on the Disney streaming platform in-season. As Deadline reported at the time, the new pact means that Fox’s long-running animated series The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers — all produced by Hulu sibling 20th TV Animation — likely will remain on the network. The trio would now be joined by American Dad!
All four animated series’ past seasons already stream on Hulu (Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, American Dad!) and sibling Disney+ (The Simpsons). Additionally, fellow former Fox animated series Futurama, which, like American Dad!, moved to a cable network, Comedy Central, is now a Hulu original.
American Dad!’s TBS run will come to an end with the upcoming Season 19 finale on March 24. The network and Warner Bros. Discovery sibling Adult Swim will continue to carry the series’ past episodes through 2030 as the exclusive linear home of the American Dad! library which currently is also available on WBD’s TruTV.
The upcoming American Dad! finale officially closes a chapter for TBS as it is the network’s last remaining scripted original. The process kicked off after the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger which was completed a couple of months after American Dad!’s most recent two-season renewal.
Meanwhile, American Dad! gives Fox another sturdy piece for its formidable adult animation block. The return is symbolic as American Dad! was the first series to debut in the network’s Animation Domination programming block when it launched in 2005. (American Dad!, paired with The Simpsons, debuted after Fox’s broadcast of the Super Bowl.)
American Dad! centers on super patriotic CIA agent Stan Smith (voiced by MacFarlane) and the misadventures of his unconventional family in Langley Falls, VA. Wendy Schaal plays Stan’s blissfully unaware wife, Francine; Rachael MacFarlane portrays his left-wing activist daughter Hayley and Scott Grimes plays Hayley’s geeky-yet-confident brother. MacFarlane also voices Roger, a sassy, sarcastic and routinely inappropriate space alien, and Dee Bradley Baker is Klaus, an attention-starved goldfish with the brain of a German Olympic skier.
The series is executive produced by Boyle, along with MacFarlane and Weitzman.
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