Seth MacFarlane as soon as once more took excessive displeasure in feedback made by a number of Fox Information, one other episode in a protracted saga between the Household Man creator and Fox Information company sibling Fox Leisure, which airs his long-running animated sequence Household Man.
“Tucker Carlson’s newest opinion piece as soon as once more makes me want Household Man was on some other community,” MacFarlane tweeted Sunday. “Look, Fox, we each know this marriage isn’t working any extra. The intercourse is barely every year, I don’t get alongside along with your mom, and properly… I’ve been having an affair with NBC.”
The final line is a reference to the mega TV total deal MacFarlane made in January 2020 with NBCUniversal’s UCP, leaving his longtime studio dwelling, then-Twentieth Century Fox Tv.
This isn’t the primary time MacFarlane has publicly aired grievance with Fox Information. On June 2018, he tweeted he’s “embarrassed” to work for Fox after Tucker Carlson informed his viewers to disregard different information sources. On April 2020, after Fox Information host Laura Ingraham wrote, “The Washington Submit is rooting for the shut right down to proceed indefinitely,” the Ted writer-director responded, “I actually can’t fathom that we produce content material for a similar company.”
MacFarlane’s Household Man has been renewed by means of Season 21 season by Fox. He is also the creator of The Orville, which beforehand aired on Fox and moved to Hulu, and American Dad, which aired on Fox for its first 11 seasons, then moved to TBS, the place it’s presently renewed by means of season 19.
Tucker Carlson’s newest opinion piece as soon as once more makes me want Household Man was on some other community. Look, Fox, we each know this marriage isn’t working anymore. The intercourse is barely every year, I don’t get alongside along with your mom, and properly… I’ve been having an affair with NBC.
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) August 1, 2021