TCA14: Cosmos to muck AniDom schedule for a bit

Seth MacFarlane has a new series on the way all about science and it looks as though it’s going to mess around with the schedule for Animation Domination come March.

Yesterday at the FOX TCA14 presentation, the Family Guy/American Dad creator first dropped a bomb when he noted that he and the producers of Family Guy certainly weren’t expecting the amount of controversy that would go down when they killed Brian for two weeks. Then again, I don’t think anyone did, but from the sounds of it the idea was maybe predicated on ratings:

“It did what it was designed to do — it reminded people this is still a show where anything that can happen despite the fact it’s been on for awhile.”  “We were all very surprised, in a good way, that people still cared enough about that character to be that angry. We thought it would create a little bit of a stir, but the rage wasn’t something we counted on.”

And while Seth has ruled out killing Brian again, it sounds like more surprises could be on the way for future episodes of Family Guy.

That said, FOX has announced that Seth’s new series COSMOS will be premiering on FOX Sunday Nights @ 9pm EST starting on March 9th and will go for 13 weeks. Family Guy will serve as the lead-in which means some shuffling is on tap for both American Dad and Bob’s Burgers. As to what the hell that could mean is anyone’s guess, but when we hear more we will surely do our due diligence.