AniDom News: Family Guy Headed For Hot Ones; Grimsburg Gets Short

Given that Donald Duck’s episode got 20 million views I can see the producers of Hot Ones wanting to continue to ride this animation gravy train for years to come. Tomorrow @ 1pm ET another Disney animation character gets to take on the Hot Ones challenge in the form of Peter Griffin from Family Guy. The challenge is slated to help the show celebrate 25 years on the air and is a good buffer to help us get ready for the next new episode of Family Guy slated to premiere on Hulu next month followed shortly by the return of Family Guy on FOX starting Winter 2025 as part of the Animation Domination lineup.

TOMORROW on #HotOnes, Peter Griffin takes on the Wings of Death. 💀 Will he make it to the end? Find out @ 1PM ET. 🔥 Celebrate 25 years of #FamilyGuy by streaming every episode on Hulu. #FamilyGuy25 pic.twitter.com/GUi2Y7YrZe

— First We Feast (@firstwefeast) October 20, 2024

Synopsis:

Family Guy continues to entertain its die-hard fan base with razor-sharp humor, spot-on parodies, spectacular animation and orchestra-backed original music. Since its debut in 1999, the series has reached cult status among fans, and its breakout star, a talking baby, has become one of the greatest TV characters of all time. Family Guy has racked up numerous awards, including an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, only the second animated series in television history to be honored with such a distinction. Most recently, series creator and lead voice actor Seth MacFarlane (voices of “Peter Griffin,” “Stewie Griffin,” “Brian Griffin” and “Glenn Quagmire”) was nominated for the 2021 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance and won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Cast member Alex Borstein (voice of “Lois Griffin”) won the 2018 Emmy Award in the category. MacFarlane also was nominated that year. He won the 2017 and 2016 Emmy Award in the category, and was nominated from 2013 to 2015.

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In related news to Animation Domination premieres happening Winter 2025, it was just announced at NYCC 2025 today that Martin Short has joined the cast of Grimsburg in a recurring role as kid detective “Otis Volcanowitz”. Variety was the first to reveal the news with this description for the character: “Otis is Grimsburg’s newest detective and also their youngest. Fortunately, there’s nothing the mean streets of this town can throw at him that’s scarier than what he’s seen in the third grade cubbies. Otis is out to prove that it was his skills as a kid detective that got him this job, not because he’s a nepo baby whose wealthy parents happen to be the Mayor’s biggest donors and the owners of the town’s wildly profitable active volcano dump.”

Martin Short is a HUGE get for Grimsburg in a show that already has huge gets. Having done previous stints at The Simpsons, BoJack Horseman, and Big Mouth, this is a perfect casting addition to a cast that is already loaded with talent.

Synopsis:

Grimsburg, starring and executive-produced by Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm (Mad Men), centers on Marvin Flute (Hamm), who may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown and correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — himself. To do that he must return to Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, and redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow detectives, his ferocious ex-wife and his lovably unstable son.

Grimsburg is produced by FOX Entertainment’s Emmy-winning animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment. The program is fully owned by FOX Entertainment. Chadd Gindin is executive producer and showrunner. Jon Hamm, Gail Berman, Hend Baghdady and Connie Tavel are executive producers. Catlan McClelland and Matthew Schlissel created the series and serve as co-executive producers.