Liz Gannes posted on newteevee.com 9 months ago:

Family Guy, Family Ties Stars Head for Web - NewTeeVee

In the last day we’ve heard of two more web video projects from established Hollywood talent. Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy is making a web show for Google, and actress Justine Bateman (Family Ties), writer and producer Jill Kushner (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Peter Murrieta (Wizards of Waverly Place), and Alan Sereboff (Snowblind) have started a web video site called FM78.tv.

MacFarlane has cleared his digital work directly with the Writers Guild of America. “He’s doing a series of webisodes called Cavalcade, original programming that’ll be distributed through some Google portal,” was the word from WGA West President Patric Verrone, whom I met at a Harvard conference yesterday (we’ll post video from that interview tonight).


The MacFarlane deal likely came out of a reported arrangement from last summer brokered between Seth MacFarlane and Google (Raven-Symone signed the same deal) and arranged by Media Rights Capital to distribute exclusive content through Google AdSense.

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