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After six months, MacFarlane returned to Fox with a " very, very simply, crudely animated film – with just enough to get the tone of the show across " to present to the executives, who loved the pilot and ordered the series immediately.

In July 1998, the Fox Broadcast Company announced the purchase of Family Guy for a January 1999 debut.

Family Guy was originally intended to be a series of shorts on MADtv, much in the same way The Simpsons had begun on The Tracey Ullman Show a decade earlier.

Negotiations for the show's MADtv connection fell through early on as a result of budgetary concerns.

At age 24, MacFarlane was television's youngest executive producer.