The Cleveland Show

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The Cleveland Show
(l-r) Rallo, Cleveland, Donna, Roberta, Cleveland Jr.
Genre	Comedy
Format	Animation
Created by	Seth MacFarlane
Developed by	Seth MacFarlane Mike Henry Richard Appel
Voices of	Mike Henry Sanaa Lathan Nia Long Kevin Michael Richardson Seth MacFarlane
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22[1]
Production
Running time	23 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX
Original airing	Fall 2009
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Cleveland Show is an upcoming American animated series created by Seth MacFarlane, as a spin-off from Family Guy, also created by Seth MacFarlane.

[edit] Background

The Cleveland Show is the working title^[2] for an animated series focusing on the character of Cleveland Brown and his family as he moves from Rhode Island to Virginia.^[3]

Cleveland has kind of had enough in Quahog—he kind of realizes that he wants his own friends, his own sidekicks, his own stories. So he sets out to California to make it in a way that we'll have to keep a secret until the show starts, and then he ends up somewhere else, which we'll also keep a secret until the show starts. But he basically goes home—he goes to his hometown of Virginia and rekindles an old high school flame.

—Mike Henry^[4]

In the closing credits scene of the November 2, 2008 episode of Family Guy, "Baby Not On Board", Cleveland mentions to Quagmire about getting a spin-off, thus breaking the fourth wall.^[5]

[edit] Family

His newly introduced family includes his new wife, Donna (Sanaa Lathan^[6]), her 17-year-old daughter, Roberta (Nia Long^[6]) and her 5-year-old son, Rallo (Mike Henry).^[7][8] Cleveland Jr. is also in the family, but he is now fourteen and wearing glasses, and is much fatter and older than in his previous appearances on Family Guy.^[9]. He is now voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson^[8].

[edit] Neighbors

Cleveland's neighbors also include a family of talking anthropomorphic bears (the husband, Tim, is to be voiced by MacFarlane^[8] while the wife, Arianna, is to be voiced by Arianna Huffington^[8][10], a "hipster" wannabe named Holt (to be voiced by Jason Sudeikis^[8][10]), a redneck couple (with the husband Lester to be voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson^[6]) and an English family,^[3] with the husband to be voiced by Seth MacFarlane.

[edit] Debut

Cleveland will officially leave Family Guy, but it has been hinted that he might return for visits occasionally.^[11] The show is scheduled to debut in Fall 2009.^[8] The cancellation of the long-running series King of the Hill while renewing the lower-rated American Dad! leaves The Simpsons and Class Dismissed as the only non-Seth MacFarlane series in Fox's animation Sunday night lineup.^[12]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Cleveland Show (working title) at Fox08
• The Cleveland Show at the Internet Movie Database