Fox Loses Microsoft Sponsorship of Seth MacFarlane Special

"741 - You are the one." What?

They really thought that was a good slogan? I guess it's a double-entendre, but my first reaction was: "*I'm* the least significant integer?" It's like having Anne Robinson tell you that you're the weakest link.

I like Family Guy, though the writing has gone super-lazy lately. Can't wait to see what MS was so uptight about, it might be an improvement.

Kinda sad, though, to see what used to be the freshest, brashest, and rudest sow on broadcast TV shilling for a megacorporation. Guess MacFarlane's mom needed an operation or something.

His show is on FOX, how strong could his moral compass be? :p

Y'know, I never have been able to figure this out. Fox has a well-known neoconservative bias, just slightly to the left of survivalist fleapower pirate stations out of Nebraska. Yet their Sunday night schedule is replete with decidedly liberal animated shows-- The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, and until recently King Of The Hill. Only the last could be said to have anything of a traditional family value basis, and even that's regularly spoofed-- as might be expected of the creative team behind Beavis & Butthead.

Maybe they imagine that their regular viewers would be too tired from a long Sunday of worhip and Posse Comitatus meetings to watch their shows?

It's Fox. They'll sell their souls for TV ratings. In the case of shows, their popularity matter, not their bias. So when most comedy shows are created by politically left leaning producers, Fox goes with it.

Same for the News. O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity draw audience, conservative hosts have higher ratings.