0
Family Guy Neighbor Gets Own Show
Affable Cleveland Brown will step out on his own
By Dustin Lushing
|
Posted May 28, 08 1:58 PM CDT
|
Share
(Newser)
–
Fox's hit cartoon Family Guy is spinning off a new show centered around Cleveland Brown—the soft-spoken neighbor to Peter Griffin. The Cleveland Show will debut in 2009, and follow a recently divorced Brown on a quest to his Virginia hometown, where he falls in love with an old flame.
"I felt he was a natural Bob Newhart—at the center of the storm, just trying to keep everyone else in line," says Mike Henry, the voice of Cleveland and co-creator of The Cleveland Show. Cleveland is the first product of a $100-million deal between Family Guy series creator Seth McFarlane and the Fox network.