"Family Guy" creator seals megadeal

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - From wunderkind to TV mogul: After 2 1/2 years of negotiations, "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane has inked a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV that would make him the highest-paid writer-producer working in television.


The pact, which could be worth more than $100 million, will keep MacFarlane at 20th TV through 2012. It covers his services on "Guy" and his other two animated series for 20th TV and Fox -- "American Dad!" and the upcoming "Guy" spinoff "The Cleveland Show" -- as well as his series development, which includes a multicamera comedy with "Guy" writer Gary Janetti. It also encompasses new-media projects related to MacFarlane's TV series as well as DVD and merchandising revenue from them. ("Guy" alone has grown into a $1 billion franchise with red-hot DVD and merchandise sales.)


"I get a lot of pleasure out of making shows," MacFarlane said. "It's a bonus to be getting paid well for it, and it's a double bonus to be getting paid exorbitantly for it."


Neither side would comment on the size of the deal, with 20th TV chairman Dana Walden noting only that "no one will ever have to offer Seth a handout of any kind."


MacFarlane's deal is expected to eclipse the $60 million five-year feature/TV pact J.J. Abrams ("Lost") inked with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. TV in 2006.


The deal is retroactive, as MacFarlane's previous pact with 20th TV expired more than a year ago.


"It's a relief to have it done," 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said.


Added Walden, "Today marks the first time in a long time (20th TV top business affairs execs) Howard Kurtzman and Neal Baseman did not have their shoulders up to their ears with anxiety." 

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Phillippe addresses marriage rumours

Role player Ryan Phillippe has spoken about his disassociate from actress Reese Witherspoon, denying allegations that he cheated on her.
The 33-year-old star told W clip that the end of his seven-year wedding left him in "the darkest, saddest place" that he had ever been in.
The actor said: "On that point were a good four-spot or basketball team months of not being able to find out of bed. It was the worst time in my life."
He continued: "You find through it. It's a work on that's not slow, merely I catch less and less sad about it every day."
Speaking around the intellect for the couple's break up, he said that the office was "far more complicated and far less interesting than it's made come out of the closet to be".
He said: "To look and hunt for these salacious reasons, to flag it on a person, or a present moment in someone's life, it's not realistic."
Phillippe besides denied rumours that actress Abbie Cornish was responsible for the dispel of his marriage.
"It was unfair for her to be called the names that she was, because it wasn't around that.
"I don't think an outside person tin of all time causal agency a divorce. I had difficulties in my family relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her," the actor said.




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Extras wins at Golden Globes

Extras wins at Golden Globes

The Ricky Gervais-starring comedy 'Extras' was named Best Drollery Series in the TV categories at the Golden Orb Awards press conference in Los Angeles last night.
The award for C. H. Best TV Dramatic play went to 'Mad Men', with its star, Whoremaster Hamm, named Topper Actor in a TV Drama Series.
Glenn Close won the Best Actress in a TV Drama Serial accolade for her performance in 'Damages'.
The prize for C. H. Best Doer in a TV Comedy Series went to David Duchovny for 'Californication', with Tina Fey winning the Best Actress in a TV Comedy Series prize for '30 Rock'.
On that point were ternion awards for the Transmission channel 4-screened TV film 'Longford': it north Korean won the C. H. Best Mini-Series or Movement Ikon Made for Television system awarding, with its stars, Jim Broadbent and Samantha Jelly Roll Morton, winning the Best Role player and Best Support Actress awards.
Queen Latifah won the Best Execution by an Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Film for 'Life Support' and Jeremy Piven south Korean won the Charles Herbert Best Support TV Doer honor for 'Entourage'.
Read around the winners in the Golden Globes Celluloid categories here.

Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed?

Jennifer Lopez baby names revealed?

Jennifer Lopez has apparently elect names for her unborn twin babies, according to a report.
The isaac Bashevis Singer announced last November that she was expecting her first-class honours degree children with hubby Marc Mark Antony and is rumoured to be due to feed birth in the spring.
According to Champion magazine, her female parent Guadalupe was spotted picking up baby ID bracelets engraved with the name calling Georgia home boy and Emme at a Freshly House of York jewelry entrepot.
Lopez lately revealed that she is to occupy an extended wear out from work to focus on caring for her babies.