Next year's Oscars will be Seth MacFarlane-free, according to Seth MacFarlane. The controversial host of last year's ceremony tweeted this afternoon that he will not in fact be hosting the 2014 ceremony.
While a number of questions about next fall's primetime lineup still remain, Fox has jumped the gun on next week's upfronts with the shows it is (and isn't) pushing next season, and NBC has already shot down hopes and dreams of eager executive producers, so there's early word on faces taking up your TV screen later in 2013.
Deadline reports that the Family Guy creator turned oddly tanned celebrity has been asked to come back in 2014, cementing the rise of the good-looking comedy guy who acts like a jerk and accuses his detractors of being humorless or worse whenever a joke offends or angers them.
The Academy announced last night that they are bringing back Neil Meron and Craig Zadan to produce next years Oscars.
Today in show business news: Debra Messing has a new pilot from Sex and the City writers on CBS, Seth Green is doing another show with Seth MacFarlane, and MTV has doomed Brooklyn.
Today in show business news: Sarah Silverman might be in Seth MacFarlane's new movie, the new season of American Horror Story will feature witches, and Nick Jonas is going to be a movie star.
Amid the fallout from Seth MacFarlane's Oscar hosting performance, everyone speculated as to who the next Oscar host should be. Kimmel seemed almost too easy of a choice, but now it seems like he is already being groomed as the successor.
As the fury over his Academy Awards hosting gig starts to settle down, the Academy itself isn't abandoning the host, even as he becomes the latest Hollywood product to be condemned by lawmakers.
Seth MacFarlane, after all the criticism, said on Twitter today that he won't host the Academy Awards again. Naturally, a number of publications have already started speculating as to who should emcee in 2014. Let's rank the choices.
The host's much criticized "We Saw Your Boobs" song during his opening number of the Oscars was all about celebrity nude scenes, and now the website that's all about just that has done MacFarlane's homework for him.
The numbers are in and, well, you win, MacFarlane. Turns out, if the Academy Awards hope to survive on network television, cultivating a base-level appeal with a "risky" non-traditional host might just do the trick.
The criticism is still raining down on the Oscar host — "sexist" and "racist" and "worst ever" are not uncommon from all over today. But was he funny? Some professional funny people seem to think so.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
There was the monologue, which didn't go over so well in some parts, and then there was the rest of the Oscars, which didn't either. The first-time host was, as expected, kind of a jerk. Here's a sampler.
There were hints of invention and humor throughout the Academy Awards on Sunday, but all told the show was remarkable only in its moments of jaw-droppingly bad jokes from the off-putting and unsteady host — and in its agonizing waste of time.
The host spent the first 19 minutes of the Academy Awards on Sunday making sure everyone would, in fact, hate him.
He's tried to win over his haters with a self-effacing schtick, but should you believe him? Or is he double-crossing everyone, only to pull another 180 and go all Ricky Gervais on us? Let's examine, with some psychoanalysis.
With the Academy Awards just a few days away, the behind-the-scenes plans for Oscar night are starting to go public, and they look... long, with a side of questionable vocals.
Everyone kind of expects Seth MacFarlane to be a huge jerk when he hosts the Oscars, but in new interviews released today, the Hollywood insider/outsider admits that his plan is to take it straight to the stars in the audience.
Today in show business news: The average price of a movie ticket is (relatively) expensive, The Walking Dead is (currently) watched by more people than ever, and The CW stays in the vampire/ghost hunter/sexy superhero business for another (long) year.
The Oscars are just about a month a way, and between the Academy's official word and lead-up interviews, a picture is beginning to emerge of who might be there, who might sing, and who might be telling some dirty jokes. Here's what we think we know.
At Thursday morning's nominations, MacFarlane came out swinging with jokes about Harvey Weinstein and Hitler, which elicited some laughs, some wariness, and a lot of genuine discomfort from all around the world of Hollywood.
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane and actress Emma Stone announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards this morning. Nine movies were nominated for Best Picture, with Lincoln leading the pack. Check out every single nominee now.
Today in show business news: Channing Tatum takes a break, Homeland beats its older brother, and Seth MacFarlane does whatever he wants.
In yet another effort to appeal to the younger generation, the Academy has now teamed up with mtvU to host a contest that gives college students the chance to appear onstage at the telecast.
Fans of silly voices and dinner theater-level crooning rejoice: Deadline is reporting that Family Guy creator and voice actor Seth MacFarlane, who had a big-screen hit this summer with Ted, will be hosting the next Academy Awards ceremony.
On Friday, toward the end of my review of Seth MacFarlane's new comedy Ted, I wrote: "I don't think that Hollywood will exactly be beating down MacFarlane's door to get him to make another movie, but I hope he gives it another go nonetheless." Well, it seems that I was wrong.
This weekend was the first weekend in history that two R-rated films grossed more than $20 million on the same weekend. One starred a male stripper and the other starred a stoned stuffed animal.
Plus: Seth MacFarlane recalls a four-year old fight with Jon Stewart
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