The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of the hit animated series Family Guy, is one of several new shows 20th Century Fox Television Distribution will be showcasing at this year’s MIPCOM television market in Cannes, France. Other shows to be presented to international buyers include the time-travel crime drama Life on Mars, the Joss Whedon sci-fi espionage thriller Dollhouse, the female-targeted comedy-drama The Ex-List, the hotel workplace comedy Do Not Distrub, the medical mystery drama Mental and the motorcycle outlaw drama Sons of Anarchy. Cleveland and Dollhouse will begin airing in the U.S. in the winter of 2009, and the others will join the fall 2008 lineup.
From Family Guy creator and American Dad co-creator Seth MacFarlane comes The Cleveland Show, which finds Peter Griffin’s African-American neighbor embarking on a major life change. Voiced by Mike Henry (Family Guy, American Dad), Cleveland Brown has lost his wife and his house in a divorce, and decides to leave Quahog, Rhode Island, with his son Cleveland Jr. On their way to California, where Cleveland hopes to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a minor league baseball scout.
Before making the haul out west, the two make a stop in Stoolbend, Virginia so Cleveland Jr. can see were his father grew up. Once in Stoolbend, Cleveland reunites with his high school sweetheart Donna (voiced by Sanaa Lathan), who offers him another chance at love. Our hero decides to stay in Stoolbend with Donna and finds a few surprises awaiting him, including a flirtatious new stepdaughter named Roberta (Nia Long), a five-year-old stepson named Rallo and a collection of neighbors that includes a loudmouth redneck, a British family seemingly stuck in the Victorian era and a family of bears living at the end of the block.
In addition to voicing the role of Cleveland, Henry serves as a writer and exec producer on the animated show. MacFarlane is also exec producing, along with veteran toon writer and producer Rich Appel (The Simpsons, King of the Hill). The series is being produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television.
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