GUY RITCHIE - FAMILY GUY NOT TOO IFFY FOR WARNER BROS.

FAMILY GUY NOT TOO IFFY FOR WARNER BROS.

Microsoft may have found the upcoming Family Guy special too controversial for it to go ahead with announced plans to be the sole sponsor of the show. But Fox announced over the weekend that a rival movie studio is all too happy to take over the sponsorship. Warner Bros, it said, will use the special, set to air next Sunday, to promote its upcoming comedy/whodunit Sherlock Holmes , starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law and directed by Guy Ritchie. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that a sequence in the special in which two characters voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarland and voice actress Alex Borstein talk about teen star Miley Cyrus and her relationship with her father "is not expected to make the final cut."

02/11/2009