SETH MACFARLANE - FOX YANKS FAMILY GUY ABORTION EPISODE

FOX YANKS FAMILY GUY ABORTION EPISODE

Fox TV confirmed Thursday that it will not air an episode of Family Guy in which one of the principal characters undergoes an abortion. Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly told members of the Television Critics Association in Pasadena Thursday that his decision to yank the episode prompted by concerns of an advertiser backlash. He said that he had raised his concerns with Seth MacFarlane, the show's creator, but that MacFarlane had declined to alter the script. "We don't censor Seth," Reilly said. "It was a business decision." He said that at the time the issue arose, "there was a touch conversation going on with [advertisers], and we didn't need the headache." Nevertheless, he indicated, the episode will be included in the Family Guy DVD of the eighth season.

07/08/2009