So it would be a series about:

Mayor West
Tom Tucker and his upside down kid
Diane Simmons
Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa
The weatherman
Neal the AV kid and his family
the greased up deaf guy
the soft spoken guy
and
Herbert (uggh)

Not much there to carry a series, especially compared to the obvious choice of Quagmire.

The amount of racism in this thread is sickening Black Man can't have his own show
*goes back to reading Grape Soda Today mag*

Not certain, but I thought I read somewhere that Mike Judge is ready to retire the series. It HAS been on for 12 season already. Judge has also been complaining about FOX's shoddy treatment of the show over the years - being put in a 7 o'clock spot where football routinely pre-empted airings of new episodes, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if he just ended it in the near future...

I say bring this on. I wish they'd call it "Hello Cleveland!" since that still cracks me up for some reason every time I think of when Peter said that when they were performing at the prison, and Cleveland just goes "hey Peter!"

If they play it up more like American Dad, more plot and no "this is like the time..." flashbacks from Family Guy, I could see it working for sure. I think Cleveland will work best as an entire show since he's more of a normal character. I could see a show all about Joe or Quagmire getting very old, very quickly.

"Cleveland" is destined to be the black animated "Joey".

That joke will be in the first episode.

I can think of one. It starts with an F and ends with uturama.

I don't see how this can end up being very good.

Aren't they going to Comedy Central?

WTF??? Where did you find the image?

imdb

From the description on Zap2it:

Premise: Peter Griffin's buddy Cleveland moves to Stoolbend, VA with his son, his high school sweetheart Donna and her daughter. The wacky neighbors include a loudmouth redneck couple, a British family seemingly stuck in the Victorian era and a family of bears in this "Family Guy" spin-off.

So they're having the manatees develop the new series instead of just writing the script?

Let's make fun of conservatives/Christians!

I grew up with rednecks, they deserve to be mocked. Plus it is the obvious target for a show centered on an african american family w/ stereotypes.

Who's the other kid in the pic, then? And neither one looks like Cleveland's son.

A family of bears?

Yeah, pretty much.

Actually, I'm a little concerned about this. Aren't manatees endangered? If they can't find any new "writers," the ones currently working on Family Guy are sure to be overworked.

Courtesy of IGN...

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Awful. Absolutely awful. That kid looks NOTHING like Cleveland Jr.. and then there's an extra kid in that picture, too.

Seriously this is almost as bad as a Herbert spin-off. There's so many better characters to give their own series.. but then again if the writing for this is on par with the past 2 seasons of FG, I don't expect it to last long as it is.

Yikes, I hope that's not the show open and theme.

I'll check this out strictly out of curiosity, but it doesn't sound promising at all.

I have no clue why, but this simple response made me crack up. I was thinking the exact same thing and was shocked it took a few posts to just flat out mention it.

This sounds horrible, and I supported the concept when I first heard about it.

I don't see this lasting long at all. As mentioned, where's Cleveland Jr.?