it took them a few years but the fools at fox television have owned up to their mistake of cancelling family guy few seasons back. i've always felt the problem was that family guy was on the wrong network. fox is home to the simpsons and the network's loyalty to that show has curbed development of anything new. if family guy was head-to-head with fox's simpsons it would have never been cancelled and by now would have been the reigning animated sitcom.

the show has enjoyed massive success in syndication, through dvd sales and will be back for a second run. to undue the damage the show is coming back may 1st at 9pm. seeing the simpsons have been flat for the last few years not generating the same laughs they once did fox is looking into something new. something they should have done years ago. simpsons have secured their legacy in television history but their times has come. it is no longer the show of my child. they should have done what seinfeld done and left on top just as the material was growing thin. seinfeld will be remembered as walking away at the height of the show's popularity knowing he had reached the pinnacle. you can only go down from that point on.

i'm not overtly sure this 'back from the dead' scheme for family guy is going to work as by the time spring hits the hype may ultimately kill the show.

now if only they un-cancelled 'andy richter controls the universe' fox would be back in my good books.