from Media Week
Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run
Fox will produce original episodes of it’s resurrected hit Family Guy exclusively for the Web sometime next year.
Speaking at the UBS 33rd Annual Global Media Conference in New York, Ross Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media said that the original Family Guy episodes will be distributed on two of the company’s recent high-profile Web acquisitions, MySpace.com and IGN.com, as well as Fox.com next year.While a specific distribution model was not discussed, Levinsohn implied that these episodes will be sold directly to users. Speaking hypothetically, he spoke of selling episodes of the series on an individual user’s MySpace profile for a $1.99 an episode after these users have made an initial purchase