Turner Takes Fox's 'Cleveland Show'

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Adult
Swim and TBS have jointly acquired the rights to Fox's latest animated hit, The
Cleveland Show, for a fall 2013 debut, sources confirm. The deal is
expected to be officially announced shortly.

That
makes three for Twentieth, which last week sold Glee to NBC Universal'sOxygen and Modern Family to NBCU's USA in a whirlwind spate of deals. Cleveland
went to the two Turner networks for approximately $500,000 an episode,
according to Variety, which broke the story this evening.

Oxygen
acquired Glee for $500,000 an episode, while USA paid $1.4 million per
episode to air Modern Family. That's just under what TBS paid for Warner
Bros.' record-breaking Big Bang Theory.

Family
Guy
spin-off Cleveland, which just completed its first season on Fox, already
has been renewed through season three. The show is created and executive
produced by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry and Rich Appel.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.