Starting on
Fox FX in December, 2010:
American Dad!Premiere date: Wednesday, 15 December 2010 at 22h05
New episodes broadcast Mondays to Thursdays, at varying times. There are 23 episodes in the first season.
A satirical cartoon series created by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and The Cleveland Show, as well as two former Family Guy writers, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman.
The series centres on the domestic life of its nominal title character, Stan Smith, a staunchly conservative Republican CIA agent, and self-proclaimed patriot. He is married to Francine Smith, a fairly ditzy housewife who is trying to make up for a wild youth.
Their two children are Hayley Smith a passionately left-wing college-aged activist, and Steve Smith, an awkward teenage nerd.
For more about the series, see:
TVSA's American Dad! Mini-Site.
SPECIALS
D.L. Hughley: Goin' HomeOn: Friday 17 December 2010 at 20h30
An HBO comedy special starring comedian D.L. Hughley in a solo standup performance from the Belk Theatre at the Center for the Performing Arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1999.
The show centres round Hughley's return to his childhood past.
For more about it, see:
TVSA's DL Hughley: Goin' Home Mini-Site.
D.L. Hughley: Unapologetic On: Friday 24 December 2010, at 20h30.
Another comedy special starring D.L. Hughley in a solo standup performance from The Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC, in 2007.
Topics he covers in this special include politics, childhood, challenging your father to a fight, gluttony, impotence drugs and parenthood.
For more about the special, see:
TVSA's D.L. Hughley: Unapologetic Mini-Site.
Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them SoftlyOn: Friday 31 December 2010, at 20h30
A comedy special starring comedian Dave Chappelle in a solo standup performance from The Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC, in 2000.
In this special, he iffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs and Sesame Street.
For more, about it, see:
TVSA's Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly Mini-Site.
Fox FX is on TopTV, Channel 110.