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Seth MacFarlane Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth MacFarlane was all smiles today when he visited The Build Series in New York City. Photo By: Diego Corredor/MediaPunch

Seth MacFarlane TBS is doubling down on American Dad!, ordering two more seasons of the top-rated animated hit from Twentieth Century Fox Television, ensuring that the Stan Smith clan will have a home on the network through 2018. An important programming initiative for the Turner portfolio, American Dad! also has a second home on TBS's sister network, Adult Swim, which presents an encore of each new episode after its TBS premiere. Today's announcement adds 44 episodes to the series – 22 each for seasons 12 & 13. It marks the second time in less than year that TBS has renewed the series. In November, the network announced a 22-episode order for season 11, which is set to air on TBS and Adult Swim in early 2016. Created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, American Dad! joined the TBS slate in October 2014 with the start of the show's 10th season. Since then, it has ranked as basic cable’s #1 scripted series in the Monday 9 p.m. timeslot w...

**** AND THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS ARE? **** Helen Mirren ABC News will provide live, anchored digital coverage of the 2013 Oscar Nominations tomorrow morning at 8:36a.m.ET. ABC News’ Dan Kloeffler will anchor live coverage from New York, along with analysis from Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers and Yahoo! News’s Phoebe Connelly in Washington, D.C. The wait is nearly over. After months of speculation and second-guessing, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will reveal the 2013 Oscar nominations Thursday. It has been a very good year for movies, not to mention a diverse one. "You have these serious movies like 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Lincoln.' Then there's 'Argo' in the middle and 'Les Miserables' and 'Silver Linings Playbook' on the other end," Yahoo! Movies contributing editor Thelma Adams told ABCNews.com . "It's almost like apples and oranges. How do you compare?" That...

Paula Abdul Kelli Williams Mark Salling Jillian Barberie Reynolds Seth MacFarlane Adam Lambert Allison Iraheta Cat Deeley Megan Corkrey Kris Allen American Idol Top 13 Contestants The American Idol top 13 contestants at the American Idol Top 13 Party held at AREA in Los Angeles, California. Singing star and Judge Paula Abdul was there as was Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane . Once again, this season is proving to be another exciting contest to find the new Idol for America. Photos By: Sara De Boer / Retna Ltd.