Yeah, I had a conversation with a friend today. I'd read from the Family Guy Reference Archives ( http://www.familyguyfiles.com/main.php ) that the episodes commencing 'Peter's Got Woods' was the first of Season 5 aired on TV in the US (I'm in the UK) but we both think Season 4 was too short for it to be 'officially' onto Season 5 already. Either way. More Family Guy is never a bad thing!

True they were originally to air earlier this year. What is sort of lame is that they still WILL air at some point in the next year, edited for content. At first glance, that isn't a bad thing, cuz those who haven't seen it by then will get to see it for free. Where it gets lame is when you realize the three episodes will be part of the DVD box set for whichever season they end up airing in, meaning Fox makes DVD money off the same thing twice. Not that that's never been done before, but still, kinda cheap.

The Stewie Movie are not the first three episodes of the new season. the episode codes for the three segments are 4ACX05, 4ACX06, ann 4ACX07. they were supposed to air earlier in the 4th season, before "the Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire"

we're watching the rest of the 4 production season. also this is sort of old, because the stewie movie, is the first 3 episodes of the new season

Correction: Turns out new episodes of Family Guy resume November 6. The January misinformation came from tv.com.

Fox and various shows' producers often disagree on where one season begins and another ends. For example, Fox will tell you there were five seasons of Futurama, when there were really only four production seasons. Fox took the fourth production season of Futurama and split it up into two short on-air seasons. The Futurama DVD releases stick to the production seasons, which is why there are only four. As I understand it, despite Fox's claims that this is now Season 5, the three episodes of Family Guy that have aired this month are actually the final three produced for Season 4, and as such, will be part of the Season 4 DVD set coming out in November. The next new episode of Family Guy won't air til Sunday January 1st. THAT episode will be the fourth of Fox's "on-air Season 5" even though it's technically the first Season 5 ep from a production standpoint. This is slightly different from The Simpsons' practice of holding a few episodes from one production season over to air in the next. That decision is made by the producers themselves, to give themselves extra time of the summer to work on them, whereas the aforementioned Family Guy situation is the result of Fox's own scheduling people.

I think that's out of date. Check out: http://www.familyguyfiles.com/episodes/episodes.php?season=5 TV Squad covers Season 4 Premier: http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/05/01/the-family-guy-north-by-north-quahog/ TV Squad covers Season 5 Premier: http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/09/12/family-guy-peters-got-woods/

No, Season 4 is just airing: http://tviv.info/wiki/Family_Guy#Seasons

Isn't season 5 the one that just started airing? I'm pretty sure that there are currently 3 seasons on dvd, season 4 which finished this summer, and season 5 has just started. Great news either way.

This is tremendously great news. And, as you mentioned, if heavy sales of the Futurama deal got it back up on Fox, I'd be overcome with glee.