The Cleveland Show

*The Cleveland Show*
The Cleveland Show
Genre	Animation; Black comedy; Cutaway gag humor
Created by	Seth MacFarlane; Mike Henry; Richard Appel
Voices of	Mike Henry; Sanaa Lathan; Kevin Michael Richardson; Reagan Gomez-Preston; Jason Sudeikis; Seth MacFarlane
Theme music composer	Walter Murphy
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	88 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Seth MacFarlane; Mike Henry; Richard Appel; ; Co-Executive Producers:; Kirker Butler; John Viener (Season 3-present); Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein (Season 3-present); Jonathan Green (Season 2-present); Gabe Miller (Season 2-present)
Producers	Kara Vallow; Jonathan Green (Season 1); Gabe Miller (Season 1); Courtney Lilly (Season 2-present); ; Co-Producers:; Aseem Batra (Season 1); Clarence Livingston (Season 1); Aaron Lee (Season 2-present); Matt Murray (Season 2-present); ; Supervising Producers:; Aseem Batra (Season 2-present); Clarence Livingston (Season 2-present)
Editor	Kirk Benson
Camera setup	Animated rendition of single camera
Running time	22–23 minutes
Production companies	Persons Unknown Productions; Happy Jack Productions; Fuzzy Door Productions; 20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 27, 2009 –; May 19, 2013
Related
	Family Guy; American Dad!

The Cleveland Show is an animated sitcom that first aired on September 27, 2009 on the "Animation Domination" block on Fox in the United States. The show was created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel as a spin-off show from Family Guy.

The family was conceived by MacFarlane, he took the Family Guy character, Cleveland Brown, and his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., and redesign Cleveland Brown Jr. to make him look older, and softly-spoken. Before the first episode aired it was already renewed for season 2, which had 22 episodes.^[2] On June 10, 2010, three weeks after the first season ended it was renewed for another season (season 3).^[3] It was also renewed for season 4. The show was canceled in May 2013, airing its final episode on May 19. There is four seasons of The Cleveland Show and 88 episodes.

The series shows the life of Cleveland Brown, his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., his wife, Donna, and her kids, Roberta and Rallo.

The show uses a lot of profanity and sex scenes, which is why the show is rated TV-14, and rarely TV-PG.

According to critics, the show is an okay show, however some say it is a horrible show. The Parents Television Council said that the first season episodes was the worst show of the week. About 6 million people watched the show for season one. It was nominated for an award on the 36th People's Choice Awards, and on the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Production

At the start of the show, Cleveland Brown and his son, Cleveland Brown Jr., move from the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia.

Cleveland said to Glenn Quagmire that he is getting a spin-off on Family Guy episode, "Baby Not on Board".^[4]

Originally, the theme song had a line with Cleveland Brown, he said "happy black-guy face", this was changed to "happy mustached face".

Characters

Cleveland Brown, an African-American male who is very polite to everyone and has a unique laugh, he used to be Peter Griffin's friend until moving.
Donna Tubbs, second wife and current wife of Cleveland Brown.
Cleveland Brown Jr., the son of Cleveland Brown
Roberta Tubbs, fifteen-year-old daughter of Donna Tubbs
Rallo Tubbs, five-year-old son of Donna Tubbs

Voice cast

Main cast members

Mike Henry	Sanaa Lathan	Reagan Gomez-Preston	Kevin Michael Richardson	Jason Sudeikis	Seth MacFarlane
Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs	Donna Tubbs-Brown	Roberta Tubbs	Cleveland Brown, Jr. and Lester Krinklesac	Holt Richter and Terry Kimple	Tim the Bear

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD release dates
Season		Episodes	Season premiere	Season finale	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
	1	21	September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27)	May 23, 2010 (2010-05-23)	September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28)	September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27)	June 29, 2011 (2011-06-29)
	2	22	September 26, 2010 (2010-09-26)	May 15, 2011 (2011-05-15)	September 27, 2011 (2011-09-27)	January 30, 2012 (2012-01-30)^[5]	November 9, 2011 (2011-11-09)
	3	22	September 25, 2011 (2011-09-25)	May 20, 2012 (2012-05-20)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	4	23	October 7, 2012 (2012-10-07)	May 19, 2013 (2013-05-19)	TBA	TBA	TBA

Ratings

Season	Season premiere	Season finale	TV season	Ranking	Viewers (in millions)
1st	September 27, 2009	May 23, 2010	2009–2010	#72^[6]	6.38^[6]
2nd	September 26, 2010	May 15, 2011	2010–2011	#90^[6]	6.12^[6]
3rd	September 25, 2011	May 20, 2012	2011–2012	TBA	TBA
4th	October 7, 2012	May 19, 2013	2012–2013	TBA	TBA

International broadcast

The show was originally aired on Fox, and has been released in many other countries.

Country	Network	First Aired
United States	Fox	September 27, 2009
Canada	Global	September 27, 2009
Australia	Network Ten Eleven FOX8	December 2, 2009–January 12, 2011 January 12, 2011–present March 13, 2011–present
United Kingdom	E4 FX	February 1, 2010 – present January 6, 2011 – present
Mexico	FX Latin America	April 25, 2010
Brazil	FX Latin America	April 25, 2010
Ireland	3e	February 21, 2010
Portugal	FOX Portugal	June 5, 2010
Denmark	TV 2 Zulu	June 23, 2010
Israel	Yes Comedy	July 2, 2010
Greece	FX GR	March 2010
Hungary	Comedy Central	July 7, 2010
Russia	2x2	September 2, 2010
Italy	FOX Italia 2	September 7, 2010
Spain	FOX Neox	July 19, 2010
Norway	TV2	August 13, 2010
Netherlands	Comedy Central	September 12, 2010
New Zealand	C4 Four Comedy Central	2010 February 10, 2011 - present 2011 - present
Philippines	Jack TV	October 2010
South Africa	Vuzu	November 29, 2010
Uruguay	Monte Carlo TV	December 18, 2010
Sweden	Kanal 5 (Sweden)	January 3, 2011
Czech Republic	Prima Cool	February 5, 2011
Poland	FOX Poland	February 16, 2011
France	France Ô	April 8, 2011
Estonia	TV6 (Estonia)	June 1, 2011
Latvia	TV6 Latvia	December 1, 2010
Palestinian territories	FX	July, 2011
Argentina	FX	January 29, 2012

DVD releases

All seasons are available on DVD and Blu-ray.

References

↑ "FOX Announces Fall Premiere Dates for the 2009-2010 Season". TheFutonCritic.com.
↑ "Yahoo!". www.aoltv.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
↑ "Breaking News - FOX Picks Up Third Season of "The Cleveland Show" - TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com.
↑ "Baby Not On Board". Mark Hentemann (writer) & Julius Wu (director). Family Guy. Fox. September 1, 2008. No. 4, season 7.
↑ "The Cleveland Show - Season 2 (DVD)". Amazon UK. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 "Series". Tvbythenumbers. Nielsen Business Media. May 26, 2006. Archived from the original on June 24, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2010.

Other websites

Official website Archived 2009-05-12 at the Wayback Machine

[September-1] "FOX Announces Fall Premiere Dates for the 2009-2010 Season". TheFutonCritic.com.

[2] "Yahoo!". www.aoltv.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2012-03-10.

[3] "Breaking News - FOX Picks Up Third Season of "The Cleveland Show" - TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com.

[4] "Baby Not On Board". Mark Hentemann (writer) & Julius Wu (director). Family Guy. Fox. September 1, 2008. No. 4, season 7.

[5] "The Cleveland Show - Season 2 (DVD)". Amazon UK. Retrieved August 14, 2011.

[0506season-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 "Series". Tvbythenumbers. Nielsen Business Media. May 26, 2006. Archived from the original on June 24, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2010.

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