Peter Griffin

Peter Griffin
Family Guy character
First appearance	"Death Has a Shadow" (1999)
Created by	Seth MacFarlane
Voiced by	Seth MacFarlane
In-universe information
Full name	Justin Peter Löwenbräu Griffin, Sr.
Gender	Male
Occupation	Former safety inspector at the Happy-Go-Lucky toy factory Former fisherman Brewery shipping clerk
Family	Mickey McFinnigan (biological father) Francis Griffin (adoptive father) Thelma Griffin (mother) Chip Griffin (twin brother) Karen Griffin (half-sister)
Spouse	Lois Griffin
Children	Meg, Chris, and Stewie Griffin, Bertram and further Sperm Donation Offspring
Nationality	American

Justin Peter Löwenbräu Griffin, Sr. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American animated sitcom Family Guy. He is voiced by the series' creator, Seth MacFarlane, and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in the 15-minute pilot pitch of Family Guy on December 20, 1998. Peter was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on Larry & Steve, a short made by MacFarlane which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family appeared in the episode "Death Has a Shadow".

Peter is married to Lois Griffin and is the father of Meg, Chris, and Stewie. He also has a dog named Brian, with whom he is best friends. He has worked at a toy factory and at Quahog's Brewery. Peter's voice was inspired by the security guards that MacFarlane heard at his school. His appearance was a redesign of the protagonist Larry from MacFarlane's previous animated short films The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve. He has appeared in several pieces of Family Guy merchandise, including toys, T-shirts, and video games, and he has made crossover appearances in other shows, including The Simpsons, South Park, Drawn Together, American Dad!, and Family Guy's spin-off series The Cleveland Show.

Family Guy

Family Guy
The Griffin family. From the left: Chris, Peter, Stewie, Lois, Brian, and Meg
Genre	Animated sitcom[1]
Created by	Seth MacFarlane
Developed by	Seth MacFarlane David Zuckerman
Voices of	Seth MacFarlane Alex Borstein Seth Green Lacey Chabert Mila Kunis Mike Henry
Theme music composer	Walter Murphy
Composer(s)	Ron Jones Walter Murphy
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	17
No. of episodes	329 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Seth MacFarlane David Zuckerman (1999–2003) Daniel Palladino (2001–2002) David A. Goodman (2005–2012) Chris Sheridan (2005–2012) Danny Smith (2008–present) Mark Hentemann (2009–2015) Steve Callaghan (2009–present) Alec Sulkin (2011–present) Wellesley Wild (2011–2015) Richard Appel (2012–present)
Producer(s)	Shannon Smith Julius Sharpe Kara Vallow Steve Marmel (2011) Sherry Gunther (1999–2003)
Editor(s)	Mike Elias
Camera setup	Animated rendition of single-camera
Running time	20–23 minutes 45 minutes (select episodes)
Production company(s)	Fuzzy Door Productions 20th Century Fox Television
Distributor	20th Television
Release
Original network	Fox[N 1]
Picture format	NTSC 480i (Seasons 1–8) HDTV 720p (Season 9–)
Audio format	Dolby Surround 2.0 (broadcast seasons 1–8) Dolby Digital 5.1 (season 9–)
Original release	January 31, 1999 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Larry & Steve
Related shows	The Cleveland Show American Dad!

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture.

The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve. MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit and began production. Shortly after the third season of Family Guy had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series with one episode left unaired. Adult Swim aired that episode in 2003, finishing the series' original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a fourth season, which began airing on May 1, 2005.

Since its debut on January 31, 1999, 329 episodes of Family Guy have been broadcast. Its seventeenth season began on September 30, 2018. The show has been universally acclaimed, prompting Family Guy to be nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since The Flintstones in 1961. Family Guy has also received criticism, including unfavorable comparisons to The Simpsons.

Many tie-in media have been released, including Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, a straight-to-DVD special released in 2005; Family Guy: Live in Vegas, a soundtrack-DVD combo released in 2005, featuring music from the show as well as original music created by MacFarlane and Walter Murphy; a video game and pinball machine, released in 2006 and 2007, respectively; since 2005, six books published by Harper Adult based on the Family Guy universe; and Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy (2010), a series of parodies of the original Star Wars trilogy. In 2008, MacFarlane confirmed that the cast was interested in producing a feature film and that he was working on a story for a film adaptation.

A spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, featuring Cleveland Brown, aired from September 27, 2009, to May 19, 2013. "The Simpsons Guy", a crossover episode with The Simpsons, aired on September 28, 2014.^[2] Family Guy is a joint production by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television.^[3] In 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Guy the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time.^[4]

On February 12, 2019, Fox renewed the series for an eighteenth season, which will premiere on September 29, 2019.^[5]