I’m not sure how many episodes of Family Guy there are, but if I’d have to guess, I’d say 11 trillion. Even with a lengthy hiatus, the animated series has been on forever. And yet one of its most famous family members, someone who has never lacked for screen time, is getting his own spinoff. Fox has ordered two seasons of Stewie, a Family Guy spinoff series starting in 2027.
“What the deuce?” The answer to that typically rhetorical question is Stewie. Deadline reports Fox has picked up a show about Lois and Peter’s youngest child. It’s already committed to the series for two years.
It comes from Seth MacFarlane. He, and not Peter Claffey, will continue to voice Stewie. He created it with Family Guy writer Kirker Butler. The series will follow Stewie during his time at a new preschool. It will also involve “time and space travel.” Deadline‘s Nellie Andreeva’s description of the series sounds like Family Guy‘s answer to Muppet Babies and The Magic School Bus:
In the offshoot, after getting the boot from his old preschool, Stewie is forced to enroll in a new one that’s not exactly top-of-the-line. It’s attended by a handful of kids he doesn’t know, and a 75-year-old class turtle with a half-cocked theory on just about every subject. Stewie’s miserable, the other kids are miserable, and even the turtle is miserable… until Stewie begins rolling out his trusty array of devices to take them anywhere in space and time, turning every boring day at school into an insane and surreal adventure.
Andreeva also says Stewie is expected to have fewer than 15-episodes, which is the current length of Family Guy seasons. The series will also be the second spinoff. The Cleveland Show ran from 2009-2013. We loved that series, so if Stewie wants to go back in time and show his classmates why, we’re fully onboard. Then maybe he can travel to the future to tell us how many combined episodes of TV this franchise has already made.