"Family Guy", "Cleveland Show" renewed by Fox.

Family Guy and The Cleveland Show have been renewed for an additional season.

The animated Seth MacFarlane series will get a tenth and fourth season respectively, as confirmed by Fox via an official statement on Monday.

"For nine seasons, our viewers have been cracked up, delighted, surprised and, at times, gloriously disturbed by the mind of Seth MacFarlane - and they keep coming back for more," said Fox President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly.

"The Griffins and the Browns have become cornerstones of our Sunday nights, and we can't wait to find out what new adventures Seth, Mike and Rich cook up for them next season."

Family Guy will air a special one-hour season finale on May 22 while The Cleveland Show will end its current season on May 15.

Fox's planned crossover between Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show was recently postponed due to tornadoes which devastated the American Southern Midwest.

A comic book series based on Family Guy is due to launch this July.

"House" to end after eighth season?

House star Hugh Laurie has suggested that the show could end after its eighth season.

The Fox medical drama's seventh season will conclude on May 23, with negotiations currently ongoing between Fox, NBC Universal and various cast members for another run.

Speaking to the Radio Times, Laurie said: "The end of that [eighth] season, right now, looks like the end of the show."

The actor is currently contracted for one more season, while many of his co-stars have yet to sign up for an eighth year

"That [additional season is] as far as they've got me for," he clarified.

House star Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy) recently insisted that the shows future is secure for the foreseeable future.

"Nobody at work seems to think [that the show] won't [return]," she said. "Everybody wants to come to a deal."

House continues on Mondays at 8/7c on Fox in the US and on Thursdays at 10pm on Sky1 in the UK.

'Locke & Key' TV series in doubt?

Fox may not commission a full series based on the forthcoming Locke & Key pilot, it has been reported. According to Deadline, the network may be reluctant to pick up science-fiction shows for its upcoming season.

"I hear Fox's new crop of dramas may not include a sci-fi entry this year as both Locke & Key and Alcatraz have cooled off," wrote the website's Nellie Andreeva. Fox recently renewed Fringe for an additional season, sparking rumours that it may not have the budget to commission another sci-fi-themed programme.

Published by IDW, Locke & Key is a supernatural drama inspired by the work of horror author HP Lovecraft. The story follows a family who move to a new home and discover mysterious keys hidden within its walls. Sarah Bolger, Nick Stahl, Jesse McCartney, Ksenia Solo, Skylar Gaertner and Harrison Thomas will all star in the Locke & Key pilot, which has been directed by Otto Romanek.

Recap - 'House': 'Last Temptation'

On her final day as a medical student, Masters needs a tenth lumbar puncture to complete her medical log. She is also shocked to learn that House has created an opening in his diagnostics team so that she can join as an intern. Masters is introduced to Thirteen, and as the rest of the team arrive, House claims that the missing Doctor has been in drug rehab, keeping her prison shame a secret. The team start work on a new case: Kendall Pierson, a teenage girl who wants to be the youngest person to sail the world. After Kendall collapses during a practice run, the team perform tests to check for an an adrenal insufficiency.

After several failed attempts to get her final lumbar puncture, Masters decides to accept House's internship, but he forges the final LP on her medical log and tells her that she can only join his team if she hands in the forged document. However, Thirteen later offers Masters the opportunity to perform the final LP on her. Meanwhile, Kendall falls into unconsciousness and suffers from poor blood flow to one of her arms. Further tests appear to reveal that her pineal gland has become calcified and the team start the patient on hormone therapy.

Masters tells House that she has handed in her log, but he is able to detect from Thirteen's "stiff gait and small pupils" that Masters remained honest and performed the final lumbar puncture. Masters insists that she can do her job without cheating or compromise, but House angrily withdraws the internship.

Masters departs House's team and starts a surgical internship. On her first day, her advice proves vital in saving a patient's life, which impresses the head surgeon. He invites Masters to scrub in on his next procedure, but she is distracted when she learns that Kendall's previous treatment failed and that she is still a patient. Masters makes an excuse and leaves the surgery to attend Kendall's operation. Impressed by her subterfuge, House welcomes her back to the team, but she insists that she is only staying for this one case.

Staying late at the hospital, Masters stumbles upon House and Wilson's latest antics - a bet to see who can keep a chicken in the hospital for longest without being detected by security. The chickens give her an idea and she decides to test Kendall for salmonella enteritidis, which manifests as an aching in the bones. As Chase and Masters scan Kendall's bones, he advises her to return to surgery. He warns that his own time with House has changed him, and not necessarily for the better. The pair do not find an infection in Kendall's bones, but cancer.

Masters tells Kendall that her arm needs to be amputated to save her life, but the teenager is desperate to delay her treatment and sail around the world. Kendall's mother bows to her demands, as does her father, albeit reluctantly. When Masters confronts House with the issue, he tells her that she must break the rules to save Kendall's life. Masters tries one final time to convince Kendall to have the surgery, and when she refuses, Masters gives her a special "medicine".

Kendall's heart begins to slow and she is rushed into surgery, with her parents being forced to sign a consent form to allow the amputation. House's team are shocked when Masters reveals that she caused the heart symptoms, but with the parents' consent, they amputate the arm. Kendall is devastated when she wakes, but her mother thanks Masters for all she has done.

The next day, Masters admits to House that she manipulated, lied, forged and stole to save Kendall's life, and that she now feels terrible. She tells House that she has to leave, as she cannot play by his rules. He warns Masters that "Nothing will ever be simple again" but she replies, "I'm fine with that" and proudly leaves the hospital.

( source: DigitalSpy )

'House' to move from Fox to NBC?

Reports have suggested that House may not air on Fox in the future.

According to Variety, the network and the show's production company NBC Universal are struggling to come to a deal for an eighth season.

NBC Universal is now thought to be planning to offer the show to other broadcasters if an agreement cannot be made by April 15.

One of the possible new homes for House is thought to be NBC itself. However, House's executive producer David Shore told reporters that he is not worried about the show's future.

"I would be absolutely astounded if there wasn't [an eighth season]," he said. "Fox wants to have a season eight, and NBC Universal wants them to have a season eight. I fully expect there to be a season eight and we're proceeding on that basis."

Robert Sean Leonard has admitted that he is uncertain if he will return to House next season. None of the medical drama's lead cast - except series star Hugh Laurie - are currently contracted for an eighth year, with Leonard recently signing up to star in Broadway play Born Yesterday.

"This is my last season of House," he told TV Line. "I'm shooting my last episode now. Contractually this is it. There's also no deal for House [as a series] next year because Comcast bought NBC Universal and no-one has a deal."

He continued: "If I do House next year it'll be under a new umbrella. But legally and contractually, I'm free after this [season]." However, Leonard then added that he is uncertain if he will remain with the show or not. "The long and short of it is, I don't know," he said. "I assume they'll make another year of House. And I assume I will do it. But I can't say for sure."

The actor went on to say that if House is renewed, he will have to miss "quite a few" episodes due to his Broadway commitments. "I would either have to not be in the first few episodes or they'd have to delay the start date," he claimed. "Or I can be written lightly in them and shoot a couple of Mondays here and there. Anything's possible."

He also denied that the show's upcoming seventh season finale will write out his character James Wilson. "That's not the plot of the episode," he insisted. "That's not what the episode is about at all. [Wilson] can't just go away. The show just isn't structured that way. He has to be there. It's the way the show works."

Fringe - the true identity of Sam Weiss?

The executive producers of Fringe have dropped hints about the true identity of Sam Weiss.

On the sci-fi drama, Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) recently revealed that the connection between Peter (Joshua Jackson) and the machine could lead to the destruction of the universe.

In an official Fox interview, showrunner Jeff Pinker said: "Sam is either telling the truth with ulterior motives, or he's telling a lie, or he's just telling the truth."

He added that the nature of Weiss's relationship with Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) is "something we should reveal".

"There a secret [involved] in that," explained co-producer Joel Wyman. "it's very interesting. It's not what you think."

The pair claimed that they could "neither confirm nor deny" whether Weiss is one of the First People, but ruled out any connection between the ancient race and the mysterious Observers.

"It's possible that the First People have the same capacity as Observers to exist in different times [but] The Observers are there own thing," said Wyman. "That's for sure. I can tell you that."

Wyman previously claimed that the true nature of Weiss will be "something that you don't see coming".

Fringe will return to Fox on April 15.

Fox has renewed Bob's Burgers for a second season.

The animated series was recently revealed to be the overall highest-rated new series to debut this season and is among the top ten shows watched by men aged 16-24.

Fox Entertainment Company President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly said in a statement on Thursday: "Bob's Burgers has proved to be a perfect neighbour to our slate of
fan-favourite animated families this year," said Reilly.

"The series has found its own really unique, irreverent voice and is doing consistent business for us on Sundays, so we're excited to serve up another season to the fans."

Bob's Burgers centres on "a third-generation restaurateur as he runs his
own burger joint with the help of his wife and their three kids".

H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal voice the characters.

Fox has renewed Fringe for a fourth season.

Great news for Fringe fans: Fox has renewed Fringe for a fourth season with a full season order of 22 episodes. You will not have to gut out the white knuckle ride until May!

The announcement comes on the heels of season low ratings last Friday when Fringe was up against the NCAA basketball tournament.

Futurama renewed for 13 more episodes.

Everybody’s favorite canceled animated Fox show (well, for Family Guy fans with long memories, second favorite) is getting a couple more years of life: Comedy Central’s Futurama has been renewed for two more years, say sources close to the production.

The network has picked up another two cycles of 13 episodes — and neither include the upcoming batch that launches this June. 

So that keeps Futurama on the air through 2013. (Whether the order is called the seventh season, or the eighth and ninth season, is still being debated — since seasons on Comedy Central are split over two years, do you call each year’s batch a season or do you call the full 26 episode order a season?) 

At any rate, last season averaged 2.5 million viewers per week once DVR is added in.