Tom Shales On TV: Fox's 'Cleveland Show' Is a Cartoon Blight

Seth MacFarlane, the Hollywood trade papers say, has a deal with Twentieth Century Fox worth $100 million over the next few years. If you want to see why he is prized so highly, and what it takes to strike it rich in today's Hollywood, check out the cheap smut, sexual innuendo and scatological humor in "The Cleveland Show," a spinoff from MacFarlane's painfully similar animated half-hour "Family Guy." Both of them air on the Fox network.