Family Guy appears on iTunes

@Sirbarton: Seasons 1,2,5, and now 6 are available on the Amazon unbox store. I'm not sure what's going on with 3 &4, but I assume that if they have it on Amazon, they'll eventually have them on iTunes.

The real reason it has just appeared on the iTunes store is that Fox didn't negotiate the music licenses for the earlier seasons to include All Media and digital downloads . All upcoming seasons will be on iTunes because they now pay upfront for the inevitable fees associated with downloads. Because the show uses so much music, it would be very expensive for Fox to go back and negotiate fees for all of those episodes just to sell them as downloads. Especially when most fans own them all on DVD already.

It's the newest episode. They must assume all the true fans already have a dedicated 30GB ipod containing the first 99 episodes and can now use iTunes to add the new one every week instead of getting it from an unnamed Swedish bay of pirates.

That is a pretty good assumption...

"Family Guy appears on iTunes"...if you are in the States. It's really starting to p!ss me off that you cannot get any movies or TV shows in Canada. Whoopie do, here are some trailers. Is it any wonder that people turn to bit torrent? Yes, I know it's not totally Apple's fault, but given Canadian TV is basically American TV, we'd like to share the love too please!

Family Guy = unfunny Simpsons ripoff

Anyone else wondering where the Star Wars special is?

Yeah, I think Fox has been on iTunes since spring 2006, about 6 months after the very first ABC shows (ah, those were the good days). I never understood why Family Guy wasn't offered though, so it's great to see it's finally here.

(And Mike, that article you link to is from December '05...)

I'll wait till the quality is worked out but I can assure you that I will be buying all seasons of Family Guy from iTunes because it really is very convenient and plus this might show FOX to get Simpsons on which would be a huge plus again.

I already have Family Guy and Simpsons on DVD and torr*ahem* downloads but this would just make it better because it would sync easily to my iPhone iPod and aTV. (I know fruit freak here but I just like the convenience of not having to setup complex machines and servers to see something everywhere and I never seem to keep my DVD's in place anyways.)

It looks great to me, I don't know what everyone's talking about :)

Fox needed to add something popular back to the iTunes Store since Universal is pulling House.