The Cleveland Show

The Cleveland Show
Genre	Animated sitcom Black sitcom
Created by	Seth MacFarlane Richard Appel Mike Henry
Voices of	Mike Henry Sanaa Lathan Kevin Michael Richardson Reagan Gomez-Preston Jason Sudeikis Seth MacFarlane
Theme music composer	Walter Murphy
Opening theme	"The Cleveland Show" (performed by Mike Henry)
Composer	Walter Murphy
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	88 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Seth MacFarlane Richard Appel Mike Henry
Producers	Kara Vallow Courtney Lilly (season 3) Daniel Dratch (season 4)
Editors	Kirk Benson Dennis McElroy (season 4)
Running time	21–22 minutes
Production companies	Persons Unknown Productions Happy Jack Productions Fuzzy Door Productions 20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27) – May 19, 2013 (2013-05-19)
Related
Family Guy American Dad!
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The Cleveland Show is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company. A spin-off of Family Guy, and the second television series in the franchise, the series centers on Cleveland Brown, his new wife Donna Tubbs-Brown, and their children Cleveland Brown Jr., Roberta Tubbs, and Rallo Tubbs. Similar to Family Guy, it exhibited much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture, though it used this form significantly less than Family Guy. The animation was produced by Fox Television Animation.

The series was conceived by MacFarlane in 2007 after developing Family Guy and American Dad! for the Fox network. MacFarlane centered the show on Family Guy character Cleveland Brown and created new characters for Cleveland's family members. One preexisting character, Cleveland's son Cleveland Jr. (Junior), was redesigned as an obese, soft-spoken teen, as opposed to his depiction as a younger, hyperactive child with average body weight on Family Guy.

The series premiered on September 27, 2009, and ended on May 19, 2013, after four seasons consisting of 88 episodes. The Cleveland Show was nominated for one Annie Award, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Teen Choice Awards, but received mixed reviews from media critics. Fox cancelled the series after 4 seasons.^[1] Nearly a year after the series' cancelation, Cleveland returned to Family Guy, accompanied by the rest of the Brown-Tubbs family, in the season 12 episode "He's Bla-ack!".