Fox Orders ‘Stewie’ Spinoff of ‘Family Guy’ With Two-Season Pickup
Fox has ordered a new Family Guy spinoff titled Stewie, giving the animated comedy a two-season pickup ahead of a planned 2027 to 2028 premiere.
The series will air on Fox with next-day streaming on Hulu in the United States and international distribution through Disney+. The project comes from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and longtime collaborator Kirker Butler, with 20th Television Animation producing.
MacFarlane will continue voicing Stewie in the new show while also serving as executive producer through his Fuzzy Door production banner. Butler will act as showrunner and executive producer alongside Kara Vallow.
The series follows Stewie after he is expelled from his original preschool and forced to enroll in a new and less prestigious one. There, he encounters unfamiliar classmates and an eccentric class turtle whose theories about the world are often questionable. To escape the boredom of school life, Stewie begins using his inventions to transport the class through time and across space, turning routine days into increasingly surreal adventures.
The new series is designed to exist alongside the original show while developing its own setting and characters. Stewie will attend a new school with a different group of classmates, while the version of the character seen in Family Guy continues to attend Quahog Preschool within the main series’ storyline. Brian, the Griffin family dog and Stewie’s frequent companion on the original show, is expected to appear periodically in the spinoff.
Stewie Griffin has become one of the most recognizable characters in Family Guy during the show’s long run. Early seasons portrayed the infant as a villainous genius obsessed with world domination and eliminating his mother, Lois. Over time, the character shifted toward more comedic storylines involving elaborate inventions, time travel experiments, alternate realities, and his unlikely friendship with Brian.
Spinoffs built around popular characters are a common strategy in television, allowing studios to expand a franchise while the original series continues. Fox previously attempted a similar approach with The Cleveland Show, another Family Guy offshoot that aired for four seasons beginning in 2009.
The order for Stewie also aligns with Fox’s broader animation strategy. In 2025, the network renewed several of its longest-running animated comedies, including Family Guy, American Dad!The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers, in a multi-season agreement that keeps those shows on the network through 2029.
Family Guy remains one of Fox’s most durable franchises. The show recently aired its 450th episode with the premiere of Season 24 and continues to generate significant streaming viewership across platforms, reinforcing its place among television’s longest-running adult animated comedies.
Fox has ordered two seasons of the spinoff, with a premiere currently targeted for the 2027 to 2028 television season.
