The Cleveland Show (2009– )

The adventures of the "Family Guy"'s neighbor and deli owner, Cleveland Brown.

Creators:

Richard Appel, Mike Henry, Seth MacFarlane

Stars:

Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 5 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Mike Henry	...	Cleveland Brown (82 episodes, 2009-2013)
Sanaa Lathan	...	Donna Tubbs (82 episodes, 2009-2013)
Kevin Michael Richardson	...	Cleveland Brown Jr. (82 episodes, 2009-2013)
Jason Sudeikis	...	Holt Richter (74 episodes, 2009-2013)
Reagan Gomez-Preston	...	Roberta Tubbs (66 episodes, 2009-2013)
Seth MacFarlane	...	Tim the Bear (63 episodes, 2009-2012)
Aseem Batra	...	Kendra Krinklesac (41 episodes, 2009-2013)

Storyline

This FOX animated comedy is a spin-off of the much-loved series Family Guy. The series features the adventures of Peter Griffin's neighbor Cleveland Brown. Many years ago, Cleveland made a promise to his old high school sweetheart, Donna. Cleveland, along with Cleveland Junior, move to Stoolbend, VA to start a new life with Donna and her two children.

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Plot Keywords:

neighbor | spin off | racial stereotype | african american | humor | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

September 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Cleveland-show

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Persons Unknown Productions, Happy Jack Productions, Fuzzy Door Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Originally, a British family was to be featured on the show and Seth MacFarlane would have done the voice of the father, but the writers felt there wouldn't be enough British jokes, so the family was dropped in favor of Holt.

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Connections

Referenced in Conan: Death Takes a Time-Share (2011)

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Soundtracks

"The Cleveland Show Theme"
Performed by Mike Henry

User Reviews

This show is trrrrrrrrrrrible!!!!

This show suuuuuucks,i was never really excited about it in the first place and when I watched it my brain almost melted with boredom,its pretty obvious that all Seth cared about was money when thinking up this show so he decided to take the lamest character in family guy and give him a spin off,and the reason for this was because family guy fans would automatically watch this lame show. It is a non funny black version of family guy and that is it.the funniest thing about the pilot was when the family guy characters where in it, Cleveland can not carry a show.

The thing that annoyed me most was the fact that the just took the family guy formula and applied it to Cleveland,the even use the stupid cut aways which I hate more than anything,its destroys the story and is a sign of shoddy writing, cant think of anything to say...put in a crappy cut away or a gag joke,but apart from that the jokes are lame as hell.the only funny thing is the little afro kid. This show completely falls apart after the first 5 minutes of an episode,out of the two I've seen.

Watch American dad instead because that is funny