FOX Thinks Cleveland Rocks!

FOX has ordered an additional nine episodes of THE CLEVELAND SHOW, the highly anticipated FAMILY GUY spin-off, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. Additionally, Arianna Huffington has been tapped for a recurring role and joins previously announced series regulars Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Kevin Michael Richardson, Mike Henry and Seth MacFarlane.

“FOX picking up nine more episodes of our show is proof that an African-American can make it in this country,” said Cleveland Brown. “This is a milestone for the United States of America .”

THE CLEVELAND SHOW, set to debut fall 2009, is a new animated series that follows everyone’s favorite soft-spoken neighbor CLEVELAND BROWN (voiced by Henry) to his hometown in Virginia, as he settles down with his high school sweetheart, DONNA (voiced by Lathan), and her unruly kids ROBERTA (voiced by Long) and 5-year-old RALLO (voiced by Henry), as well as his own 14-year-old son, CLEVELAND JR (voiced by Richardson). Once in Virginia, Cleveland is welcomed by a collection of neighbors that includes a loudmouth redneck, LESTER (voiced by Richardson); a hipster wanna-be, HOLT; and a family of talking bears, including TIM (voiced by MacFarlane) and his wife ARIANNA (voiced by Huffington).