"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane wants less 'negative' stories on TV

Seth MacFarlane, creator of the wild and often outrageous “Family Guy,” wants to see a little more positivity on TV.

MacFarlane spoke about his desire to see more uplifting content during an appearance on the “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast with Ted Danson.

“It’s all about the anti-hero, it’s all about the complicated, f—ked up drug-addled person, isn’t this person a mess?” MacFarlane said.

He cited the characters on “White Lotus,” saying they’re brilliant, but, “no one is someone you’d want to be. There’s no one you look at and say, ‘Boy, I want to be like that guy.’”

“We don’t do that anymore,” he continued. “I think if we did a little bit of that in this town, even just a little bit, we actually...that’s the only thing Hollywood can do that’s worthwhile. because as we all learned from this election, nobody gives a f--k what celebrities think. We can tweet, we can talk. Like, people don’t care. They don’t care. What we do do well is tell stories. And we’re not doing the best job right now of telling those stories in a way that gives people hope.”

MacFarlane explained that hope is what drew him to “The Orville,” the “Star Trek” inspired series he starred in on Fox.

“That’s why I did ‘The Orville’ because when I was a kid, Hollywood was providing that voice in various forms,” MacFarlane said. “There was a lot of hope, and some of the blame lies right here in this town. The dishes that we are serving up are so dystopian and so pessimistic. And yeah, there’s a lot to be pessimistic about, but it’s so one-sided. There’s nothing we’re doing that’s providing anyone an image of hope.”

And while he appreciates the “cautionary tales” told by series like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” MacFarlane believes it’s also important to give an alternative.

“They’re certainly giving us a lot of cautionary tales, but where are the blueprints that they once gave us for how to do things correctly?”

He continued, “It can’t all be just, ‘Here’s what’s going to happen to you if you f— up.’ You do need, ‘Here’s what you can achieve if you change your ways and do things right.'”