According to @SethManFan, during Seth MacFarlane’s appearance on Liveline last Sunday night, he revealed that next season’s Christmas special, “Road To The North Pole” will be “an hour long musical extravaganza”.

Season 9 will premiere on September 26th, 2010 in high definition with another hour-long episode; it will reportedly be an Agatha Christie-type “whodunit” episode, featuring a host of regular and irregular characters from the show. We’ll also be getting a Hallowe’en-themed episode next season, which a certain encyclopedia claims to be named “Hallowe’en on Spooner St”, although the title of this episode is currently unconfirmed.