'Family Guy' has brought Brian Griffin back from the dead.  Fans
of the animated TV show were left distraught last month after
the beloved canine, voiced by the show's creator Seth
MacFarlane, was killed off in a car accident, but the
intellectual pooch was resurrected in the Christmas special,
'Christmas Guy', which aired in the US last night (15.12.13)
after Stewie, also voiced by Seth, came up with a time travel
plan to save his friend.  Brian's death had sparked much protest
online with 150,000 people signing a petition demanding he be
brought back.  In the special, Stewie goes to the mall with the
Griffin family's new pet mutt Vinnie - voiced by Tony Sirico -
and asks Santa for his best friend back, but when that doesn't
work he remembers he has a time travel machine in his rucksack
and he uses it to go back to the moment just before Brian is
tragically killed.  He says: "You're alive my friend! I couldn't
live without you so I came back from the future to save your
life."   After the episode aired, 'Fam