20th Century Fox is implementing across-the-board production cuts at all of its series that are currently in production. All 20th producers have been told to reduce the budgets of their shows by 2%. That will include existing shows like “Family Guy” and “24″, and newer shows like “Life on Mars” and “Dollhouse”.

“In these challenging economic times, we’ve asked all of our showrunners to trim their production budgets by 2%, an assignment which they have all embraced,” a 20th spokesman said. “Everyone understands that revenues are down and these steps are necessary to protect our business.”