FOX announced today that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is set to reboot the classic 1960s Hanna-Barbera series, The Flintstones. Production is set to begin this fall for a 2013 premiere. The series will be produced by both 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. Television.

According to Deadline, in a video screened at FOX’s upfronts presentation, MacFarlane assured those in attendance that the characters will look the same–but new prehistoric technology will be introduced. An example he pondered was, “What is the animal version of an iPad?”

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