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Almost HumanWHO | Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Michael Irby (The Unit), Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean), Mekia Cox
WHAT | An action-packed buddy cop show set 35 years in the future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
Brooklyn Nine-NineWHO | Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live), Andre Braugher (Last Resort), Terry Crews (Are We There Yet?), Melissa Fumero (One Life to Live), Joe Lo Truglio (Free Agents)
WHAT | The single-camera project revolves around a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City.
DadsWHO | Seth Green (Family Guy), Giovanni Ribisi (Friends), Brenda Song (The Suite Life On Deck), Peter Riegert (The Good Wife), Martin Mull (Roseanne, Arrested Development), Tonita Castro (Go On), Erin Pineda, Vanessa Lachey (Hawaii Five-0)
WHAT | The live-action, multi-cam comedy revolves around two successful guys in their 30s who find their lives turned upside-down when their nightmare fathers unexpectedly move in with them.
EnlistedWHO | Keith David (The Cape), Geoff Stults (The Finder), Parker Young (Suburgatory), Chris Lowell (Private Practice), Angelique Cabral (Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23)
WHAT | Based on creator Kevin Biegel's (Cougar Town) relationship with his siblings, this single-cam comedy follows three very different brothers working together in the Army at a small base in Florida.
Gang RelatedWHO | Terry O'Quinn (Lost), Ramon Rodriguez (Charlie's Angels), Jay Hernandez (Last Resort), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious), Inbar Lavi (Underemployed), Rza, Cliff Curtis (Missing), Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill)
WHAT | The action drama follows Ryan Lopez (Rodriguez), a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force — led by O'Quinn's Sam Chapel — who teams up with a longtime Task Force member (RZA) to take on three of the city's most dangerous gangs, including one he has ties to.
RakeWHO | Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens, M.D.), Bojana Novakovic (Edge Of Darkness), John Ortiz (Luck), David Harbour (The Newsroom), Tara Summers (Boston Legal)
WHAT | Based on the Australian series of the same name, the legal drama centers around Keegan Joye, a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer.
Sleepy HollowWHO | Orlando Jones (MADtv), Katia Winter (Dexter), Nicole Beharie (The Good Wife), Tom Mison (Parade's End), guest star John Cho (Go On)
WHAT | A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of the titular Westchester Country, N.Y. Town.
Surviving JackWHO | Chris Meloni (Law & Order: SVU), Alex Kapp Horner (The New Adventures of Old Christine), Connor Buckley (Deception), Claudia Lee (Hart of Dixie), Kevin Hernandez, Tyler Foden
WHAT | An adaptation of Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls, the single-cam comedy tells the story of "a boy becoming a man and a man becoming a father, in a time before 'coming of age' was something you could Google."
Us & ThemWHO | Jason Ritter (Parenthood), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Kurt Fuller (Psych), Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), Kerri Kenney (Reno 911!), Dustin Ybarra
WHAT | A single-camera adaptation of the UK series Gavin & Stacey, about two very different lovers who try to make a long-distance relationship work.
Fox has picked up another culinary competition from Gordon Ramsay, the network announced Friday. Junior Masterchef
Features kids between the ages of 8 and 13 as they compete to be in the kitchen. Along the way, food experts will mentor the young chefs who will face a judging panel of Ramsay, restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastiancich and chef Graham Elliot each week.
"We have such great teams and partners on these shows, and I'm really excited we're able to offer this new opportunity to young budding chefs across the country with Junior Masterchef," Ramsay said in a statement. "Having my own children who love to cook, I know firsthand the skill and passion these kids can have at such a young age, and what they can do with it. It's just extraordinary to watch them in action."
Another Gordon Ramsey show? Wow, just what we really need! lol Bad enough BBCA airs 80 hours of Gordon and totally ruined the channel. FOX doesn't have much new stuff I want to see, probably Sleepy Hollow.
I prefer MasterChef to Hell's Kitchen, actually. (Or perhaps my standards are lower in the summer.)
LOL, I think summer standards do slip, not much to choose from.I'm actually relieved there's not a lot of new shows on all the networks for me, I have far too much to watch as it is. All my returning shows, all the new shows, I really need more time.
Susanna, I think that Masterchef is really well done. I prefer it over Hell's Kitchen by a mile. I think a junior MC will be fun!I'll watch Gang Related, Rake (my husband watches the original version and loves it), and Sleepy Hollow for sure
No Bones about it: Booth and Brennan are on the move. New Girl‘s Nick and Jess, meanwhile, scored the most coveted timeslot in all of TV.Fox on Monday announced its official schedule for the 2013-14 TV season, and herewith are the biggest headlines: After launching its ninth season in its regular Monday/8 pm timelsot, Bones will relocate to Fridays at 8 pm in late fall (after the World Series); a special episode of New Girl (in addition to one of Fox’s freshman comedies) will air after the network’s telecast of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014; at midseason Glee will hand over its Thursday-at-9/8c timelost to the Greg Kinnear legal drama Rake (Glee will resume its fifth season in late spring and run through June); and M. Night Shyamalan’s event series Wayward Pines (starring Matt Dillon) will launch in 2014.
Elsewhere, a limited series reboot of 24 is set to launch next May, J.J. Abrams’ new post-apocalyptic cop drama Almost Human will assume Bones‘ Monday perch post-baseball, where it will lead into fellow rookie drama Sleepy Hollow (The Following will reclaim the 9/8c slot at midseason).
On tap for midseason, in addition to American Idol and The Following: New series Gang Related, Surviving Jack, Us & Them and Murder Police.
Fox has not yet decided the fate of The Cleveland Show.
All told, the Fox schedule looks like this; new shows are in CAPS
MONDAY
8/7c Bones (fall)/ALMOST HUMAN (late fall)
9 pm SLEEPY HOLLOW (fall)/ The Following (midseason)
TUESDAY
8 pm DADS
8:30 pm BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
9 pm New Girl
9:30 pm The Mindy Project
WEDNESDAY
8 pm The X Factor (fall)/American Idol (midseason)
THURSDAY
8 pm The X Factor Results (fall)/American Idol results (midseason)
9 pm Glee (fall)/RAKE (midseason)
FRIDAY
8 pm JUNIOR MASTERCHEF (fall)/Bones (late fall)
9 pm Sleepy Hollow encores (fall)/Raising Hope and ENLISTED (late fall)
SATURDAY
7 pm Fox Sports Saturday
SUNDAY
8 pm The Simpsons
8:30 pm Bob’s Burgers
9 pm Family Guy
9: 30 American Dad
NOT RETURNING NEXT SEASON: Ben and Kate, The Mob Doctor, Fringe and Touch
So Dracula isn't on the schedule? (re: message 5)
Sorry!! Wrong slot. Dracula is a NBC show
I just saw that. It happens. You're doing an amazing job of keeping us informed on all the new shows and schedules. I am really loving these new threads, it makes it so much easier for me to copy the info, having each channel in a separate topic.
Almost Human & Sleepy Hollow look interesting. . .
Nice! Sleepy Hollow looks so good, so much more to it than I thought it would be! It's definitely my kind of show.
Andy Samberg is hilarious! I definitely want to watch Brooklyn Nine- Nine.
Stacy wrote: "Andy Samberg is hilarious! I definitely want to watch Brooklyn Nine- Nine."I got excited to see that One Life to Live's Adriana is also on this show.
Jackie, I haven't yet, but I've been thinking about it.
I dropped OLTL in the 80s, and wanted to watch again when Howarth came back as Todd but didn't have the time. He was on GH as Todd and he was great, but now that he can't be Todd on GH anymore, I plan on watching OLTL online. I gotta get me my Todd fix, lol I watched the first week's episodes, just getting acclimated to cast members that I don't know. Courtney's been great, giving the low down on who's who and what's what.Do you watch any other soap?
No, I don't watch any others, though I did watch Young & the Restless for quite a while. I watched a lot of the others back in the 80s.
I watched a lot in the 80s too, that seems like the golden age of soaps, they were great, but most of them got sucky and I dropped them all except for GH.
I watched General Hospital from the early/mid-80s (want to say 83?) to 2002, and As the World Turns from the mid-80s to the mid-90s.
Did you see Luke and Laura's wedding? That was early 80s.
I watched all of the CBS soaps in the 80s during the summer. I also watched AMC and Days at different times.I started watching soaps again 2003-2007 while I was teaching. This time, it wss just OLTL and Y&R.
I remember watching Kevin Bacon, Meg Ryan, and Julianne Moore on the soaps before they became movie stars. And I LOVE the movie Soapdish!
A lot of famous stars started out on soaps. I can't remember if I saw that movie or not. I probably did.
Jackie wrote: "Did you see Luke and Laura's wedding? That was early 80s."Nope. (I was in class. We had long school days.)
I love one quote from Meg Ryan - that she spent her time in Oakdale "crying every Friday."ETA: Soapdish was a riot. "How can you resusitate him??? He has no head!"
Ryan's Hope, ATWT & OLTL were always my fave when I watched over the years, but ALL MY CHILDREN I watched from the first episode to the last. I'm not watching that online b/c without Susan Lucci it is not AMC. Loving my Todd fix on online OLTL though. I am kind of happy it is only 2 days a week (T/Th), because I still watch all on TV...even Days of Our Lives just because living in chronic pain, I am always needing a good distraction that doesn't tax my morphine brain. I am currently trying to wean off as much as possible and I have been so lucid, I can even READ again!!
That's great!
Great news,Courtney! Keep up the good work, you are doing an amazing job of it.
THE SHOW | Fox’s Sleepy Hollow (Mondays at 9/8c; premieres Sept. 16)THE COMPETITION | CBS’ 2 Broke Girls/Mom (new), NBC’s The Voice, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, ESPN’s Monday Night Football and The CW’s Beauty and the Beast
THE CAST | Tom Mison (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), Nicole Beharie (42), Orlando Jones (MADtv) and Katia Winter (Dexter)
THE SET-UP | In what Fox is dubbing a “modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic,” Mison stars as Ichabod Crane, here envisioned as one of General George Washington’s top soldiers in the Revolutionary War. During a fateful battle, Crane beheads a mysterious, masked man whose hand is branded with a bow-shaped mark. Having suffered critical injuries himself, Crane then… wakes up 250 years into the future, where he helps Sleepy Hollow police detective Abbie Mills (Beharie) investigate a trail of new treachery by the Headless Horseman, who apparently made the “time jump” with him. Jones plays Abbie’s boss Captain Irving (heh), while Winter is Crane’s wife Katrina, who we learn dibble-dabbled in the occult. Ahhhh….
THE FIRST IMPRESSION | I tell no lies. I was sold — hook, line and sinker — two-thirds of the way through this pilot, as it told a rollicking, doesn’t-take-itself-too-seriously tale of a fish out of water and his frighteningly formidable foe. (“Headless” wields an axe with a superheated blade that conveniently cauterizes as it lops noggins.) But then the last 10 minutes or so heaped on so much nutty mythology, explaining Crane’s predicament and his new lot in life, that my (attached) head started hurting. I also question the decision to not have The Legend of Sleepy Hollow exist in Abbie’s reality (because it’d, what, make Crane’s time traveling testimony to the police hard to believe…?)
All that said… Mison is quite enjoyable in the lead role, as Crane takes in his familiar-yet-vastly changed surroundings, and he and Beharie have a fun rapport as she slowly becomes a believer. (Fun fact check from my best friend in Sleepy Hollow: They don’t have one let alone several Starbucks shops, and the population is nowhere near 144,000.)
THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | Even if Sleepy Hollow and its far-out premise is poised to strike a chord with the genre-TV loving crowd, the time slot competition is significant, especially if The Voice stays strong and DWTS somehow manages to find its footing again.
This is one of the more promising-looking shows of the new season. I am definitely in.
THE SHOW | Fox’s Almost Human (Mondays at 8/7c; premieres Nov. 4)THE COMPETITION | NBC’s The Voice, ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, CBS’ How I Met Your Mother/We Are Men (new), The CW’s Hart of Dixie
THE CAST | Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Sleeper Cell), Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Michael Irby (The Unit) and Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean)
THE SET-UP | In the year 2048, technology has run amok and spun crime out of control, leading the police department to partner each human cop with an MX-43 android (or “synthetic”) — but Detective John Kennex (Urban), upon waking from a 17-month coma, is having none of that. Still, rules are rules, so he is paired with a decommissioned, “more human” model, the DRN (Ealy) — but just call him “Dorian.” Taylor plays police captain Sandra, Kelly and Irby fellow officers and Crook is the PD’s tech wonk.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION | This tale of a “good robot” is brought to you by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, so let’s get that joke out of the way. Among the cast, Urban is perfectly gruff as Kennex, who is haunted by a larger mytharc involving a suspicious ambush that cost him a leg and almost his life; Ealy is solid yet saddled with A) bringing something fresh to a role we’ve seen many times before in every medium and B) single-handedly lightening up the bleak mood; and Taylor is far better than she has to be. The look and feel of the pilot is Demolition Man meets Blade Runner, yet it offers no real “gee whiz” flashes of never-seen techno-coolness. There is a TV series here — and former Fringe boss J.H. Wyman is certainly the one to deliver it — but even a Michael Giacchino-style screech of strings can’t save the pilot-ending twist from being more “What?” than “Whaaaaaat?!?!”
THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE | Fox has not had an easy time launching sci-fi on Mondays (see Terra Nova, Alcatraz), yet is ambitiously looking to double down come November when Almost Human displaces Bones (to Fridays) to tee up the supernatural Sleepy Hollow. ABC’s Dancing stars may have lost a step, but The Voice is ever-strong (especially if it can steer away from Nashville Star territory) and How I Met Your Mother’s buzzy farewell tour promise no easy pass for Abrams’ latest TV product — unless it can quickly gain momentum with a compelling mythology.
Fox is hereby the fourth broadcaster to let loose with their premiere dates for the fall season, leading with The X Factor‘s two-night, three-hour Season 3 premiere.Also, we have a firm date for when Bones moves to its new Friday home: Nov. 8, after Fox’s coverage of the World Series has wrapped. (J.J. Abrams’ futuristic thriller Almost Human claims Monday’s lead-off spot starting Nov. 4, as one “Bones” aka Star Trek‘s Karl Urban replaces another.*)
All told, most of Fox’s live-action fare debuts in mid-September, a full week before CBS and NBC uncork the bulk of their own premiere slates.
On tap for midseason: American Idol, The Following and the new series Rake, Gang Related, Surviving Jack, Us & Them and Murder Police. The summer series 24: Live Another Day premieres in May 2014.
Wednesday, Sept. 11
8 pm The X Factor (season premiere Part 1)
9 pm MasterChef (season finale)
Thursday, Sept. 12
8 pm The X Factor (season premiere Part 2, two hours)
Monday, Sept. 16
8 pm Bones
9 pm SLEEPY HOLLOW (new series)
Tuesday, Sept. 17
8 pm DADS (new series)
8:30 pm BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (new series)
9 pm New Girl
9:30 pm The Mindy Project
Wednesday, Sept. 18
8 pm The X Factor (two hours)
Thursday, Sept. 19
9 pm Glee
Friday, Sept. 27
8 pm MASTERCHEF JUNIOR (new series)
9 pm SLEEPY HOLLOW encores
Sunday, Sept. 29
8 pm The Simpsons
8:30 pm Bob’s Burgers
9 pm Family Guy
9:30 pm American Dad
Monday, Nov. 4
8 pm ALMOST HUMAN (new series)
Friday, Nov. 8
8 pm Bones (new time slot premiere)
9 pm Raising Hope
9:30 pm ENLISTED (new series)
FOX announced it's Fall list:http://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/fox-un...
The big news is that Gotham has a slot, so does David Tennant’s Broadchurch remake, and “Animation Domination” isn’t all animated anymore.
To wit: The highly-anticipated Gotham, which we’ve previewed plenty right here, will lead off Monday nights at 8/7c, followed by Sleepy Hollow returning at 9/8c.
Tuesdays? The new reality competition Utopia (sticking 15 people on an island for a year) will take the 8/7c slot, followed by returnees New Girl and The Mindy Project.
Wednesdays will start with Gordon Ramsay yelling at more apprentice chefs in Hell’s Kitchen at 8/7c, and the new Red Band Society, a drama starring Octavia Spencer about teens who meet in the pediatric ward of a hospital from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Productions, takes the 9/8c slot.
Thursday is where the much-traveled, long-running Bones lands this season, returning to the 8/7c spot, followed by the 10-part U.S. revamp of Broadchurch, Gracepoint with a pretty amazing cast of David Tennant, Anna Gunn, Nick Nolte, Jacki Weaver, and Michael Peña, at 9/8c.
Friday, which has been where Fox shows go to die for years (yes, I AM bitter about the cancellation of Enlisted), will be occupied by Masterchef Junior at 8/7c and Utopia again with new episodes at 9/8c for the first six weeks of the season.
Saturday’s listing is Fox Sports Saturday, which will include game and event coverage, and, besides, it’s Saturday and the networks have pretty much given up.
And Sunday’s big news involves the injection of two sitcoms amidst the former Animation Domination slate, with Brooklyn Nine-Nine moving into the 8:30/7:30c slot right after The Simpsons and John Mulaney’s eponymous new sitcom Mulaney (I TOLD you it was eponymous) with Martin Short, Nasim Pedrad, and Elliott Gould fitting in at 9:30/8:30c after Family Guy. Bob’s Burgers gets the post-football 7:30/6:30c slot.
Awaiting mid-season debuts will be Will Forte’s The Last Man on Earth; Lee Daniels’ hip-hop drama Empire with Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, and Gabourey Sidibe; the ancient Egypt fantasy Hieroglyph from Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans); Rainn Wilson and Dennis Haysbert in a “comedic crime procedural” from Bones creator Hart Hanson, Backstrom; M, Night Shyamalan’s 10-parter Wayward Pines with Matt Dillon, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard, Carla Gugino, and Toby Jones; sitcom Weird Loners; and Seth MacFarlane’s next animated sitcom Bordertown. Specials coming up include the previously announced live performance of Grease the self-explanatory Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution, and Jump of the Century, a stunt show on the 40th anniversary of Evel Kneivel’s Snake River Canyon jump. And returning at dates to be determined will be American Idol, Boom!, The Following, Masterchef, Hotel Hell, and So You Think You Can Dance.
And.. Glee. The show remains in production and will be back, but not until some undetermined date in 2015. Gleeks will need patience. As we already knew, Dads, Enlisted, Rake, Surviving Jack, Raising Hope, and Almost Human are gone, and American Dad has moved to TBS. Animation Domination High Def, although reduced, will still have some presence on the broadcast side, returning in June with some prime-time premieres.
I'll try Gotham, and Gracepoint even though I've already seen Broadchurch. Anything to get my David Tennant fix. Maybe Hieroglyph and Wayward Pines, though neither look all that great.
Utopia sounds kind of interesting. (I remember one big success for FOX that started by airing on Friday nights: X Files.)
Utopia just sounds like a spinoff of Survivor.
