TV News: FOX Announces Fall Schedule with Six New Shows

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CHICAGOFOX announced their 2013-14 schedule this morning and your favorite shows aren’t going anywhere with several interesting new dramas and comedies to support them. With A-list talent in front of the camera (Seth Green, Andre Braugher, Andy Samber) and behind it (J.J. Abrams, Seth MacFarlane), FOX has an ambitious new slate. Stay tuned for reviews and previews of all of the shows along with the remaining Fall schedules announcements.

Night by night, new shows have an asterisk, all times CST.

“The Following,” as expected, will return mid-season and new drama “Rake” will premiere on Thursday nights in the mid-season as well. The network also announced that the rumors about a return for “24” were true but probably not until May 2014. Stay tuned for more news.

MONDAY
7pm “Bones”/”Almost Human”* (the former will start there with the latter premiering late fall)
8pm “Sleepy Hollow”*

TUESDAY
7pm “Dads”*
7:30pm “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”*
8pm “New Girl”
8:30pm “The Mindy Project”

WEDNESDAY
7pm “The X Factor”

THURSDAY
7pm “The X Factor”
8pm “Glee”

FRIDAY (“Sleepy Hollow” repeats will air at 8pm until late fall when “Bones” moves and the two comedies debut)
7pm “Junior Masterchef”*/”Bones”
8pm “Raising Hope”
8:30pm “Enlisted”*

SATURDAY
Fox Sports Saturday

SUNDAY
7pm “The Simpsons”
7:30pm “Bob’s Burgers”
8pm “Family Guy”
8:30pm “American Dad”

NEW COMEDIES

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Photo credit: FOX

From Emmy Award-winning writer/producers Dan Goor and Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation”) and starring Emmy Award winners Andy Samberg (“Saturday Night Live”) and Andre Braugher (“Men of a Certain Age,” “Homicide: Life on the Street”), BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is a single-camera workplace comedy about what happens when a hotshot detective (Samberg) gets a new Captain (Braugher) with a lot to prove.

“Dads”

Dads
Dads
Photo credit: FOX

The new live-action, multi-camera comedy from Emmy Award winner Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, the team behind “Ted” FAMILY GUY, stars Emmy Award winner Seth Green (FAMILY GUY) and Emmy Award nominee Giovanni Ribisi (“My Name is Earl,” “Ted,” “Avatar”) as two successful gaming entrepreneurs – and childhood best friends – whose lives get turned upside down when their pain-in-the-neck patriarchs (Martin Mull, “Two and a Half Men,” and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Peter Riegert, “The Good Wife,” “The Sopranos”) move in.

“Enlisted”

Enlisted
Enlisted
Photo credit: FOX

Starring Geoff Stults (“Ben and Kate,” “The Finder”), Chris Lowell (“Private Practice,” “Veronica Mars”) and Parker Young (“Suburgatory”), ENLISTED is an irreverent and heartfelt single-camera comedy about an older sibling who returns home to reconnect with his two brothers and lead a group of misfits on a small Florida Army base.

NEW DRAMAS

“Almost Human”

Almost Human
Almost Human
Photo credit: FOX

Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner J.J. Abrams (“Fringe,” “Lost,” the “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises) and creator J.H. Wyman (“Fringe,” “The Mexican”) and starring Karl Urban (“Star Trek”), Michael Ealy (“Sleeper Cell,” “Common Law”) and Emmy Award nominee Lili Taylor (“Six Feet Under,”), ALMOST HUMAN is a high-tech, high-stakes action drama set 35 years in the future, when police officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. An unlikely partnership is forged when a part-machine cop (Urban) is forced to pair with a part-human robot (Ealy) as they fight crime and investigate a deeper cover-up in a futuristic new world.

“Sleepy Hollow”

Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow
Photo credit: FOX

From co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the “Star Trek” and “Transformers” franchises, “Fringe”), comes the thrilling new action-adventure SLEEPY HOLLOW. In this modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic, ICHABOD CRANE (Tom Mison, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity’s last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie, “Shame,” “American Violet”) to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.

NEW REALITY

“Junior Masterchef”

Junior Masterchef
Junior Masterchef
Photo credit: FOX

JUNIOR MASTERCHEF (wt), the new culinary competition series for talented kids, gives budding cooks between the ages of eight and 13 the opportunity to showcase their talent, culinary smarts and passion for food through a series of delicious challenges and cook-offs. Award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastianich (Del Posto, Eataly) and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot (Graham Elliot, Graham Elliot Bistro) coach and encourage the promising hopefuls to cook like pros and teach them the tricks of the trade along the way.

HollywoodChicago.com content director Brian Tallerico

By BRIAN TALLERICO
Content Director
HollywoodChicago.com
brian@hollywoodchicago.com

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