FOX announced its schedule for the 2013-2014 TV season, and there’s a whole lot of experimentation. The network is splitting its fall season, meaning the schedule will be slightly different before and after it airs the baseball playoffs and World Series in October.
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More importantly, Kiefer Sutherland and 24 are coming back to television starting in May 2014 with a 12-episode limited series run to air over the summer. It will be joined by another event series, Gang Related, which will also debut in May and run through the summer. Once they end in late summer 2014, M. Night Shyamalan’s new event series Wayward Pines will air, providing FOX with original scripted programming all year-round.
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Glee will air the first half of its season in the fall, but then take an extended hiatus, not returning until the spring. FOX president Kevin Reilly promised that in the spring it will be “relaunching with I think a creative twist in terms of where we’re going with the creative evolving.” My current theory is that the first half will pick up with the rest of the school year, ending with Nationals in December, and when Glee comes back it will take place during the summer.
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Bones will stay on Mondays for the beginning of fall, but then move to Fridays at 8pm in November where it will join two comedies, including Raising Hope (this is not a good sign for Bones or Hope).
New Girl will get the coveted post-Super Bowl slot, but only for the first half-hour. It will be joined by one of the network’s new comedies, though which one has yet to be decided.
In addition, FOX has three unscheduled comedies, the animated series Murder Police as well as Christopher Meloni‘s Surviving Jack and the Jason Ritter/Alexis Bledel rom-com Us and Them, all of which will premiere at mid-season, replacing any failed shows.
Here’s a complete look at FOX’s current schedule. Early fall refers to the time before baseball playoffs begin and late fall means starting in November.
EARLY FALL (pre-baseball playoffs)
MONDAY
8pm: Bones
9pm: Sleepy Hollow (NEW)
TUESDAY
8pm: Dads (NEW)
8:30pm: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NEW)
9pm: New Girl
9:30pm: The Mindy Project
WEDNESDAY
8pm: The X Factor
THURSDAY
8pm: The X Factor
9pm: Glee
FRIDAY
8pm: Junior Masterchef (NEW)
9pm: Sleepy Hollow reruns
SUNDAY
8pm: The Simpsons
8:30pm: Bob’s Burgers
9pm: Family Guy
9:30pm: American Dad
LATE FALL (after World Series)
MONDAY
8pm: Almost Human (NEW)
9pm: Sleepy Hollow
TUESDAY
8pm: Dads
8:30pm: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9pm: New Girl
9:30pm: The Mindy Project
WEDNESDAY
8pm: The X Factor
THURSDAY
8pm: The X Factor
9pm: Glee
FRIDAY
8pm: Bones
9pn: Raising Hope
9:30pm: Enlisted (NEW)
SUNDAY
8pm: The Simpsons
8:30pm: Bob’s Burgers
9pm: Family Guy
9:30pm: American Dad
MID-SEASON (very likely to change based on what succeeds and fails in the fall)
MONDAY
8pm: Almost Human
9pm: The Following
TUESDAY
8pm: Dads
8:30pm: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9pm: New Girl
9:30pm: The Mindy Project
WEDNESDAY
8pm: American Idol
THURSDAY
8pm: American Idol
9pm: Rake (NEW)
FRIDAY
8pm: Bones
9pn: Raising Hope
9:30pm: Enlisted
SUNDAY
8pm: The Simpsons
8:30pm: Bob’s Burgers
9pm: Family Guy
9:30pm: American Dad
Here’s a look at the new shows on the schedule.
Sleepy Hollow: A reimagining of the classic Ichabod Crane tale as the man is pulled two and a half centuries through time to the present where he teams with a detective to unravel a mystery connected to the Founding Fathers.
Dads: From Seth MacFarlane, this live-action sitcom is about two friends whose curmudgeonly dads move in with them.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: A comedy set at a New York police precinct starring Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberh and Emmy-winner Andre Braugher.
Almost Human: Set 35 years in the future, this show from executive producer J.J. Abrams is about a world where police are partnered with humanoid robots.
Enlisted: A comedy about three brothers who work together on an Army base in Florida.
Rake: A drama about House-like defense attorney (Greg Kinnear) who is as self-destructive as he is charming and brilliant.
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