FOX ANNOUNCES PREMIERE DATES
“AMERICAN IDOL XIII” LAUNCHES WITH
TWO-NIGHT, FOUR-HOUR PREMIERE EVENT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, AND THURSDAY, JANUARY 16
LAST SEASON’S NO. 1 NEW SERIES “THE FOLLOWING,”
STARRING KEVIN BACON AND JAMES PUREFOY,
RETURNS FOR ITS THRILLING SECOND SEASON
MONDAY, JANUARY 20
NEW BOLD LEGAL DRAMA “RAKE,” STARRING GREG KINNEAR,
DEBUTS FOLLOWING NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, AND
MAKES TIME PERIOD PREMIERE THURSDAY, JANUARY 23
New Comedy ENLISTED To Debut Friday, January 10
ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF Featuring
LUCAS BROS. MOVING CO. and GOLAN THE INSATIABLE
Premieres Late-Night Saturday, January 11
SURVIVING JACK To Air Thursdays this Spring, Following AMERICAN IDOL
FOX is announcing premieres dates for new and returning series, including the returns of AMERICAN IDOL and THE FOLLOWING, and the debut of new legal drama RAKE.
Featuring host Ryan Seacrest, a new judging panel, including Harry Connick, Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson returning as the new in-house mentor, AMERICAN IDOL XIII begins with an exciting two-night, four-hour premiere Wednesday, Jan. 15 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Thursday, Jan. 16 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
Following the season finale of SLEEPY HOLLOW at a special time on Monday, Jan. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), last season’s No. 1 new series THE FOLLOWING (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) begins its 15-week uninterrupted second season. Created by Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dawson’s Creek,” the “Scream” franchise) and starring Golden Globe Award-winning actor Kevin Bacon (“X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Frost/Nixon”) and James Purefoy (“Rome”), Season Two catches up with RYAN HARDY (Bacon), in the wake of a horrific new murder spree, which furthers his suspicion that JOE CARROLL’s (Purefoy) reign of terror is far from over. The series also stars Shawn Ashmore (the “X-Men” franchise) and Valorie Curry (“Veronica Mars”), and joining the cast this season are Connie Nielsen (“Boss,” “Law & Order: SVU”), Jessica Stroup (“90210”), Sam Underwood (“Dexter”) and Tiffany Boone (“Beautiful Creatures”).
Bold new legal drama RAKE debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 19 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, and continuing with its time period premiere on Thursday, Jan. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). Making his broadcast television series debut, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Greg Kinnear (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Kennedys”) plays a brilliant and frustratingly charming criminal defense attorney, whose chaotic and self-destructive personal life often gets in the way of his professional one.
Beginning Saturday, Jan. 11 (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT), ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF will feature LUCAS BROS. MOVING CO. and GOLAN THE INSATIABLE. In LUCAS BROS. MOVING CO., the stand-up comedy of New York-based identical twins Kenny and Keith Lucas (The Lucas Brothers) gets animated. The twins run a moving company, and no matter what happens around them, they always remain totally, bizarrely unfazed. GOLAN THE INSATIABLE is the story of a mighty godlord from an alternate universe who arrives in the small town of Oak Grove, where his only friend is a 10-year-old goth girl named DYLAN. As previously announced, on Saturday, Nov. 23 (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT), as part of a special ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF lineup, LUCAS BROS. MOVING CO. and GOLAN THE INSATIABLE will preview, prior to their January launch.
As previously announced, new Army-set comedy ENLISTED debuts Friday, Jan. 10 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT). Written and created by Kevin Biegel (“Cougar Town,” “Scrubs”) and starring Geoff Stults (“The Finder”), Chris Lowell (“Private Practice,” “Veronica Mars”) and Parker Young (“Suburgatory”), ENLISTED is a 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 post.
This spring, new comedies SURVIVING JACK and US & THEM will debut on FOX; series premiere dates to be announced. From Emmy Award nominee Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs,” “Cougar Town”) and set in 1990s Southern California, SURVIVING JACK stars Emmy Award nominee Christopher Meloni (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) as a man becoming a dad, as his son (Connor Buckley, “Deception”) becomes a man, in a time before “coming of age” was something you could Google. SURVIVING JACK is set to air on Thursdays (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) for eight weeks, following AMERICAN IDOL (8:00-8:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) results shows. New ensemble comedy US & THEM will also join the schedule in the spring. Starring Emmy Award nominee Jason Ritter (“Parenthood”) and Alexis Bledel (“Mad Men,” “Gilmore Girls”), and based on an award-winning BBC series, the series follows a young couple, whose path to happily-ever-after is complicated by the screwed-up circus of people closest to them.
FOX SEASON AND SERIES PREMIERE DATES
(Times for All-New Episodes are ET/PT Except as Noted)
Friday, Jan. 10:
9:30-10:00 PM ENLISTED (Series Premiere)
Saturday, Jan. 11:
11:00 PM-Midnight ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF, featuring LUCAS BROS. MOVING CO. and GOLAN THE INSATIABLE
Wednesday, Jan. 15:
8:00-10:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Season Premiere, Part One)
Thursday, Jan. 16:
8:00-10:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Season Premiere, Part Two)
Sunday, Jan. 19:
6:00-10:00 PM ET NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (Live)
10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT RAKE (Series Premiere, Night One)
Monday, Jan. 20:
8:00-9:00 PM SLEEPY HOLLOW (Season Finale; Special Time)
9:00-10:00 PM THE FOLLOWING (Season Premiere)
Thursday, Jan. 23:
8:00-9:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL (Time Period Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM RAKE (Series Premiere, Night Two / Time Period Premiere)
[EDITOR’S NOTE 1: GLEE returns in spring 2014.]
[EDITOR’S NOTE 2: Additional January and spring schedule details to be announced.]
Source: FOX
The Following returns Jan 20th; a little late in the month for me, but oh well!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Gang Related, then?
ReplyDeleteThat show is not going to premiere till May 2014.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember hearing that when it was picked up.
ReplyDeleteYup, you even posted it!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spoilertv.com/2013/05/gang-related-to-premire-in-may-2014.html#
Haha, I totally forgot.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the 4 month break gives Glee writers more time for good ideas.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we'll have Sleepy Hollow until January!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to The Following. I am watching Season 01 now and LOVING it! :D
ReplyDeleteThe Following site on FOX has Feb. 18 as the premiere date. Which one is it?
ReplyDeleteI am guessing this one is right as it's in a press release and all.
ReplyDelete- Looking forward to The Following and debuting it out of the season finale of Sleepy Hollow seems to be a good idea
ReplyDelete- Rake debuting on Sunday is also a nice plan. I am not sure the show could work, but they are giving it a decent shot
- I am not how I feel about this comedy arrangement. I understand why Dads was given a full season order. Relatively speaking, it is not doing that badly. But I hate that they need comedy hits yet send something like Enlisted for Friday. I mean, why? That show screams pairing with B99. I think they should have gone with B99-Enlisted-New Girl-Surviving Jack after the Superbowl. The way it is, Enlisted is dead which is a real shame (I like all three leads) and Surviving Jack has a very unconventional arrangement which I a really not sure how it will work out (although I do like the fact that they've FINALLY acknowledged that they needed to trigger the hours of the singing shows)
It will be paired with 24 in the summer likely on Monday nights. The idea is to have serious year round year programming of dramas on Monday. I think it's an excellent idea for us, TV show fans.
ReplyDeleteWhy would fox cut the number of episodes of surviving jack, even before it aires. They have no clue how the ratings will be, unless they are convinced that this show won't be successful
ReplyDeleteThey cut the episodes for scheduling issues.
ReplyDeleteThey should cut the number if episodes American idol has there's already too many annoyingly singing reality shows out there
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