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Today is 20th Century Fox’s about-face at the TCA’s, and the arrangement has a bulk of announcements and updates for its programming in the advancing months. Briefly:
Hit the jump for all the capacity from the alone columnist releases.
Here’s the columnist absolution for the premiere dates:
FOX is announcement premiere dates for accident alternation 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, and new alternation SURVIVING JACK and GANG RELATED.
The iconic pulse-pounding alarm resets back 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY premieres with a appropriate two-hour television accident Monday, May 5 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), and makes its time aeon premiere the afterward anniversary on Monday, May 12 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). The high-octane adventure reunites the Emmy Award-winning aggregation of controlling ambassador Howard Gordon; brilliant and controlling ambassador Kiefer Sutherland; co-creator Robert Cochran; controlling producers Evan Katz, Manny Coto, David Fury and Brian Grazer; and controlling ambassador and administrator Jon Cassar. Set and attempt in London, the affecting accident alternation already afresh will chase the exploits of heroic abettor JACK BAUER (Sutherland), as he attempts to baffle an absurd agitator advance that could change the apple forever. Retaining the real-time, nail-biting, fast-paced architecture with breach screens and interweaving storylines, the highly-anticipated alternation additionally stars Mary Lynn Rajskub (“Firewall”), Kim Raver (“Revolution”) and William Devane (“The Dark Knight Rises”) reprising their aboriginal roles. Newcomers to the ball alternation accommodate Yvonne Strahovski (“Dexter”), Giles Matthey (“Jobs”), Gbenga Akinnagbe (“The Wire”), Michael Wincott (“The Crow”) and Academy Award appointee and Golden Globe Award champ Judy Davis (“Life with Judy Garland”).
New ball alternation SURVIVING JACK will premiere Thursday, March 27 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) afterward the AMERICAN IDOL XIII after-effects actualization (8:00-8:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed). From controlling ambassador and Emmy Award appointee Bill Lawrence (“Spin City,” “Scrubs,” “Cougar Town”), SURVIVING JACK is based on acknowledged columnist Justin Halpern’s autobiographical book, “I Suck at Girls.” Co-created and accounting by Halpern (“$#*! My Dad Says”) and Patrick Schumacker (“$#*! My Dad Says”), the alternation is set in 1990s Southern California, and stars Emmy Award appointee Christopher Meloni (“Man of Steel,” “42,” “Law & Order: Appropriate Victims Unit”) as a man acceptable a dad, as his son (Connor Buckley, “Deception”) becomes a man, in a time afore “coming of age” was article you could Google. The alternation additionally stars Rachael Harris (“Suits,” NEW GIRL, “The Hangover”), Claudia Lee (“Kick-Ass 2,” “Hart of Dixie”), Kevin Hernandez (“The Sitter”) and newcomer Tyler Foden.
Gritty new action-drama GANG RELATED will accept its alternation premiere on Tuesday, May 20 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), afterward Part One of the two-night AMERICAN IDOL XIII Division Finale (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed). Created and accounting by Chris Morgan (“Wanted,” “Fast Five”), GANG RELATED follows RYAN LOPEZ (Ramon Rodriguez, “Battle Los Angeles,” “The Wire”), a ascent brilliant in Los Angeles’ aristocratic Gang Task Force – led by SAM CHAPEL (Emmy Award champ Terry O’Quinn, “Lost”) – who teams up with longtime Task Force affiliate CASSIUS GREEN (RZA, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Californication”) to booty on the city’s best alarming gangs, including one that he swore an adherence to as a boy. The alternation additionally stars Cliff Curtis (“Live Free or Die Hard,” “Training Day”), Sung Kang (“Fast Five,” “Live Free or Die Hard”), Rey Gallegos (“Sons of Anarchy,” “24”), Jay Hernandez, (“Last Resort,” “Hostel”), Inbar Lavi (“Underemployed,” “Street Kings 2: Motor City”) and Shantel VanSanten (“One Tree Hill,” “The Final Destination”). GANG RELATED is executive-produced by Morgan, Scott Rosenbaum (“The Shield,” “Chuck”), Brian Grazer (“24,” “8 Mile”) and Francie Calfo (“Those Who Kill,” “The Playboy Club”).
Here’s the columnist absolution for Cosmos:
Fox Broadcasting Aggregation (FOX) and National Geographic Channel (NGC) appear today the all-around alternation premiere of COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, the blood-tingling new 13-part alternation from controlling producer/writer Ann Druyan and controlling ambassador Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, “Ted”). The awful advancing alternation will premiere in the U.S. on Sunday, March 9 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, and acclamation with all-new benefit footage and behind-the-scenes agreeable on the National Geographic Channel (NGC) Monday, March 10 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT).
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY will additionally premiere globally about the apple on the National Geographic Channels in 170 countries and 45 languages and Monday, March 10 on Nat Geo MUNDO in the U.S.
More than three decades afterwards the admission of “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” Carl Sagan’s beauteous and iconic analysis of the creation as appear by science, MacFarlane has teamed with Sagan’s aboriginal artistic collaborators – writer/executive ambassador Druyan and co-writer, astronomer Steven Soter – to accept the 13-part alternation that will serve as a almsman to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning aboriginal series.
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY is hosted by acclaimed astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. As with the allegorical aboriginal series, the new COSMOS is the adventure of how we apparent the laws of attributes and begin our coordinates in amplitude and time. The alternation brings to activity never-before-told belief of the ballsy adventure for knowledge, alteration admirers to new worlds and beyond the creation for a eyes of the creation on the grandest – and the aboriginal – scale.
The alternation invents new modes of accurate storytelling to acknowledge the amplitude of the creation and re-invent acclaimed elements of the aboriginal series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The best abstruse accurate concepts are presented with beauteous clarity, chain skepticism and wonder, and aberrant accurate science with the affecting and airy into a absolute experience.
Here’s the columnist absolution for New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Air-conditioned Bowl episodes:
FOX array a comedic touchdown back appropriate episodes of NEW GIRL and Golden Globe Award champ for Best Television Alternation – Ball or Musical BROOKLYN NINE-NINE air Sunday, Feb. 2, anon afterwards FOX Sports’ advantage of SUPER BOWL XLVIII.
Music ability Prince will accomplish a appropriate bedfellow actualization on NEW GIRL. In the episode, “Party Time” (airing approx. 10:30-11:00 PM ET/7:30-8:00 PM PT), Jess (Emmy Award and Golden Globe appointee Zooey Deschanel) is accessible to acrylic the boondocks amethyst back a adventitious appointment finds her and best acquaintance Cece (Hannah Simone) arrive to a once-in-a-lifetime abode affair befuddled by music fable Prince, guest-starring as himself. Not absent to absence out on the fun, Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Coach (guest brilliant Damon Wayans, Jr.) are bent to blast the festivities, architecture against an acclaimed ending. The adventure additionally will affection appropriate bedfellow adornment appearances.
In the all-new “Operation: Broken Feather” adventure of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (airing approx. 11:00-11:30 PM ET/8:00-8:30 PM PT), Jake (Andy Samberg, who won this year’s Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Alternation – Ball or Musical) and Amy (Melissa Fumero) investigate a cord of auberge robberies together, but their affiliation is put to the analysis back he finds out she may leave the Nine-Nine to assignment in the Major Crimes assemblage with “The Vulture” (guest brilliant Dean Winters). Meanwhile Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) and Sergeant Jeffords (Terry Crews) strategize to accomplish the belt added efficient. Fred Armisen (“Portlandia,” “Saturday Night Live”) and Air-conditioned Bowl-winning quarterback Joe Thiesmann guest-star, amid added abruptness appearances.
Here’s the columnist absolution for The Lonely Island:
Continuing its action of innovating alfresco the acceptable TV development process, Fox Broadcasting Aggregation (FOX) has entered into a cardinal alliance with multi-hyphenate ball leash and Grammy Award-nominated performers The Lonely Island. Through the new company, The Lonely Island will baby-sit the development of ball projects that will be incubated through agenda platforms, such as Hulu and Roku, with the ultimate ambition of acceptable abounding alternation on FOX, FX, FXX or added networks.
“This is FOX’s third another development venture, and I’m athrill that we’re ablution it with comedic geniuses The Lonely Island,” said Kevin Reilly, FOX’s Chairman of Entertainment. “I’ve admired Akiva, Andy and Jorma’s assignment for abounding years, and they allotment our admiration to accord creators added ability and the befalling to booty risks. These guys apperceive what it takes to breach through – whether online or on air – and they are the absolute ally to advice us acquisition the abutting bearing of ball hits.”
“Andy, Jorma and I are air-conditioned aflame to assignment with Mr. Reilly and anybody at FOX to accomplish avant-garde and air-conditioned TV shows that ability not contrarily accomplish it through the accustomed development process. Reilly has accustomed us a head to comedy in, and we’ve brought our shovels, buckets, towels, sunblock, some old Grisham paperbacks, a Luna bar – delay – what was I talking about again?” said Akiva Schaffer.
“It’s basic that we advance added analysis both on and off the Fox lot, so we can booty added shots at anecdotic hits. We are committed to accouterment The Lonely Island all the abutment they charge for success,” added Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Senior Vice President of Multi-Platform Programming for FOX.
FOX’s affiliation with The Lonely Island marks the network’s third multi-platform development initiative. In 2012, FOX launched ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF, its another action unit. In 2013, the arrangement appear a cardinal accord with agenda flat WIGS, created by television and affection blur producers Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia.
Friends back adolescence (they barrage from Berkeley, CA), comedic rap leash The Lonely Island – comprised of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone – coined their name from the awkward West Coast accommodation they aggregate as banana start-ups. In 2005, the leash joined “Saturday Night Live” (Samberg as a casting affiliate and Taccone and Schaffer as writers/directors). The Lonely Island are amenable for creating the popular “SNL Agenda Shorts,” which re-invigorated the alternation and spurred abounding water-cooler moments. Some notable shorts accommodate “D**k In A Box,” “Lazy Sunday,” “I’m On A Boat,” “Jack Sparrow,” “YOLO” and “The Natalie Portman Rap.” In 2007, the leash won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Aboriginal Music and Lyrics for “D**k In A Box” and a Peabody Award for the 2008/2009 season. Taccone and Schaffer accept additionally been accustomed with WGA Awards.
