2013-14 TV Season - FOX

Fall Schedule - FOX

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.

All told, the Fox schedule looks like this; new shows are in CAPS, click for details.

MONDAY
8/7c Bones (fall)/ALMOST HUMAN (late fall)
9 pm SLEEPY HOLLOW (fall)/ The Following (midseason)

TUESDAY
8 pm DADS8:30 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 Burgers9 pm Family Guy
9: 30 American Dad

NOT RETURNING NEXT SEASON: Ben and Kate, The Mob Doctor, Fringe and Touch

FOX’s 2013-2014 Schedule: What Airs When

Almost Human

J.J. Wyman was the co-showrunner on Fringe and his re-teaming with J.J. Abrams looks to have a similar cool vibe. We've seen the human cop and his robot partner (or alien or "other") idea before, but this looks to be a clever take on it. I'm sold.

Sleepy Hollow

From the second I heard "time traveling Ichabod Crane" I've been fascinated by this one and how utterly out there it sounded. The trailer delivers on that front, as Crane comes to 2013 and deals with our oddities - and, you know, the Headless Horseman. Who gets a big weapons upgrade. Ridiculous? Yes. Fun? I sure hope so.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Doing a cop comedy in the style of The Office and Parks and Rec kind of seems like a no-brainer and it's kind of surprising it took so long to happen. As a big fan of Parks and Rec, I'm an easy sell on anything from that show's co-creator, Mike Schur. No, this trailer isn't hysterical - the jokes are hit and miss. But the good ones stand out and both The Office and Parks and Rec had a learning curve.

Dads

Well... Something had to be this season's Partners, I guess.

Enlisted

Basically looks like a military version of Police Academy, and I say that in a positive way. The vibe is fun and some of the jokes are pretty good. I'd check this one out. You?

Rake

Greg Kinnear seems perfectly suited for this kind of show and role. Much has been made of FOX thinking of this as show that can fill the void of House. It looks like it may deliver on that score, though I don't know if it will stand out as that show did at its best.

Us & Them

I haven't seen Gavin & Stacy, the British show on which this is based, so I can't compare. But this looks like the best of FOX's new comedies out of the gate, with good humor and charming leads. Nothing wrong with a romantic comedy if it delivers the goods. And Michael Ian Black's line about ice cream cracked me up.

Gang Related

It probably doesn't speak highly of this one that even though I saw the trailer for it today, it barely made an impression. This story of cops and gangsters in Los Angeles looks pretty generic at this point, although it's always great to see Terry O'Quinn. Still, executive producer Scott Rosenbaum was a writer for The Shield, so hopefully this show has an extra edge to it that helps it stand out more.

Surviving Jack

Is it time to have 90s nostalgia? Yep! This new comedy focuses on a teenage boy in 1991 and his overbearing dad (SVU's Chris Meloni). The trailer was a bit disjointed, in that it had good energy and looks to have fun performances, but wasn't all that funny. Meloni is willing to really go all out in comedies though (oh, Wet Hot American Summer, how you rule), which may help make this one worth giving a shot to.