via FOX press release:
FOX ANNOUNCES FALL PREMIERE DATES
FOR THE 2009-2010 SEASON
NEW COMEDY “Glee” DEBUTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
NEW FAMILY COMEDY “BROTHERS” TO PREMIERE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
NEW ANIMATED SERIES “The Cleveland Show” TO DEBUT
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
NEW SATURDAY LATE-NIGHT ENTRY “THE WANDA SYKES SHOW” (working title)
DEBUTS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7
FOX has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. The 2009-2010 season will kick off Wednesday, Sept. 16 with the sixth season premiere of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), followed by the highly anticipated series premiere of Glee (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), the biting new comedy for the underdog in all of us that features a soundtrack of hit songs from past and present. On Thursday, Sept. 17, fan favorite Bones (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the second thrilling season of FRINGE (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) return. BROTHERS, the new family comedy starring Michael Strahan, premieres Friday, Sept. 18 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) followed by the return of ‘TIL DEATH (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the second season premiere of Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
HOUSE jumpstarts its sixth season with a special two-hour premiere Monday, Sept. 21 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). Sunday, Sept. 27 marks the return of ANIMATION DOMINATION with the amazing 20th season premiere of THE Simpsons (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT), the series premiere of The Cleveland Show (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the season premieres of Family Guy (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) and American Dad (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT). The second season of hit drama Lie To Me will premiere Monday, Sept. 28 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE will air two nights per week when the original dance competition has its time period premiere Tuesday, Sept. 29 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), and later expands to two-hour performance shows beginning Tuesday, Oct. 27 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). In addition, new Saturday late-night entry THE WANDA SYKES SHOW (working title) debuts Saturday, Nov. 7 (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT).
Premieres of new series and returning favorites are listed below in chronological order.
Saturday, Sept. 12
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT COPS (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT COPS (All-New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT AMERICA’S Most Wanted (Season Premiere)
Wednesday, Sept. 16
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT Glee (Series Premiere)
Thursday, Sept. 17
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Bones (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT FRINGE (Season Premiere)
Friday, Sept. 18
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT BROTHERS (Series Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT ‘TIL DEATH (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT DOLLHOUSE (Season Premiere)
Monday, Sept. 21
8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT HOUSE (2-Hour Season Premiere)
Sunday, Sept. 27
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT THE Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT The Cleveland Show (Series Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Family Guy (Season Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT American Dad (Season Premiere)
Monday, Sept. 28
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT HOUSE (All-New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT Lie To Me (Season Premiere)
Tuesday, Sept. 29
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT HELL’S KITCHEN (All-New Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Time Period Premiere)
Tuesday, Oct. 27
8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Time Period Premiere)
Saturday, Nov. 7
11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT THE WANDA SYKES SHOW (wt) (Series Premiere)
95 days til Dollhouse is back! Woo hoo!! Yay! Awesome!
I really wish they’d just bow to the unavoidable fact that The Wanda Sykes Show will be called The Wanda Sykes Show – what else are they going to call it?
On another note are they replaying the Glee pilot at the start of the new season then?
I don’t think that much Seth McFarlane on Sunday nights is going to work.
I just realized how little of the Fox lineup I plan to watch in the fall. Glee (unless I hate it), and House/Lie to Me/Fringe only if nothing better is on at the same time. Which there probably will be. Plus maybe Hell’s Kitchen. Not much.
The only thing that makes the renewal of the awful Dollhouse at all bearable to me is that it looks like Joss’s Biggest Fan will keep posting here. Until the show gets cancelled, of course. What can I say? I like cracktastic posts.
I second that emotion. Best thing about Dollhouse renewal is Joss’s Biggest Fan comments. Viva, JBF!
While Dollhouse is not for everyone, many of us find the show to be quite good and getting even better. Lie to Me is another that I expect to be much better in it’s second season even though I felt it was quite good even in it’s first season.
I don’t really know JBF but kudos to all the supporters of Dollhouse.
The Simpsons is going to be in its 21st season, Fox should know that.
I dont care Fux since there is no TSCC
Mark G:
JBF is an ironic name
Okay what idiot made the decision to put So You Think You Can Dance at 9pm right up against Dancing With the Stars Results Show and put a summer show like Hell’s Kitchen on as its lead-in?
Other than that the lineup is solid but FOX Fridays will be interesting.
Should be noted that Fox has put SYTTYCD up against Dancing With the Stars Result Show and NCIS-Los Angelos and the second hour of Biggest Loser…..Has Fox lost a bit of faith in SYTTYCD or are they in the lowering expectation mode? Also CW is airing their Melrose Place Remake at that hour also.
Nice sked FOX!
o good i can watch Cbs or abc or the CW
on Tuesdays
MichaelJA, I have no idea what FOX is thinking. Its also not a good decision to put two fat people shows like Hell’s Kitchen and The Biggest Loser head to head. FOX really should’ve just saved HK for mid-season or summer as a filler. I think they have little confidence in Dance and wants to use the excuse factor for its low ratings against DWtS. FOX should’ve just made a 3rd reality competition that was similar to Idol and Dance that way Dance isn’t overexposed.
@Hot Pocket — Hell’s Kitchen is not a “fat people show”. It’s a cooking/reality competition and has generally been a successful franchise for FOX. You might be confusing it with the upcoming “More to Love” that will air this summer.
Good, Glee and Bones premiere on back-to-back nights. Those are the only two I plan on watching.
I catch Family Guy and House in syndication, they aren’t “must sees” for me.
“I really wish they’d just bow to the unavoidable fact that The Wanda Sykes Show will be called The Wanda Sykes Show – what else are they going to call it?”
The no laugh show?
Continuing good move with Dollhouse, place it at a time where the demographic are out getting drunk *g*
So accept for Dollhouse on ocassion i really dont think ill be watching that much Fox until 24 comes back and now that TSCC is cancelled it all comes down to Jack Bauer whether i continue watching FOX. Plus on Monday through Friday why don’t they try to cut into the late night audience but simulcasting the 11-1 showing of Fox News Primetime.
Well, Thursday and Friday will be my Fox download nights for Fringe and Dollhouse.
Leverage will be back on TNT in another four weeks. So that’s three shows at least.
I need to get cracking on Burn Notice and True Blood and some others.
I can see SYTYCD being put up against DWTS. Reality show against reality show. That’s how it SHOULD be. Forget this crap about getting your fiction shows getting canceled by putting them up against non-fiction shows.