Fox has announced its 2010 Fall schedule.
Here is a look at its Fall 2010 Schedule vs. its Fall 2009 Schedule by the Numbers.
New Shows
2010 (3 shows, 3 hours): Lone Star (1 hour), Raising Hope (0.5 hr), Running Wilde (0.5 hr), Good Guys (begins summer '10) (1 hr)
2009 (3 shows, 2.0 hours): Glee (1 hour), Brothers (1/2 hour), The Cleveland Show (1/2 hour)
Unscripted and Scheduled Repeats
2010 (4 hours): Hell's Kitchen (1 hour), Cops (1 hour), America's Most Wanted (1 hour), The O.T. (1 hour)
2009 (6 hours): So You Think You Can Dance + Results (3 hours), Cops (1 hour), America's Most Wanted (1 hour), The O.T. (1 hour)
Observations
- 2 hours of scripted shows on Friday is a big surprise. That moves to the top of my "surprises in the 2010 announcements" list.
- Replacing So You Think You Can Dance's 3 hours with 2 scripted hours and one unscripted hour is interesting considering the 3 hour (likely) X-Factor arrives in Fall 2011.
- Fox's big swing factor in the Fall is always baseball. One thing they have going against them this year vs. last is that they'll have the NL championship series instead of the AL, which is typically the more ratings attractive. And for both the NL League Championship Series and the World Series, no matter who plays, long series are a ratings wins, four game sweeps are ratings killers.
For information on other broadcast TV Fall 2010 schedules click here.
| Day | 2009 | 2010 |
| Monday | ||
| 8-9p | House | House |
| 9-10p | Lie To Me | Lonestar |
| Tuesday | ||
| 8-9p | So You Think You Can Dance? | Glee |
| 9-10p | So You Think You Can Dance? | Raising Hope / Running Wilde |
| Wednesday | ||
| 8-9p | So You Think You Can Dance? | Lie To Me |
| 9-10p | Glee | Hell's Kitchen |
| Thursday | ||
| 8-9p | Bones | Bones |
| 9-10p | Fringe | Fringe |
| Friday | ||
| 8-9p | Brothers / 'Til Death | Human Target |
| 9-10p | Dollhouse | The Good Guys (starts summer '10) |
| 10-11p | ||
| Saturday | ||
| 8-8:30p | Cops | Cops |
| 8:30-9p | Cops | Cops |
| 9-10p | America's Most Wanted | America's Most Wanted |
| Sunday | ||
| 7-8p | The OT (NFL post game) | The OT (NFL post game) |
| 8-8:30p | The Simpsons | The Simpsons |
| 8:30-9p | The Cleveland Show | The Cleveland Show |
| 9-9:30p | Family Guy | Family Guy |
| 9:30-10p | American Dad | American Dad |
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Shows in BOLD are/were new, shows in italics are unscripted, 2008 shows in strikethrough did not return.
The shows slated to premiere in mid-season or later are: American Idol, Bobs Burgers, Ride Along, Terra Nova, Mixed Signals.
Changes to the mid season schedule are almost certain between now and January.
Don't you mean starts summer '10 for The Good Guys? or is the summer reffered to as '09 because of the season 2009-2010?
I am surprised by friday too, I think sending Human Target to fridays is like renewing Dollhouse only to kill it. I don't see it growing there, though I wonder what FOX will expect of the show in that timeslot 1.6-1.7?
Correction: The Good Guys starts summer 2010
So are the September episodes still season 1? I hear they have 20 episodes for now.
Quesion please, when can we expect the ABC, CBS and CW schedules ?
Human Target to Friday? Is that show going to become the 'new' Sarah Connor Chronicles/Dollhouse? Honestly why did they 'save' it? I'm beginning to think there's someone at Fox that likes these types of shows and (along with fans) is being humored, 'okay we won't cancel the show, but we have to move it to Fridays'. lol Well, good luck to it.
The other broadcast schedules will be revealed no later than (and possibly earlier than) these dates:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/19/when-will-…
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Once all network schedules are released, will you do a side-by-side update? It'll be interesting to see which shows are up against each other, especially new ones.
Once all network schedules are released, will you do a side-by-side update? It'll be interesting to see which shows are up against each other, especially new ones.
I will give Fox credit for trying to have scripted shows on Friday. Hopefully the Good Guys picks up a following this summer, and Human Target can at least hold the audience it already has.
I’m actually not sure if House can maintain an audience anymore, which will hurt anything after it. I don’t see Lonestar being that great, but I bet a huge amount of Texans will watch the premier.
ABC (Generation), Fox (Lonestar) and NBC (Chase) are all set in Texas. Not sure if they're filmed in TX, tho. If so, there must have been some good incentives!
Great idea. Move Human Target to the Thursday 8 PM timeslot so it can get slaughtered like Flash Forward did.
what's the point of renewing human target if they are going to air it on fridays. it seems like they don't won't the show to be sccessful
'Twill be interesting to see how Glee does without AI or SYTYCD as a hat.
Beyond that, Friday will be the day to really follow. Can they make a successful scripted Friday with a series many think shouldn't be back in the first place and a show Fox is putting several eggs into one basket with by picking it up before even trying it out over the summer as they originally intended? (And could I have made a longer sentence?) Should be fun to watch.
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Human Target is FOX again renewing some fan favorites in order to (I guess) repair the reputation they made when they canceled shows like Firefly. It's Terminator:SCC/Dollhouse all over again.
It's not like SYTYCD ever did much fot Glee! Glee always built in viewers and demos by double digit percentages! I think Glee will be fine.
I actually think Lonestar would be a better fit with Lie To Me on Wednesday. I was surprised Breakout Kings didn’t make the cut and thought right after House would be a good fit. Partly cause of the Monday history of Prison Break and 24 being there, the excitement element.
Well looks like Human Target has been sentenced to death by Fridays. Fox should have shown mercy and just killed it quickly by canceling it. I haven't made my mind up about The Good Guys yet. Interesting decision to air it in the summer though. I wonder what ratings it'll need to be successful and what type of budget it was given.
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