via press release:
FOX ANNOUNCES FALL PREMIERE DATES FOR THE 2010-2011 SEASON
NEW DRAMA “LONE STAR” DEBUTS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
NEW COMEDIES “Raising Hope” AND “Running Wilde” TO PREMIERE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Award-Winning Drama HOUSE Checks In Monday, September 20;
Glee Begins Sophomore Season Tuesday, September 21;
Gordon Ramsay Serves Up New Season of HELL’S KITCHEN
Wednesday, September 22;
Bones and FRINGE Return to Thrill Thursday, September 23;
Human Target and The Good Guys Premiere Friday, September 24;
ANIMATION DOMINATION Kicks Off Sunday, September 26
FOX has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. The 2010-2011 season on FOX will kick off with a special premiere week beginning Monday, Sept. 20. HOUSE and the Princeton Plainsboro team return for a seventh season Monday, Sept. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) followed by the series premiere of the sophisticated and provocative drama LONE STAR (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). This fall, Tuesdays feature a night of pitch-perfect comedy beginning Sept. 21 with the highly anticipated return of Glee (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the series premieres of new family comedy Raising Hope (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) and new romantic comedy Running Wilde (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) starring Will Arnett and Keri Russell. On Wednesday, Sept. 22, things heat up for Gordon Ramsay in the two-hour premiere of the eighth season of HELL’S KITCHEN (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). The thrill is on Thursdays when Bones (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and FRINGE (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) return beginning Sept. 23.
Action-packed weekends kick off Fridays with the return of Human Target (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the time period premiere of The Good Guys (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on Sept. 24. Saturdays are still the most arresting night of television with the season premieres of COPS (8:00-8:30 and 8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) – celebrating its milestone 800th episode – and AMERICA’S Most Wanted (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on Sept. 11. Sundays are side-splittingly funny when ANIMATION DOMINATION makes its return Sept. 26 with the season premieres of THE Simpsons (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT), The Cleveland Show (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and a one-hour special installment of Family Guy (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). American Dad will mark its milestone 100th episode with its season premiere Sunday, Oct. 3 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT). In addition, Lie To Me continues to reveal the truth Wednesday, Nov. 10 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).
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FOX 2010-2011 SEASON PREMIERES – Page 2
Premieres of new and returning series are listed below in chronological order.
Saturday, Sept. 11
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT COPS (Season Premiere, 800th Episode)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT COPS (Encore Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT AMERICA’S Most Wanted (Season Premiere)
Monday, Sept. 20
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT HOUSE (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT LONE STAR (Series Premiere)
Tuesday, Sept. 21
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Glee (Season Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Raising Hope (Series Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT Running Wilde (Series Premiere)
Wednesday, Sept. 22
8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT HELL’S KITCHEN (2-Hour Season Premiere)
Thursday, Sept. 23
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Bones (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT FRINGE (Season Premiere)
Friday, Sept. 24
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Human Target (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT The Good Guys (Fall Premiere)
Saturday, Sept. 25
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT COPS (All-New Episode)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT COPS (Encore Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT AMERICA’S Most Wanted (All-New Episode)
11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT LONE STAR (Encore Episode, Time Period Premiere)
Midnight-12:30 AM ET/PT Running Wilde (Encore Episode, Time Period Premiere)
Sunday, Sept. 26
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT THE Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT The Cleveland Show (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT Family Guy (1-Hour Season Premiere)
Sunday, Oct. 3
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT THE Simpsons (All-New Episode)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT The Cleveland Show (All-New Episode)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Family Guy (All-New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT American Dad (Season Premiere, 100th Episode)
Wednesday, Nov. 10
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Lie To Me (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT HELL’S KITCHEN (Time Period Premiere)
Wednesday, Nov. 10 – LIE TO ME (Season Premiere)
What the hell? It'll basically premiere when all the other shows (Survivor, ABC comedies, Undercovers) have already picked up steam. What is it with Fox and this show – mid-season start (season 1), summer airing (season 2) and now season 3 is pushed to November. Why won't they give it a decent chance and premiere it in September for once? This way, even if it does get the back 9, it'll still air the last 6 or so in the summer.
Everything else seems to be in check, pretty much as expected. Looking forward to checking out (though not expecting much of) the new comedies. No Ordinary Family will be challenged in its slot now more than ever, since it's premiering a week after Glee.
Good No Ordinary Family premiere aint going up against Glee season premiere. Im sure Glee will premiere big but drop the week after to normal.
Dang. I didn't realize Hell's Kitchen was coming back so soon. I think they are way overdoing it with Ramsay.
Interesting that they're replacing Wanda Sykes with reruns of their new shows. I bet that doesn't last and it's House before the end of the year.
The November airing is probably a good thing for Lie to Me, as every other show will get a 2-4 week hiatus for the Baseball. Usually FOX brings everything back in late August/early September, so it will be hard for their new comedies to get much traction before their bumped for sport.
The sweeps period is in November. I highly doubt any show will be on hiatus until Thanksgiving.
At least Lie to Me will get a decent start. And I hope there will be no more giant hiatuses for this one, because, seriously, it really ticked me off. I also can't wait for Running Wilde.
I think what RhuwM means is that Lie to Me's third season won't be broken up due to baseball.
It will be interesting to see how well fox does this fall, though I would have thought that airing Lie To Me in the summer would mean that it would help the show with more viewers for the fall (though maybe FOX is scared it won't do much better than its summer airings). The Good Guys still set to premiere? I was kinda expecting the opposite, I think though FOX thinks it will get higher ad rates (and hold current viewers) if it acts as though the Good Guys isn't dead and not hitting the fall. I think the show will (like southland) just not premiere in its friday fall timeslot.
Though if they were going to premeire TGG there, why not put it there now? I mean at best it will build up with an audience of people who watch TV on fridays (not mondays).
Also, although its not ur fault, when i refresh sometimes my comment box has an advert in it, and the top right hand advertisement has my comment in it :S
On a show by show basis, it's always anybody's guess, but Fox's overall ratings averages for the fall are so dependent on the baseball playoffs and World Series, that their regular shows don't move the averages much.
And last year baseball was very, very good to Fox. They had a six game AL championship series with the Yankees, and a six game World Series with the Yankees. Improving on that will be very difficult, particularly since they automatically get the NL championship series, which is guaranteed not to have either the Yankees or the Red Sox!
I think FOX is trying to give Lie to Me a little gestation period between seasons. Season 2 will finish approximately September 6th. I think it's a little too soon to jump right away into season 3.
Although I will check out Lone Star on Monday nights, I kind of hope that it bombs so FOX can move Human Target to Monday's at 9pm. Being that Human Target is produced by Warner Bros and not FOX, IMO it's a way too expensive show to air Friday night and only get maybe 5M viewers and a 1.2 in the demos.
is fox trying to murder Fringe?
it obviously didnt work last year on thursday why are they making the same mistake!
i love that show
Not trying to start something just want to know is there any indications on when Idol will announce Simon replacement?
They didn't announce Ellen until early September.
They are doing Good Guys on Fridays right now and it's getting even lower ratings there. If that's it's intended night Fox should rethink their plan, unless of course the plan is to kill it.
Cooking Competition Show Hierarchy
-Top Chef
-Top Chef Masters
-The Next Iron Chef
-The Next Food Network “Star”
-every other cooking competition show I don't watch or couldn't think of
-me at home making PB&Js with 1 plastic knife
-Hell's Kitchen
—-If we really wanted to have the British yelling at us would we have bothered with that whole Revolution thingy in the 18th century.
Who watches Hell's Kitchen for the cooking?
I'm kinda surprised Fox is running two seasons essentially back-to-back. It's not the first time they've done it, but it's kinda weird, especially considering how they've pretty much rushed through this current season with so many two-hour double episodes.
Not that I'm complaining, of course.
Hell's Kitchen averaged 3.5 in the 18-49 demo for the 4 episodes that ran last Fall, making it a top-30 show. Presumably, though, X-Factor will take its place next Fall.
Point well taken.
Nathan,
The NBC Comedies are niches. They didn't do the damage.
What did the damage last year was CSI and Grey's. But both of those are down. Way down. Grey's especially. Fringe has its audience, and more will come back from the online viewing hopefully.