FOX Announces Programming for the 2019/2020 Season
FOX has announced its plans for programming for the 2019/2020 season, keeping some fan-favorite dramas and adding in one major spinoff. The line-up also includes what will be the final season of Empire.
“Today marks a new beginning for FOX Entertainment. So it is with a start-up mindset and, upon an incredible foundation of assets, that we deliver our first slate of new comedies, dramas and unscripted series,” said Charlie Collier, CEO, FOX Entertainment in a statement. “Alongside top creators and talent, and through innovative partnerships across the industry, we are redefining what it means to be an entertainment company, and what it means to be FOX, for 2019 and beyond.”
The new dramas joining the lineup this fall are Not Just Me and Prodigal Son.
Not Just Me comes from executive producer Jason Katims and writer Annie Weisman. It’s the story of an unusual family formed through extreme odds, exploring such hot-button issues as identity, human connection and what it truly means to be a family. An only child (Brittany Snow) finds her life turned upside down when her father (Timothy Hutton) reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children, including two new sisters (Megalyn Echikunwoke and Emily Osment).
As these three young women slowly embrace their new reality, they will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family. The series also stars Mustafa Elzein, Mo McRae, and Victoria Cartagena.
Prodigal Son is a fresh take on a crime franchise with a provocative and outrageous lead character and a darkly comedic tone, from Emmy Award-nominated executive producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter and writers Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver.
The series stars Tom Payne as the son of a convicted serial killer (Michael Sheen), who has made hunting murderers his life’s work. The series also stars Bellamy Young, Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee Lou Diamond Phillips, Halston Sage, Aurora Perrineau, Frank Harts, and Keiko Agena.
The new animated comedy joining the lineup this fall is Bless The Harts. Created and executive-produced by Emmy Award winner Emily Spivey, Bless The Harts follows the Harts, a Southern family that is always broke, and forever struggling to make ends meet.
They one day hope to achieve the American dream, but they’re already rich – in friends, family, and laughter. The series features the voices of Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, Ike Barinholtz, Fortune Feimster, Drew Tarver, and Mary Steenburgen. Executive producers on the series include Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Kristen Wiig.
Also this fall, The Resident moves to a new night and time on Tuesdays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), followed by the sixth and final season Empire (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
In 2020, additional new series and events joining the schedule include dramas 9-1-1: Lone Star, Deputy, Filthy Rich and neXt; live-action comedy Outmatched; and animated comedies Duncanville and The Great North.
9-1-1’s spinoff series, 9-1-1: Lone Star, will debut with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 19 and continuing on Monday, Jan. 20.
From 9-1-1 co-creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear, the series stars Rob Lowe as a sophisticated New York cop who, along with his son, re-locates to Austin, TX and must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in his own life. Rob Lowe also serves as a co-executive producer on the series.
Missing from the lineup are canceled series The Passage, The Cool Kids, Rel, and Star.
Here’s a look at FOX’s Fall Schedule.
FOX FALL 2019 SCHEDULE
(All Times ET/PT)
MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM 9-1-1
9:00-10:00 PM PRODIGAL SON (new series)
TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM THE RESIDENT
9:00-10:00 PM EMPIRE
WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM THE MASKED SINGER
9:00-10:00 PM NOT JUST ME (new series)
THURSDAY
7:30-8:00 PM ET/ THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL PREGAME SHOW
4:30-5:00 PM PT
8:00 PM-CC ET/ NFL FOOTBALL
5:00 PM-CC PT
FRIDAY
8:00-10:00 PM WWE’S SMACKDOWN LIVE
SATURDAY
7:00-10:30 PM FOX SPORTS SATURDAY: FOX COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SUNDAY
7:00-7:30 PM NFL ON FOX
7:30-8:00 PM THE OT / FOX ENCORES
8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM BLESS THE HARTS (new series)
9:00-9:30 PM BOB’S BURGERS
9:30-10:00 PM FAMILY GUY
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Ashley Bissette Sumerel
Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.