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Fox 2017-18 Schedule: Marvels The Gifted, Seth MacFarlanes The Orville Join Fall Lineup
Variety:Fox is adding two new dramas — Marvel’s “The Gifted” and Seth MacFarlane’s “The Orville” — and comedy “Ghosted” to its fall lineup, which will see programming shuffles on most nights of the week. “The X-Files” will return midseason with a new batch of episodes, and Fox will double down on live event programming with stagings of musicals “Rent” and “A Christmas Story.”
Fox like other networks has cut the volume of new scripted series orders this year, adding a total of four dramas and two comedies so far. Dramas on the bench for midseason are a procedural from the Ryan Murphy shop, “9-1-1,” revolving around first responders to star Angela Bassett, and medical drama “The Resident.” The other comedy order is workplace ensembler “LA to Vegas” from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions banner.
Fox presents its new lineup to advertisers in New York today. Fox Television Group chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman said the focus was to build better momentum and audience flow throughout the week. They noted that Fox has more returning shows for 2017-18 season, with 17, than the network has had in a decade. The lineup tweaks are all about “building stronger nights and creating better circulation across our schedule,” Walden said.
“Gifted” is billed as a family-friendly adventure story about parents who discover their kids have mutant powers that force them to go on the run from a government agency trying to hunt them down. The show moves into the Monday 9 p.m. slot behind “Lucifer.”
Fox like other networks has cut the volume of new scripted series orders this year, adding a total of four dramas and two comedies so far. Dramas on the bench for midseason are a procedural from the Ryan Murphy shop, “9-1-1,” revolving around first responders to star Angela Bassett, and medical drama “The Resident.” The other comedy order is workplace ensembler “LA to Vegas” from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions banner.
Fox presents its new lineup to advertisers in New York today. Fox Television Group chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman said the focus was to build better momentum and audience flow throughout the week. They noted that Fox has more returning shows for 2017-18 season, with 17, than the network has had in a decade. The lineup tweaks are all about “building stronger nights and creating better circulation across our schedule,” Walden said.
“Gifted” is billed as a family-friendly adventure story about parents who discover their kids have mutant powers that force them to go on the run from a government agency trying to hunt them down. The show moves into the Monday 9 p.m. slot behind “Lucifer.”
