How many of you caught the ad for JJ Abrams' Fall show
Fringe during
American Idol last night? I think it looks pretty good, so I'm excited
Fox is preparing for a potentially one-two punch when they roll out a sci-fi thriller from Joss Whedon (creator of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer) come mid-season. This means that if both Fringe and Dollhouse are as good as they look I'm going to be spending a lot of time over at Fox this year.
Fox just
revealed its Fall and mid-season schedules, including the addition of big new sci-fi dramas, the return of 24 (complete with that two-our prequel airing in November) and a new comedy. Now that I've had a chance to think about the schedule and watch some clips, here are my thoughts:
- In the Fall, Tuesday night will be pretty darn cool with the return of House followed by the new J.J. Abrams thriller Fringe.
Fox revealed its Fall TV schedule at the 2008
upfronts this morning, announcing two new shows and the two-hour "telefilm"
24 prequel that will air in November before the regular (much delayed) new season of the show starts up again in January 2009.
The Fox show getting the most buzz this upfront season (and the basket in which Fox is placing all its eggs) is the J.J. Abrams drama
Fringe (featuring Joshua Jackson — yay, Pacey!) which will follow
House (in a new spot) on Tuesday nights.
Given that
90210 hasn't even
cast its father yet, it's safe to say it'll be a while before we see clips of that show. But in the meantime, we can at least check out another one of the CW's new shows about the wealthy and powerful:
Surviving the Filthy Rich.
The show centers on Megan, a 23-year-old Ivy League graduate — played by JoAnna Garcia, who recently appeared in Reba and thus is no stranger to the CW — who gets fired from her magazine job and becomes a live-in tutor to the twin granddaughters of a cosmetics mogul.
