Fox Puts Scream Queens on Tuesday, Moves Sleepy Hollow to Thursday, Holds The X-Files, The Frankenstein Code, and Lucifer for Midseason
Debi Moore
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Get ready for a ton of TV news this week since the 2015 Upfronts are now under way in NYC, and up now we have Fox’s announcement of its 2015-16 primetime schedule plus several new images. Other than the debut of “Scream Queens” and “Sleepy Hollow’s” move to a new night, most of what we’re looking forward to won’t be airing until midseason.
Excerpts from the Press Release:
Award-winning executive producers Ryan Murphy (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), Brad Falchuk (“Glee,” “American Horror Story”), and Ian Brennan (“Glee”) meld comedy, mystery, and horror in “SCREAM QUEENS.” All hell is about to break loose for the Kappa House sisters of Wallace University when a murder takes place, exactly 20 years after a mysterious death originally rocked their college campus. The super-charged anthology series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast, including Emma Roberts (“American Horror Story: Freak Show,” Scream 4), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies), Lea Michele (“Glee”), Oliver Hudson (“Nashville,” “Rules of Engagement”), Keke Palmer (Akeela and the Bee, “Masters of Sex”), and guest stars Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas (“Kingdom”), among others. With at least one casualty each week until the mystery is solved, anyone could be the next victim – or the murderer.
The next mind-bending chapter of “THE X-FILES” debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, January 24, 2016 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC Championship Game, and continuing with its time period premiere on Monday, January 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT). The thrilling six-episode event series, helmed by creator/executive producer Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Agents FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY, marks the momentous return of the Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-winning pop culture phenomenon, which remains one of the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history.
In 2016, additional new series joining the schedule include devilish drama “LUCIFER” and modern action series “THE FRANKENSTEIN CODE.”
Based on characters from DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint, “LUCIFER” stars Tom Ellis (“Merlin”) as the charming, charismatic, and handsome-as-hell original fallen angel, who, bored and unhappy in Hell, takes refuge in Los Angeles, where he uses his gift of persuasion to punish bad guys. But the longer he’s away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.
In “THE FRANKENSTEIN CODE,” from executive producer/writer Rand Ravich (“Life,” “Crisis”) and executive producer Howard Gordon (“Homeland,” “24”), a disgraced 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists as a 35-year-old (Rob Kazinsky, “True Blood”) with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.
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