In a departure from years past, FOX focused only on their fall schedule at their upfront presentation and didn’t bother with the winter or spring schedules they usually roll out and quietly ignore when the time comes. The big changes start on Sunday, with the animation block broken up to include live action series Brooklyn Nine-Nine airing between The Simpsons and Family Guy.
Sleepy Hollow returns for an extended second season, which will follow their highest profile new show, Gotham, featuring a pre-Batman Bruce Wayne and the people who will become his rogues gallery. New Girl and The Mindy Project return to Tuesdays, following a new reality show that, in a show of restraint, will air twice a week.
Bones returns to Thursday for what is expected to be its final season, where it will be followed by Gracepoint, an American remake of Broadchurch that, like its source, will star David Tennant. The American version, expected to be have a different ending from the original, will have a limited 10 episode run.
At some point in the spring, The Following is expected to return. The only exciting show waiting for a timeslot seems to be Backstrom, a comic police procedural from Bones creator Hart Hanson and starring Rainn Wilson.
What do you get when you combine the creator of Bones with one of the stars of The Office on a show based on a Swedish series of books? I mean, besides a bit of a mess. You get Backstrom, starring Rainn Wilson as a brilliant Portland detective who is his own worst enemy.