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FOX Upfronts

X-Files LogoAfter a successful season, which featured new hits like Gotham, Empire, and The Last Man on Earth, FOX released a fall season that is without the usual churn that the network is known for.

Gotham will continue to kick off Monday nights, and will be followed by Minority Report, a sequel of sorts set 10 years after the 2002 Stephen Spielberg film.  Tuesdays get shaken up a bit as the comedy block moves up an hour and becomes more guy-centric, with new shows starring John Stamos, Rob Lowe, and Fred Savage.  They will be followed by the horror-comedy anthology Scream Queens, from American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy.

The Morris Chestnut project Rosewood leads off Wednesdays, followed by this springs monster hit Empire.  Bones stays put on Thursdays, followed by the relocated Sleepy Hollow.  Friday remains the domain of disposable reality programming while the Sunday lineup remains unchanged.

The X-Files returns for its 6-episode run in January, debuting following the NFC Championship game and then airing again the following night.  New Girl is also expected to return sometime next spring, allowing it to air uninterrupted.  Finally, American Idol will return in the spring for a final season.

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NBC Upfronts

Heroes-WallpaperNBC announced their fall schedule yesterday, and there are plenty of changes afoot.  Only one night, Wednesdays, remains unchanged.  The rest of the schedule shows plenty of upheaval for a network that technically is #1 in the ratings, thanks to Sunday Night Football and The Voice.  Beyond that, things are a bit of a mess for the Peacock network.

Monday uses The Voice as a lead-in to launch Blindspot, a new conspiracy thriller starring Thor‘s Jaimie Alexander.  Tuesday abandons comedy completely in exchange for a few new medical dramas and a variety show from Neil Patrick Harris.

Thursdays, which abandoned the Must See TV brand last fall, continues to go with dramas, leading off with the rebooted Heroes Reborn, followed by the returning The Blacklist and the new The Player, featuring Wesley Snipes.  Comedy finally makes an appearance on Fridays, with Undateable, promising a live season, followed by a new Mark-Paul Gosselaar offering.

NBC also has a number of shows on the bench for mid-season, including a rebooted Coach (seriously) and shows starring Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez, and Rob Lowe.  It’s much too early to speculate on the new shows, but The Blacklist is the only NBC show that I’m currently watching that is returning in the fall.  I guess we shall see which, if any, of the new shows stick.