The former TBS late-night host will take the helm of the new summer dating series.
The planned update, picked up straight to series in May, was scheduled to launch next year.
ox has ordered two more seasons of the Gordon Ramsay culinary competition series Hell’s Kitchen. For those keeping score, those are cycles No. 11 and 12.
The network will air New Girl encores in its place through May.
Steve Pruett, CEO of the CCA station group and chairman of the Fox affiliate board, says the network’s plan to program Saturday nights this fall with live sports is another demonstration of its desire to excel. “Fox is not throwing any night away.”
The network has picked up its Tuesday night comedy lineup for next year.
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The network will use the ACTV8’s apps to let viewers interact during live broadcasts of Fox shows.
FremantleMedia’s stateside incarnation of speed-dating U.K. series Take Me Out bows June 7.
No down-to-the-wire renewal for Bones this time — Fox has given an early eighth-season pickup to the procedural dramedy.
After four weeks of miniscule ratings on Saturday night, Fox is pulling the Jennifer Lopez/Marc Anthony reality series Q’Viva: The Chosen from primetime and moving it to Saturday late night.
In a move to attract multinational advertisers and combat online piracy,Touch, a new drama from News Corp., will start almost simultaneously in 100 countries and territories.
The underperforming comedy, which hit a series low Tuesday, will take its planned hiatus sooner than expected.
The online television service has filed a second countersuit against major broadcasters that want to stop it from retransmitting their programming. The new suit is against News Corp.’s Fox, the Public Broadcasting Service, Univision Communications and New York’s WPIX and WNET.
As bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers enters its final innings, News Corp’s Fox sports unit and Time Warner Cable are headed toward what could be a multi-billion dollar showdown over the rights to telecast the franchise’s baseball games.
The week of May 21 will be an especially big one for the network, as the Hugh Laurie drama House heads off the airwaves, the 11th American Idol is named and Glee reveals what it’s doing with its graduating class.
The underperforming comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter had been slated to shift from its Tuesday time slot to Wednesdays in April. Its last new original episode will air April 3 with the series returning in the summer.
Fox has canceled its pricey prehistoric drama Terra Nova after one moderately rated season. The show is being shopped around to other networks by 20th Century Fox Television.
The Bones spinoff will take a month off the air after the March 8 episode, airing the remainder of its freshman season starting April 6.
The network is making some scheduling changes to its spring lineup, opting to give the Kiefer Sutherland drama a post-American Idol slot and moving Bones to Mondays.
It’s the end of the road for veteran medical drama House, which will bow out after the end of its current eighth season on Fox. The network has granted creator David Shore’s wish for an early decision to allow him to give the series and its characters a proper ending. The move opens the door for renewal of another Fox drama in need of an early verdict, freshman Terra Nova.
Not only are host Steve Jones and judge Nicole Scherzinger exiting from the Fox show, but now a Simon Cowell insider says that Paula Abdul won’t be returning as an X Factor judge next season.
As significant changes are coming to The X Factor this fall, a top executive involved in production suggested the Fox show needs to be more distinctive from the other talent competition series. “Our job for the next season is to really figure out what’s different about X Factor,” said Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of FremantleMedia North America.
The Fox network, which has seen ratings slide this season for its hit American Idol, is giving viewers an extra shot at viewing Sunday’s special edition of the singing competition.
The former CBS strategic development exec takes over strategic program planning and scheduling.
As American Idol begins its new season on Fox on Wednesday, it faces competitors in The X Factor, also on Fox, and The Voice on NBC. The new test is this: Will viewers still gravitate to Idol in the same numbers when they know there are two prominent alternatives?
News Corp.’s Fox unit on Tuesday signed a nondisclosure agreement with bankers handling the sale of the storied baseball franchise, the Wall Street Journal reports today, citing people with knowledge of the process. The move formally makes News Corp. a potential bidder for the Los Angeles team, and it is the latest indication that the company, which owned the Dodgers from 1998 to 2004, plans to do whatever it can to hang onto the team’s valuable media rights. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.
