FIVE NEW DRAMAS, TWO NEW EVENT SERIES, FOUR NEW COMEDIES AND ONE NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES JOIN SCHEDULE
POWERFUL UNTOLD ORIGIN STORY "GOTHAM," YOUNG ENSEMBLE DRAMA "RED BAND SOCIETY," 10-PART MYSTERY EVENT SERIES "GRACEPOINT," MULTI-CAM COMEDY "MULANEY" AND BOLD SOCIAL EXPERIMENT "UTOPIA" TO DEBUT IN FALL 2014
NEW SERIES SET TO DEBUT IN 2015 INCLUDE MUSIC-INFUSED EPIC FAMILY DRAMA "EMPIRE," FANTASTICAL ADVENTURE "HIEROGLYPH" AND OFFBEAT COMEDIC CRIME DRAMA "BACKSTROM"; M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S MIND-BENDING 10-PART EVENT THRILLER "WAYWARD PINES"; WILL FORTE'S COMEDY "THE LAST MAN ON EARTH," SINGLES ENSEMBLE COMEDY "WEIRD LONERS" AND THE ANIMATED "BORDERTOWN"
Live Specials JUMP OF THE CENTURY (working title) to Make Grand Leap in Fall; PITBULL'S NEW YEAR'S REVOLUTION (working title) to Explode into the New Year; and GREASE LIVE (working title) to Electrify in 2015
NEW YORK — May 12, 2014 — Kevin Reilly, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX), today unveiled the FOX portfolio of content for the 2014-2015 television season to the national advertising community during its annual Programming Presentation at the Beacon Theatre.
"Our portfolio of content this year reflects the biggest investment in programming we've ever made," said Reilly. "FOX is redefining the network experience on our air and as a 24/7/365 platform, with distinctive series, addictive event dramas and can't-miss live specials that will deliver broadcast's most youthful audience at scale."
Joe Earley, Chief Operating Officer, FOX, added, "The new series and specials we're presenting today feature buzzworthy worlds and characters that we think will be the most talked about, liked, tweeted and shared of the season."
Origin story GOTHAM and touching, coming-of-age series RED BAND SOCIETY are the two new dramas set to debut this fall. GOTHAM traces the rise of the great DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive producer/writer Bruno Heller ("The Mentalist," "Rome") and starring Ben McKenzie ("Southland," "The O.C."), Jada Pinkett Smith ("Hawthorne," "Collateral") and Donal Logue ("Vikings," "Sons of Anarchy"), GOTHAM follows one cop, destined for greatness, as he navigates a dangerously corrupt city teetering on the edge of evil, and chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes of our time.
