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PRIMETIME PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS - FOX 2013-2014 SEASON

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (Comedy) (Tuesday, 8:30-9PM) Welcome to Brooklyn’s 99th precinct, a workplace comedy about more than the job, where a new Captain with a lot to prove is about to set the record straight –- respect the badge or else. The various personalities and characters that make up the squad are led by Detective Jake Peralta, a good cop with the best arrest record among his colleagues, who hasn’t had to work too hard or follow the rules too closely, until now. Together these cops not only interrogate suspects and solve murders, but let loose singing karaoke, grabbing a beer and hitting on each other.

Cast: Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio, Stephanie Beatriz, Chelsea PerettiExecutive Producers: Dan Goor, Michael Schur, David MinerUniversal Television

DADS (Comedy) (Tuesday, 8-8:30PM) Eli and Warner are two successful guys, childhood best friends with totally opposite personalities and business partners now in their mid-thirties. Warner is married with children and the big house. Eli is still single and stoned with brief moments of self actualization. Their lives are relatively stable until their dads, Crawford and David, move in. Life as they know it will never be the same again!

Cast: Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi, Martin Mull, Peter Riegert, Vanessa Lachey, Brenda Song, Tonita CastroExecutive Producers: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley WildFuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television

MASTERCHEF JUNIOR (Alternative) (Friday, 8-9PM) In this new culinary competition, 24 of the best junior home cooks from across the country will create and serve their best dishes in a series of challenges and cook-offs with coaching and encouragement from celebrated food experts. Of those eight to 13 year-old contestants who impress the judges most, one of the next steps is taking over a fine dining restaurant with the hope of being named America’s first-ever Junior Masterchef.

Judging Panel: Gordon Ramsey, Joe Bastianich, Graham Elliot Executive Producers: Elisabeth Murdoch, Eden Gaha. Paul Franklin, Robin Ashbrook, Gordon Ramsay, Adeline Ramage Rooney, Patricia Llewellyn, Ben AdlerOne Potato Two Potato and Shine America

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SLEEPY HOLLOW (Drama) (Monday, 9-10PM) The past meets the future in this modern-day re-telling of Washington Irving’s classic tale of “Ichabod Crane” and the “Headless Horseman.” When Ichabod is resurrected 250 years into the future to solve a mystery dating back to the founding fathers, the Headless Horseman follows suit. After all they are bound together by a blood spell that was cast on the battlefield of the American Revolution. With the Horseman already on a killing spree in present-day Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod forms a bond with police detective Abbie Mills, who is bent on solving the Sheriff’s brutal murder. Ichabod knows that stopping Headless is just the beginning since he is only the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Cast: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia WinterExecutive Producers: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Len Wiseman, Heather KadinK/O Paper Products and 20th Century Fox Television

MID-SEASON SERIES

ALMOST HUMAN (Drama) (Monday, 8-9PM)Set 35 years in the future (2048), this police drama centers on John Kennex, a police officer who survived a catastrophic attack on the department. In a comma for 17 months, Kennex wakes up to find he has been fitted with a highly synthetic leg and suffers everything from depression to trauma OCD to PTSD. Battle-scared, returning to work proves challenging, especially when the mandate is to partner all humans with a robot. John is eventually teamed up with a discontinued part-human android named Dorian. The two seem to connect, which makes their task of fighting crime in a futuristic landscape a lot easier.

Cast: Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly, Michael Irby, Mackenzie Crook, Lili TaylorExecutive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, J.H. Wyman Co-Execs: Brad Anderson, Kathy Lingg, Reis ShaneBad Robot Productions, Bonanza Productions, Inc, Warner Bros. Television

ENLISTED (Comedy) (Friday, 9:30-10PM) (Friday, 9-9:30PM)The three Hill brothers serve together at Fort McGee, a small Army base in Florida. As part of Rear Detachment (Rear D) unit Sergeant Pete Hill (the leader), Corporal Derrick Hill (the troublemaker) and Private Randy Hill (the gung-ho G.I. Joe) are responsible for keeping the base in tip top shape, after all, the Rear D bunch are those soldiers who weren’t quite good enough to get sent overseas. Aside from mowing the lawn, sorting the mail, washing tanks, finding lost dogs and maybe engaging in war games, they are responsible for taking care of the deployed soldiers’ families.

Cast: Geoff Stults, Chris Lowell, Parker Young, Keith David, Angelique CabralExecutive Producers: Kevin Biegel, Mike Royce20th Century Fox Television

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RAKE (Drama) (Thursday, 9-10PM) (Friday, 8-9PM)Criminal defense lawyer, father, ex-husband, gambler and womanizer, Keegan Deane is many thing to many people. Each day in Keegan’s life presents a new challenge, personally and professionally. Brilliant and charming, but without a filter, Keegan’s lack of discretion and inability to sensor himself lands him the cases that no one else will touch. To him, that’s the beauty of it all, to defend those who seem beyond redemption. Keegan tries to do the right thing, but he gets in the way of himself with his self-destructive nature and his overindulgences. Based on an Australian series of the same name.

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Miranda Otto, John Ortiz, Necar Zadegan, Bojana Novakovic, Tara Summers, Ian CollettiExecutive Producers: Peter Duncan Peter Tolan, Michael Wimer, Richard Roxburgh, Ian Collie, Sam RaimiCo Execs: Greg Kinnear, Leslie TolanFedora Entertainment, Essential Media & Entertainment Pty Ltd and Sony Pictures Television

SPRING SERIES

24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY (Event Series) (Monday, 9-10PM)Several years following the events of the final season of “24”, Agent Jack Bauer is once again on the run. This time he has 12 episodes to make up the 24 hour day in London where he must thwart a terrorist attack that could change the world.

Cast: Kiefer Sutherland. Kim Raver, William Devane, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Yvonne Strahovski, Giles Matthey, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Michael Wincott, Benjamin Bratt, Tate Donavan, Micelle FairleyExecutive Producers: Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Cochran, Evan Katz, Manny Coto, David Fury, Jon Cassar Imagine Television, Teakwood Lane Productions and 20th Century Fox Television

COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY (Alternative) (13 parts) (Sunday, 9-10PM)In a continuation of Carl Sagan’s 1980 series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” this docu-series will explore how the laws of nature and our coordinates in space and time were discovered. Never-before-stories of the epic quest for knowledge will be told. A new approach to scientific storytelling will reveal the splendor of the universe as well as bring back some of the elements of the original series such as the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination.

Host: Dr. Neil deGrasse TysonExecutive Producers: Ann Druyan, Seth MacFarlane, Mitchell Cannold, Brannon Braga Cosmos Studios and Fuzzy Door Productions

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SURVIVING JACK (Comedy) (Thursday, 9:30-10PM)Set in 1990’s Southern California, Jack Dunlevy was a “traditional” husband and father, ex-military, an oncologist and a no-bull kind of guy. His wife Joanne was the “typical” wife and mother. That is until the tables were turned. Now, Joanne is going back to law school and leaving all the responsibilities of being a full-time parent in Jack’s somewhat capable hands. Treating patients with cancer…taking on two high school aged teenagers, hmmm…which is the easier job?! Based on Justin Halpern’s autobiographical book, “I Suck at Girls.”

Cast: Christopher Meloni, Connor Buckley, Rachael Harris, Claudia Lee, Kevin Hernandez, Tyler FodenExecutive Producers: Bill Lawrence, Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, Jeff IngoldDoozer and Warner Bros. Television

SUMMER SERIES

GANG RELATED (Drama) (Thursday, 9-10PM)Torn between two worlds, Detective Ryan Lopez is on Los Angeles’ elite Gang Task Force, but he also pledged his allegiance long ago to the Latino gang Los Angelicos. The gang’s leader was like a father to Ryan and was the one who secretly arranged his entry in to the police force while the task force leader also took Ryan under his wing. Ryan is respected by his team and he is dedicated to being a cop. With the task force going after the city’s most dangerous gangs, the side Ryan’s loyalties lay on becomes clearer.

Cast: Ramon Rodriguez, RZA, Sung Kang, Inbar Lavi, Terry O’Quinn, Shantel VanSanten, Cliff Curtis, Jay Hernandez, Ray GallegosExecutive Producers: Chris Morgan, Scott Rosenbaum, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo Imagine Entertainment, Chris Morgan Productions, Skeeter Rosenbaum Productions

I WANNA MARRY “HARRY” (Alternative) (Tuesday, 8-9PM)In this dating show with a twist, let’s see if the ultimate deception will be revealed as an average English “bloke” from Exeter, England tries to dupe 12 American women from thinking he’s His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales (or Prince Harry as more commonly known).

Host: TBAExecutive Producers: Steve Carell, Thom Hinkle, Eden Gaha, Paul Franklin

RIOT (Alternative) (Tuesday, 9-10PM) (8 episodes)Unscripted comedy where two teams of celebrities and comedians are pitted against each other in a series of showdowns which could include song, dance and sketch challenges all while navigating a tilted set, constructed at a 22.5-degree angle.

Host: TBAExecutive Producers: TBA Shine America in association with Carousel Television

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UPCOMING SERIES

MURDER POLICE (Animated Comedy)This animated comedy takes place in a city police precinct where Manuel Sanchez is at the center. Aspiring to be a good cop and always putting the job first, Manuel couldn’t keep his marriage together and his son is a troubled teen. Neurotic and nerdy, Manuel’s efforts to solve crimes are constantly being jeopardized by his own clumsiness and the stupidity of his fellow detectives.

Voice Cast: Jason Ruiz, Will Sasso, Chi McBride, Jane Lynch, Peter Atencio, Justina MachadoExecutive Producers: David A. Goodman Co-Exec: Jason RuizBento Box Animation and 20th Century Fox Television

SHORT-COM COMEDY HOUR (Alternative) Stand-up comedy and scripted entertainment will make up the hour in this modern take on the comedy variety genre. It features multi-camera short sitcoms (short-coms) filmed in front of a live audience as well as musical comedy

and stand-alone single-camera pieces from the show’s digital library. The hope is that these short-coms are a breeding ground for the next group of full half-hour comedies.

Host: TBAExecutive Producers: Michael Petok, Jordan Levin, Pete Aronson Generate

US & THEM (Comedy)New York pharmaceutical copywriter Gavin and Dillsburg, PA printing press employee Stacey have been flirting on-line for six months and the time has finally come for them to meet. In this romantic ensemble comedy, the challenges of finding a happily-ever-after life is complicated by the messed up cast of characters, their best friends and parents, that are constantly getting in their way.

Cast: Jason Ritter, Alexis Bledel, Dustin Ybarra, Ashlie Atkinson, Jane Kaczmarek, Kurt Fuller, Kerri Kenney, Michael Ian BlackExecutive Producers: David Rosen, Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner, James Corden, Ruth Jones, Steve Coogan, Henry NormalBBC Worldwide Productions and Sony Pictures Television

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EVENT SERIES

BILLY THE KID (Event Series) From the 1860’s to the 1870’s, from the slums of New York to the lawless American West, this series explores the origin story of one of America’s most infamous outlaws, William Henry McCarty or as he is best known, Billy the Kid. Since he was the first American celebrated in his own time as an outlaw hero, this story seems to have relevance with today’s fascination with celebrity and guns. By examining the various mythologies and conflicting facts about Billy’s short life, it is hoped that a more three-dimensional portrait will be painted of this folk hero.

Cast: TBAExecutive Producers: Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson Halfire-CORE Entertainment and The Levinson/Fontana Company

BLOOD BROTHERS (Event Series) The Civil War split our nation like no other event in American history. Based on the true story of the West Point class of 1861, the issue of slavery broke the brotherhood apart. Best friends found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict, fighting directly against each other. Some of them died, others were broken, but all were changed forever. In the end, these boys never lost their feelings of friendship and respect for each other, sometimes extending acts of kindness across enemy lines.

Cast: TBAExecutive Producers: Bruce McKenna, Gary A. Randall, Tim Bogart

RUN OF HIS LIFE, THE: PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSONS (Event Series) Based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book of the same name, viewers will be taken behind-the-scenes of O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”, presenting it as a courtroom thriller and in a way that has never been told before.

Cast: TBAExecutive Producers: Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson

SHOGUN (Event Series) Set in the 1600’s in feudal Japan, British sailor John Blackthorne is a pawn in Japanese leader Toranaga’s quest to reach the top of the “Shogun” or ruling chain. Blackthorne rises from an outsider, used to the European way of life, to a samurai and falls for Lady Mariko, an outstanding samurai and a married confidant to Toranaga. Based on the best-selling 1975 novel by James Clavell.

Cast: TBAExecutive Producers: Michael DeLuca, Michaela Clavell

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WAYWARD PINES (Drama) (Event Series) “Welcome to Wayward Pines, Where Paradise is Home”, so says the sign when you enter this rural community with beautiful homes, manicured lawns and children playing in the street. What it should have said is “Where Paradise is Lost.” When Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke drives into town to find two missing federal agents, a truck slams into his car landing him in the hospital. When he wakes up, he remembers everything about himself, but can’t seem to get word to his wife or his boss. There is no communication with the outside world. When Ethan’s wife and teenage son are told he is missing and tests show he was never even in his car, they are very suspicious and decide to launch their own search. Back in Wayward Pines, Ethan is on his own path, trying to figure out what is wrong with this town and its residents. Based on the best-selling novel “Pines” by Blake Crouch.

Cast: Matt Dillion, Carla Cugino, Terrence Howard, Juliette Lewis, Greta LeeExecutive Producers: M. Night Shyamalan, Chad Hodge, Donald De Line, Ashwin Rajan FX Productions