NOTE: FOX will have Panels for Empire, Scream Queens, Minority Report, Grandfathered, The Grinder & more later which we'll add here as the news is released.
New Items will be added at the top.
Empire Panel + Photos
- "It is not a black experience. I happen to be black. I happen to be gay. It is a truthful experience."-@leedanielsent #empirefox #tca15
- Lee Daniels: it's simply the truth. FOX has allowed me to do that. That's what rattling people. It's unsettling and powerful. #Empire #TCA15
- Lee Daniels thinks there will be an @EmpireFOX spinoff. Cookie's family, Lucious's family. "There's so much ripe story." #TCA15
- Lee Daniels on Terence Howard's character was misdiagnosed: "We love him, we cant get rid of him so we had to misdiagnose!" #tca15 #Empire
- There's going to be a director's cut of the #Empire pilot. #TCA15
- Lee Daniels says guest stars dazzle audiences but ultimately takes away from the family — doesn't say anything re Oprah or Denzel. #TCA15
- “The family, the family, the family’s the most important thing,” says Lee Daniels, who realizes guest stars can distract. #TCA15 #EmpireFOX
- Guest stars are great, "but you gotta stick to the family," says Lee Daniels. #Empire #TCA15
- "The more celebrities I put on the show the more it takes away from the family,"says Daniels. "The family's what the story is about." #TCA15
- Lee Daniels on his Instagram rant: It was a deep sense of twisted sense of humor & deep respect for the Emmys. No sour grapes there."
- "It's the American dream we were trying to tell," with #Empire, Lee Daniels says. Season 2 will peel back another layer of the Lyons. #TCA15
- "Cookie is a culmination of a lot of people," says @TherealTaraji "She has the gift of gab, she knows talent," the list goes on. #TCA15
- "I'm lucky to be working," Lee Daniels says. He spoke to #Empire's cast after they did not receive a series nomination for the Emmys. #TCA15
- Asked about #Empire Emmy snubs, Lee Daniels sings "que sera sera, it is what it is. It’s all good." #tca15
- "I think people like to dwell on the negative," says Lee Daniels. "Of course it'd be nice to have an Emmy nomination." #TCA15 #Empire
- Lee Daniels: "It's very humbling, we have an incredible showrunner, an incredible producer, an incredible cast." #tca15 #Empire
- #Empire S2 will be split: 10 episodes in the fall, then a break, followed by eight more in the spring. #TCA15
- "Terrifying."--@leedanielsent on going from 12 to 18 episodes of #EmpireFOX
- Taraji thinks of Yazz and Jussie as her sons. She cooks for them, checks in with them. #Empire #TCA15
- Lee Daniels on Sophia Eggleston lawsuit: "Bye, Felicia!" #Empire #TCA15
- Lee Daniels is asked to comment on the Detroit woman suing the show, claiming to be the real Cookie: "Bye Felicia!" #TCA15 #Empire
- @TherealTaraji says she's been very protective of #Empire's young stars Jussie and Yazz "I'm constantly checking in on them." #TCA15
"The writing is so rich..it's all on the page," Taraji P. Henson says of working on #Empire. "I just show up." #TCA15
- Lee Daniels: Season 1 was fast paced; there has been a discussion in the writers' room to slow it down a bit. #Empire #tca15
- Ilene Chaiken: social media factors into our thinking all the time but it doesn't change the stories we tell. #Empire #TCA15
- Lee Daniels stopped Taraji P Henson from talking about something she does in the first new episode. No spoilers here. #TCA15 #Empire
- Mariah Carey has said yes to appearing on #Empire, but they're working out the schedule right now. #tca15
- “She said, ‘We’re here to f*** s*** up!’” Lee Daniels says, quoting Ilene Chaiken. #EmpireFOX #TCA15
- @TheRealTaraji: “Primetime network has been so safe for so long. That’s why #Empire has such an impact.” #TCA15 #FOX
- "All we want to do is to continue to do #Empire, which is to tell the truth," in Season 2, says Lee Daniels. #TCA15
- .@TherealTaraji says #Empire is like a cable drama: "We can't say it with words, but Cookie can say it with a look." #TCA15
- #Empire exec producer Ilene Chaiken says her goal in Season 2 is to continue to have audiences "gasp and laugh and scream and cry." #tca15
- Lee Daniels: "You can only be you. That's what we try to do is be ourselves." #Empire #tca15
- Even though everyone loved the show, #Empire's team was surprised every week by how well it was doing says Brian Grazer. #TCA15
- "I'm having the time of my life"-@TherealTaraji on playing Cookie .She says 80% is Cookie, 20% is Taraji."I'm not as bold as she is" #TCA15
- Solid teaser reel for @EmpireFOX Season 2 just rolled at #TCA15. Lucious is in prison. Hakim & Jamal still at odds w/each other. #TCA15
- Lots of Luscious in Prison in #EmpireFOX teaser reel. #TCA15
Minority Report Summer TCA Panel Photos
Rosewood
- "We're actually using [#Rosewood] to audition for #Empire," Gabrielle Dennis jokes after she and Anna Konkle sing for us. #TCA15
- .@GabrielleDennis says Todd Harthan is great at playing off their personal lives & bringing elements to #Rosewood characters. #FOXTCA #TCA15
- Morris Chestnut is proud of the diversity of the @RosewoodFOX cast. Says they're the new faces of Benetton. #TCA15
- Personally, @Morris_Chestnut says he's a problem solver and watches forensic files quite a bit. #Rosewood #FOXTCA #TCA15
- Lorraine Toussaint says she was surprised at #Forever's ending, "but I'm really happier to be here," on #Rosewood. #TCA15
- Morris Chestnut explains that he "picked up a lot playing a doctor on Nurse Jackie," & it helped him slightly prepare for #Rosewood. #TCA15
- Hornstock sees the value in the @RosewoodFOX character. Rosewood tries to get him to be his friend. #TCA15
- Dom Lombardozzi plays Capt Hornstock - a guy who's miserable in personal life, loves working in precinct. #Rosewood #TCA15
- "We try to pick our moments for levity when it's not disrespectful to the cases they are solving." - @ToddHarthan #Rosewood #FOXTCA #TCA15
- "This is a very difficult show for me...I'm not used to a lot of takes." - Morris Chestnut on messing up medical jargon in #Rosewood #TCA15
- “I can die at any minute,” Morris Chestnut says of his #Rosewood character, claiming series creator has Taye Diggs on speed-dial. #TCA15
- Todd Harthan: we won't shy away from the fact that #Rosewood has a limited time to live. Family has addictions, fears, ailments. #TCA15
- #Rosewood EP says each episode is supposed to be an "incredibly fun show that feels like you're having a cocktail on the beach." #TCA15
- Lorraine Toussaint on the small age difference between her and Morris Chestnut: it's just gonna be "black don't crack" - we age well. #TCA15
- Lorraine Toussaint: I think you won't have any problems buying the fact that I'm Rosewood's mother. #Rosewood #TCA15
- Donna was a character I hadn't played before and it was a character I was very hungry to play. - @LPToussaint #Rosewood #FOXTCA #TCA15
- "It does become a balance of back and forth" between Rosewood and Det. Villa, says #Rosewood creator Todd Harthan. #TCA15
- Lorraine Toussaint: I've been playing procedural bosses or psychopaths - they have something in common. I've wanted to work w/Morris. #TCA15
Minority Report Panel
- .@WValderrama wanted to live in the #MinorityReport movie! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- How much action will there be in #MinorityReport? Let's just say @starksands is covered in bruises! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- Arthur is deeply resentful and extremely cautious of the precogs being exploited #MinorityReport #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- "She's tough, strong, willing to break the rules." - @MeaganGood on #LaraVega. #MinorityReport
- "He really believes in what he's there to do. He really believes in the law," @WValderrama says of his character. #MinorityReport #TCA15
- Dt. Vega and Will Blake have a long history, back to the academy days! #MinorityReport #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- #MinorityReport's executive producers say that Spielberg was intrigued by the idea of humanizing the Precogs on TV. #TCA15
- The police were leaching his visions to solve murders."-@starksands on #Dash. #MinorityReport
- "She's more suspicious..." - @TheLauraRegan on her character #Agatha. #MinorityReport
- In the #MinorityReport future, the Washington Redskins are called the Washington Red Clouds! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- Steven Spielberg is very involved with #MinorityReport, he's even sketched exactly how he'd like scenes to look! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- "He's by-the-book and a little sarcastic."-@WValderrama on #WillBlake #MinorityReport
- #MinorityReport executive producer Darryl Frank says to expect a more "warm and inviting" future than the one from the movie. #TCA15
- "She wants to win the war but doesn't mind losing a few battles," @TheLauraRegan says of her #MinorityReport character Agatha. #TCA15
- #MinorityReport will explore how new technology will effect the future! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- Look out for self-driving cars on #MinorityReport! #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- "She wants to win the war but doesn't mind losing a few battles," @TheLauraRegan says of her #MinorityReport character Agatha. #TCA15
- Precogs can see moments in time, but things get fuzzy as they interfere with the future! #MinorityReport #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- #MinorityReport is up next at #TCA15! Actor Stark Sands says he loved the movie when it first came out.
- "People will always find a way to hack." #MinorityReport #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- EP Max Borenstein: the fun for us is how people will get around excessive surveillance to commit crimes. @MinorityReport #TCA15
Grandfathered Panel
- Typical 20-somethings will relate to @ChristinaMilian's character on #grandfathered #tca15
- "I'm just grateful I've had no success with women, and now it's paying off." Ravi Patel, about his loveless char. on Grandfathered. #TCA15
- Paget Brewster mentions she plays a grandmother in #Grandfathered & #AnotherPeriod (she's the best thing in the latter, BTW) #TCA15 #Fox
- Don Rickles guests on @grandfathered - Dan Fogelman says everyone wanted to meet him. He & Stamos are close. #TCA15
- Asked what he thought of the show title "Grandpa", Stamos says he replied, "What do you think of f--k you?" @Grandfathered #TCA15
- Stamos jokes his character is like George Clooney, except before he turned on everything he believed in & got married. #TCA15 #Grandfathered
- "This is the show I've been waiting for for 10 years," says Stamos of the insta-family comedy. #Fox #TCA15
The Grinder Panel
- John Stamos also just made a cameo on #TheGrinder panel to out his longtime relationship with Rob Lowe - which I now ship. #TCA15
- #Albany native #WilliamDevane maintains he's "the perfect dad" to @RobLowe and #FredSavage on @TheGrinderFOX. #TCA15
- Fred Savage thought @TheGrinderFOX would be a fun way to spend a week, then the show got a series order. #TCA15
- "I feel like I wanna focus on the acting with this for a while."-Fred Savage on whether he'll direct any Grinder episodes #TCA15
- "He knows nothing about the law. Let's just be clear, he's an idiot." Rob Lowe describes his #TheGrinder character succinctly. #TCA15
- .@RobLowe says TV tropes are "ripe for the pickin'. And we're going to be doing some pickin'," on @TheGrinderFOX #TCA15
- TheGrinder #TCA15 panel: EPs Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul, Jake Kasdan, Greg Malins. Cast: Rob Lowe, Fred Savage, M.E. Ellis, Bill Devane
Scream Queens Panel
Panel Photos
- "We do find out in later episodes her background and the brith of her views" — Ryan Murphy on @RobertsEmma's Chanel #1 #TCA15 #ScreamQueens
- Chanel is more than just perfect hair and clothes -- she's has secrets and weaknesses we'll learn this season! #ScreamQueens #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- .@MrRPMurphy considered spinning off #AmericanHorrorStory: #Coven into its own series, but instead developed #ScreamQueens. #TCA15
- Everyone has filmed scenes multiple times... As a victim and as the killer! #ScreamQueens #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- The #ScreamQueens cast members have gotten scripts without the final act.
- Jamie Lee Curtis shares her secret to keeping a straight face: squeeze a pushpin or toothpick to keep from laughing. #TCA15
New Cast Promotional Group Photo
- “Coming from Glee and performing…this is also very challenging working with the horror,” says @msleamichele. #TCA15 #ScreamQueens
- Fun fact: the #ScreamQueens scripts are so secret, even the cast doesn't know what's coming next 💋 #TCA15 #FOXTCA
- Murphy also teased that there's a "Scream Kings" element where they explore frats at a golf tournament in episode 2 #tca15 #ScreamQueens
- Ryan Murphy on #ScreamQueens and feminism: The female characters are more interested in their friendships than the male characters #TCA15
- Emma Roberts says she apologizes to the girls after they yell cut because she says such terrible things. #ScreamQueens #TCA15
- Jamie Lee Curtis:"I think what's so fantastic about the show is it is a social satire.Actually we say what people think"#screamqueens #tca15
- Ryan Murphy re his show @ScreamQueens vs @MTVScream: "The shows are tonally very different. Ours is more comedic and satirical." #TCA15
- Skyler Samuels says she is currently in a real-life sorority - "they're very supportive of me doing this show." #ScreamQueens #TCA15
- Waiting for the #ScreamQueens panel at #TCA15. There are 12 chairs set up on stage.
Executive Panel News
- #Fox's Gary Newman: Lorraine Toussaint will join new drama #Rosewood as a series regular. #TCA15
- "She is the original Scream Queen, & she brings such a great sense of largesse and strength and feminism." - Ryan Murphy on Jamie Lee Curtis
- X-Men - Fox Near Deal for Live-Action Series
- #SleepyHollow, #Bones, #Gotham and #Empire will have split seasons on #Fox this year. #TCA15
- 500,000 people per week are still watching #Empire even during these summer months, Gary Newman says. #TCA15
- Dana Walden: we learned a lot last year about what our audience will tolerate w/regard to serialized series. #TCA15
- Gary Newman: we don't think we placed @SleepyHollowFOX correctly last year (behind #Gotham) - it's back w/@BONESonFOX this year. #TCA15
- Fox's #PrisonBreak event series will be ignoring the straight-to-video finale.
- Sounds like the new Prison Break is negating the Prison Break Expanded Universe and throwing it out of canon. #TCA15
- Empire could cross over with Star, but they're not planning it right now. #TCA15
- With crossover of @BONESonFOX & @SleepyHollowFOX, it happened organically, said Gary. Wanted to eventize a night before Halloween. #tca15
- "I don't put anything past [#Bones]," says Newman. "This could be its final season, but it may not." #TCA15
- Dana Walden calls the #PrisonBreak update “a bit of a sequel” picking up a couple years later and featuring both brothers. #TCA15
- Fox's #UrbanCowboy will be set in the present day but is "inspired by the film," says Gary Newman. #TCA15
- Annet Mahendru is apparently "the key to everything" in the new iteration of #TheXFiles
- We're getting an X Files sneak peek. Prepare for Twitter overload.
- Fox is doing #PrisonBreak as an event series. Both main stars will be back. #TCA15
- Fox will be doing another pilot with #Empire's Lee Daniels called "Star." Also set in the music biz, but in Atlanta. #TCA15
- If you include Live+30 numbers, 26 million viewers watch “Empire” every week, a triumph for broadcast TV, Dana Walden says. #TCA15
- Dana Walden: A year in, we’re feeling pretty good. We launched the #1 show on broadcast. #Empire #TCA15
- Cigarette Smoking Man in Fox’s #TCA15 sizzle reel!
- Jason Sudeikis will return to #LastManonEarth
- The “Bones”/“Sleepy Hollow” crossover event will air on Thursday, October 29.
- Pitbull will guest star on #Empire.
- Executive session with Dana Walden and Gary Newman starting momentarily.
