Fox has greenlit four new dramas for fall, including J.J. Abrams‘ futuristic cop thriller Almost Human and a modern-day take on Sleepy Hollow.
Also receiving series orders from the network are Gang Related and Rake. They join Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action sitcom Dads, which already received a six-episode order. Additional comedy series pickups will be announced later this evening.
Here’s the logline/casting/pedigree info for each of the new series:
Gang Related (Drama)
EPs | Scott Rosenbaum (The Shield), Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious)
CAST | Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Ramon Rodriguez (Charlie’s Angels), Jay Hernandez (Last Resort), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious), Inbar Lavi (Underemployed), Rza, Cliff Curtis (Missing), Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill)
Follows a gang member sent in to infiltrate the San Francisco Police Department and rise through its ranks — ultimately landing on the Gang Task Force. There, he must balance his obligations to his crime family with an increasing sense of loyalty to his new “family” on the SFPD.
Almost Human (Drama)
EPs | J.H. Wyman, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk (Fringe)
CAST | Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Michael Irby (The Unit), Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean), Mekia Cox
An action-packed buddy cop show set in the near future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
Rake (Drama)
EPs | Peter Duncan (creator of the Australian series of the same name), Peter Tolan (Rescue Me), Michael Wimer, Greg Kinnear
CAST | Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens, M.D.), Bojana Novakovic (Edge Of Darkness), John Ortiz (Luck), David Harbour (The Newsroom), Tara Summers (Boston Legal)
Centers around Keegan Joye, a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer.
SLEEPY HOLLOW (Drama)
EPs | Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci (Star Trek)
CAST | Orlando Jones (MADtv), Katia Winter (Dexter), Nicole Beharie (The Good Wife), Tom Mison (Parade’s End), guest star John Cho (Go On)
A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of the titular Westchester Country, N.Y. town.
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Also receiving series orders from the network are Gang Related and Rake. They join Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action sitcom Dads, which already received a six-episode order. Additional comedy series pickups will be announced later this evening.
Here’s the logline/casting/pedigree info for each of the new series:
Gang Related (Drama)
EPs | Scott Rosenbaum (The Shield), Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious)
CAST | Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Ramon Rodriguez (Charlie’s Angels), Jay Hernandez (Last Resort), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious), Inbar Lavi (Underemployed), Rza, Cliff Curtis (Missing), Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill)
Follows a gang member sent in to infiltrate the San Francisco Police Department and rise through its ranks — ultimately landing on the Gang Task Force. There, he must balance his obligations to his crime family with an increasing sense of loyalty to his new “family” on the SFPD.
Almost Human (Drama)
EPs | J.H. Wyman, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk (Fringe)
CAST | Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Ealy (Common Law), Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Michael Irby (The Unit), Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean), Mekia Cox
An action-packed buddy cop show set in the near future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.
Rake (Drama)
EPs | Peter Duncan (creator of the Australian series of the same name), Peter Tolan (Rescue Me), Michael Wimer, Greg Kinnear
CAST | Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens, M.D.), Bojana Novakovic (Edge Of Darkness), John Ortiz (Luck), David Harbour (The Newsroom), Tara Summers (Boston Legal)
Centers around Keegan Joye, a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense lawyer.
SLEEPY HOLLOW (Drama)
EPs | Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci (Star Trek)
CAST | Orlando Jones (MADtv), Katia Winter (Dexter), Nicole Beharie (The Good Wife), Tom Mison (Parade’s End), guest star John Cho (Go On)
A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of the titular Westchester Country, N.Y. town.
More at TVLine
Yay for Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow!
ReplyDeleteInterested in Sleepy Hollow, but I'll wait to see a trailer!
ReplyDeleteWow did not expect this news!!! Rake and Sleepy Hallow!!! But Omg delirium was against sleepy hallow soo....
ReplyDeleteI will watch anything with Karl Urban and Terry O Quinn
ReplyDeleteI may actually check out FOX this fall, as opposed to last fall when I had absolutely no interest in their new dramas.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Almost Human! I'm totally going to watch it! As JH Wyman and JJ Abrams are involved, I hope this can become my Fringe replacement :D
ReplyDeleteAlmost Human for the win.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Almost Human was picked up. All of these have some potential, can't wait for the promos!
ReplyDeleteTVline just updated, Boomeran, Delirium and The List are all dead. Sad about Delirium
ReplyDeleteOh Delirium :/ I really wanted that one, although I wasn't very hopeful based on recent pilot buzz. Out of these, I am very excited about Almost Human, it sounds great!! Rake I need to see buzz and trailers, and Sleepy Hollow gets a pilot trial for me probably. Gang Related I dunno... Doesn't sound interesting at at all to me, but I will maybe give it a shot for Terry O'Quinn alone, as my Lost roots speak way too high. Delirium :(
ReplyDeleteDelirium has been officially passed on :/
ReplyDeleteYeah sad :( Well no point in crying over something that won't ever start
ReplyDeleteYay! Sleepy Hollow!!
ReplyDeleteYeah for Almost Human and Gang Related.
ReplyDeleteMight check out sleepy hollow but the others sound like crappy, inhuman sounds like a remake of robocop.
ReplyDeleteOh Good "Almost Human" I think is a better title than "Human"! SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!! Really wanted this one to get picked up! XD
ReplyDeleteI'll def be checking it out too! :)
ReplyDeleteHAHA! XD
ReplyDeleteThank God they picked up HUMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy dance,happy dance!!!!!!!!! :P
ReplyDeleteNow all we need is Believe!!
Woo Hooooooooooooo I'm am soooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUMAN is here!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDelirium :/
ReplyDeleteThis! Although I am affraid that Fox stickes it on fridays with so many dramas picked up!
ReplyDeleteActually, Almost Human is what Joel Wyman wanted to work on before he joined FRINGE. Fringe had parallels to Philip Dick's work including an episode title "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep" , so given that and that Androids may be similar to Observers and.o Shapeshifters, this work most likely will be in the spirit of Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Joel Wyman had described it once as "bombastic".
ReplyDeleteYeah true. And I am actually pretty happy with Almost Human. Just hope it can avoid the friday treatment!
ReplyDeleteObviously i'm going to check out Almost Human with the hope that it might be a decent replacement for Fringe... Also, i'm interested in the other three shows as well which is weird, since Fringe and in a much smaller degree The Following, are the only good shows on Fox..
ReplyDeletevery happy about almost human. not sure about rake, haven't seen the original australian version, so i guess i'll check out the fox remake trailer then. gang related seems pretty interesting... has a little bit of 'the departed' like feel to it. sad that delirium or the list wasn't picked up- either one of those two should've taken the spot of 'sleepy hollow'...
ReplyDeleteThese actually sound pretty interesting I'll check them all out. Hope they are as good as they sound. What we get is not always what we expect
ReplyDelete::fingers crossed::
ReplyDeleteAlso I just noticed that Mekia Cox is listed too. She was Samantha Bloom's sister in Undercovers. I actually really liked her character and sometimes thought she would have made a better spy!
Interested in Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow
ReplyDeleteSince I'm on a photo posting roll...
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Sad about Boomerang :(
ReplyDeleteMe too!
ReplyDeleteI was really excited about FOX's drama pilots this year so I like all of their choices. I was just really hoping Boomerang would make it though...maybe it will be picked up by FX or something...
ReplyDeleteHaha love it!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteHere's something about the pilot
ReplyDeleteTravis Yanan @travisyanan20h
FOX's Boomerang: love. Fun, dark tone. Concerned about losing interest, no hint where show might go in medium- or long-term. #pilotread2013
Particularly excited about Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human. Those were the two pilots on FOX that I wanted to see but I'll check out all of these I think.
ReplyDeleteNEW JJ SCI-FI SHOW (please be better than the last few shows he has done) but yay NEW JJ SCI-FI
ReplyDeleteGang Related has the potential to be quite intersesting but not sure
The List :(
ReplyDeleteMight check out 'Gang Related' and 'Almost Human', the others don't sound that interesting, but I'll wait on trailers/early reviews on all of them before deciding.
ReplyDeleteOnly Almost Human sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think I might check all of these but Rake, depending on how they do in the ratings. Too bad about Delirium though, I was looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love Miranda Otto. I'll definitely give Rake a shot! (I have a rule that states I should give every show that casts a LOTR actor at least a chance, and that rule gave me Fringe and GOT, so yeah!)
ReplyDeleteYay for 'Almost Human'! Been looking forward to this one, since FOX seems to love anything by JJ Abrams and Co. Also like the look of 'Sleepy Hollow' and will maybe check out 'Gang Related' mainly for Terry O'Quinn
ReplyDeleteGeez Dark, way to make me think they "almost" ordered "Human". ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to keep calling it Human. Almost Human takes away the cool double meaning of that title!
ahaha love it too
ReplyDeletealmost human is basically this.. but as a cop show
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KTUysrwgQ
Heres how i see the schedule..
ReplyDeleteSundays.. Animations with murder police coming in at midseason.. or taking the cleveland show's place
Mondays - 8 pm. Bones.. - 9 pm. Gang related with following at midseason
Tuesdays - 8 pm. Enlisted.. - 8:30 pm. Brooklyn 9-9.. - 9 pm. The New Girl.. - 9:30 pm. The New Girl
Perhaps Moving the animation block to saturdays.. where COPS was
ReplyDeleteand making sundays a male centric sitcoms block with enlisted, Brooklyn 9-9, Dads And Surviving Jack and moving Us & Them and raising hope to tuesdays..
Totally disagree! :D
ReplyDeleteAs you know originally it was "Inhuman" and then "Human"...what I like about Inhuman and Almost Human is that it points out that this show is about a contrast in what being human is, because we're going to be dealing with something that will attempt to present itself as "beyond human".
It's going to ask us what human is, as humans will surely do deplorable things (Inhumane) and Androids will occasionally go against their protocol on whims of emotional responses! (I'm thinking Observers and Newton) So I like the idea of having a title that points out a "difference" as opposed to not really making that idea aware at all in it's title.
I think they'll try and put their sci-fi/fantasy stuff on another day (maybe Mondays). Friday is still a bit of a death slot. It took a couple years before FRINGE moved there, but I will be curious with 3 and possibly 4 Bad Robot shows out next year, if any of them will end up competing against each other?!
ReplyDeleteall of this sounds good, the behind-the-camera crews are as exciting as the casts
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly why I like ''Human'' more haha! ''Human'' makes it sound like it's about humans/humanity at first, while you would discover when you watch the show that it's actually about androids and their journey of trying to be human (or whatever). That way it has a nice double meaning and a twist, like the title of LOST. ''Almost Human'' just sort of throws that idea in your face like saying ''hey, this show is about androids who try to be human, but AREN'T human!''... Like you say, it sort of points it out for you.
ReplyDeleteHonestly though, I don't care much about the title of the show as long as its good (and has JJ Abrams as a producer)... :D
Love discussing it though! ;)
That's awesome! Is that supposed to be Emma Hill from The Following?
ReplyDeleteYa! If it's good, it's good. It doesn't matter what the title is! -That I can surely agree on! ;)
ReplyDeleteYESS! shes actually the star of that short movie..
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