FOX Announces Fall 2014 Schedule and New Portfolio of Content (Press Release)

FOX ANNOUNCES FALL 2014 SCHEDULE AND NEW PORTFOLIO OF CONTENT

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."

NEWS: REVENGE Graphic Novel, GAME OF THRONES Trailer, Why the Anthology Series is All the Rage

ABC's REVENGE soap opera spills into graphic novel
The graphic novel takes place years before Emily took the guise of a wealthy Hamptons socialite in the first Revenge episode, and the 19-year-old goes on her first mission in Switzerland after training under her Japanese sensei, Takeda.

"The parts of the history we're bursting to tell is the origin of the woman you see that shows up in the pilot, as differentiated from the girl who was thrown into (juvenile detention) when her dad was taken from her," says REVENGE executive producer Sunil Nayar.

Hardcover graphic novel "Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne," is coming out Sept. 3 from Marvel Comics. The book is written by Erica Schultz and TV series scribe Ted Sullivan, with art by Vincenzo Balzano and Dustin Nguyen.

TRUE DETECTIVE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY and Why the Anthology Series is All the Rage
Anthologies tell shorter stories with set end points. Reality TV competitions may be able to crown a winner after a few months, but a narrative can't be as perfunctory with its arcs and twists. There's the hope among showrunners that the third act of a season can now be a more fully realized anchor of their vision than ever before. Shows canceled at the end of or middle of a season don't have this luxury, and we've all seen plot-heavy series that have had to keep their ultimate finale in sight but always at a distance. What if the end were to come quicker, and at a point everyone's aware of from the start?

Anna Gunn and Jacki Weaver Join Cast of GRACEPOINT

Emmy Award-winning actress Anna Gunn (BREAKING BAD) and two-time Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) will join Welsh BAFTA winner David Tennant (BROADCHURCH, DR. WHO) in the highly anticipated event series GRACEPOINT, set to premiere during the 2014-2015 season on FOX.

Gunn, who won an Emmy Award this year for her role as "Skyler White" on BREAKING BAD, will play Detective Ellie Miller, a happily married wife and mother who is looking forward to a promised promotion. When the job goes to outsider Detective Emmett Carver (Tennant), Ellie is disgruntled - but her disappointment quickly fades in light of tragedy, and she must work her very first murder case with her prickly new partner. As the case progresses, she'll have to look at her hometown, and those she cares about, through a different prism.