I am – Hercules!!
Lots of the Buffiverse types are suddenly turning up as regulars on giant new TV shows! CBS gives us Alyson Hannigan on “How I Met Your Mother” and Amy Acker on “The Unit,” and now Fox has Nick Brendon on “Kitchen Confidential” and David Boreanaz in “Bones.”
In Thursday morning’s Variety, unnamed sources tell Josef Adalian how Fox’s schedule is likely to shake out at the netlet’s upfronts today:
Monday
8 p.m. Arrested Development
8:30 p.m. Kitchen Confidential
9 p.m. Prison Break
Tuesday
8 p.m. Bones
9 p.m. House
Wednesday
8 p.m. That ‘70s Show
8:30 p.m. Stacked
9 p.m. Head Cases
Thursday
8 p.m. The OC
9 p.m. Reunion
Friday
8 p.m. Bernie Mac
8:30 p.m. Malcolm in the Middle
9 p.m. The Gate
Saturday
8 p.m. Cops
9 p.m. America’s Most Wanted
Sunday
7 p.m. Reruns
7:30 p.m. King of the Hill
8 p.m. The Simpsons
8:30 p.m. The War at Home
9 p.m. Family Guy
9:30 p.m. American Dad
RETURNING MIDSEASON:
* American Idol
* Nanny 911
* Trading Spouses
* 24
ON-THE-BUBBLE SHOWS RENEWED:
* Arrested Development
* Bernie Mac
ON-THE-BUBBLE SHOWS DISCARDED:
* Life on a Stick
* Quintuplets
CANCELLED EARLIER THIS SEASON:
* Jonny Zero
* Method & Red
* North Shore
* Point Pleasant
* Tru Calling
NEW:
* "Bones." Hourlong, created by writer Hart Hanson (“Judging Amy,” “Joan of Arcadia”), about a forensic anthropologist and an FBI agent who team up to solve murders. It stars Emily Deschanel (“Spider-Man 2,” “Boogeyman”), David Boreanaz (“Angel”), Michaela Conlin (“The D.A.”), Jonathan Adams (“American Dreams”) and T.J. Thyne (“Ghost World,” “How High”).
* "The Gate." Drama, created by writer Josh Berman (“CSI”), about San Francisco detectives charged with the city’s most “bizarre and twisted crimes.” It stars Johnny Messner (“The OC”), Marguerite Moreau (“The OC”) and Chi McBride (“Boston Public”).
* "Head Cases." Hourlong, created by writer Bill Chais (“The Practice,” “Family Law”), about a hotshot attorney who forms his own firm following a a nervous breakdown. It stars Chris O'Donnell (“Kinsey”), Rachael Leigh Cook (“Josie and the Pussycats”), Krista Allen (“Baywatch,” “Unscripted,” “Feast”), Adam Goldberg (“The Hebrew Hammer,” “How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days”), Aimee Garcia (“A Lot Like Love”) and Rocmond Dunbar (“Earth 2”).
* "Kitchen Confidential." Sitcom, created by writer David Hemingson (“Just Shoot Me!” “Jesse”), about a “bad-boy” New York chef. It stars Bradley Cooper (“Alias”), Jaime King (“Sin City”), Nicholas Brendon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), John Francis Daley (“Freaks and Geeks”), John Cho (“Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle”), Frank Langella (“Unscripted”), Bonnie Sommerville (“NYPD Blue”), Sam Pancake (“Legally Blonde 2”) and Owain Yeoman (“Troy”).
* "Prison Break." Hourlong, created by writer Paul Scheuring (“A Man Apart”), about an innocent man sentenced to die on death row, and the engineer brother who works to engineer his escape. It stars Dominic Purcell (“Blade: Trinity”), Sarah Wayne Callies (“Tarzan”), Robin Tunney (“Vertical Limit,” “The In-Laws”), Wentworth Miller (“The Human Stain”) and Amaury Nolasco (“2 Fast 2 Furious”).
* "Reunion." Flashback-happy hourlong, created by writer Jon Harmon Feldman (“American Dreams,” “Tru Calling”), about friends reunited for their 20th high school reunion. (Each episode will examine a different year in their lives.) It stars Amanda Righetti (Hailey Nichol on “The OC”), Alexa Davalos (Lightning Lass Gwen Raiden on “Angel”), Chyler Leigh (Claire Wyatt on “The Practice”), Sean Faris (Dino Whitman on “Life As We Know It”), and Will Estes (J.J. Pryor on “American Dreams”).
* "The War at Home." Sitcom, created by writer Rob Lotterstein (“Suddenly Susan,” “Will & Grace”), about parents raising teens. It stars Michael Rapaport (“Boston Public,” “Hitch”), Anita Barone (“The Jeff Foxworthy Show,” “Daddio”), Kaylee Defer (“The Mountain”), Dean Collins (“Jack & Bobby”) and Kyle Sullivan (“All That”).
MIDSEASON:
* "Freebirds." Sitcom, created by writer Robert Roy Thomas (Bravo’s “Significant Others”), about a recent college graduate who goes from big man on campus to moving back in with his parents. It stars Josh Dean and Erin Cahill (“Power Rangers: Time Force”).
* "The Loop." Sitcom, created by writer Pam Brady (“South Park,” “Team America: World Police”), about a recent college grad adjusting to a work environment. It stars Bret Harrison (“Grounded For Life”), Becki Newton (“P.S.”), Eric Christian Olsen (“Cellular”), Mimi Rogers (“The Geena Davis Show”) and Philip Baker Hall (“The Amityville Horror”).
