FOX unveiled their fall schedule Monday, and now here's our first peek at their new shows. Is there a future hit among the bunch? Let the speculation begin!
Watch the official trailers below:
Prodigal Son
Mondays at 9:00pm
Malcolm Bright's father was one of the worst — a notorious serial killer called “The Surgeon.” That’s why Bright is the best criminal psychologist around; he knows how killers think, how their minds work. He will use his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers, all while dealing with a manipulative mother, an annoyingly normal sister, a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son, and his own constantly evolvin
Pilot Cast: Tom Payne, Michael Sheen, Bellamy Young, Lou Diamond Phillips, Aurora Perrineau, Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Halston Sage.
Read our Pilot Script Review of Prodigal Son
Deputy
Midseason
Bill Hollister is a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors and utterly lost in a staff meeting, but when the LA County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.
Pilot Cast: Stephen Dorff, Yara Martinez, Brian Van Holt, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Mark Moses, Siena Goines.
Read our script review of Deputy
Outmatched
Midseason
A blue-collar couple in South Jersey tries to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.
Pilot Cast: Maggie Lawson, Jason Biggs, Tisha Campbell-Martin.
Almost Family (previously known as Sisters and then Not Just Me)
Wenesdays at 9:00pm
Only child Julia Bechly finds her life turned upside down when her father is forced to reveal that over the course of his pioneering career as a fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive dozens of children.
Pilot Cast: Brittany Snow, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Emily Osment, Timothy Hutton, Mo McRae, Mustafa Elzein, Victoria Cartagena.
Read our script review of Almost Family
Filthy Rich
Midseason
When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the steel azalea matriarch of the family, Margaret Monroe, tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town but becoming part of the family empire.
Pilot Cast: Kim Cattrall, Gerald McRaney, Aubrey Dollar, Melia Kreiling, Corey Cott, Mike Harris, Benjamin Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin.
Read our script review of Filthy Rich
NeXt
Midseason
A brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world’s first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue AI with the ability to continuously improve itself. Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we’ve never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.
Pilot Cast: John Slattery, Eve Harlow, Jason Butler Harner, Michael Mosley, Gerardo Celasco, Fernanda Andrade.
For complete coverage of this week's upfronts, including more trailers as they're released, keep an eye on our pilots area
Jean-Maxime Renault is a TV addict based in Paris who writes about television and movies on AlloCiné (aka "the French IMDB"). In 2015 he created Season Zero, a website about television development and pilot season, which is now a part of Primetimer. Follow him on Twitter @SeasonZeroCom
TOPICS: FOX