Fox’s two-hour space drama Virtuality, airing tonight, is a show about a seemingly doomed mission: an ambitious journey intended to last several years that is in serious danger of being cut disastrously short not long after it launched.    It’s also a TV show about an interstellar space mission. But more about that in [...]

Fox network has followed ABC’s lead in announcing its fall premiere dates. I haven’t yet got the press release (was it something I said?) but while I try to scrounge it up, you can find it at The Hollywood Reporter. The most notable aspect of Fox’s September TV plans is that there are a lot [...]

  Having gone to upfronts for years now, there’s a certain kind of presentation I’ve gotten used to. Network execs get up on stage and present a battery of statistics and selectively culled ratings to prove to advertisers that their dollar goes farther and their ads reach more people on Network X than any other [...]

Fox just issued its fall schedule; see after the jump for the full release. Some highlights: So You Think You Can Dance becomes a fall show; Glee returns (as expected) in fall; Fringe moves to Thursday. The Cleveland Show, announced a year ago, gives Seth MacFarlane a ninety-minute block on Sundays. Dollhouse stays put (though [...]

Friday’s Dollhouse was an intriguing one-off idea regarding the uses of the Dollhouse’s technology—a woman using it to literally return from the dead to witness its aftermath. But it was jarring, once the show had switched gears and committed to the ongoing story of the conspiracy and investigation, to return to the active-of-the-week stories. And [...]

First rule of Tuned In: the amount of time that I take for vacation will be roughly equivalent to the amount of time thereafter making excuses for work that I have not done, because I was on vacation.  Therefore: I am not ready to review the pilot of BSG prequel Caprica—released today on DVD—because the [...]

Fox believes it can make Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne into the next Sonny and Cher. The network announced plans to bring the couple—and the whole Osbourne clan—on board next season as hosts of a new musical-comedy variety hour. Can That ’70s Format be revived? Fox’s answer is, essentially: why the hell not? Says Fox reality [...]

Anna Torv (right) investigates strange biology in Fringe. / Mark Ben Holzberg/FOX TV critics tend to focus so much on new programming that you might forget that the upfronts are, foremost, about selling ads. But though Fox had debuts to announce from a pair of big-name TV creators, arguably the biggest news it made had [...]