Better the Devil You Know: Fox Orders Just 3 New Series for Fall
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As linear TV ratings continue their inexorable downward trajectory and the sheer metric tonnage of original scripted content threatens to blot out the sun, Fox is taking an uncharacteristically conservative approach to its broadcast schedule. A year after ordering 14 projects to series, Fox has picked up just six new shows for the entire 2017-18 campaign.
Only three freshman series are slated to join Fox’s fall roster, where they will join returning hits such as “Empire,” “Lethal Weapon” and the record-smashing institution that is “The Simpsons.” According to Fox Television Group’s co-chair and CEO Dana Walden, the network has brought back no fewer than 17 legacy series, the most in a decade.
Two of the new fall shows are dramas, and two additional genre exercises are scheduled to air in 2018.
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