FOX today announced changes to its fall lineup on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Bones moves to Tuesdays at 8:00 PM as of Sept. 25; KITCHEN NIGHTMARES shifts to Wednesdays at 9:00 PM, starting Sept. 19; and Don’t Forget the Lyrics hums along on Thursdays at 9:00 PM, beginning Sept. 6.
Season Three of BONES, the darkly amusing procedural centering on a brilliant forensic anthropologist (Emily Deschanel) who teams with a dashing FBI agent (David Boreanaz) to solve crimes, premieres Tuesday, Sept. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. New unscripted series Kitchen Nightmares, in which fiery master chef Gordon Ramsay attempts to transform failing restaurants into popular hot-spots, serves its first course Wednesday, Sept. 19 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). And Don’t Forget the Lyrics, with a $1-million prize awaiting contestants who can sing 10 missing lyrics in 10 hit songs, has its time-period premiere Thursday, Sept. 6 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).
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Leading off the game-show tandem on Thursdays is the A+ hit Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, which now premieres with a special one-hour class session on Thursday, Sept. 6 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and, as previously announced, also will air on four fall Fridays: Sept.14, Sept. 21, Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).
Later in the fall, Fridays will rock with American Band. The producers behind mega-hit phenomenon American Idol take the musical reality genre to a whole new level in a search for the nation’s best undiscovered bands, starting with the two-hour series premiere Friday, Oct. 19 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. American Band’s regular time period will be Fridays, 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT, leading into Nashville.
The freshman drama New Amsterdam, previously announced for Tuesdays at 8:00 PM in the fall, will be rescheduled in midseason.
The updated FOX fall schedule is as follows (all times ET/PT):
Mondays (as of Sept. 17):
8:00-9:00 PM : Prison Break (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM : K-Ville (Series Premiere)
Tuesdays (as of Sept. 25):
8:00-9:00 PM : Bones (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM : House (Season Premiere)
Wednesdays (as of Sept. 19):
8:00-8:30 PM : Back to You (Series Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM : ‘Til Death (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM : Kitchen Nightmares (Series Premiere)
Thursdays (as of Sept. 6):
8:00-9:00 PM : Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (1-hour season premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM : Don’t Forget the Lyrics (season premiere)
Fridays (as of Sept. 14):
8:00-9:00 PM : Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (4 weeks only)
9:00-10:00 PM : Nashville (series premiere)
Friday, Oct. 19:
8:00-10:00 PM : American Band (2-hour series premiere)
Saturdays (as of Sept. 8):
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT : Cops (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT : Cops (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT : America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back (Season Premiere)
Saturdays, late-night (as of Sept. 15):
11:00 PM-Midnight : Mad TV (Season Premiere)
Midnight-12:30 AM : Talkshow with Spike Feresten (Season Premiere)
Sunday, Sept. 23:
8:00-8:30 PM : The Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM : King of the Hill (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM : Family Guy (1-Hour Season Premiere)
Sundays (as of Sept. 30):
8:00-8:30 PM : The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 PM : King of the Hill 9:00-9:30 PM : Family Guy (Time Period Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM : American Dad! (Season Premiere)
