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Fox Announces Premiere Dates for Fall

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Friday, June 06, 2008
Source: Fox Press Release

The latest fall premiere agenda for Fox has been passed around to media outlets. Some of the dates include the premiere dates for the upcoming season of J.J Abrams' Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break. 24 will premiere next January but a two hour prequel movie, based on the originally omitted Africa storyline should be hitting next fall.

FOX has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series and will kick off the 2008-09 season with special two-hour premieres of PRISON BREAK Monday, Sept. 1 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT); BONES Wednesday, Sept. 3 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT); THE MOMENT OF TRUTH Thursday, Sept. 4 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT); and ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER? Friday, Sept. 5 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

FRINGE, the highly anticipated new thriller from J.J. Abrams ("Lost"), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ("Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III," "Alias") and starring Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv and John Noble, will debut with a two-hour premiere Tuesday, Sept. 9 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). DO NOT DISTURB, the new workplace comedy starring Jerry O'Connell and Niecy Nash, will premiere Wednesday, Sept. 10 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT).

New series and returning favorites' premieres are listed below in chronological order. All times are ET/PT.

Monday, Sept. 1


8:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK (2-Hour Season Premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 3

8:00-10:00 PM BONES (2-Hour Season Premiere)

Thursday, Sept. 4

8:00-10:00 PM THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (2-Hour Season Premiere)

Friday, Sept. 5

8:00-10:00 PM ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER? (2-Hour Season Premiere)

Saturday, Sept. 6

8:00-8:30 PM COPS (Season Premiere)

8:30-9:00 PM COPS (Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: AMERICA FIGHTS BACK (Season Premiere)

Monday, Sept. 8

8:00-9:00 PM TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES (Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM PRISON BREAK (Time Period Premiere)

Tuesday, Sept. 9

8:00-10:00 PM FRINGE (2-Hour Series Premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 10

8:00-9:00 PM BONES (Time Period Premiere)

9:00-9:30 PM 'TIL DEATH (Season Premiere)

9:30-10:00 PM DO NOT DISTURB (Series Premiere)

Thursday, Sept. 11

8:00-9:00 PM THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (Time Period Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (Season Premiere)

Friday, Sept. 12

8:00-9:00 PM ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER? (Time Period Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS! (Season Premiere)

Saturday, Sept. 13

11:00 PM-Midnight MADtv (Season Premiere)

Midnight-12:30 AM TALKSHOW WITH SPIKE FERESTEN (Season Premiere)

Tuesday, Sept. 16

8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE (Season Premiere)

9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE (Time Period Premiere)

Sunday, Sept. 28

8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS (Season Premiere)

8:30-9:00 PM KING OF THE HILL (Season Premiere)

9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY (Season Premiere)

9:30-10:00 PM AMERICAN DAD (Season Premiere)

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audioslave69 • Jun 06, 2008, 02:15am •
I saw the commercial anouncing the new season of terminator tonite it looks intresting , im happy they didnt cancel it, it deservd more than a rushed season.

ponyboy76 • Jun 06, 2008, 02:45am •
What about Dollhouse? Or did they cancel it already? It is Joss Whedon and FOX are dicks.

needaname04 • Jun 06, 2008, 04:19am •
I didn't see anything about 24. Being a Lost fan, is anyone excited about Fringe as much as I am. The show looks f'n awesome!

EvilMonkey • Jun 06, 2008, 04:50am •
These are the fall premieres. 24 and Dollhouse are both premiering in January.

On another note, do we really need 2 hr premiers of game shows ?

ponyboy76 • Jun 06, 2008, 04:57am •
Speaking of 24, can anyone dispute that the reason for Obama being so well received as a black president is because we've already had 2, fictionally speaking of course. So Barack, if you win the Presidency, you better thank Jack Bauer.

almostunbiased • Jun 06, 2008, 07:15am •
I guess I don't watch Fox in the Fall.

joeybaloney • Jun 06, 2008, 08:54am •
Thank you for the Fall Connor Chronicles premiere and not making us wait until 2009. Now make that shit two hours!

LOL pony. We’ll find out in September that the Dollhouse premiere was aired July 4th and was canceled the next day. It will have been the 3rd episode in the continuity.
And if Barrack is elected I’m really fearful for 2012.

hanso • Jun 06, 2008, 01:30pm •
House & Fringe on Tuesdays son!

Why do they keep making Prison Break? That should've been just a 1 year show, I stopped watching during the 2nd season.

I'm looking foward to Fringe but LOST will own all pieces of tv cinematography ever created and put together in the history of the western civilization, alien civilizations, the atlantis underwater people and the universe!!!!!!!!!

Yo, is Terminator gonna mess with Heroes time slot, I don't remember, it'd better not cause then I gotta DVR that shit! Heroes like a motha!


joeybaloney • Jun 06, 2008, 01:35pm •
Word on Lost my friend. Heroes has to come back strong though after last season or I'm afraid I'm audi. I can't stand another season of waiting for everybody to get together. We've had enough cross country mutant road trips. Let's start some shit already.

And Word on Prison Break. Unless this season they have to break out of a prison in South Texas where Elvis has been wrongfully imprisoned under an assumed name after faking his death and the warden is actually a 5,000 year old mummy that likes to dress up as a cowboy and steal the souls of the other inmates.

Or it's a woman's prison with tits.

jedi4sshield • Jun 06, 2008, 06:15pm •
Yes to The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I'm glad they didnt cancel. It's round 2, baby. Maybe well see a little John and Cameron Action!!! lol. Plus that Shirley Manson Babe From Garbage, that might be a bonus. Well see.

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