WWE SmackDown Live is displacing Fox’s live-action comedy block, which could not find a new home on the network’s fall schedule. Meanwhile, sent to a new home for its sixth and final season is drama Empire, whose longtime Wednesday time slot is being taken over by breakout reality spectacle The Masked Singer. Here is…

“This is my hometown, and the people I grew up with,” Bless the Harts creator Emily Spivey told TV critics Wednesday at TCA, after a table read of Act I of the Fox animated series’ pilot episode. “Everything I write secretly takes place in North Carolina,” she said, including the ostrich who plays a role in the pilot…

The Last Man On Earth alumna Mary Steenburgen and Drew Tarver (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) are set for recurring roles on Bless the Harts, Fox’s half-hour animated comedy series from The Last Man on Earth co-executive producer Emily Spivey and executive producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Seth Cohen. They…

Launching a new animated series on Fox has been a top priority for the network’s entertainment president Michael Thorn ever since he joined the network last fall. After commissioning development and presentations for multiple projects in the past 12 months, the network has made its first series order in the arena in a…