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Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was once again the champion of Friday night ratings, scoring a solid 0.8 for the 18-49 set in its two-hour slot and helping Fox to an overall network victory. The main attraction was the return of Kane, while Daniel Bryan beat The Fiend by yanking out his dreadlocks. The main event saw…

Fox is coattailing the headlines out of Great Britain with Harry & Meghan: The Royals In Crisis, a one-hour special set to air at 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 29. The network said “the exclusive TMZ investigation will cut through the noise, inaccuracies and speculation surrounding the couple's surprise announcement.&#8221…

At TCA last week, Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn hinted that a new incarnation of 24 may e in the works. As Deadline reported at the time, the new concept, that has been gaining momentum, is being developed by The Resident showrunner Todd Harthan with 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV. Following the TCA…

It’s the end of the road for Fox’s freshman drama series Almost Family. After not getting a back order and being left off the network’s midseason schedule, the family drama is now being pulled from its Wednesday slot for its last two episodes, which will air on Saturday. Also headed to Saturday is Almost Family‘s…

Wrestling and law enforcement in paradise are a mismatch at first glance. But upon closer examination, both seek to triumph over evil-doers and bring order to chaos. Thus, it’s only fitting that Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown and CBS’s crime drama Hawaii Five-0 share the individual show demo wars honors for Friday…

"California here we come, right back where we started from'… unfortunately for Fox the opening lines of The O.C. theme tune will not come true this year. Fox entertainment boss Michael Thorn told Deadline that the youth-skewing, sun-soaked soap "will not happen". "The O.C. will not happen despite my deep passion for…

Fox entertainment chief Michael Thorn lauded the BH90210 quasi-revival as "ballsy" but explained why the network decided against bringing back the series for a second run. The show, which featured the majority of the original cast, minus Luke Perry, was originally billed as a six-episode run and Thorn, who is…

24 and Prison Break are two Fox drama series that the network has been able to successfully revive with 24: Live Another Day and Season 5 of Prison Break. But, following the mixed reaction to 24: Legacy, Fox executives and the series’ producers have been treading carefully when pursuing a potential new installment of…

Fox is set to make a renewal decision on Christmas holiday event series The Moodys in the next couple of weeks, with entertainment chief Michael Thorn saying the network was "really passionate" about the show. The network launched the series, which stars Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins as a cantankerous couple, on…

Almost from the moment Empire made a splashy debut in January 2015 to huge ratings and instant pop culture staple status, there had been talk of expanding the franchise with offshoots. Early in the show’s run, the focus was on potential prequels, including one about young Cookie Lyon, the character played by Taraji P…

Fox is set to order a handful of comedy and drama pilots in January with a view to move completely off-cycle. This comes as the network steps up its push into comedy after not having any new live-action comedies on the fall schedule, with particularly high hopes for Carla, starring The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons…

Fox is developing an adaptation of Korean mystery game show I Can See Your Voice as reality chief Rob Wade eyes bigger, broader formats. The network has piloted a U.S. adaptation of the show, which hails from Korea's CJ ENM, the company behind NBC's Better Late Than Never. It was fronted by Ken Jeong and comes on the…