Fox Fall Schedule Mostly Draws on Music, Laughs

Fox was the first broadcast network to announce its upcoming lineup, Monday, which will include four comedies and two new dramas.

Dollhouse, the Joss Whedon series that, according to Reuters, didn't meet the viewer reception the network hoped, will return despite its looking prime for cancellation. Fringe will also return for a second season.

Glee, an hour-long musical comedy from Nip/Tuck's Ryan Murphy, about a high school chorus, will premiere Tuesday this week. In staying with that theme, the already successful summer regular, So You Think You Can Dance, will run before Glee on Wednesday nights and also on Tuesday nights, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show, along with former NFL star Michael Strahan in Brothers, as a former NFL star player, and a series about three brothers who pay a substitute father, Sons of Tucson, round out the rest of the new comedic lineup.

Wanda Sykes will star in a new late Saturday night series with discussions and sketch comedy.

New dramas include Human Target, based on the DC Comics series by the same name, about a security guard (Fringe's Mark Valley) willing to do anything to protect his clients and Past Life, a new mystery series based upon the book, The Reincarnationist, about two detectives who look into the past lives of their clients.

But still no word on the number of American Idol judges for next season, according to the Star-Ledger.

According to Reuters, ABC, CBS and NBC will announce their fall lineups later this week.