Fox Orders Four New Dramas, ree Comedies

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Fox said it has placed series orders for four dramas and two comedies for the 2016-17 season.

The shows feature actors including Justin Kirk, Ernie Hudson, Geena Davis, Alan Ruck, Damon Wayans Sr., Jordana Brewster, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Bob Balaban, and Leighton Meester.

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One drama is based on the movie franchise Lethal Weapon. Another looks at the Exorcist story 40 years after the iconic horror classic. The other dramas are Pitch, about the first woman to play Major League Baseball, and APB, a police drama set in Chicago about billionaire who buys a precinct to rethink how to fight crime.

Making History is a single-camera comedy about three time-travelling buddies and The Mick features Kaitlin Olson as Mackenzie Mickey Murphy, a brash, blue-collar hustler who can achieve an opulent lifestyle if she takes custody of her sisters three high-maintenance kids.

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Here are more details on the shows from Fox:

DRAMAS

APB (20th Century Fox Television)

Format: Police Drama

WRITER: Matt Nix

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Matt Nix, Len Wiseman, Dennis Kim, Todd Hoffman, Robert Friedman

DIRECTOR: Len Wiseman

Logline:

Inspired by true events, APB is about the Chicago Police Department spiraling out of control amid sky-high crime, officer-involved shootings, cover-ups and corruption. After witnessing a violent crime first-hand, genius tech billionaire GIDEON REEVES (Justin Kirk), decides to do something about it, putting up millions of dollars of his own money to take over the troubled 13th Precinct and reboot it as a private police force: better, faster and smarter than anything seen before. With cutting-edge technology and revolutionary new ideas, Gideon plans to rethink everything about the way cops fight crime.

CAST:

Justin Kirk as Gideon Reeves

Natalie Martinez as Officer Theresa Murphy

Eric Winter as Scott Murphy

Ernie Hudson as Sgt. Ned Conrad

Taylor Handley as Officer Nicholas Brandt

Tamberla Perry as Officer Tasha Goss

Caitlin Stasey as Ada Hamilton

THE EXORCIST (20th Century Fox Television, Morgan Creek Productions)

Format: Drama/Psychological Thriller

WRITER: Jeremy Slater

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jeremy Slater, Rolin Jones, James Robinson, Barbara Wall, David Robinson, Rupert Wyatt

DIRECTOR: Rupert Wyatt

Logline:

More than four decades after the Academy Award-nominated film solidified itself as the greatest horror movie ever made, THE EXORCIST returns in series format as a propulsive psychological thriller following two very different priests tackling one family's case of horrifying demonic possession.

CAST:

Geena Davis as Angela Rance

Alfonso Herrera as Father Tomas Ortega

Ben Daniels as Father Marcus Lang

Brianne Howey as Katherine Rance

Hannah Kasulka as Casey Rance

Alan Ruck as Henry Rance

Kurt Egyiawan as Brother Bennett

LETHAL WEAPON (Warner Bros. Television, Good Session Productions, Lin Pictures)

Format: Police Drama

WRITER: Matt Miller

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Matt Miller, McG, Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz

DIRECTOR: McG

Logline:

Based on the hit movie franchise, LETHAL WEAPON rides along with classic cop duo MARTIN RIGGS (Clayne Crawford) and ROGER MURTAUGH (Damon Wayans, Sr.) as they work a crime-ridden beat in modern-day Los Angeles.

CAST:

Damon Wayans, Sr. as Roger Murtaugh

Clayne Crawford as Martin Riggs

Jordana Brewster as Dr. Maureen Mo Cahill

Kevin Rahm as Captain Brooks Avery

Keesha Sharp as Trish Murtaugh

PITCH (20th Century Fox Television)

Format: Drama

WRITERS: Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer, Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett

Jess Rosenthal, Kevin Falls, Paris Barclay

DIRECTOR: Paris Barclay

Logline:

PITCH is the emotional story of young pitcher GINNY BAKER (Kylie Bunbury), a beautiful, tough and incredibly gifted athlete who instantly becomes the most famous person in the country when she's called up by the San Diego Padres, making her the first woman to play Major League Baseball.

CAST:

Kylie Bunbury as Ginny Baker

Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Mike Lawson

Ali Larter as Amelia Slater

Mark Consuelos as Oscar Arguella

Dan Lauria as Al Luongo

Michael Beach as Bill Baker

Bob Balaban as Frank Reid

Mo McRae as Blip Sanders

Meagan Holder as Evelyn Sanders

Tim Jo as Eliot

COMEDIES

MAKING HISTORY (20th Century Fox Television)

Format: Single-Camera Comedy

WRITER: Julius Goldie Sharpe

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Julius Goldie Sharpe, Seth Cohen

DIRECTOR: Jared Hess

Logline:

MAKING HISTORY chronicles three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present-day lives. Two shows in one, it's both a rollicking historical adventure, and a contemporary comedy about love, friendship and trying to fit in to an increasingly complex and impersonal world.

CAST:

Adam Pally as Dan

Leighton Meester as Deborah

Yassir Lester as Chris

THE MICK (20th Century Fox Television)

Format: Single-camera Comedy

WRITERS: John Chernin, Dave Chernin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: John Chernin, Dave Chernin, Nick Frenkel, Oly Obst, Randall Einhorn

DIRECTOR: Randall Einhorn

Logline:

Mackenzie THE MICK Murphy (Kaitlin Olson) is a brash, blue collar, two-bit hustler who has spent her entire life gaming the system and shirking any semblance of responsibility. But when her estranged sister and billionaire brother-in-law flee the country to escape federal charges, the opulent, care-free life Mickey has always envied is

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