Fox is singing a new tune Tuesday nights in March, when hybrid dramedy Glee goes on a two-month hiatus and the network unveils a brand-new comedy lineup.
Glee’s winter finale will air on Tuesday, Feb. 21, marking the last new episode until the series returns on Tuesday, April 10. That means only three more new episodes until then, including the anticipated Ricky Martin instalment, in which he and the kids perform L.M.F.A.O.’s “Sexy and I Know It.”
Beginning Tuesday, March 6, Fox is shifting sophomore season series Raising Hope to the 8 p.m. anchor timeslot, leading into new episodes of the Jaime Pressly/Katie Finneran series I Hate My Teenage Daughter at 8:30 p.m.
Kicking off the hour at 9 p.m. will be new episodes of Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl, followed by the return of Christian Slater’s spoofy spy series Breaking In, with Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) now a series regular.
Breaking In was all but cancelled last year on Fox, but the network decided at the 11th hour to renew the series, forcing the show to retool in the second season. Mullally joins the show as Veronica Mann, the new owner and boss at Contra Security.
While Golden Globe-nominated New Girl is expected to make it to Season 2, the Tuesday night lineup is something of a tryout for Raising Hope and I Hate My Teenage Daughter, two of the network’s bubble series.
In Raising Hope’s Jan. 31 instalment, fans grew worried about the show’s fate, when creator Greg Garcia’s vanity card at the end of the series featured a kid saying “Oh well” as the catch phrase of the week.
Raising Hope was renewed early in its first season, but hasn’t managed to grow in the ratings despite critical acclaim. Last week the series only pulled in 4.6 viewers, a decline from the previous week’s five million.
I Hate My Teenage Daughter fared slightly better with its numbers on Wednesday nights following The X Factor last fall, but the comedy was still losing at least half of the singing competition’s lead-in audience with an average of five to six million viewers to X Factor’s more than 11 million viewers.
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