Upfronts 2013: Fox Orders Five Comedies To Series

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' ‘Enlisted,' ‘Us & Them,' ‘Surviving Jack' join Seth MacFarlane's ‘Dads'

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/8/2013 10:15:00 PM

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Fox completed its new series orders late Wednesday evening, adding four comedies (plus the previously-greenlit Seth MacFarlane project Dads) to its earlier pick-up of four dramas for the 2013-14 schedule.

As expected, four of the five pilots have a strong male appeal as Fox looks to broaden out its Tuesday comedy block anchored by New Girl. Getting the greenlight is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a single-camera ensemble comedy about a goofy detective (Andy Samberg) who gets a new straight-laced boss (Andre Braugher), from Parks and Recreation writers/producers Mike Schur and Dan Goor. The series is from Universal Television and 3 Arts Entertainment.

The military-set Enlisted stars Geoff Stults (The Finder) as one of three brothers getting to know each other again among a group of misfits on a small Florida Army base. The single-camera family comedy is from 20^th Century Fox Television and created by Kevin Biegel (Cougar Town).

Based on Justin Halpern's book I Suck At Girls, the single-camera Surviving Jack stars Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU) "as a man becoming a dad, as his son is becoming a man" in 1990s southern California. The ensemble comedy is produced by Bill Lawrence's Doozer Productions with Warner Bros. Television and created by Halpern and Patrick Schumaker ($#*! My Dad Says).

Us & Them, based on the BBC 3 series Gavin and Stacy, is about a young couple (Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel) whose romance is complicated up by their screwed up family and friends. The single-camera comedy is from Sony Pictures Television and BBC Worldwide Productions.

Those four pilots join Dads (which has been upped to 13 episodes from a previous six-episode commitment), a live-action, multi-camera comedy starring Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two successful guys whose lives are upended when their annoying fathers move in with them. The series is created by MacFarlane's Ted partners Alec Sulkind and Wellesley Wild and produced by 20^th TV and Fuzzy Door Productions.

With the five new series, Fox will have eight comedies on its schedule, joining the previously renewed Raising Hope, New Girl and The Mindy Project.