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It's official! We now have the FOX Network TV schedule for 2009-2010, so let the discussion begin!

First, the good news: Some of our favorite shows are returning. Fringe and Lie to Me, the two strongest freshman series, continue to see the network love, as we already knew. Lie to Me moves to Monday night, following House. It's a night of prickly, insulting-yet-adorable geniuses with parental issues and complicated love lives! Just imagine a crossover between those shows -- Lightman as patient, picking up every lie that House and his minions told, or House trying to diagnose weird medical reasons Loker's pathological honesty.

We get two different takes on the FBI on Thursday, as Fringe jumps nights to follow Bones. Twice the horrific corpse effects, twice the fun! Could Booth and Brennan's will they/won't they dance be part of The Pattern? Will Brennan ever be called in to identify some particularly gnarly remains that Olivia, Walter and Peter stumble over? We know, it's unlikely, but this is the sort of thing that keeps us up at night. We need help.

Find out the fate of Dollhouse, Terminator, So You Think You Can Dance and more after the jump!

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As we prepare for the annual Festival of Starch and tryptophan-induced food coma that is Thanksgiving, we've been pondering the things we're thankful for this season on FOX. Here's what's running through our heads as we count our blessings this year:

• Our favorite animated families are still bringing the hilarity - even, in The Simpsons' case, after 20 years!
• No matter what obstacles are thrown in his way, Michael Scofield always has a plan on Prison Break.
• The fabulous relationships on Prison Break. There's the Michael and Sarah love story, of course, but there's also the bond between the brothers, and we still get sniffly when we remember Sucre praying for Michael's health!
• Robots just keep getting sexier on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• Terminator keeps hitting us with new twists - Riley knows Jesse? Ellison is teaching ethics to a rebuilt Cromartie? What's going on?
• That House remains one of the best shows on TV - AND that our doctors don't seem to be turning to House for hints on proper bedside manner!
• Finding out Wilson has a dark side that involves jail time and stained glass windows
• The House and Cuddy kiss!
• Walter Noble on Fringe - we love his stream-of-consciousness food reports, his childlike glee at being out of the mental institution, his matter-of-fact grasp of things that make our head spin - and his frequent paeans to pharmaceuticals. That is one heavily medicated man!
• Joshua Jackson is back on TV - and he's got such a juicy part on Fringe!
• The continuing knee-buckling chemistry between Booth and Brennan on Bones.
• That Brennan figured out that Jared was Booth-Light - and there's no substitute for Seeley!
• Sweets!
• That Gordon Ramsay is cleaning up the countries restaurants one expletive-laden rant at a time.
• Jack Bauer is back - and we'll get Day 7 of 24 in January!
• American Idol returns, and there's a new judge to mix up the dynamic. We can't wait to see how Kara DioGuardi shakes things up!

What about you? What makes your list of reasons to be thankful this year on FOX? Tell all in the comments!  

 

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Every week the announcer tells us that "this week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon faces his biggest challenge yet." I wouldn't really have called this week a "challenge," just a bunch of semi-incompetents working at a restaurant together.

Sante La Brea, when we first saw it, had to be one of the single ugliest restaurants ever created. It was kind of a mish-mash of style and color and had edible grass up on a shelf on the wall. That was, at least in part, Mark the manager's doing. Mark said he wanted the place to be "like no other place you've ever seen." I don't think Mark understood that different didn't necessarily mean good.

Mark wasn't entirely stupid, however. He was definitely smart enough to recognize when Gordon started to feed a turkey patty melt to a dog at a nearby table, that if the dog didn't eat the food the place was definitely in deep trouble. It was good for Mark and Sante that the dog ate it. Maybe if the dog had seen the old rotten food in the kitchen it wouldn't have, but then again maybe it wouldn't have made a difference. Are dogs discriminating? They're not, are they?

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Get out your calendars -- FOX is juggling its primetime schedule to make room from returning favorites and highly anticipated new shows alike! To prepare you for the TiVo shuffle, here's the scoop on whenyou can look for your fav shows:

Jack Bauer and co. return with the movie event 24: Redemption on Sunday, Nov. 23. The new season of 24 kicks off with a two-night, four-hour event, Jan. 11 and 12, then settles into its regular times slot on Monday, Jan. 19.

American Idol returns with a two-night, four hour premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 13 and Wednesday, Jan. 14. After that, it's an hour of Idol every Tuesday and Wednesday starting Jan. 20.

The news series Lie To Me will premiere on Wednesday,  Jan. 21, after Idol. And Dollhouse, the new show from Buffy/Angel/Firefly Wunderkind Joss Whedon, launches Friday, Feb. 13.

Check out the full winter schedule below!

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