FX announces June premiere dates for 'Louie,' 'Wilfred,' Charlie Sheen's 'Anger Management' & Russell Brand talk show
All four series will air on Thursday nights
Elijah Wood and Jason Gann will be back for a new "Wilfred" season in June.
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FX has a bunch of new comedy inventory coming up this summer, including new seasons of "Louie" and "Wilfred," the debut of Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management" and Russell Brand's new talk show "Strangely Uplifting." Turns out the plan is to have them all air on the same night, starting Thursday, June 28.
"Wilfred" worked well as a lead-in for "Louie" last season, and that arrangement will continue, with the dark man-in-a-dog-suit comedy airing at 10 and Louis C.K.'s one-man show at 10:30. Both those shows have 13-episode orders.
They'll be followed for six weeks by "Strangely Uplifting," with Brand working in front of a live studio audience. It was originally supposed to premiere this spring but got pushed to summer due to a scheduling conflict for Brand.
"Anger Management" — Sheen's post-"Two and a Half Men" return to sitcoms, co-starring Selma Blair and Shawnee Smith — will air regularly at 9:30, but the night of the 28th we'll get two original episodes at 9 and 9:30. (Every week after that, the previous week's episode will repeat at 9.) Because of the content of most of its series (and because the early primetime hours tend to go to FX's movie library or syndicated repeats of shows like, well, "Two and a Half Men"), they haven't aired an original series before 10 in this post-"Shield" era for the network.(*) "Anger Management" will get 10 episodes for its first season, and like Tyler Perry's TBS sitcoms, the deal is structured such that if the show hits a certain ratings threshold, FX automatically orders 90 more. At press tour, Sheen and producer Bruce Helford seemed unfazed by the idea of doing that many, and at a much faster pace than a network sitcom.
(*) UPDATE: An FX spokesman pointed out that "Anger Management" (which is technically an acquired series) will be rated TV-14, where all of FX's originals tend to be TV-MA.
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February 28, 2012 at 3:41PM EST Reply to CommentWow, i can't wait to watch all these shows, great move FX !
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February 28, 2012 at 4:34PM EST Reply to CommentWill the new seasons of Louie or Wilfred be streamable on Hulu?
mrbilliam How does one find out an answer to the general question of "Will the coming season of (show X) be available on Hulu?" I don't think I ever see that info in press releases or anything. I just find out something isn't available when I go to watch the new episode and it's not there.
February 28, 2012 at 4:38PM ESTsepinwall FX, like a lot of cable channels, is reluctant to do much with Hulu, as they view it as a competitor to their business. So their shows tend to either not be available at all on Hulu, or available only after a long delay, or one episode at a time, or some combination.
February 28, 2012 at 4:42PM ESTFish Generally true, but Wilfred season 1 is actually still on Hulu in its entirety, so I have some hope we'll be able to watch season 2 that way as well.
February 28, 2012 at 6:08PM ESTPlanetix Wilfred is only on Hulu in it's entirety because it's the only way they can get people to watch it.
February 28, 2012 at 6:17PM ESTEL Actually FX is a subsidiary of Fox and Fox is a part owner of Hulu so they are not competitors. That being said even the owners of Hulu worry about the service cannibalizing there own shows.
April 6, 2012 at 2:29PM EST
February 29, 2012 at 1:40AM EST Reply to CommentI sooo can't wait for my Wilfred to start up again!!! So love it.
JH
February 29, 2012 at 3:34AM EST Reply to CommentI'm glad I have a DVR. That way I don't have to care about this shiat sandwich that they are calling a sundae. I can just watch Louie and maybe Wilfred at my leisure and ignore these other jagoffs.
#winning!