By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2011 12:30 pm EST
We’ll start with the good news. Recently, Alcatraz was thought to be on the bubble but the fact that it got picked up should excite anyone who loved Lost or currently loves Fringe. The show is about a bunch of prisoners on The Rock who disappear in the 1960s and reappear today. Not only are Neill and Garcia cast, Sarah Jones will play one of the FBI agents tasked with capturing these fugitives and figuring out how they traveled through time.
Also on the good news side, Fox’s relationship with the Deschanel sisters continues. Of course Bones, with Emily Deschanel, is coming back, but her sister Zooey Deschanel now has her own show too. She’s starring in The New Girl, where she’ll play a normal girl with three crazy roommates. It’s a single camera comedy. They’ll also premiere The Finder, a Bones spin-off and I Hate My Teenage Daughter with Jaime Pressly.
Now onto the bad news. Fans were excited about the possibility of Locke & Key making it to television but, alas, that won’t be happening. It might be shopped to other channels but that’s just a rumor at this point. The show, about a family moving into a haunted house, kind of seems like it would find a good home on SyFy or something like that. We’ll wait and see.
For more on these shows, as well as others that are coming and going, head over to The Hollywood Reporter. Are you more excited for Alcatraz or upset that Locke & Key and Chicago Code are gone?
