Fox Adds "L.A.'s Finest" to Fall Schedule
by Matt Webb Mitovich
May 11, 2020


Season 1 of "L.A.’s Finest" — which premiered in May 2019 on the Spectrum cable system — will lead off Monday nights for the broadcaster, which acquired the series from Sony Pictures Television.

"L.A’s Finest" is set to air on Mondays at 8/7c, where it will lead into "neXt", Fox’s (long-delayed) thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence.

Season 2 premieres June 8 on Spectrum.

https://tvline.com/2020/05/11/fox-fall-schedule-las-finest-alba-union-spectrum-series/

How L.A.'s Finest ended up on Fox: Spectrum Originals' Mad About You revival could also end up on network TV (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/la-finest-fox-spectrum-broadcast-tv-home-1234603872/)

Spectrum Originals has a nine-month exclusivity on its original shows like L.A.'s Finest and Mad About You before Sony TV is able to shop them to other platforms. Jeff Frost, president of Sony Pictures Television Studios, says talks with Fox about acquiring L.A.'s Finest actually began before the pandemic, but the network was more interested in its original slate at the time. Talks, however, began to ramp up weeks into the coronavirus shutdown. What about Mad About You on network TV? “Absolutely,” says Frost. “There are all kinds of conversations ongoing in connection with that. Since it aired later, that window hasn’t opened up yet, but it’s definitely in the discussion stage.”

Don't miss the broadcast premiere of "L.A.'s Finest", Monday Sept. 21st only on FOX!


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How much of L.A.'s Finest was changed to make it broadcast-friendly for Fox? (https://www.thewrap.com/las-finest-season-1-fox-premiere-changes-season-2-spectrum-originals/)

Fox's Dan Harrison tells The Wrap of L.A.'s Finest, which makes its network debut tonight at 8 p.m.: "There are some Standards and Practices notes, but this is not bringing The Sopranos to A&E, to basic cable, where they really had to edit that show substantially. This did not require that kind of work. It did require some, it is not running as is, but it didn’t require a lot.” Co-showrunner Brandon Margolis adds: “Fox has been great about keeping the spirit of our content the same. Obviously there’s language freedoms that we have on Spectrum that we have to avoid on Fox. And there’s the run time differential. But other than that there really have been no creative or storytelling restrictions that Fox has put on us, other than obviously making us broadcast-friendly in terms of language and skin and violence and all the things you’d expect.”