Jon Hamm is coming to Fox on January 7th. But you are not going to recognize him. That is because he is playing an animated detective in Grimsburg.
Grimsburg, starring and executive-produced by Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm (Mad Men), centers on Marvin Flute (Hamm), who may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown and correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — himself. To do that he must return to Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, and redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow detectives, his ferociousex-wife and his lovably unstable son.
Grimsburg also stars Erinn Hayes, Alan Tudyk, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Rachel Dratch.
It has been about five months since most of the broadcast shows learned their fate, and today, Welcome to Flatch finally learned if Fox will ask for a third season of the mockumentary series. And the answer is they will not.
“While audience response was not as strong as we had hoped, we were thrilled with the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, as well as the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they assembled,” Fox said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “We look forward to collaborating with them again in the future and are thankful for all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson, and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper.”
Personally, I couldn’t even get through an episode of the show. And the ratings were a disaster. So I was surprised when Fox picked it up for a second season. But I am not shocked that they cancelled it. I am just surprised they waited so long to say so long.
We are used to game shows having small groups of people competing against each other for a prize. Most of the time, it is one person going head-to-head with another. But some of the larger competition shows have around 20 people trying to win the big prize.
Fox is going to up the ante with The Floor, hosted by Rob Lowe. They will have 81 people vying for $250,000 over ten weeks. They will each be given a square to stand on, and when their box is called, they will have a battle of the brains. Only one of them will return to a square and the other one will go home. At the end of the game, only one person will be left standing, and they will be a quarter of a million dollars richer.
This season The Masked Singer is turning 10, so Fox is going big. They are starting things early on September 10th after some football game. And they promise a “special celebrity performance and reveal – one of the biggest, can’t-miss unmaskings in the show’s history!” Bigger than Dick Van Dyke? Highly doubtful. But then again, there are a lot of A-List actors who need money because they are not working due to the strike.
Back to the mysterious singing competition. After that big reveal, the rest will come on Wednesdays starting on September 27th.
And this season, they will be trolling the contestants and Nick Cannon, Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger, and Jenny McCarthy with theme nights, including one dedicated to the new Trolls movie, Trolls Band Together. Along with that theme, there will be a Harry Potter night on Halloween, NFL Night, One Hit Wonders, Disco, 2000s Night, I Wanna Rock, and Soundtrack of My Life.
Wait, you mentioned Elton John, but you haven’t discussed the Rocketman. The masked singers will be singing songs from his catalog that he personally chose for them to sing.
Sounds like it is going to be a season to sing about, so will be singing along with them?
There were reports that the Emmys were being postponed due to the Actors and Writers strikes, and today Fox confirmed it. They announced the new date for television’s biggest night to Monday, January 15th.
I think that means that we will not be seeing our broadcast scripted shows until January at the earliest. So we won’t know who won’t know how the season finales will be resolved until 2024. Damn you, AMPTP. Just come to the table and agree to a deal. It is not that hard. And every day costs you more than you are saving. It is not worth it to you, them, and us, the viewers.
Now, back to the Emmys. I bet you a dollar that Fox is going to ask Foxx, Jamie Foxx, to host. Since the actor is getting better, and he has the music game show, We Are Family, coming to Fox soon.
