20th Century Fox Television announced their plans for their Fall 2008 season and most of them, surprisingly for Fox, sound pretty good. But first up is the news of what won’t be coming back next season. Fox has canceled Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton’s “comedy” “Back to You” along with the supernatural “New Amsterdam” were both canceled. “Back to You” was awful, so that’s no surprise, but what is surprising is Fox’s decision to keep the equally unfunny “Till Death” for a third season.

Now for the good stuff, new shows for this fall: “The Inn”, “Fringe”, “Class Dismissed”, and “Virtuality”. “The Inn” will star Jerry O’Connell in a “hip Gotham hotel” and is penned by Abraham Higginbotham from “Arrested Development” with the pilot helmed by Jason Bateman.

Bateman will also be working on “Class Dismissed”, an animated comedy originally entitled “Sit Down, Shut Up.” Nice. Lots of great names attached with this one: Will Arnett, Henry Winkler and Nick Kroll. Nearly sounds like a “Development” reunion.

A little more exciting is the news of “Fringe” from J.J. Abrams. This one sounds a lot like some of his past work with Alias with a splash of The X-Files and Bones mixed in. Variety describes it as, “revolves around a young femme FBI agent who works with an offbeat scientist to tackle cases involving unexplained medical and scientific phenomena.” Yeah, it sounds a lot like Alias meets The X-Files. Hopefully it’ll be good though.

Lastly is “Virtuality” from director Peter Berg (The Kingdom), which follows a long term NASA space mission and the “limitless world of virtual reality”. Ohh, 1994 sounds so exciting! I do enjoy the sci-fi series, so I hope this one turns out better than it sounds.

Any of these sound like something you’ll set your DVR to catch?

Source: Variety