With all the announcements of next season's schedules it's easy to forget the broadcast networks will still be up and running this summer (barely). But it's good to know Fox will use some of its valuable airtime to promote cable cousin FX's excellent, but little seen, comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Beginning June 11 Fox will air three episodes of the show's first season on Sundays at 9:30, hoping to expose the show to a few more people before it returns for a second season on FX June 29 (with new cast member Danny DeVito). (And if Family Guy ever hopes to justify its existence on the planet—beyond inspiring a couple kickass episodes of South Park and keeping Fox alive opposite Desperate Housewives—leading people to this show just might be the thing to do it.)
I don't know which episodes will air, and it will be interesting to see if they run completely uncut (the show mines "edgy" topics like racism, abortion and child molestation for genuine laughs), but it's pretty much guaranteed that these reruns will be better than anything Fox will be airing come September.
More on that tomorrow...
and more on Sunny, hopefully, later next month.
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