Fox Shares Summer Premiere Dates

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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‘Beat Shazam’ back May 23, ‘Lego Masters’ on May 31

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Fox has shared summer show premieres, including animated comedy Duncanville on May 1, and competition series So You Think You Can Dance on May 18, Don’t Forget the Lyrics! and Beat Shazam debuting May 23, MasterChef on May 25, and Lego Masters beginning May 31. Drama Fantasy Island also begins May 31. 

Duncanville comes from Amy Poehler, Julie Thacker Scully and Mike Scully, with Poehler voicing the teen boy the show is centered on. It is season three. 

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Matthew Morrison and JoJo Sliwa are the judges on So You Think You Can Dance. Cat Deeley hosts. 

Niecy Nash hosts Don’t Forget the Lyrics! Jeff Apploff created the show, which was on Fox 2007-2009. 

Beat Shazam follows Don’t Forget the Lyrics! May 23. Jamie Foxx hosts and executive produces, and his daughter Corinne is the deejay.

Season 12 of MasterChef is MasterChef: Back to Win. Gordon Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez and Joe Bastianich work with the aspiring chefs. 

Season three of Lego Masters is hosted by Will Arnett, who executive produces. 

Season two of Fantasy Island sees Roselyn Sánchez portraying island host Elena Roarke. The original Fantasy Island was on ABC 1977-1984. ■ 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.