Upcoming Fox Lineup
|According to Zap2It.com Fox’s upcoming animated lineup will be:
Monday to Thursday Beginning August 21 (Eastern Time)
3:00 PM Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus (Monday)
3:00 PM Dungeons & Dragons (Tues. -Thurs.)
3:30 PM Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (new to weekdays)
4:00 PM X-Men
4:30 PM Digimon: Digital Monsters
Friday Programming Beginning August 25
3:00 PM Flint The Time Detective
3:30 PM Dinozaurs
4:00 PM Escaflowne
4:30 PM Digimon: Digital Monsters
Saturday Programming Beginning August 19
8:00 AM Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (season II premiere)
8:30 AM CyberSix (premiere)
9:00 AM Digimon (season II premiere)
9:30 AM Action Man (premiere, August 5)
10:00 AM Beast Machines (season II premiere, August 5)
10:30 AM Digimon: Digital Monsters (new episodes)
11:00 AM Escaflowne (premiere)
11:30 AM Angela Anaconda (new episodes)
The new series joining the line-up include:
Action Man – following the adventures of a young, incredibly athletic thrill seeker, who one day discovers that he possesses the unique ability known as the AMP (Advanced Macro Probability) Factor, enabling him to predict future events by calculating the probable outcomes of all possible actions. Together with his support team of young adventurers, Action Man travels the globe participating in heart pounding sport competitions. When the evil Dr. Prometheus presents a seemingly unstoppable global threat, only Action Man can save the world by combining his athletic abilities with the AMP factor. Produced by Mainframe Entertainment, there are 13 adrenaline-pumping CGI adventures scheduled for the 2000-2001 season.
Cybersix features a rebellious female cyber who refuses to follow her creator’s devious plot for global domination. CyberSix has run away from the mad scientist Von Richter. Disguised as a male high school teacher by day and battling evil by night, CyberSix must strive to keep her identity undercover. TMS Entertainment and NOA is producing 13 episodes.
Dinozaurs – Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs stopped the space Dragozaurs from robbing the Earth’s life-force at a terrible price, their own extinction. Now resurrected by science and turned into an unstoppable force, the Dinozaurs team up with a group of kids determined to stop the Dragozaurs and save their planet. Produced by Sunrise and Bandai, there are 26 “dino-roaring” episodes which combine CGI and cel anime.
Escaflowne – This Japanese anime saga follows the adventures of Hitomi, a female high school student who has visions of events that come to pass with frightening accuracy. Her world is torn upside down when a mysterious swordsman, Prince Van, appears before her and they are suddenly transported to the mystical world of Gaea. Hitomi finds herself in the middle of a battle against the evil Zaibach Empire. Together, Hitomi and Van must learn to master the secrets of Escaflowne, a battle suit of enormous power, and the only hope of saving Gaea. Bandai Visual is producing 26 episodes of this epic fantasy adventure.