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Real-time panic button TV — one day, infinite ticking.
broadcast network
Fox
Fox is a broadcast home for television that still shapes what America (and the world) watches.
Catalog
Shows on Fox
Ally McBeal
Dancing babies, short skirts, and workplace longing — late-’90s cultural flashpoint.
American Idol
Simon Cowell's sneer as national talent infrastructure.
Animaniacs
Warner siblings cause educational chaos — zany variety for kids and parents.
Arrested Development
Callback comedy for people who rewatch like it's a job.
Batman: The Animated Series
Art-deco Gotham with Conroy’s growl — kids’ TV that adults claimed.
Beverly Hills, 90210
Zip-code soap that taught networks teens would show up every week.
Bob's Burgers
Belcher family burger chaos — weird kids, softer dad, endless musical asides.
Bones
Squints, sarcasm, and a Brennan/Booth will-they that ran for years.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Precinct found family — jokes with a moral core and a damn fine captain.
COPS
Bad boys theme, ride-along camera — policing as vérité spectacle.
Empire
Lyon family hip-hop dynasty soap — boardroom knives and chart-topping synergy.
Firefly
Can't take the sky from me — canceled too soon, loved forever.
Futurama
Delivery boy of the future — Groening sci-fi pathos under the jokes.
Glee
Show choir as cultural weather system — mashups, slushies, and Monday mornings.
House
The doctor is an addict, a genius, and a middle finger to bedside manner.
In Living Color
Wayans sketch chaos that minted stars and made Fox feel dangerous.
King of the Hill
Propane and patience — Texas suburbia drawn with surprising grace.
Living Single
Brooklyn brownstone friend group — Black Friends before Friends was a comparison.
Malcolm in the Middle
Single-camera chaos, fourth-wall genius kid, and Lois forever.
Married... with Children
Anti-Cosby family sitcom — shoes, insults, and Fox's early identity crisis as comedy.
Martin
Martin Lawrence’s radio-host swagger — character comedy as Fox counterprogramming.
Melrose Place
Apartment-complex villainy — Heather Locklear enters and the gloves come off.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Morphin time — Japanese footage, American teens, merch supernova.
New Girl
Loft hangout comedy — Jess’s adorkable chaos and Nick’s bartender poetry.
Party of Five
Orphaned siblings keep a family and a restaurant alive — teen prestige tears.
Prison Break
Tattoos as blueprints — serialized escape as summer obsession.
That '70s Show
Basement circle, shag carpet, and “hello Wisconsin” — ’70s nostalgia as late-’90s hit.
The Bernie Mac Show
America — Bernie Mac tells you how it is raising his sister's kids.
The O.C.
Welcome to the O.C., bitch — teen soap with a killer soundtrack.
The Simple Life
Paris and Nicole do farm work — celebutante culture as sitcom.
The Simpsons
Yellow family, infinite couch gags, and the longest-running joke about America itself.
The Tracey Ullman Show
Sketch, song, and the Simpsons shorts that accidentally founded a dynasty.
The X-Files
Trust no one — monster nights and mythology Sundays.
X-Men: The Animated Series
Mutants on Saturday mornings — comic continuity for a mass kid audience.