Rising actor and sketch-comedy star Affion Crockett (The Boondocks, Dance Flick) – whose incisive web shorts have created a cult following – will star in and also serve as a producer of this fast-paced comedy.

“Jamie Foxx’s brilliance first shined on FOX, so it’s fantastic to welcome him back to the network,” said Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. “Jamie is an undeniable comedy powerhouse both as a performer and a producer, and teamed with the outrageous next-generation comedy of Affion Crockett, we look forward to the next wave of sketch comedy on FOX.”

“I’m looking forward to delivering a groundbreaking new series and working closely with the talented team at FOX again,” said Foxx.

In the vein of the groundbreaking and network-defining In Living Color, Jamie Foxx Project (working title) will offer a fresh take on pop culture, including spoofs of movie trailers, commercials, TV shows, music videos and celebrities, with a diverse cast made up of the very best new young comedians on the scene today. Additionally, some of the biggest names in Hollywood will be stopping by for a visit.

In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. Knowing there is no way to reverse the damage to the planet, a coalition of scientists has managed to open up a fracture in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race…possibly changing the future by correcting the mistakes of the past.

The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first colony of humans in this second chance for civilization. Jim Shannon (O’Mara), a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family – wife Elisabeth and children Josh and Maddy – through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. In addition to blue skies, rolling rivers and lush vegetation, Terra Nova offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. These adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding Terra Nova are filled with dangerous dinosaurs and other prehistoric threats, as well as external forces that may be intent on destroying this new world before it begins.

Look for FOX to show a preview episode of Terra Nova in May 2011 (as they did with Glee last year), then formally debut the series in Fall 2011.

This show has the potential to be huge this season. Con artists and big oil, potential for bigamy (think Dallas-sized drama) and it’s on FOX. This could be this year’s show for the American everyman, and we’re already trying to pipeline our way to Episode 2.

“I think I had a bit of a hankering to get back to a domestic comedy of sorts, and do more of a family-based show, but I wanted to do so in a more outrageous and peculiar way,” says Garcia.

Thankfully, the quality of the comedy leans a little closer to Earl. Raising Hope is inhabited by the same type of bizarre, blue-collar characters who made that show oddly endearing. Newcomer Lucas Neff plays Jimmy Chance, a 23-year-old guy who can barely take care of himself, let alone the baby he has just been charged with raising, after his partner in a one-night stand turns out to be a fugitive destined for death row. With nothing better to do with his life, he takes on the challenge with gusto and a complete lack of know-how. That’s where his parents, who were similarly unprepared to raise him as teenagers, come in. In our favorite bit of casting this season, Garcia tabbed the Emmy- and Tony-nominated Plimpton — who you also might remember as one of the Goonies — as Jimmy’s unlikely sitcom mom.

“I was just kind of Googling birthdates of actresses of around the time that I think this person should be and boom, there was her name. And I was like, ‘Oh my God. Martha Plimpton. I love Martha Plimpton.’”

We do, too. And while it’s still too early to tell for sure, we think we’re also pretty fond of Raising Hope.

Viewers might find some of the show’s jabs at oil companies (Wilde Oil’s slogan is “We’ll Clean Up Tomorrow!”) especially poignant in the wake of the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. “The oil ecological disaster occurred while we were shooting the pilot, and it was a little bit eerie that we had this character on our show, the heir to an oil fortune, who is in love with a woman who is desperately fighting companies like this — and not only that, but actually sending so-called oil bombs,” Arnett tells us. “All this sort of stuff, it seemed very strange. Maybe it just means that our show is very contemporary, that we’re of the times. I have no idea. But I can say that it was a little bit eerie, and I can’t say I know how we’re going to deal with that going forward. We’re certainly not making light of what happened.”

What to Expect: Everyone reunites, and Booth enters a new relationship with a character played by Katheryn Winnick and just might be flashing some see-what-you’re-missing-out-on vibes Bones’ way. We’re going on six seasons now. Will these kids ever get together? Rumors of a death among the team have been floating around as a new, dangerous foe arises. Guest stars include David Alan Grier (In Living Color) as a Bill Nye the Science Guy-type TV host, and Antonio Sabato Jr. (General Hospital) as a club bouncer.

What to Expect: Guest appearances by John Stamos, Javier Bardem, Charice and possibly Jennifer Lopez and Susan Boyle; the return of Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel; a boyfriend for Kurt; some new cast members; and, of course, lots of music, including a Britney Spears-themed episode (starring Spears herself, airing Sept. 28), another Madonna tribute and songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.