Fringe and Lie to Me are not doomed. That was the big takeaway from the Fox exec session today at the TCA Press Tour.

Regarding Lie to Me, network president Kevin Reilly called the decision not to order additional episodes this season “a needs thing”, adding, “We’ve got a lot of midseason shows that we’re rolling out and we just have to get a little deeper into the spring and size everything up [before discussing another season]… We’d like to believe there’s [a future] for Lie to Me. It delivers a very loyal audience wherever we put it.”

09/10 Overall Season Highlights

q FOX finished the 2009-10 season as broadcast’s No. 1 network among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Teens.

q FOX ranks No. 1 among Adults 18-49 for the sixth straight season (since 2004/05), No. 1 among Adults 18-34 for the eighth straight season (since 2002/03), and No. 1 among Teens 12-17 for the tenth straight season (since 2000/01).

q FOX finished the season with a +16% advantage over the No. 2 broadcast network and a +37% advantage over the No. 3 and No. 4 networks among Adults 18-49.

q FOX led its next highest-rated competitor by +50% among Adults 18-34 and +62% among Teens this season.

q This past Fall, FOX ranked No. 1 among Adults 18-49, No. 1 among Adults 18-34, and No. 1 among Teens. This marks the first year ever FOX has captured the No. 1 rank among Adults 18-49 during the Fall.

q FOX led 1st quarter 2010 among Adults 18-49, and has won the 1st quarter for the past 8 seasons.

q FOX had ranked No. 1 among Adults 18-49 for the past 6 quarters (1st quarter 2009 to 2nd quarter 2010), the longest streak for any network since 1998.

q FOX had three shows among the season’s Top 10 regular programs among Adults 18-49: AMERICAN IDOL-Tue (No. 1), AMERICAN IDOL-Wed (No. 2) and HOUSE (No. 8).

q FOX had five of the season’s Top 10 regular programs among Adults 18-34: AMERICAN IDOL-Tue (No. 1), AMERICAN IDOL-Wed (No. 2), FAMILY GUY (No. 6 tie), HOUSE (No. 8 tie) and GLEE (No. 10).

q FOX had seven of the season’s Top 10 regular programs among Teens: AMERICAN IDOL-Tue (No. 1), AMERICAN IDOL-Wed (No. 2), FAMILY GUY (No. 3), GLEE (No. 4 tie), CLEVELAND (No. 6), AMERICAN DAD (No. 7 tie) and THE SIMPSONS (No. 7 tie).

q FOX had the three highest-rated nights on television among Adults 18-49: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday.

q FOX ranked No. 1 among Adults 18-49 on 5 of 7 nights of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday), the most nights of any network.

q FOX’s median age of 44 for regular programming is the youngest of the four major broadcast networks – four years younger than the second-youngest network, NBC.

Summer 2010 Program Highlights

HELL’S KITCHEN
q HELL’S KITCHEN ranks as the No. 2 program on television this summer among Adults 18-49.

q HELL’S KITCHEN has ranked among the summer’s Top 3 regular primetime programs among Adults 18-49 for each of its six seasons.

q HELL’S KITCHEN’S 9pm telecast ranks as the summer’s No. 1 program among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Men 18-49/18-34.

q HELL’S KITCHEN ranks No. 1 in its Tuesday 8-9pm time period among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34/25-54 and all key men and women measures.

q HELL’S KITCHEN also ranks No. 1 in its competitive Tuesday 9-10pm time period among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and their male/female components.

q HELL’S KITCHEN surpasses FOX’s summer 2009 average in both Tuesday’s 8pm and 9pm hours among key measures, including Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Total Viewers.

LIE TO ME
q LIE TO ME ranks as the summer’s No. 1 drama among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34/25-54, Women 18-49/18-34 and Men 18-49/18-34/25-54.

q LIE TO ME ranks among the summer’s Top 20 regular primetime programs among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34/25-54 and all key men/women demos.

q LIE TO ME ranks No. 1 in its Monday 8-9pm time period across all key male demos, placing a strong second among Adults 18-49 and Total Viewers.

q LIE TO ME attracts an upscale audience, over-indexing its Total US Adults 18-49 average among “Adults 18-49 with 4+ Years of College” (109 index) and “Adults 18-49 with Household Income of $100K+” (109 index).

MASTERCHEF
q MASTERCHEF had the highest-rated debut of the summer among Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34.

q In fact, MASTERCHEF’s debut ranks as the highest-rated summer series premiere of any network since 2008 among Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34.

q MASTERCHEF ranks No. 1 in its Tuesday 9-10pm time period among all 18-49 and 18-34 measures.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
q SYTYCD ranks as the summer’s No. 1 program among Women 18-34.

q SYTYCD ranks among the summer’s Top 10 regular primetime programs among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and all key women demos.

q SYTYCD has ranked among the summer’s Top 10 regular primetime programs among Adults 18-49 for each of its six seasons.

q SYTYCD ranks No. 1 in its Wednesday 8-10pm time period among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 (tie) and all key female demos.

q SYTYCD ranks No. 1 in its Thursday 9-10pm time period among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and all key female demos.

q SYTYCD attracts an upscale audience, over-indexing its Total US Adults 18-49 average among “Adults 18-49 with 4+ Years of College” (127 index) and “Adults 18-49 with Household Income of $100K+” (123 index).

THE GOOD GUYS
q THE GOOD GUYS ranks as the summer’s No. 1 new drama among Men 18-34 (tie).

q THE GOOD GUYS ranks as the summer’s No. 3 drama overall among Men 18-34 (tie).

q THE GOOD GUYS surpasses FOX’s summer 2009 average in Monday’s 9-10pm time period by +18% among Men 18-49 and +11% among Men 18-34.

You’d better believe that everyone on “Lie to Me” – actors and producers alike – were completely psyched to be able to get Phifer to join their cadre.

“There will be an episode that goes deep into his history as an FBI agent, into Reynolds’ history, and will really split Lightman’s loyalties,” said Baum. “I think over the season, you’ll start to see a friendship develop and be tested in terms of split loyalties throughout the season.”

“The first season… it was kind of experimental in a way,” said Roth. “And a lot of what’s happening now, I think, is that the characters are starting to surface. And a lot of what we’re doing is looking into why they are what they are and how they behave and what their backgrounds are and their secrets are and so forth. It should be quite interesting. It’s great stuff to act, I have to say.”

As far as what else we can expect this season, Brendan Hines’ character, Eli Loker, will be continuing to tell the truth, despite how uncomfortable it tends to make those who are on the receiving end of his truth-telling. “I think this season we’re moving on into other territories for him to sort of explore as far as his research and experimentation. And he’s still putting people in awkward situations, I think.”

Ryan offered further information about Season 2, including the fact that Emmy Award-winning director/producer Dan Sackheim has joined the series. “He’s really kind of retooling the look of the show, and it really looks spectacular,” he said. “The sets have sort of been updated, so the show, I think, is going to look different and feel different as well.”

“Another area that we really want to get into this year that Sam and his team touched on a little bit last year is the idea that not only is (Cal) a master of detecting lies, but really he’s one of the world’s greatest liars,” continued Ryan. “So it’s seeing the flip side of the coin. It’s seeing him insert himself in the situations and lie to people to be someone else. We have a great scene that Matt Olmstead, who ran ‘Prison Break’ last year and who is writing for the show this year, wrote where we meet Cal Lightman at a singles’ mixer. And we think, ‘Oh, is this his hard-up way for a date?’ But really he’s there to check out one of the women for a case. And we see him presenting himself as a suitor to this variety of women that’s just fascinating to see him, the way he lies, and sort of worms his way into the hearts of some of these women. We’re going to see him in other situations where we see him being the liar, not just the lie detector.”

“Also, one of the things this season I’m excited about, particularly as Kelli’s character, Dr. Foster, is newly single and starting to date, is this question of, ‘How much do we want to know?’” said Baum. “How much honesty and at what price? And what is it like when you do this for a living and suddenly you’re single? And the period of dating where normally there would be a fair number of half truths, the person is laid naked. And Lightman can see it as well. And what do they talk about, and what don’t they talk about?”

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“I want to push it a little bit more in a character direction, add a little bit of more adrenaline,” Ryan said, noting that he doesn’t mean he’s going to turn Dr. Lightman into Vic Mackey or Jack Bauer. “I just want to get to know these characters better… The show is ultimately based on a group of scientists. But the fact is they are people who are diving into the middle of charged cases. They are going to be in emotionally and physically harrowing situations at times. And I think the pace of the show will just get some juice.”

In the first season, Baum said he wanted to introduce viewers to the science. But now, with Ryan’s help, the characters will be challenged on a personal level, he added.

The science, Ryan said, differentiates the series from other shows, especially from “The Mentalist,” which features Simon Baker as a mind reader of sorts.

“We want to tell stories that you can’t find anywhere else,” Ryan said. “It can’t just be the tick of the week. Ultimately, what America will care about the show is seeing what these people go through and come together at the end of episodes.”

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