With Glee coming to an end, Fox is making sure the network stays in business with Glee creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has handed out a straight-to-series order for comedy-horror anthology Scream Queens.
The 15-episode hour long comedy is expected to premiere in the fall of 2015, with season one revolving around a college campus that’s rocked by a series of murders. New settings and storylines will be featured in subsequent seasons of the anthology series.
Speaking on the new series, Murphy said:
“I knew I wanted to work with Brad and Ian again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing Scream Queens.
“We hope to create a whole new genre — comedy-horror — and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.
We’ve already begun a nationwide search for those women, as well as 10 other supporting roles, and we’re very grateful to [Fox TV Group chairmen and CEOs] Dana [Walden] and Gary [Newman] for their enthusiastic support.”
The series pickup gives Murphy and Falchuk three series on the air — all of them anthologies: FX’s American Horror Story, already renewed for a fifth cycle and FX companion series American Crime Story, the latter of which does not yet have a premiere date.