FOX SERIES “THE FOLLOWING,” “SLEEPY HOLLOW,” “ALMOST HUMAN,”
“COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY” AND “BOB’S BURGERS”
DESCEND ON NEW YORK COMIC CON 2013
ALMOST HUMAN Screening Kicks Off NYCC on Thursday, October 10
Panels, Autograph Signings
Continue Through Sunday, October 13
PANELS, SCREENINGS & AUTOGRAPH SIGNING SCHEDULE (by day)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
ALMOST HUMAN
Screening: 6:15 PM – Empire Stage 1-E
Step
into the future with a special screening of the highly anticipated
action drama from J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman. ALMOST HUMAN, premiering Monday, Nov. 4
(8:00-9:00
PM ET/PT) on FOX, takes place approximately 30 years in the future –
when being a cop has only become a more dangerous job than it is today.
Following an unprecedented increase in the crime rate, every police
officer must partner with an android. The series
will follow the week-to-week missions of John Kennex (Karl Urban), a
detective and sole survivor of a devastating police ambush, and his
robot partner, Dorian (Michael Ealy), as this buddy-cop duo solve cases
and fight to keep the lid on dangerously evolved
criminals in this futuristic landscape.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
BOB’S BURGERS
Panel: 7:45-8:45 PM – Empire Stage 1-E
Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard and the comedic voice cast, including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy,
will serve up hilarious BOB’S BURGERS footage, followed by a Q&A panel
discussion about FOX’s Emmy-nominated animated series that centers on
the trials and tribulations of a man, his family and their burger joint.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY
Panel: 6:45-7:45 PM – Room 1A23
World-renowned astrophysicist and series host Neil deGrasse Tyson joins executive producer/writer Ann Druyan, executive producer/director Brannon Braga and
executive producer Mitchell Cannold to debut
never-before-seen footage of stylized animated sequences from FOX’s
upcoming COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, followed by a Q&A panel
discussion. Druyan and executive producer Seth MacFarlane have teamed
to conceive a thrilling new 13-part series, premiering in 2014,
which will serve as the successor to Carl Sagan’s Emmy Award- and
Peabody Award-winning “Cosmos: “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,” as it
ventures across the universe of space and time and explores
humanity’s heroic quest for knowledge and the laws of science.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
THE FOLLOWING
Panel: 1:30-2:30 PM – Empire Stage 1-E
Become a follower and join THE FOLLOWING creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson, executive producer/director Marcos Siega and stars Kevin Bacon, James
Purefoy, Connie Nielsen, Shawn Ashmore and Valorie Curry for a special video presentation and Q&A panel discussion. Heading into its intense, spellbinding second season this January
on FOX, hit psychological thriller THE FOLLOWING
catches up with Ryan Hardy (Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award
nominee Kevin Bacon) in the wake of a horrific new murder spree, as he
begins to suspect that Joe Carroll’s (James Purefoy) reign of terror is
far from over.
SLEEPY HOLLOW
Panel: 2:45-3:45 PM – Empire Stage 1-E
Join SLEEPY HOLLOW co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, director/co-creator/executive producer Len Wiseman, co-creator/supervising
producer Phillip Iscove, executive producer Heather Kadin and series stars Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones and Katia Winter for
a special exclusive sneak peek at an upcoming episode and Q&A panel
discussion.
FOX’s newest breakout hit, SLEEPY HOLLOW, which was recently renewed for
a second season, is a thrilling mystery-adventure drama spanning two
and a half centuries, in which a resurrected Ichabod Crane (Mison) pairs
up with a present-day cop (Beharie) to save
the enigmatic town of Sleepy Hollow – and the world – from unprecedented
evil.
