Fox Orders to Series The Following, Cancels Alcatraz, The Finder

Another pre-announcement announcement of a prime time crime series order for Fall 2012.

Fox has ordered to series The Following from a previously untitled pilot. The storyline is centered on the complex relationship between a diabolical serial killer (to be played by James Purefoy) and the damaged FBI agent (Kevin Bacon, in his first recurring television series role) who took him down. After the killer escapes, the agent is reactivated and discovers that he is no longer just hunting one man, but a massive cult of serial killers created and manipulated during his time in prison.

More late-breaking news … Fox has canceled Alcatraz, the J. J. Abrams series that seemed to promise so much before it aired but really delivered so little … at least in our opinion. We never watched past the third or fourth episode or so.

And still more late-breaking news … Fox has canceled The Finder, the Bones spin-off (sort of) that we confess we never saw an episode of.