David Madden President of FOX Entertainment issued a statement regarding the success of the freshman series: Rosewood has proven to be a real self-starter for us, which is a tremendous feat on this highly competitive night. Fox has paired the show with “Empire” in the 8 p.m. Wednesday berth, which has benefitted “Rosewood” as its audience has consistently grown in its second half-hour as viewers await “Empire” at 9 p.m.
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Chestnut plays the title character, Rosewood – as in Dr. Beaumont Rosewood – a gifted, charismatic pathologist, and the best at what he does in all of Miami (FL), who owns one of the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art independent labs in the country, and finds the secrets in corpses that others usually miss. The crime procedural starring Morris Chestnut had flown largely under the radar, getting a fraction of the marketing budgets of high-profile new Fox entries like Scream Queens, Minority Report and starring comedy vehicles Grandfathered and The Grinder.
However, FOX is now planning to air all 10 episodes, promising a conclusion to the story after those episodes.
Meanwhile, Villa struggles with passionate dreams she’s been having about Rosewood, forcing her to explore in her therapy sessions with Kat (guest star Nicole Ari Parker) why she’s having these romantic feelings for him. He teams with Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz), to solve the city’s most challenging cases.
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Rosewood is from Temple Hill in association with 20th Century Fox TV. Additionally, Taye Diggs (Murder in the First) will begin recurring on the FOX series for a multi-episode arc in November. The series was created by Harthan. But a good lead-out can be pretty effective, too, as Fox’s “Rosewood” has discovered. Richard Shepard served as director and executive producer on the pilot.
