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Fox Keeps Shows On The Wild Side

Lynette Rice Los Angeles Daily News

Fox Television, home of hot bods and short skirts, has no plans to let down its hems any time soon, thanks to more new shows that are sure to feed from the Gen X trough.

Yet it’s so long to John Walsh and “America’s Most Wanted,” which has been tracking fugitives for more than eight years. Some sort of tribute to law enforcement’s right hand man will surely be in order.

For the 1996-97 prime time season, Fox recruited Lori Petty of “Tank Girl” to star in “Lush Life,” a comedy about two childhood friends who live together in - where else? - a beachside apartment. The onehour drama “L.A. Firefighters” will feature young hunks in heat, and “Party Girl” will offer its own Holly Golightly, ‘90s style.

The omnipresent “X-Files” not only gets a new night on Sundays, but serves as inspiration for another sci-fi creation for Fox on Fridays. Chris Carter, creator and executive producer of “X-Files,” has now penned “Millennium,” an end-of-time thriller starring Lance Henriksen of “Alien” and “The Terminator.”

And old married folk is the theme of “Come Fly With Me,” a working-class couple with three kids and, basically, no money.

Sure bets “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills, 90210” come back for another go-‘round, as does “Ned and Stacey,” “New York Undercover” and the viewer-challenged “Party of Five.” Out the door, however, are “Partners,” “Space: Above and Beyond,” “Too Something” and “Strange Luck.”