Fox's real schedule might not start until the new year when its powerhouse "American Idol" begins, but the network is taking November sweeps seriously.

The Fox Friday lineup will be gone after this week, replaced instead with reruns of shows like "House" and "Bones."

Its Friday lineup will get mixed up. "Brothers," which has averaged an overnight of a 1.7 rating/3 share will move to Sundays to replace animated reruns. "Dollhouse" will be taken off the schedule until Dec. 4 where Fox will then move it to 8 p.m. ET and start airing new episodes back-to-back. That will allow it to get through 10 of 13 episodes before the end of the year.

"Til Death," however, seems to be going nowhere. Fox has not announced any plans for that show, which has averaged a 1.5/3 in just two weeks.

The overall Friday schedule has been horrible to Fox's weekly ratings. Where it would track well ahead of NBC for third place through the first part of the week, only to fall behind the struggling network because of its Friday lineup.

Despite the poor ratings of "Dollhouse," Fox has committed to giving the Joss Whedon series a full run of the 13 episodes ordered, although the network has hinted there won't be much more after that.

For more details on what's happening to "Dollhouse" and why, check out Inside Blip's sister site, Airlock Alpha.