WELCOME (BACK) TO FANTASY ISLAND

Fantasy Island

SERIES PREMIERE

Tuesday, Aug. 10, 9/8c, Fox

warm breezes, wild tales of wish-fulfillment and gentle waves of nostalgia, folks. Thirty-seven years after the late, great Ricardo Montalbán greeted his final guests as Mr. Roarke on ABC’s tropical anthology , Fox is taking us back to the beach for a continuation of the 1978–84 hit. And now, the mythical hot spot’s host is Roarke’s fiercely fabulous grand-niece, Elena (’s Roselyn Sanchez). “Sequel is a with a distinct female point of view.”