Ryan Murphy gets Fox comedy-horror anthology

American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy will get to mix two unlikely genres, comedy and horror, in a new Fox anthology series, Scream Queens.

Fox on Monday ordered 15 one-hour episodes, which will begin production in the spring and premiere next fall. The first season will focus on a college campus stunned by a series of murders.

Executive producers include Murphy and his colleagues from Fox's Glee, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto. As with Horror Story, a big hit for FX that Murphy created with Falchuk, new seasons would feature new settings and stories.

"I knew I wanted to work with Brad and Ian again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing Scream Queens," Murphy said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "We hope to create a whole new genre – comedy-horror – and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads. We've already begun a nationwide search for those women, as well as 10 other supporting roles."

The Queens pickup marks an early network programming decision for Fox Television Group chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman, who have worked with Murphy as heads of 20th Century Fox Television. The studio will produce the series in association with Ryan Murphy Television.

"One of our top priorities at the network has been to get Ryan Murphy to create a new series for Fox. We loved every element of the pitch for this show – the genre-bending concept, which blends true horror with big comedic moments; the diverse and unforgettable characters and reuniting the phenomenal creative team that delivered Glee," Walden and Newman said in a statement.

Earlier this month, FX ordered a new anthology series from Murphy, American Crime Story.