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Stability has been nan taxable of each 2026-27 broadcast schedules released truthful far, and Fox fits that to a t pinch a autumn 2026 lineup that intimately mirrors nan autumn 2025 one.
“90% of our slate is returning shows,” Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade said during a pre-upfront telephone Sunday astir nan 2026-27 lineup, which includes 3 precocious floor plan caller series, dramas Baywatch and The Interrogator and making love reality show Marriage Market.
The biggest quality from past play is connected Sunday wherever live-action drama Animal Control is logging its first autumn motorboat arsenic portion of nan network’s Animation Domination artifact while 1 of nan block’s longtime anchors, animated staple Bob’s Burgers, has been taken retired of nan autumn starting lineup and put connected nan reserve database for nan first clip successful 14 years.
Like successful 2025, Fox’s reality and sports-dominated autumn 2026 schedule has 1 nighttime of scripted programming extracurricular of nan Sunday animated block. That leaves 4 caller and returning play series, including nan overmuch buzzed astir Baywatch reboot, 3 of nan network’s 4 signature animated bid and a slew of reality shows, including seasoned The Masked Singer, which switched to 1 rhythm a twelvemonth past season, waiting successful nan wings for midseason.
Here is Fox’s Fall 2026 schedule, followed by study and further accusation arsenic good arsenic descriptions of nan network’s caller series:
FOX FALL 2026 SCHEDULE
(All Times ET/PT)
MONDAY
8-9 PM – Celebrity Name That Tune
9-10 PM – Celebrity Weakest Link
TUESDAY
8-9 PM – Best Medicine
9-10 PM – Doc
WEDNESDAY
8-9 PM – The Floor
9-10 PM – 99 To Beat
THURSDAY
8-9 PM – Hell’s Kitchen
9-10 PM – Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
FRIDAY
8 PM-CC ET/ – Fox College Football Friday
5 PM-CC PT
SATURDAY
7-10:30 PM ET/ – Fox Sports Saturday
4-7:30 PM PT
SUNDAY
7-7:30 PM – NFL On Fox
7-8 PM – The OT / Fox Animation Encores
8-8:30 PM – The Simpsons
8:30-9 PM – Animal Control
9-9:30 PM – Universal Basic Guys
9:30-10 PM – Grimsburg
Like NBC, Fox is expanding its scripted footprint by bringing backmost each of its existing bid isolated from sophomore drama Going Dutch while adding 2 caller dramas successful Baywatch and The Interrogator. The web besides is returning a whopping 17(!) unscripted bid adjacent season, including six from Gordon Ramsey.
“We’ve had specified a beardown twelvemonth pinch six freshman renewals,” Fox’s EVP of Program Planning and Content Strategy Dan Harrison said. That includes nan 3 breakout hits Fox introduced successful midseason, dramas Memory of a Killer and Best Medicine and reality reboot Fear Factor: House of Fear. “Our strategy for adjacent play is to support our sophomore shows strong.”
That is down Fox’s determination to instrumentality pinch its midseason “night of aesculapian marvels” Tuesday lineup of Best Medicine and Doc, arsenic Harrison put it, putting Doc‘s autumn 2025 companion Murder In a Small Town connected standby for midseason.
“It’s a immense privilege to return our sophomore shows arsenic importantly arsenic possible, and getting Best Medicine backmost connected nan aerial successful nan autumn pinch Doc again connected Tuesday nights to america felt for illustration a really powerful move, some for nan nighttime arsenic a network, but besides successful nan champion liking of Best Medicine as a perchance long-running show for us,” Fox Television Network President Michael Thorn said.
The comedic Best Medicine, starring Josh Charles, which is owned by nan network, has a 14-episode bid for Season 2, up a notch from nan 13-episode first season.
Doc — which Thorn said is “establishing itself arsenic a defining portion of our schedule” amid continuing multiplatform maturation — is astatine 22 episodes for a 2nd consecutive season, a supersized (by today’s broadcast standards) order.
Which bid will win Best Medicine alongside Doc connected Tuesday is TBD. With 4 dramas connected nan runway — Memory of a Killer, starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli, Murder In a Small Town, headlined by Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, Baywatch, with Stephen Amell, Noah Beck and Shay Mitchell, and The Interrogator, starring Stephen Fry and Jenna Elfman — Harrison confirmed that Fox will unfastened a 2nd nighttime of play programming successful midseason, declining further details. This season, Memory of a Killer launched connected Monday down reality title bid Extracted.
Baywatch will premiere successful January. Harrison would not corroborate whether it will get a typical premiere down an NFL crippled connected Sunday but that is likely.
“Like we did past season, we’ll usage midseason and each nan levers that we person astatine Fox pinch sports and our trading strategy, and we dream to repetition what we did past play pinch our caller shows,” Thorn said.
This season, Best Medicine, Memory of a Killer and Fear Factor: House of Fear each launched connected Sunday pursuing a shot game, each drafting 15 cardinal aliases much multiplatform viewers for their premieres.
“Baywatch is simply a huge, immense privilege for us, and we deliberation we person a awesome opportunity to group nan show up for occurrence there,” Thorn said astir nan determination to clasp nan bid until January, calling nan reboot “pure escapism pinch a formed that blends apical tv talent pinch awesome societal influencers.”
The changing of nan defender successful Fox’s signature Sunday animated artifact continues. While The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers remain nan block’s tentpoles, nan web nary longer relies connected its biggest animated hits to footwear disconnected nan season. After opting 2 years agone to hold Family Guy for midseason, nan web is doing nan aforesaid with Bob’s Burgers this year. Heading into its 17th season, it will beryllium nan first clip nan animated bid has not been connected nan Fox autumn schedule since its 2nd installment.
Meanwhile Fox’s live-action drama Animal Control, which has been a midseason starter for its full four-season tally to date, is connected nan autumn schedule for nan first clip arsenic portion of nan Sunday animated block. While not unprecedented — Fox’s Malcolm In nan Middle aired almost exclusively alongside animated comedies connected Sunday –the web has been bulking up its big animation roster and had not put a live-action drama connected Sundays since autumn 2018 (Rel).
“We talk astir animation and live-action, but our assemblage views animation arsenic immoderate of nan top comedies successful TV history, and moving Animal Control to Sunday nighttime gives that show a awesome opportunity for success,” Thorn said. “It’s a very important show for us. We ain and administer it, and tonally we deliberation it tin fresh successful and build further upon nan occurrence it’s had connected Fox and Hulu and astir recently, connected Netflix.”
With Animal Control taking a slot alongside Grimsburg, The Simpsons and Universal Basic Guys, Fox has 4 animated bid connected nan bench: Bob’s Burgers (Season 17), Family Guy (Season 25) and American Dad! (Season 21), which are connected pat for later successful 2026-27, and Krapopolis, whose adjacent play is being produced but not slotted yet. (It is not uncommon, Grimsburg, for instance, skipped nan 2025-26 season.)
Overall, “we consciousness very bully astir wherever Fox is correct now,” Wade said. “We person a strong, unchangeable slate of returning hits, a focused pipeline of caller series, and a broader strategy that continues to grow really we build and turn our business.”
That pipeline includes 2 bid ordered for nan 2027-28 season, a Highway To Heaven reboot and the Family Guy spinoff Stewie.
Over nan past mates of years, Fox has streamlined its play slate into 3 lanes, aspirational shows specified arsenic Best Medicine, Doc and Baywatch, to beryllium joined by Highway To Heaven, crime dramas for illustration Memory of a Killer and The Interrogator, and cozy crime, which blends nan two, for illustration Murder In a Small Town.
NEW DRAMA SERIES
Baywatch — First hitting screens successful 1989, Baywatch became nan most-watched show successful nan world, airing successful much than 200 countries and astatine its highest reaching much than a cardinal viewers weekly. The caller loop finds wild-child bequest characteristic Hobie Buchannon (Stephen Amell) serving arsenic a Baywatch Captain, pursuing successful nan footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch. Hobie’s world is turned upside down erstwhile his girl Charlie Vale (Jessica Belkin) shows up connected his doorstep eager to transportation connected nan Buchannon family legacy. The bid besides stars Shay Mitchell arsenic Trina, Hassie Harrison arsenic Nat, Thaddeus LaGrone arsenic Brad, Noah Beck arsenic Luke, and Brooks Nader arsenic Selene. In recurring roles, Livvy Dunne will make her acting debut arsenic Grace and David Chokachi will reprise his original bid characteristic of Cody Madison. Baywatch is co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Fremantle pinch Matt Nix (Burn Notice, The Gifted) serving arsenic showrunner and executive producer. McG, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto and Mike Horowitz are executive producers. McG directed nan bid premiere.
The Interrogator, an all-new espionage thriller starring, written and executive-produced by actor-comedian Stephen Fry (Wilde, Blackadder). Set successful Washington, D.C., The Interrogator centers connected erstwhile MI6 supplier Conrad Henry (Fry) and his handpicked squad of superb outsiders. When accepted methods person failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him nan only man capable to lockpick nan minds of nan world’s astir vulnerable criminals. Cast besides includes Jenna Elfman, Jessica Sula, Michael Beach, Luke Kleintank and Maria Zhang. The Interrogator is co-produced by Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment. The aviator book was written by Fry, pinch revisions from Matt Pyken, as good arsenic William Harper. Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie are executive producers and showrunners. Fry executive-produces alongside William Harper and Paul McGuigan, who also will direct. Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Miriam Mintz, Matt Pyken, Neil Burger and Anonymous Content besides service arsenic executive producers connected nan series.
NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES
Marriage Market, from Fox Entertainment Studios, is an original Fox-owned bid slated for 2027. In it, existent singles fresh for matrimony relinquish full power of their emotion lives to their closest family members, who wed them disconnected astatine a marketplace for illustration nary other. Hosted by actress, comedian and podcaster Whitney Cummings, nan bid welcomes singles – who are officially complete swiping, ghosting and endless first dates — into an existent Marriage Market, wherever they’re up for trying thing radical…putting their emotion lives successful nan hands of family members that cognize them champion and risking it each for 1 changeable astatine everlastingly – successful an arranged marriage. Filled pinch humor, heart, heartbreak and unpredictable outcomes, Marriage Market is a one-of-a-kind, immersive matchmaking acquisition wherever families travel together pinch 1 extremity successful mind: helping their azygous family personnel find a meaningful, lasting match. Inside this vibrant, real-world setting, families meet, link and advocator for their loved 1 arsenic they hunt for a cleanable partner. The rules are simple. When 2 families judge they’ve recovered a match, their singles are introduced and engaged connected nan spot – pinch nan eventual extremity of making it to nan altar. From there, nan couples and their families move successful together, navigating real-life compatibility, large personalities and moreover bigger expectations. At immoderate point, each of nan recently matched singles’ families tin determine they’ve recovered them “the one,” aliases nonstop their azygous loved 1 backmost into nan Marriage Market for different chance astatine uncovering them love. Marriage Market is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and will beryllium distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global. The bid is executive-produced by Alycia Rossiter and John Carr, pinch Rossiter serving arsenic showrunner.
Coming successful 2027-2028:
Highway to Heaven – Writer-producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Roswell), helms this caller return connected nan beloved tv classic originally created by Michael Landon. Slated to debut during nan 2027-28 season, nan bid will present longtime fans and a caller procreation to nan franchise’s timeless themes of compassion, humanity, and 2nd chances. The caller bid will present an original rotation to nan unforgettable travel of a “probationary angel,” who is sent to Earth to gain his wings by helping group successful need. Produced and owned by Fox Entertainment Studios, Highway to Heaven is executive-produced by showrunner Jason Katims, Amblin Television’s Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, and Todd Cohen, alongside Mark Itkin and Michael Landon Productions’ Cindy Landon – steward of nan original bid and widow of creator Michael Landon – and Wayne Lepoff. Highway to Heaven will aerial connected nan Fox Television Network pinch worldwide distribution by Fox Entertainment Global.
Stewie, nan latest Family Guy spinoff from creator Seth MacFarlane, brings nan world’s astir beloved talking babe steps into nan spotlight. After getting nan footwear from his aged preschool, Stewie is forced to enroll successful a caller 1 that’s not precisely top-of-the-line. It’s attended by a fistful of kids he doesn’t know, and a 75-year-old people turtle pinch a half-cocked mentation connected conscionable astir each subject. Stewie’s miserable, nan different kids are miserable, and moreover nan turtle is miserable…until Stewie begins rolling retired his trusty array of devices to return them anyplace successful abstraction and time, turning each boring time astatine schoolhouse into an insane and surreal adventure. MacFarlane voices Stewie and will executive-produce for Fuzzy Door. The bid was created by MacFarlane and Kirker Butler, who executive-produces pinch Kara Vallow. Butler serves arsenic showrunner. The bid is produced by 20th Television Animation.
