Stability has been the theme of all 2026-27 broadcast schedules released so far, and Fox fits that to a t with a fall 2026 lineup that closely mirrors the fall 2025 one.
“90% of our slate is returning shows,” Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade said during a pre-upfront call Sunday about the 2026-27 lineup, which includes three high profile new series, dramas Baywatch and The Interrogator and dating reality show Marriage Market.
The biggest difference from last season is on Sunday where live-action comedy Animal Control is logging its first fall launch as part of the network’s Animation Domination block while one of the block’s longtime anchors, animated staple Bob’s Burgers, has been taken out of the fall starting lineup and put on the reserve list for the first time in 14 years.
Like in 2025, Fox’s reality and sports-dominated fall 2026 schedule has one night of scripted programming outside of the Sunday animated block. That leaves four new and returning drama series, including the much buzzed about Baywatch reboot, three of the network’s four signature animated series and a slew of reality shows, including veteran The Masked Singer, which switched to one cycle a year last season, waiting in the wings for midseason.
Here is Fox’s Fall 2026 schedule, followed by analysis and additional information as well as descriptions of the network’s new 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 back all of its existing series except sophomore comedy Going Dutch while adding two new dramas in Baywatch and The Interrogator. The network also is returning a whopping 17(!) unscripted series next season, including six from Gordon Ramsey.
“We’ve had such a strong year with six freshman renewals,” Fox’s EVP of Program Planning and Content Strategy Dan Harrison said. That includes the three breakout hits Fox introduced in midseason, dramas Memory of a Killer and Best Medicine and reality reboot Fear Factor: House of Fear. “Our strategy for next season is to keep our sophomore shows strong.”
That is behind Fox’s decision to stick with its midseason “night of medical marvels” Tuesday lineup of Best Medicine and Doc, as Harrison put it, putting Doc‘s fall 2025 companion Murder In a Small Town on standby for midseason.
“It’s a huge priority to return our sophomore shows as significantly as possible, and getting Best Medicine back on the air in the fall with Doc again on Tuesday nights to us felt like a really powerful move, both for the night as a network, but also in the best interest of Best Medicine as a potentially long-running show for us,” Fox Television Network President Michael Thorn said.
The comedic Best Medicine, starring Josh Charles, which is owned by the network, has a 14-episode order for Season 2, up a notch from the 13-episode first season.
Doc — which Thorn said is “establishing itself as a defining part of our schedule” amid continuing multiplatform growth — is at 22 episodes for a second consecutive season, a supersized (by today’s broadcast standards) order.
Which series will succeed Best Medicine alongside Doc on Tuesday is TBD. With four dramas on the 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 open a second night of drama programming in midseason, declining further details. This season, Memory of a Killer launched on Monday behind reality competition series Extracted.
Baywatch will premiere in January. Harrison would not confirm whether it will get a special premiere behind an NFL game on Sunday but that is likely.
“Like we did last season, we’ll use midseason and all the levers that we have at Fox with sports and our marketing strategy, and we hope to repeat what we did last season with our new shows,” Thorn said.
This season, Best Medicine, Memory of a Killer and Fear Factor: House of Fear all launched on Sunday following a football game, each drawing 15 million or more multiplatform viewers for their premieres.
“Baywatch is a huge, huge priority for us, and we think we have a great opportunity to set the show up for success there,” Thorn said about the decision to hold the series until January, calling the reboot “pure escapism with a cast that blends top television talent with major social influencers.”
The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and American Dad!
FOX/Warner Bros.
The changing of the guard in Fox’s signature Sunday animated block continues. While The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers remain the block’s tentpoles, the network no longer relies on its biggest animated hits to kick off the season. After opting two years ago to hold Family Guy for midseason, the network is doing the same with Bob’s Burgers this year. Heading into its 17th season, it will be the first time the animated series has not been on the Fox fall schedule since its second installment.
Meanwhile Fox’s live-action comedy Animal Control, which has been a midseason starter for its entire four-season run to date, is on the fall schedule for the first time as part of the Sunday animated block. While not unprecedented — Fox’s Malcolm In the Middle aired almost exclusively alongside animated comedies on Sunday –the network has been bulking up its adult animation roster and had not put a live-action comedy on Sundays since fall 2018 (Rel).
“We talk about animation and live-action, but our audience views animation as some of the greatest comedies in TV history, and moving Animal Control to Sunday night gives that show a great opportunity for success,” Thorn said. “It’s a very important show for us. We own and distribute it, and tonally we think it can fit in and build further upon the success it’s had on Fox and Hulu and most recently, on Netflix.”
With Animal Control taking a slot alongside Grimsburg, The Simpsons and Universal Basic Guys, Fox has four animated series on the bench: Bob’s Burgers (Season 17), Family Guy (Season 25) and American Dad! (Season 21), which are on tap for later in 2026-27, and Krapopolis, whose next season is being produced but not slotted yet. (It is not uncommon, Grimsburg, for instance, skipped the 2025-26 season.)
Overall, “we feel very good about where Fox is right now,” Wade said. “We have a strong, stable slate of returning hits, a focused pipeline of new series, and a broader strategy that continues to expand how we build and grow our business.”
That pipeline includes two series ordered for the 2027-28 season, a Highway To Heaven reboot and the Family Guy spinoff Stewie.
Over the past couple of years, Fox has streamlined its drama slate into three lanes, aspirational shows such as Best Medicine, Doc and Baywatch, to be joined by Highway To Heaven, crime dramas like Memory of a Killer and The Interrogator, and cozy crime, which blends the two, like Murder In a Small Town.
NEW DRAMA SERIES
Baywatch — First hitting screens in 1989, Baywatch became the most-watched show in the world, airing in more than 200 countries and at its peak reaching more than a billion viewers weekly. The new iteration finds wild-child legacy character Hobie Buchannon (Stephen Amell) serving as a Baywatch Captain, following in the footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch. Hobie’s world is turned upside down when his daughter Charlie Vale (Jessica Belkin) shows up on his doorstep eager to carry on the Buchannon family legacy. The series also stars Shay Mitchell as Trina, Hassie Harrison as Nat, Thaddeus LaGrone as Brad, Noah Beck as Luke, and Brooks Nader as Selene. In recurring roles, Livvy Dunne will make her acting debut as Grace and David Chokachi will reprise his original series character of Cody Madison. Baywatch is co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Fremantle with Matt Nix (Burn Notice, The Gifted) serving as showrunner and executive producer. McG, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto and Mike Horowitz are executive producers. McG directed the series premiere.
The Interrogator, an all-new espionage thriller starring, written and executive-produced by actor-comedian Stephen Fry (Wilde, Blackadder). Set in Washington, D.C., The Interrogator centers on former MI6 agent Conrad Henry (Fry) and his handpicked team of brilliant outsiders. When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm, superior intellect and mind-bending behavioral maneuvers make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Cast also includes Jenna Elfman, Jessica Sula, Michael Beach, Luke Kleintank and Maria Zhang. The Interrogator is co-produced by Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment. The pilot script was written by Fry, with revisions from Matt Pyken, as well as 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 also serve as executive producers on the series.
NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES
Marriage Market, from Fox Entertainment Studios, is an original Fox-owned series slated for 2027. In it, real singles ready for marriage relinquish total control of their love lives to their closest family members, who marry them off at a market like no other. Hosted by actress, comedian and podcaster Whitney Cummings, the series welcomes singles – who are officially over swiping, ghosting and endless first dates — into an actual Marriage Market, where they’re up for trying something radical…putting their love lives in the hands of family members that know them best and risking it all for one shot at forever – in an arranged marriage. Filled with humor, heart, heartbreak and unpredictable outcomes, Marriage Market is a one-of-a-kind, immersive matchmaking experience where families come together with one goal in mind: helping their single family member find a meaningful, lasting match. Inside this vibrant, real-world setting, families meet, connect and advocate for their loved one as they search for a perfect partner. The rules are simple. When two families believe they’ve found a match, their singles are introduced and engaged on the spot – with the ultimate goal of making it to the altar. From there, the couples and their families move in together, navigating real-life compatibility, big personalities and even bigger expectations. At any point, each of the newly matched singles’ families can decide they’ve found them “the one,” or send their single loved one back into the Marriage Market for another chance at finding them love. Marriage Market is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and will be distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global. The series is executive-produced by Alycia Rossiter and John Carr, with Rossiter serving as showrunner.
Coming in 2027-2028:
Highway to Heaven – Writer-producer Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Roswell), helms this new take on the beloved television classic originally created by Michael Landon. Slated to debut during the 2027-28 season, the series will introduce longtime fans and a new generation to the franchise’s timeless themes of compassion, humanity, and second chances. The new series will introduce an original spin to the unforgettable journey of a “probationary angel,” who is sent to Earth to earn his wings by helping people in 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 the original series and widow of creator Michael Landon – and Wayne Lepoff. Highway to Heaven will air on the Fox Television Network with worldwide distribution by Fox Entertainment Global.
Stewie, the latest Family Guy spinoff from creator Seth MacFarlane, brings the world’s most beloved talking baby steps into the spotlight. After getting the boot from his old preschool, Stewie is forced to enroll in a new one that’s not exactly top-of-the-line. It’s attended by a handful of kids he doesn’t know, and a 75-year-old class turtle with a half-cocked theory on just about every subject. Stewie’s miserable, the other kids are miserable, and even the turtle is miserable…until Stewie begins rolling out his trusty array of devices to take them anywhere in space and time, turning every boring day at school into an insane and surreal adventure. MacFarlane voices Stewie and will executive-produce for Fuzzy Door. The series was created by MacFarlane and Kirker Butler, who executive-produces with Kara Vallow. Butler serves as showrunner. The series is produced by 20th Television Animation.