FOX Announces Schedule for 2025-26 Season #1 NETWORK IN A18-49 DELIVERS SLATE FILLED WITH FUN, IRREVERENT CONTENT AND BOLD, SIGNATURE FOX CHARACTERS ALL-NEW ONE-HOUR COMEDY BEST MEDICINE STARS EMMY NOMINEE JOSH CHARLES AS SMALL TOWN DOCTOR WITH BIG TIME PROBLEMS, BRINGING ACCLAIMED GLOBAL HIT TO LIFE ON FOX INTENSE NEW CRIME THRILLER MEMORY OF A KILLER TARGETS FEARSOME HITMAN WITH A DANGEROUS DUAL LIFE LANDMARK EVENT SERIES THE FAITHFUL BASED ON THE OLD TESTAMENT'S HEROIC MATRIARCHS, UNVEILING THEIR DRAMATIC, EVEN SHOCKING JOURNEYS OF COURAGE, TEMPTATION AND FAITH FOX TERRIFIES NEW GENERATIONS WITH ALL-NEW, REINVENTED FEAR FACTOR; INTRODUCES ADDICTIVE NEW GAME SHOW 99 TO BEAT, AND WELCOMES BACK EMMY AWARD-WINNING FOX ALUM JANE LYNCH AS HOST OF ALL-NEW CELEBRITY WEAKEST LINK GORDON RAMSAY'S NEXT LEVEL CHEF HEATS UP WITH FIRST FRANCHISE EXTENSION, NEXT LEVEL BAKER, A NEW HOLIDAY EVENT SERIES HIT MEDICAL DRAMA DOC, STARRING MOLLY PARKER, RETURNS WITH 22-EPISODES ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS MARCIA GAY HARDEN JOINS SEASON TWO CAST OF MYSTERY DRAMA MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN FOX'S ICONIC ANIMATION DOMINATION LINEUP BRINGS BACK FULL ROSTER OF NEXT GEN FOX ANIMATED COMEDIES, AS WELL AS CLASSICS, INCLUDING RETURN OF SETH MACFARLANE'S AMERICAN DAD! THE MASKED SINGER PHENOMENON RETURNS IN JANUARY WITH SPECTACULAR, SUPER-CHARGED NEW SEASON MAY 12, 2025 - New York, NY - FOX today unveils its content slate for the 2025-2026 television season to the national advertising community during its in-person Upfront Presentation at the Manhattan Center. FOX ranked #1 this season among the coveted Adults 18-49 and is the only network among the 4-Nets up year-over-year in the demo. The network is adding six new series to its schedule, including a new one-hour comedy, a new dramatic thriller, an epic new scripted event series and three new unscripted competition series, as well as the return of an Animation Domination favorite. Spanning scripted, unscripted and animation, the media company continues to increase program ownership from in-house business units under the FOX Entertainment Studios banner.Building on our winning position in both key demos and co-viewing this season, FOX delivers a 2025-26 schedule that's filled with irreverence, fun and much-needed laughter, said FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade. Next year more than ever, we're bringing that promise to life with a terrific slate to delight our audiences across linear, Hulu and beyond.
Returning FOX series include dramas Doc (Season Two), and Murder in a Small Town (Season Two); comedies Animal Control (Season Four) and Going Dutch (Season Two); animated series Bob's Burgers (Season 16), Family Guy (Season 24), Grimsburg (Season Three), Krapopolis (Season Three), Universal Basic Guys (Season Two) and The Simpsons (Season 37); and unscripted series Beat Shazam (Season Eight), Don't Forget The Lyrics! (Season Four), Extracted (Season Two), The Floor (Season Four), Hell's Kitchen (Season 24), Kitchen Nightmares (Season Three), LEGO Masters (Season Six), The Masked Singer (Season 14), Name That Tune (Season Six), Next Level Chef (Season Five) and Special Forces: World's Toughest Test (Season Four). Additional series renewals to be announced.
All-new drama Memory of a Killer and brand-new event series The Faithful join returning hit dramas Doc and Murder in a Small Town.
All-new one-hour comedy Best Medicine joins half-hour comedies Going Dutch, starring Denis Leary and Animal Control, starring Joel McHale.
Animated comedies Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, Grimsburg, Krapopolis, Universal Basic Guys and The Simpsons return. Plus, Seth MacFarlane's American Dad! comes back to FOX with all-new episodes in 2026.
All-new unscripted series 99 To Beat and Gordon Ramsay's four-hour event series, Next Level Baker, join returning unscripted favorites Beat Shazam, Don't Forget The Lyrics!, Extracted, The Floor, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, LEGO Masters, The Masked Singer, Name That Tune, Next Level Chef and Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. Additionally, reinventions of hugely popular fan-favorites The Weakest Link and Fear Factor make their debuts on FOX.
FOX's new drama:
Inspired by the 2003 award-winning Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer (La Memoire Du Tueur), Memory of a Killer is a dramatic thriller about a hitman who develops early onset Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is a devastating hammer blow for anyone, but for Angelo Ledda, the stakes couldn't be higher. His hit man job would be perilous enough, but there's an added pressure. Angelo lives two totally separate lives - fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Having built and maintained a brick wall between his two worlds, Angelo has seamlessly juggled and compartmentalized for years. But now that's all about to change. Because Alzheimer's is a foe he can't outrun, and he knows too well how this ends, as his older brother is already lost to the condition. Angelo is exceptionally resourceful and talented, the best of the best. But he's about to be tested like never before - and now every minute counts. This is only made more difficult when he discovers that his wife's recent death may not have been an accident. So, when someone comes after his daughter - who is pregnant - it's clear the wall between his lives has been breached. Angelo must stop whoever's coming for his family by searching his past hits for clues, and the list is very long. Now Angelo must hunt down his mortal enemy while continuing to carry out hits without giving away his diagnosis and still making it home in time to cook dinner for his daughter. Memory of a Killer is a redemptive story about a man who is losing his memory but gaining a conscience. Because Angelo knows
