FOX network seeks to keep winning slate with its fall programs

By Tim Riley | Jun 28, 2026

FALL PROGRAMS ON FOX NETWORK
     
A standard procedure for the network television industry is to unveil their upcoming programming slate to the national advertising community during what they call an “upfront presentation.”

     
The FOX network boastfully claims to deliver a full lineup of hit shows this fall and expand “its winning slate with the return of a global sensation, fresh creative voices and compelling new series.”
    
FOX has a slew of unscripted series being renewed too numerous to mention.  Several are coming back for a second season, including “Fear Factor: House of Fear;” “Gordan Ramsay’s Secret Service;” and “Celebrity Weakest Link.”
     
Returning series for a second season include the drama “Memory of a Killer” and the comedy “Best Medicine.”  Series coming back for a third season include the dramas “Doc” and “Murder in a Small Town.”  
     
“Baywatch,” which first hit the screens in 1989, 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.
    
Its global appeal drove tourism to Southern California and helped define the beach culture for generations.  “Baywatch” is coming back to celebrate the franchise’s enduring legacy, while re-energizing it for today’s global audience.
     
Fans can expect all the adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original – now with an entirely new cast, contemporary trappings, tensions and challenges, and a renewed mission to protect the California shoreline.
     
The new series finds wild-child legacy character Hobie Buchannon (Stephen Amell) serving as a Baywatch Captain, following in the footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch (famously portrayed by David Hasselhoff).
     
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.
     
An all-new espionage thriller, “The Interrogator” finds British actor-comedian Stephen Fry (“Blackadder”) in the hat trick role as the series’ star, writer and executive producer.
     
The show’s focus centers on former MI6 agent Conrad Henry (Fry) and his handpicked team of brilliant outsiders.  When conventional methods have failed, Henry’s quirky charm and superior intellect make him the only man able to lockpick the minds of the world’s most dangerous criminals.
     
Lisa Ann Woodrow (Jenna Elfman) oversees Henry’s cases.  Once a rising star within the CIA, her career was derailed after a mission went wrong, leading to the D.I.A. where she now serves as handler for Henry’s team.
     
Though Woodrow challenges Henry and the two often clash, Henry is always seven steps ahead while Woodrow is rarely more than five steps ahead.  If the math is correct, Henry is most likely ahead by two steps.
     
The most recent member of the team is Astrid (Jessica Sula), a sharp and idealistic criminal psychologist new to the spy world but a natural fit.  As Henry’s somewhat estranged daughter, she shares his instinct for reading people and talent for deception, using her manipulative skills for good.
     
Louis (Michael Beach), the first member that Henry brought onto his team, is a dry-witted tech expert with a hidden past.  A true jack-of-all-trades, he’s the voice in Henry’s ear with facts and figures, and his closest ally, confidant and moral compass.
     
Luke Kleintank’s Voss, a former Special Forces soldier and Army whistleblower, serves as one of Henry’s trusted analysts.  A quiet, outdoorsy Colorado native with a strong moral code, he prefers dogs to people, except for his secret, unlikely romance that can only stay secret for so long.
     
Florence (Maria Zhang) is the most idealistic and optimistic team member.  She handles all things related to computers, from hacking, gathering and decrypting evidence to creating forgeries and deepfakes to lead Henry’s subjects astray.
     
For new unscripted programming, FOX flips the script on dating with its bold new series “Marriage Market,” in which 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.
     
The singles are 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.
     
The rules are simple.  When two families believe they’ve found a match, their singles are introduced and engaged on the spot with the goal of making it to the altar.  From there, the couples and their families move in together to navigate real-life compatibility. 
    
“Marriage Market” may be a foreign concept to us, but in other parts of the world arranged marriages still occur.
     
Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.