FOX Announces Programming for the 2024/2025 Season

FOX has announced its programming slate for the upcoming 2024/2025 season.

The slate includes returning series 9-1-1: Lone Star (Season 5), Accused (Season 2) Alert: Missing Persons Unit (Season 3), Animal Control (Season 3), The Cleaning Lady (Season 4), Family Guy (Season 23), Hell’s Kitchen (Season 23), The Masked Singer (Season 12), and more.

The line-up also contains new and returning scripted series from executive producers John Wells, Barbie Kligman, Hank Steinberg, Denis Leary, Ryan Murphy, Howard Gordan, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, and Dan Harmon.

Among FOX’s new TV shows are the action-drama Rescue: HI-Surf, the medical drama Doc, the psychological crime drama Murder in a Small Town, the live-action comedy Going Dutch, the animated comedy Universal Basic Guys.

They join the survival competition series Extracted, “a groundbreaking new survival competition series, in which, for the first time ever, the contestants are not in charge of their destiny.”

Rescue: HI-Surf scores the coveted post-Super Bowl LIX timeslot, with a special presentation airing on Sunday, February 9, 2025. It joins FOX’s other events, like the two-hour special The Real Full Monty, which will raise prostate, testicular, and colorectal cancer awareness. 

FOX’s other returning series include Bob’s Burgers (Season 15), Crime Scene Kitchen (Season 3), The Floor (Season 2), The Great North (Season 5), Grimsburg (Season 2), Krapopolis (Season 2), LEGO Masters (Season 5), LEGO Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular, MasterChef (Season 15), Name That Tune (Season 5), Next Level Chef (Season 4), Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (Season 3), and The Simpsons (Season 36). 

“With outstanding original ideas and world-class talent across both new series and returning favorites, FOX’s 2024-25 schedule is filled with unexpected, unforgettable entertainment in every genre,” FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade during the in-person Upfront Presentation at the Manhattan Center.

“Great creative is the center of all we do, and that is reflected in next season’s lineup, as is our ability to attract so many of the industry’s finest storytellers,” Wade added.

Among the announcements is the news that Accused Season 2 will feature Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Nick Cannon, and Michael Chiklis, and more series renewals will be announced later. 

Take a look at FOX’s fall schedule below. Note that Alert: Missing Persons Unit, Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady, Crime Scene Kitchen, Doc, Extracted, Family Guy, Going Dutch, The Great North, LEGO Masters, MasterChef, Name That Tune, and Next Level Chef are being held until midseason.

FOX 2024/2025 FALL SCHEDULE

MONDAY

8:00-9:00 9-1-1: LONE STAR

9:00-10:00 RESCUE: HI-SURF (new series)

TUESDAY

8:00-9:00 ACCUSED

9:00-10:00 MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN (new series)

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:00 THE MASKED SINGER

9:00-10:00 THE FLOOR

THURSDAY

8:00-9:00 HELL’S KITCHEN

9:00-10:00 SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST

FRIDAY

8:00 FOX COLLEGE FOOTBALL FRIDAY / FOX COLLEGE HOOPS / FOX UFL

SATURDAY

7:00-10:30 FOX SPORTS SATURDAY

SUNDAY

7:00-7:30 NFL ON FOX

7:30-8:00 THE OT / FOX ANIMATION ENCORES

8:00-8:30 THE SIMPSONS

8:30-9:00 UNIVERSAL BASICA GUYS

9:00-9:30 BOB’S BURGERS

9:30-10:00 KRAPOPOLIS

RESCUE: HI-SURF

Rescue: HI-Surf comes from executive producer and director John Wells and executive producer and writer Matt Kester, who created the series. Wells, Kester, and Daniele Nathanson are EPs and co-showrunners. Erin Jontow (John Wells Productions) is also an executive producer.

Set in Hawaii, the drama series follows “the personal and professional lives of the heavy-water lifeguards who patrol and protect the North Shore of O’ahu—the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world,” per its synopsis.

Each episode, co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and FOX Entertainment Studios, features the first responders who save lives “in the difficult and often life-threatening conditions of Hawaii’s Seven Mile Miracle.”

Rescue: HI-Surf stars Robbie Magasiva, Arielle Kebbel, Adam Demos, Kekoa Kekumano, Alex Aiono, and Zoe Cipres. Sea Shimooka, Shawn Hatosy, and Ian Anthony Dale will recur. Kester will write the new show’s first season, and Wells will direct the first two episodes. 

DOC

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Based on the Italian series created and produced by Lux Vide, a Fremantle Company, Doc is a medical drama starring Molly Parker as “the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Elias, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis.”

The rest of Doc‘s synopsis reads as follows:

After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.

The medical drama also stars Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon Ecker, and Anya Banerjee. Scott Wolf and Patrick Walker will recur in featured roles. Barbie Kligman serves as showrunner and executive producer, while Nelle tue mani was originally created by Francesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli.

Doc is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and FOX Entertainment Studios. Hank Steinberg (Channel Road Productions) and Erwin Stoff (3 Arts Entertainment) are executive producers.

MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN

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Based on L.R. Wright’s Karl Alberg novels, Murder in a Small Town stars Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kruek. Ian Weir is the new drama’s head writer and executive producer. Mila Cheylov will executive produce and direct multiple episodes.

Sutherland is Karl Alberg, “who moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work.” Karl must use his world-class detective skills to solve murders that wash up on the idyllic shores. Kruek portrays Cassandra “a local librarian who becomes Alberg’s muse, foil, and romantic interest.”

Mya Lowe, Savonna Spracklin, Aaron Douglas, and Fritzy-Klevans Destine recur on Murder in a Small Town. James Cromwell, Stana Katic,  and Paula Patton will guest star. Nick Orchard (Soapbox Productions), Morris Ruskin and Sharon Wisnia (Mojo Global Arts) and Jon Cotton also serve as executive producers.

Murder in a Small Town is produced by Sepia Films in association with FOX Entertainment and Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment. The series is also produced in British Columbia. FOX has acquired all U.S. rights to the series.

GOING DUTCH

Going Dutch is a single-camera comedy from executive producers Denis Leary, Jack Leary, and Joel Church-Cooper. The show is produced by FOX Entertainment Studios. Joel Church-Cooper serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer on the series, with Denis Leary and Jack Leary as executive producers.

It stars Denis Leary as “an arrogant, loudmouth U.S. Army Colonel, who, after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he is punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world,” per its synopsis.

The character is met with “a diverse group of underdogs” and “a Michelin-star-level commissary, top-notch bowling alley, and the best (and only) fromagerie in the U.S. Army.”

Not to mention, the colonel has “to reinstall military discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who just happens to be his estranged daughter.”

UNIVERSAL BASIC GUYS

Universal Basic Guys, the new animated comedy from creators and executive producers Adam and Craig Malamut, is co-produced by FOX Entertainment through its animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Television. 

The show follows “brothers Mark and Hank Hoagies, “who lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program. Now, they’re using their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they’re no longer needed,” per its synopsis. 

Dan Lagana is the executive producer and showrunner for Universal Basic Guys Season 1. Rob Rosell will executive produce and showrun Season 2.

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