Alert: Missing Persons Unit Renewed for Season 3 at Fox

Matt Webb Mitovich and Ryan Schwartz
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Alert: Missing Persons Unit will continue to report for duty, now that Fox has renewed the procedural for Season 3. An episode count has not yet been determined.

The news comes four days ahead of Alert: MPU‘s Season 2 finale, airing Tuesday, May 14 (at 9/8c). TVLine’s Renewal/Cancellation scorecard has thusly been updated.

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Season-to-date, Alert: MPU has been averaging 2.6 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), down a steep 32% and 40% from its freshman numbers.

Out of the 24 entertainment programs Fox has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 6 in audience, while only Cleaning Lady, So You Think You Can Dance, TMZ Investigates, Grimsburg and The Great North pull a smaller demo number.

Set in the Philadelphia PD’s Missing Persons Unit (MPU), Alert: Missing Persons Unit with each episode chronicles the life-or-death search for a missing person, headed by detectives Jason Grant and Nikki Batista (played by Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez). Once married, Jason and Nikki have a very personal connection to their cases seeing as their own young son went missing and was never found — despite what Season 1 for a long while led us to believe.

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At MPU, Nikki leads a team that also includes Mike Sherman (Ryan Broussard, Only Murders In The Building), the fiancé with whom she has been planning a wedding, and Kemi Adebayo (Adeola Role, The Blacklist), a spiritually savvy detective.

For Season 2, Family Law alum Alisha-Marie Ahamed joined the mix in the series-regular role of Wayne Pascal, a master hacker with whom Jason worked when he was in Afghanistan, while Ally McBeal alum Gil Bellows has been recurring in the role of Inspector Hollis Braun, Nikki and Jason’s new superior who arrived with “every intention of keeping their antics in line.”

Deadline was first to report the news of Alert: MPU’s renewal.

In addition to Alert: MPU, Fox’s 2024-25 scripted slate includes 9-1-1: Lone Star (Season 5), Accused (Season 2), Animal Control (Season 3), Bob’s Burgers (Season 15), Family Guy (Season 23), Grimsburg (Season 2), Krapopolis (already renewed for Seasons 2 and 3) and The Simpsons (Season 36).

Still on the bubble at Fox are The Great North (which is still awaiting official word on Season 5) and The Cleaning Lady (which would be entering Season 4).

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