The Great North, Special Forces and a Yet-to-Air Animated Series All Renewed at Fox

Andy Swift
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Life in The Great North just keeps getting greater — Fox has officially renewed the animated series for a fifth season, TVLine has learned.

Ahead of its Monday-afternoon Upfront presentation to advertisers, Fox also announced a Season 3 renewal for the celebrity competition series Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test and an early Season 2 pick-up for the animated comedy Universal Basic Guys, which was ordered to series back in November of the year 2022.

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Season-to-date, The Great North — which finales this Sunday, May 19 — has been averaging 579,000 total viewers and a 0.17 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), ranking last among all non-CW broadcast shows in both measures, and down a full half from its Season 3 numbers.

Special Forces Season 2 last fall averaged 2.1 million viewers and a 0.4 demo rating, down 20% from its freshman numbers.

Universal Basic Guys hails from from creators Adam and Craig Malamut (Game of Zones, The Champions) and centers on two 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.

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“With Universal Basic Guys, the Hoagies brothers join FOX’s iconic lineup of undaunted, irreverent and absurdly outrageous characters,” said Thorn. “It’s what defines the FOX animation brand, and from episode one of this terrific new comedy, Adam and Craig Malamut turn the Hoagies’ everyday life on its head in such an original way that we immediately ordered a second season.”

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