Scripted Dramas Return to Fox’s Fall Schedule
After airing only two drama series for all of the 2023-24 season, Fox is planning to double that number in the fall.
The network unveiled its 2024-25 schedule Monday morning — after skipping the usual rite of spring the past two years — ahead of its upfront presentation to advertisers in the afternoon. The slate includes two nights of drama programming on Monday and Tuesday, a return to Fox’s scheduling pattern from seasons before last year’s dual labor strikes shut down production on scripted series and led the network to an all-reality schedule on weeknights.
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The early part of the week will be anchored by two shows that took the 2023-24 season off. Fox’s longest-running current drama, 911: Lone Star, will lead into newcomer Rescue: Hi-Surf, executive produced by John Wells, on Mondays. On Tuesdays, season two of the courtroom anthology Accused will lead the night, followed by another first-year show, Murder in a Small Town, a co-production between Fox Entertainment, Canada’s Sepia Films and Future Shack Entertainment.
Rescue: Hi-Surf will also get the high-profile slot following the Super Bowl, which Fox will broadcast on Feb. 9, 2025.
The Rob Lowe-hosted game show The Floor, which scored a two-season pickup, will pair with The Masked Singer on Wednesday nights (and will also be the second show fronted by Lowe, who also stars in 911: Lone Star, on Fox this fall). New seasons of Hell’s Kitchen and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Tes will run on Thursdays. With WWE Smackdown leaving Fox for USA in September, Fox will feature college football on Friday nights in the fall, with college basketball and United Football League games following later in the season.
Sunday will, as usual, feature animated comedies led by The Simpsons, which is entering its 36th season in 2024-25. New series Universal Basic Guys — which Fox has renewed for a second season, following a pattern of early pickups for its newer animated shows — will follow at 8:30 p.m. Bob’s Burgers and Krapopolis will close out the night. Notably missing from the Sunday lineup is Family Guy, which will return later in the season.
Also on tap for midseason is Going Dutch, a live-action comedy starring Denis Leary as a U.S. Army colonel reassigned to an extremely unimportant base in the Netherlands. It will likely pair with Animal Control in 2025. Fox’s 2024-25 slate also includes dramas Alert: Missing Persons Unit, The Cleaning Lady and Doc; animated series The Great North and Grimsburg; and unscripted shows Crime Scene Kitchen, Lego Masters, Lego Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular, MasterChef, Name That Tune and Next Level Chef. Fox has also ordered a survival competition series called Extracted.
Fox’s fall lineup is below. All times are ET/PT unless noted; new shows are in italics.
Monday
8 p.m.: 911: Lone Star
9 p.m.: Rescue: Hi-Surf
Tuesday
8 p.m.: Accused
9 p.m.: Murder in a Small Town
Wednesday
8 p.m.: The Masked Singer
9 p.m.: The Floor
Thursday
8 p.m.: Hell’s Kitchen
9 p.m.: Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
Friday
8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT: Fox College Football Friday (fall)/Fox College Hoops (winter)/Fox UFL (spring)
Saturday
7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT: Fox Sports Saturday
Sunday
7 p.m.: NFL on Fox
7:30 p.m.: The OT/reruns
8 p.m.: The Simpsons
8:30 p.m.: Universal Basic Guys
9 p.m.: Bob’s Burgers
9:30 p.m.: Krapopolis
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