Fox announced their schedule for next season, and the Baywatch reboot is not swimming onto their Fall schedule. Instead, they will have only one night of scripted television, and that night is Tuesday, with Doc and Best Medicine. The rest is unscripted and sports.
FOX FALL 2026 SCHEDULE
MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Celebrity Name That Tune
9:00-10:00 PM Celebrity Weakest Link
TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Best Medicine
9:00-10:00 PM Doc
WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM The Floor
9:00-10:00 PM 99 To Beat
THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM Hell’s Kitchen
9:00-10:00 PM Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
FRIDAY
8:00 PM-CC ET/ FOX College Football Friday
5:00 PM-CC PT
SATURDAY
7:00-10:30 PM ET/ Fox Sports Saturday
4:00-7:30 PM PT
SUNDAY
7:00-7:30 PM NFL On Fox
7:00-8:00 PM The OT / FOX Animation Encores
8:00-8:30 PM The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 PM Animal Control
9:00-9:30 PM Universal Basic Guys
9:30-10:00 PM Grimsburg
The midseason shows include: Dramas: Baywatch, The Interrogator, Memory of a Killer and Murder in a Small Town; Comedies: American Dad!, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy and Krapopolis; Unscripted: Crime Scene Kitchen, Don’t Forget The Lyrics, Extracted, Fear Factor: House of Fear, Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service, LEGO Masters, The Masked Singer, MasterChef, Next Level Chef. Additional programming to be announced.
Stewie and Highway to Heaven are being held until the 2027-2028 season.
Fox announced today that it picked up Murder in a Small Town for a third season, which stars Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk.
“We love bringing this cozy and delightful mystery to FOX fans, and we’re thrilled Murder in a Small Town has continued to resonate with our audience,” said Bowman. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Sepia Films and Future Shack on Season Three, alongside our exceptional cast led by Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, and soon to include the incomparable talent of Peter Gallagher as their newest adversary.”
This season, Gallagher is joining the drama as Rod Finlayson, a charismatic, uber-independent, capable yet unreliable figure, whose arrival at the Gibsons’ marina on his beloved boat sets up a sequence of upheavals that Alberg (Sutherland) and Cassandra (Kreuk) will have to grapple with.
What they have to grapple with will be revealed when the police procedural debuts in the Fall.
Michael Landon created two series that defined television, and both shows are being rebooted. We know that Little House on the Prairie is coming to Netflix in July. Today, we found out that Highway to Heaven is being resurrected on Fox for the 2027-2028 season.
The 1984 original heartwarming drama starred Michael Landon as an angel trying to earn his wings by helping people whom the Big Guy tells him to help. He cannot do it alone, so he recruits Victor French, a former cop and mortal, to help him. Both actors died within two years of the series finale from cancer.
The Fox series will introduce an original spin to the unforgettable journey of a “probationary angel,” who is sent to Earth to earn his wings by helping people in need.
Jason Katims, who was the showrunner on Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, will do the same on HtH.
“Highway to Heaven has always been about connection, compassion and the idea that small acts can have big ripple effects and make a lasting difference,” said Cindy Landon. “I’m proud to help carry Michael’s legacy forward with partners like FOX and Amblin, who understand the heart of this series and are bringing it to a new generation at just the right moment.”
And who will be the right lead? We will have to wait to find out. Who do you think should play the lead? I think Misha Collins would be perfect as the Angel and Kal Penn as his human!
I watched the series on Tubi last year and was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable it was. I hope Fox does an equally excellent job with it.
Tonight at 8p, it is Doc’s two-hour season finale, and what an episode it is.
One of their regular renal failure patients comes in, and he is not doing well because he missed a dialysis appointment a week ago. Richard (Scott Wolf) is working on him, but he is distracted because Liz (Conni Miu) filed a complaint against him because he made her blame Amy (Molly Parker) for killing a patient that he did.
As Richard is taking care of the patient, he gets a phone call from his lawyer to go over the complaint. Just as he walks out of the room, his patient codes, and they try to save him, but they are not able to do it.
Amy believes that Richard’s distraction might have led to the patient’s death, so they try to reach his wife to get an autopsy done. However, they cannot get hold of her to tell her what happened.
When the bloodwork seems to clear Richard of any wrongdoing, Amy has another thought about what might have caused his death. And everyone’s worst fear is about to become a reality.
She believes he has the plague, hemorrhagic fever. His wife recently went on a safari in Africa, and Amy fears she brought it back with her. When public health shows up at her house, they find her dead on the floor.
Now that their suspicion is confirmed, Michael (Omar Metwally) has to lock down the floor, and everyone on the sixth floor needs to be tested.
The patients include a 90-year Holocaust survivor (Judd Hirsch), three fraternity brothers who rushed a pledge to the point that he needed to be hospitalized, a sick woman whose protective brother is a reknowned doctor (Blair Underwood), a woman who needs to get home to her mom, Jake’s (Jon Ecker) ex-wife (Samantha Massell), a conspiracy theorist, and several of the staff including Joan (Felicity Huffman).
The clock is ticking, and this variant is not like anything they have ever seen. Its time table is faster than anything they have heard of, and the incubation period is only hours, not weeks.
They have no cure, nor treatment, and one by one, the patients are getting sicker and sicker, and eventually they will start dying, including members of the staff.
All of this is giving Amy memories of what it was like when she was working during COVID, and they start giving her headaches. She is keeping the memories to herself, but how long can she hide them from everyone? It will get harder for her to do so when she winds up testing positive for the plague.
The doctors and nurses, who aren’t sick, are doing everything they can to find a cure, but nothing seems to be working. And what they try might be worse than the plague itself.
How many more people have to die before they can stop this thing, and they all succumb to it? You will have to tune in to find out.
This episode blew me away. Now, I might be biased. I have been obsessed with plagues since I was a little girl. I have read books and watched movies and TV shows about viruses, so I think I have a good take on the subject. And this is one of the best I have ever seen on dealing with a plague. And they did it all in a two-hour event.
My hat is off to everyone who worked on this episode. And I would not be surprised if Judd Hirsch got an Emmy nomination for his performance in it. But then again, Taxi is one of my favorite shows. So, I have a lot of biases.
Tonight at 8p on Fox, get ready for Best Medicine’s season finale. The episode picks up after last week’s shocker.
Glenn (Patch Darragh) tricked the people of Port Wenn into welcoming two Norwegians to their town under the guise that they wanted to become a Sister City. However, they were really there to turn the sister city into a salmon farm. By doing that, it will turn the beautiful lakeside community into an ugly business.
The residents want out of the deal, but a contract was signed, and there is nothing they can do about it. Or can they?
Norwegian, Sigrid Johansen (Erinn Fredin), goes into labor during a meeting, and Martin (Josh Charles) has to deliver the baby right then and there. However, there are complications. Can Martin help her and the baby even though she is refusing his help?
Talking about babies. Louisa (Abigail Spencer) is told that she needs to get pregnant ASAP if she wants to have a baby. However, now that she is single, who will she choose to be her baby daddy? There will be offers.
And then there is Elaine (Cree). She has applied to Juilliard, and we will find out whether she got in.
A lot goes down in the season finale, and I am so happy that we are getting a second season for this year’s best new show. I would have been so sad if this was the last episode because they give us so much. Thus proving that not every medical show has to be all about the medicine. It can also be about the heart.
And I am going to say something that will make people mad at me. But I think Best Medicine is so much better than Doc Martin. Charles makes the character so much more likable than Clunes did. I like Doc Martin, but I just didn’t like him.
Then, at 9p on Doc, Joan (Felicity Huffman) is ready to enjoy her medical retirement. However, it does not last long because she had a coughing fit and was rushed to the hospital.
Amy (Molly Parker) and Richard (Scott Wolf) are assigned to her case. Both have different ideas on how to treat her rapid onset decline due to her Leukemia. They don’t see eye-to-eye on her treatment and diagnosis, and their arguing might lead to her death.
Will they figure out what is wrong with her before they kill her? You will just have to watch to find out.
Plus, we also get to witness Amy finding her balls. And all I have to say to that is, “About freaking time!”
