For as far back as memory goes, Monday has been synonymous with drama on the Fox schedule. Some of the network’s signature series of the last couple of decades like 24, House, Prison Break and 9-1-1 have called the night home for all or significant portion of their run. That will change this coming fall when Monday night will go unscripted in a non-strike year with Name That Tune and Celebrity Weakest Link, leaving Tuesday night as the only night featuring live-action scripted programming on the network.
“Thematically, our goal for Fox is to deliver entertainment that speaks to our strengths. Irreverent. Fun And a place where comedy and emotional connectivity run throughout our schedule,” Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade said during the network’s pre-upfront press call Sunday.
Here is Fox’s fall 2025 schedule, followed by analysis and descriptions of the network’s new series, which include drama Memory of a Killer, limited series The Faithful, hourlong comedy Best Medicine starring Josh Charles, the return of American Dad!, game show 99 to Beat and two unscripted format revivals, Celebrity Weakest Link hosted by Jane Lynch and Fear Factor: The Next Chapter.
FOX FALL 2025 SCHEDULE
(All Times ET/PT)
MONDAY
8-9 PM — Name That Tune
9-10 PM — Celebrity Weakest Link (new series)
TUESDAY
8- 9 PM — Murder In a Small Town
9 – 10 PM — Doc
WEDNESDAY
8- 9 PM — The Floor
9-10 PM — 99 To Beat (new series)
THURSDAY
8- 9 PM — Hell’s Kitchen
9-10 PM — Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test
FRIDAY
8 PM-CC ET/ 5 PM-CC PT — Fox College Football Friday
SATURDAY
7-10:30 PM ET/4:00-7:30 PM PT — Fox Sports Saturday
SUNDAY
7-7:30 PM — NFL On Fox
7:30-8 PM — The OT / Fox Animation Encores
8-8:30 PM — The Simpsons
8:30-9 PM — Universal Basic Guys
9-9:30 PM — Krapopolis
9:30-10 PM — Bob’s Burgers
Less than a decade ago, on Fox’s fall 2016 schedule, all but one hour Monday-Friday were taken by drama and comedy series. This fall, all but two hours will go to reality and sports. That is a progression not unique to Fox, with scripted series taking up less than a third (31.8%) on NBC’s schedule this coming October.
Some of that was out of necessity — Fox has only renewed two dramas for next season so far, breakout hit Doc starring Molly Parker, which has a full-season 22-episode Season 2 order, and fellow sophomore Murder In a Small Town with Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, produced under the network’s international content strategy and designed for limited runs.
The shows will stay on Tuesday in the fall, returning to the time slots where they launched successfully last season — though not at the same time, one aired in the fall, the other in midseason — 8 PM for Murder In a Small Town, with Marcia Gay Harden joining as a new series regular, and 9 PM for Doc.
Fox just picked up two ongoing hourlong series for next season, drama Memory of a Killer and comedy Best Medicine starring Josh Charles. Both being straight-to-series orders under the network’s current development model, a fall launch would be too quick of a turnaround. They will premiere in midseason, where Fox successfully introduced Doc, followed by limited biblical series The Faithful, slated for the 2026 Easter and Passover season.
Fox is going for a “Doc Tuesday” in midseason, pairing its two medical shows, Doc and Best Medicine, which is based on the UK hit Doc Martin. (The alternative was “Memory loss Tuesday” by putting together Doc, about a doctor with amnesia, and Memory of a Killer, about a hitman who develops early onset Alzheimer’s.)
Memory of a Killer may be headed to Monday as I hear the night will welcome back scripted programming in midseason after using the celebrity-themed Name That Tune and Weakest Link as Monday Night Football counter-programming in the fall. The thriller drama is fully owned by Fox, as is The Faithful, with Best Medicine a co-production with Warner Bros. TV.
Scripted rebuilding
The temporary scripted pullback reflects where Fox is in its evolution six years after the Disney-Fox deal separated the network and its former main studio supplier, 20th Television, as the last of the 20th TV-owned Fox dramas, 9-1-1: Lone Star, done under a vertically integrated business model, ended this season. Along with the mothership 9-1-1, the spinoff spent most of its run on Monday.
“We’re in a rebuilding phase, post-Disney transaction, with our dramas, and we’re so pleased with the performance of our shows last season,” Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network, said of Doc and Murder In a Small Town, which it co-owns. “It’s one step at a time for us with these new one-hours that we’re ordering and leveraging the power of football across the season to launch those. We think we’re at a very exciting rebuilding phase for us in our scripted programming, including our live-action comedies as well.”
Unscripted expansion
There likely also was an element of the “playing to our strengths,” as Wade noted earlier, in leaning heavily into reality programming in the fall as unscripted shows currently top Fox’s ratings, led by the network’s new flagship series, The Floor, also the highest rated primetime game show on broadcast.
For the first time since 2019, there will be no Masked Singer on Fox’s fall schedule. As Deadline reported exclusively, the celebrity music competition will only do one cycle next season, launching in January.
Not surprisingly, taking over The Masked Singer‘s tentpole Wednesday 9 PM slot will be The Floor hosted by Rob Lowe. It will be used as a launch pad for new game show 99 To Beat. It is hosted by The Masked Singer judge Ken Jeong, keeping his presence on the night in the fall, and Erin Andrews.
Staying in its anchor Thursday 8 PM anchor position is Gordon Ramsay’s stalwart Hell’s Kitchen, paired with Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
Wade stressed that his team does not look at nights on the schedule as being scripted or unscripted with one exception. “The only tool we have on our schedule is Animation Domination, which is obviously a full-on Sunday night,” he said.
Fox’s Sunday animated lineup mirrors last fall’s, The Simpsons, Universal Basic Guys, Krapopolis and Bob’s Burgers, with the last two swapping slots.
Midseason bench
Like last season, Family Guy and Grimsburg will be sitting out the fall. They are on Fox’s midseason animation bench along with American Dad!, set for its Fox a return after 11 years on TBS. (The 20th TV Animation-produced The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and American Dad! have all been picked up for the next four seasons in an unprecedented deal. Fox’s other animated series are fully or partially owned by the network.)
Also like last season, Fox’s half-hour live-action comedy series Animal Control and Going Dutch — both wholly owned by the network — will make their appearance later in the season.
In addition to The Masked Singer, Fox’s unscripted backup includes Beat Shazam, Don’t Forget The Lyrics!, Extracted, Kitchen Nightmares, LEGO Masters as well as Next Level Chef, which is joined by the holiday-themed limited event Next Level Baker.
The network has not yet made renewal decisions on dramas Accused, The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit as well as animated comedy The Great North. Of the group, one at the most would continue as a regular series, while anthology Accused could potentially return as an event in the future.
NEW DRAMA SERIES
MEMORY OF A KILLER
Inspired by the 2003 award-winning Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer (La Memoire Du Tueur), Memory of a Killer is a dramatic thriller about a hitman who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. Losing your memory is a devastating hammer blow for anyone, but for Angelo Ledda, the stakes couldn’t be higher. His hit man job would be perilous enough, but there’s an added pressure. Angelo lives two totally separate lives — fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Having built and maintained a brick wall between his two worlds, Angelo has seamlessly juggled and compartmentalized for years. But now that’s all about to change. Because Alzheimer’s is a foe he can’t outrun, and he knows too well how this ends, as his older brother is already lost to the condition. Angelo is exceptionally resourceful and talented, the best of the best. But he’s about to be tested like never before — and now every minute counts. This is only made more difficult when he discovers that his wife’s recent death may not have been an accident. So, when someone comes after his daughter — who is pregnant — it’s clear the wall between his lives has been breached. Angelo must stop whoever’s coming for his family by searching his past hits for clues, and the list is very long. Now Angelo must hunt down his mortal enemy while continuing to carry out hits without giving away his diagnosis and still making it home in time to cook dinner for his daughter. Memory of a Killer is a redemptive story about a man who is losing his memory but gaining a conscience. Because Angelo knows he must stop history from repeating itself and save his family — before he forgets the past. Memory of a Killer is produced by Warner Bros. Television and FOX Entertainment. The series is from Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone, who executive produce alongside Cathy Schulman of Welle Entertainment. Arthur Sarkissian and Martin Campbell are also executive producers, along with Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks.
NEW EVENT SERIES
THE FAITHFUL
Clockwise Top L-R: Sarah Leading Hagar to Abraham. ‘Isaac Blessing Jacob’.Old Testament. Book of Genesis. Jacob in his uncle Laban’s house and the father of his two wives Leah and Rachel
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A six-episode limited series presented over three consecutive weeks during next Easter and Passover season, The Faithful is based on The Old Testament’s Book of Genesis and told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate, yet flawed, women whose descendants would shape three of the world’s great faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Dimensional, dramatic, intimate, even shocking, The Faithful is about discovering and losing love, the challenges of marriage, the joys and heartbreak of children, confronting temptation and finding faith. The episodes will be told through the lens of five of The Bible’s most legendary women: Sarah and her former slave Hagar, Sarah’s great-niece Rebekah, and Rebekah’s nieces, sisters Leah and Rachel. Wholly owned by FOX Entertainment, The Faithful comes from FOX Entertainment Studios and is distributed by FOX Entertainment Global. Under her first look broadcast direct deal with FOX, Carol Mendelsohn (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) serves as executive producer along with Julie Weitz (Game of Silence) and Rene Echevarria (Carnival Row, The 4400), who penned the pilot and will also serve as showrunner.
NEW ONE-HOUR COMEDY
BEST MEDICINE
Josh Charles in ‘Best Medicine’
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Starring multiple Emmy Award nominee Josh Charles (The Handmaid’s Tale, The Good Wife, Sports Night, Dead Poets Society), Best Medicine is a charmingly complicated one-hour comedy based on the critically acclaimed and beloved global hit Doc Martin. The series centers on Martin Best (Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered. Wholly owned by FOX Entertainment, the series comes from executive producers Ben Silverman (The Office, U.S.), Rodney Ferrell (Stick), Howard T. Owens (Stick), Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City), Mark Crowdy (Doc Martin) and Philippa Braithwaite (Doc Martin). Based on All3Media International’s successful format Doc Martin, which was produced originally in the UK by Buffalo Pictures in association with Homerun Film Productions, and brought to American audiences by Propagate Content.
NEW UNSCRIPTED PROGRAMMING
99 TO BEAT
In 99 to Beat, 100 contestants go head-to-head in a range of visually distinctive and hilarious games in an arced competition game show like we’ve never seen before. 99 to Beat is the game show that anyone can win, and there’s only one thing players must do for a chance of walking away with the cash prize – Don’t. Come. In. Last. As contestants battle it out against each other, each round will see the number of players whittled down until one person is left standing and they take home the top prize of $100,000. 99 to Beat is produced by Initial, with Natalka Znak, Claire O’Donohoe, Katy Manley and Lee Smithurst executive producing. The series is based on a format originated by VRT and De Chinezen, and is distributed by Primitives.
