To paraphrase the famous musical title, a funny thing happened on the way to the upfronts this year. One by one, the four major broadcast network announced their 2026-27 lineups, and each of them featured more scripted series than the current season. The turnaround was so unexpected that the…

The 2026 Fox Upfronts day in New York got the Deadline Studio treatment on May 11, when the network’s talent gathered for portrait photos in the ballroom at the New York City Center. Attendees included Joel McHale (Animal Control), Johnny Knoxville (Fear Factor: House of Fear), Annie Potts (Best Medicine), Jon…

The broadcast networks are gearing up for for the 2026-2027 TV season with a new crop of scripted series ordered at ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. ABC has ordered a Rookie spinoff titled The Rookie: North, starring Jay Ellis, which is expected to premiere midseason. CBS ordered three new scripted series: two dramas and…

Former Late Late Show host James Corden is returning to late night, temporarily. The actor-comedian joined Michael Strahan on stage at the Fox upfront to announce FIFA World Cup 2026 After Hours On Fox With James Corden. “It’s going to be me, former England soccer captain Rio Ferdinand and…

Fox found a new location for its upfront presentation Monday but had some familiar faces. Jane Krakowski, who hosts Celebrity Name That Tune for the network, pulled double duty, kicking off Fox's shindig with another song-and-dance number, much like the one she had performed earlier in the day…

There is no official record book for the upfronts, but Fox might have made history Monday by having its chief technology officer address advertisers from the stage. Fox gets 200 million people each month engaging with its linear TV networks, streaming services and podcasts, CTO Melody…

Fox is touting its strength coming off a successful 2025-26 broadcast season, led by a few new breakout hits for the network. Memory of a Killer has tallied 18.4M viewers across platforms to-date, ranking as broadcast’s top drama debut of the season among adults 18-49 and delivering the largest…

Season 1 of Fox’s Best Medicine launched in January but fans won’t need to wait until next January for Season 2. The network this morning unveiled its fall 2026 schedule, and Best Medicine is on it, once again paired with fellow medical drama Doc on Tuesdays for what Fox’s head of scheduling Dan…

Fox is down to one live-action comedy series next season, Animal Control, starring Joel McHale, after cancelling sophomore Going Dutch. While a couple of half-hour projects, including Mammoth, Thunderjacks, King Gary and an Andrea Savage show, had been heating up at the network over the past…

Fox’s Baywatch has been in production in Los Angeles for two months now, so it will be ready for fall. But the high-profile reboot will not premiere then. Instead, the network is planning a January launch. Why? “We have a rich history of launching series midseason, we just did it most recently…

Fox has renewed the majority of its unscripted slate. The network has handed renewals to series including Celebrity Weakest, Extracted and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test ahead of its Upfronts presentation. It has also cooked up a raft of renewals for Gordon Ramsay's menu of…

Gordon Ramsay is arguably Fox's most important human star. The chef has long had a relationship with the network and that is only going to continue after Fox renewed a raft of his shows. The network is bringing back Ramsay shows including Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's S…