Fox sets September dates for autumn 2026 premieres
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Fox has set its autumn 2026 premiere schedule, confirming when a range of returning entertainment, drama, animation and sports programmes will come back to air in September. The announcement matters because it gives viewers and advertisers a clear picture of the network’s line-up for the start of the US broadcast season, including key unscripted brands such as “The Floor” and “Hell’s Kitchen” alongside scripted series and live sport. The formal primetime roll-out begins on 21 September, with the schedule then building across the week before Sunday animation and comedy return later in the month.
The first night features Season 6 of “Celebrity Name That Tune” at 8pm and Season 2 of “Celebrity Weakest Link” at 9pm, followed on 22 September by Season 2 of “Best Medicine” and Season 3 of “Doc”. On 23 September, Rob Lowe’s “The Floor” returns for Season 6, paired with Season 2 of “99 to Beat”, while 24 September brings Season 25 of Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen” and Season 5 of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test”. Fox’s sports schedule starts earlier, with “Fox College Football Friday” from 4 September and “Fox Sports Saturday” continuing in its regular slot, before 27 September adds “NFL on Fox”, “The Simpsons” Season 38, “Animal Control” Season 5, “Universal Basic Guys” Season 3 and “Grimsburg” Season 3.
- Fox has fixed its September 2026 autumn premiere dates.
- Entertainment launches from 21 September, with sport starting earlier.
- “The Simpsons”, “The Floor” and “Hell’s Kitchen” all return.
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Fox is one of the main free-to-air television networks in the United States. Like other US broadcasters, it introduces much of its new and returning programme schedule in the autumn, when audiences and advertisers pay close attention to which shows will occupy the busiest evening slots.
The network’s line-up combines scripted dramas and comedies with reality and competition programmes, including shows fronted by celebrities such as Rob Lowe and Gordon Ramsay. It also carries major live sport, particularly American football, which can draw large audiences and shapes how the rest of the schedule is arranged.
Premiere dates indicate when a programme’s new series will begin and how Fox plans to build viewing across the week. They are important to advertisers buying television time and to viewers following returning shows, especially long-running animated series and established entertainment formats.
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Originally published by Variety as “Fox sets September dates for autumn 2026 premieres”.