Fox introduces new streaming service, season schedule
Fox introduces streaming service and 2025-26 schedule
Fox Corporation made a pair of announcements on Monday regarding its upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service and the 2025-26 broadcast network season.
Fox unveiled Fox One, a new streamer carrying the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, Fox Business, FS1, FS2, Fox Weather, Big Ten Network, and your local Fox affiliate, pending if they can make a deal with the station’s owner in your town (Fox-owned stations, including Fox 32 and Fox Chicago Plus, are already included.)
“We know that Fox has the most loyal and engaged audiences in the industry, and Fox One is designed to reach outside of the pay-TV bundle and deliver all the best Fox branded content directly to viewers wherever they are,” said Pete Distad, a former Venu executive who is now in charge of Fox One. “We have built this platform from the ground up to allow consumers to enjoy and engage with our programming in new and exciting ways, leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance the user experience across the platform.”
Viewers will also have the option of bundling Fox Nation into the package for an additional fee. Reports circulated that the service would be priced at $20 per month.
Fox One rose from the ashes of Venu, when the principals behind the project abandoned it due to antitrust issues. Fox hopes to launch Fox One by September, when the NFL and college football seasons begin.
Meanwhile, Fox introduced a revamped 2025-26 season schedule heavy on unscripted programming.
Mondays feature game shows Name That Tune and Weakest Link, the latter shifting from NBC and now retitled Celebrity Weakest Link, with Dolton native Jane Lynch remaining as host. Previous incarnations featured Anne Robinson (who also helped the original BBC version in the early 2000s) and George Gray (in syndication) as hosts. Since Lynch is from the same town Pope Leo The XIV is from, the celebrities might get a special blessing. Or maybe not.
Fox has also picked up another NBC castoff, Fear Factor, which last aired with new episodes on MTV in 2011.
Tuesdays has Murder In A Small Town and Doc, the only live-action scripted programming on the schedule this fall. With The Masked Singer headed to the bench on Wednesdays, the night features The Floor and new game show 99 To Beat with Masked Singer’s Ken Jeong as host.
Thursdays feature unscripted series Hell’s Kitchen and Special Ops: World’s Toughest Test; sports take up Fridays and Saturdays. Sundays features Simpsons, Universal Basic Guys, Krapololis, and Bob’s Burgers, with American Dad, Family Guy, and Grimsburg all slated for midseason. Fox renewed all of its animated sitcoms recently, with The Great North a notable execption. Fox canceled Rescue HI-Surf last week.
Midseason features dramas Memory Of A Killer and Best Medicine, with Josh Charles and the recently renewed Animal Control and Going Dutch. Fox will also have a six-hour mini-series called The Faithful slated to air during Easter and Passover, reflecting the growing popularity of faith-based programming.
There is no word on whether the dramas Accused, Alert: Missing Persons Unit, and The Cleaning Lady would return for the upcoming season. The fates of those shows will be determined at a later date.