‘9-1-1: Lone Star’, ‘Animal Control’, ‘Doc’, More Get Midseason Premiere Dates At Fox
Fox has announced its midseason schedule, which kicks off on Jan. 2 with a new Thursday night comedy block.
Following an 8 pm lead-in with Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, Joel McHale’s hit comedy Animal Control launches its third season at 9 pm, following Denis Leary workplace comedy Going Dutch at 9:30 pm.Gordon Ramsay’s Season 4 premiere of Next Level Chef will take over the 8 pm Hell’s Kitchen slot on Thursday, Feb. 13 followed by Animal Control and Going Dutch.
The series debut of Fox’s new medical drama Doc is set for Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 9 pm. It stars Molly Parker (House of Cards) as the hard-charging, brilliant Chief of Internal Medicine Dr. Amy Larsen, who suffers a brain injury that erases the last eight years of her memory. Doc’s lead-in, Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX airs at 8 pm with episodes leading up to The Big Game set in New Orleans.
The Season 3 premiere of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test debuts Wednesday, Jan. 8 p.m. with 16 new celebrity recruits including Stephen Baldwin, Denise Richards and original Bachelorette Trista Sutter, among others.
The return of 9-1-1: Lone Star and debut of Rescue: HI-Surf, which was previously announced to follow the Super Bowl, will now premiere at 8 and 9 pm, respectively, on Monday, January 20. The series finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star will air on Monday, Feb. 3 at 9 pm.
Now following the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 9 will be the Season 3 premiere of Rob Lowe’s quiz show The Floor. It will shift to its time period premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 9 pm following the Season 13 debut of The Masked Singer.
Here are Fox’s winter premiere dates and special programming (all times ET/PT except as noted):
Thursday, January 2
8-9 pm: Hell’s Kitchen (Season 23B premiere)
9-9: 30 pm: Animal Control (Season 3 premiere)
9: 30-10 pm: Going Dutch (Series premiere)
Tuesday, January 7
8-9 pm: Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX (Season 2 premiere)
9-10 pm: Doc (Series premiere)
Wednesday, January 8
8-10 pm: Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test (Season 3 premiere)
Mondays, beginning January 20
8-9 pm: 9-1-1: Lone Star (Season 5B premiere; final season)
9-10 pm: Rescue: HI-Surf (Season 1B premiere)
Monday, February 3
8-9 pm: 9-1-1: Lone Star (Series finale)
