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After last season’s rebound, the four major broadcast networks have largely held their course in 2025-2026. Stability is playing across the big four broadcasters (as has been the case for some time), and this doesn’t look like it will change much until the 2026-27 season.
One thing is that an act Change this year: Sports programming is starting to take up more prime-time real estate, with NBC moving Tuesdays and Sundays after the NFL season to the NBA (followed by baseball in the spring and summer), and ABC making Monday Night Football It’s more or less a permanent feature of its fall lineup and Fox continues to dedicate two nights (Friday and Saturday) to sports throughout the year.
This means less room for comedies, dramas and unscripted shows, which could result in some marginally performing series being squeezed out. On the other hand, NBC is also leading a small-scale revival of the pilot season this year, suggesting that the network is open to adding more scripted shows to its slate. Paramount’s new CEO David Ellison has also talked about the importance of linear networks (the company owns CBS) — although the company’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery could have a major impact on the studio side of the TV business.
Below is THR’Our annual guide to what’s coming back, what’s not coming back, and what’s new at broadcast networks. Bookmark this page for updates as the season ends and the network prelims approach.
First-year offers are marked with an asterisk. The renewable series is in bold. Unless otherwise noted, shows are produced by the network’s sister studio – 20th Television for ABC, CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios for CBS, Fox Entertainment Studios for Fox and Universal TV and UCP for NBC. Unscripted series include only those broadcast during the regular season from September to May.
ABC
Written offers
911: Renewed for the tenth season
911: Nashville*: Renewed for the second season
Abbott Elementary (20/Warner Bros. TV): Renewed for season six
Gray’s Anatomy
High potential: Renewed for the third season
R. J. Decker*
Rising (Lionsgate TV/20)
Scrubs*
Transmission gears
Will Trent
Unwritten offers
American Idol (Fremantle/19 Entertainment)
America’s funniest home videos
Bachelorette (Warner Horizon Unscripted TV): Season 22 premieres March 22
Celebrity Jeopardy! (Sony): All-Stars season premieres March 13
Celebrity wheel of fortune (Sony)
Dancing with the stars (BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions)
Golden Bachelor (Warner Horizon Unscripted Television)
The Greatest Average American*
Shark tank (MGM/Sony Television)
Series orders for 2026-27
Nothing yet.
CBS
Written offers
Boston Blue*: Renewed for the second season
CIA* (Universal TV/CBS Studios)
Vehicle management*
Elspeth: Renewed for season four
FBI (UTV/CBS Studios): Renewed for season nine
Fire country: Renewed for season five
Georgie and Mandy’s first marriage (WBTV): Renewed for a third season
ghosts (CBS Studios/Lionsgate/BBC Studios LA Prods.): Renewed for a sixth season
Marshals* (Paramount Television Studios/101 Studios)
Matlock: Renewed for the third season
NCIS: Renewed for Season 24
NCIS: Origins: Renewed for the third season
NCIS: Sydney: Renewed for season four
The neighborhood: Ends in season eight
Honorable country*: Renewed for the second season
Tracker (Twenty): Renewed for the fourth season
Watson
Unwritten offers
The Amazing Race (Jerry Bruckheimer Channel/20): Renewed for season 39
America’s Culinary Cup* (Delicious Entertainment/Aha Studios)
Harlan Coben’s latest development* (Final Twist Productions/Triage Entertainment/See It Now Studios)
Hollywood Squares (Jesse Collins Entertainment/Flower Films)
The price is right at night (Fremantle)
the way* (Paramount Television Studios/101 Studios)
Survivor (SEG Holdco): Renewed through Season 52
Series orders for 2026-27
Cupertino (drama)
Einstein (drama)
Fox
Written offers
My father is American (20th TV Animation): Renewed through season 23 in 2028-29
Animal control: Renewed for season five
Best medicine*: Renewed for the second season
Bob’s Burger (20th TV Animation): Renewed through season 19 in 2028-29
document (Fox/Sony)
Believers: Women of the Bible*: The limited series premieres March 22
Family man (20th TV Animation): Renewed through season 27 in 2028-29
Go Dutch
Grimsburg: The premiere date of Season 3 will be determined later
Crabopolis: Renewed during the fifth season
Memory of the killer*
Murder in a small town (Fox/Sepia Films/Future Shack Inc.)
The Simpsons (20th Television Animation): Renewed through season 40 in 2028-29
Universal basic men (Fox/Sony): Renewed through season three
Unwritten offers
99 to win* (initial)
Celebrities are the weakest link* (Production of BBC Studios Los Angeles.)
extractor (B17 Entertainment/Balboa Productions)
The farmer wants a wife (Eureka Productions): Season 4 will premiere on April 21
Fear Factor: House of Fear* (Endemol Shine North America)
The word (Eureka Prods./Talpa/BiggerStage): Renewed through Season 7
Hell’s Kitchen (ITV America/A. Smith & Company)
The Masked Singer
Name this tune (Fox/Prestige Entertainment/BiggerStage)
Chef next level (Ramsay Global/Fox Studios)
Special Forces: The toughest test in the world (minnow movies)
Series orders for 2026-27
Baywatch (drama)
nbc
Written offers
Brilliant minds (WTV/UTV)
Chicago fire
Chicago Med
Chicago PD
The fall and rise of Reggie Dinkins*
Happy place: Renewed for the third season
Hunting party
Law and order
Law & Order: SVU
Saint Denis Medical: Renewed for the third season
Stumble*
Unwritten offers
On Brand with Jimmy Fallon* (B17 Entertainment/Alternate UTV)
Sound (MGM Television/Warner Horizon Television Unscripted/ITV Studios The Voice USA)
The wall (Spring Hill/Glassman Media/Alternative UTV)
Series orders for 2026-27
Nothing yet.
