It's time for a journey through the Fox Thursday schedule in 2025-26...
fall
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Hell's Kitchen | Crime Scene Kitchen | 65 | ||
| 79 | 50 | ||||
| 2025-26 | Hell's Kitchen | Special Forces: World's Toughest Test | 66 (+2%) | ||
| 75 (-5%) | 56 (+13%) | ||||
| VsAvg | -52% | -61% | -56% | ||
| Rank | 17/27 | 19/27 | 19/27 | ||
Coming off a relatively weak season last year, there was no real bounce-back in the cards for Hell's Kitchen. However, it did get a somewhat stronger lead-out in the fall, with Special Forces: World's Toughest Test pulling the nightly average into a narrow positive.
winter
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Hell's Kitchen | Animal Control | Going Dutch | 71 | |
| 89 | 56 | 49 | |||
| 52 | |||||
| 2025-26 | Next Level Chef | Animal Control | Going Dutch | 70 (-1%) | |
| 83 (-7%) | 64 (+15%) | 49 (-1%) | |||
| 56 (+7%) | |||||
| VsAvg | -26% | -26% | -26% | ||
| Rank | 19/27 | 21/27 | 20/27 | ||
It's always an adventure to see which of the Gordon Ramsay shows will get more episodes in the winter window; this time, Hell's was done by January 22 and Next Level got back earlier, helping it to hold up a bit better than Hell's average-wise. Once again, the 9/8c hour came to the rescue for Fox, with Animal Control getting a surprise boost at 9/8c.
spring
| Year | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Next Level Chef | Farmer Wants a Wife | 69 | ||
| 81 | 58 | ||||
| 2025-26 | Next Level Chef | Animal Control | Going Dutch | 65 (-6%) | |
| 75 (-7%) | 59 (+2%) | 51 (-11%) | |||
| 55 (-5%) | |||||
| VsAvg | -13% | -14% | -13% | ||
| Rank | 17/27 | 14/27 | 15/27 | ||
Thanks to an Olympic break and a couple other interruptions, the 9/8c comedies had to air about a month deeper into the spring this year, and the duo was a little below last year's Farmer Wants a Wife.
Rating the Ratings (about grades)
| Name | Lo | Avg | Hi | y2y | Plus | Label | Plusy2y | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hell's Kitchen* | 0.2 | 0.23 | 0.3 | -14% | 76 | marginal | -8% | detail |
| Next Level Chef | 0.2 | 0.23 | 0.3 | -10% | 78 | marginal | -4% | detail |
| Special Forces: World's Toughest Test | 0.1 | 0.17 | 0.2 | -24% | 56 | flop | -19% | |
| Animal Control | 0.1 | 0.27 | 1.2 | +56% | 90 | marginal | +66% | detail |
| Going Dutch | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.2 | -2% | 50 | flop | +4% |
Hell's Kitchen: Not much worse than last year, but last year was already on the soft side. No real sign that we're returning to a world where this show can post consistent league average-ish ratings. Grade: C+.
Animal Control: 62 average on Thursday, +14% from last year. Another one of the surprisingly strong comedy trends, alongside the likes of St. Denis Medical and Shifting Gears. It's on a smaller scale in terms of total audience, but in terms of percentage it's a bigger bounce than even those two. It's sort of like the last season of Home Economics, in that I kinda feel like I can't give an A type of grade to a show that is just crawling up to being barely borderline. But unlike Home Ec, this show will very much get to prove whether it's actually catching on. It's getting a massive upgrade all the way to the penthouse, the 8:30 post-Simpsons slot during football season. Grade: B+.
Going Dutch: The Animal Control heat didn't really extend to Going Dutch, which had worse retention of the stronger lead-in, but that lead-in still dragged it to narrow year-to-year Plus growth in its second and final season. Grade: C+.
The names in this last table link to the shows' War of 18-49 pages. Links with an asterisk(*) have been updated with the new info. Updates to younger shows will come later in the summer.
Previous Breakdowns for Fox Thursday: 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25
Here's the now updated Schedules Plus for Fox Thursday.
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