{"id":339701,"date":"2025-12-09T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339701\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:12:07","slug":"fox-premieres-best-medicine-animal-control-memory-of-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339701\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Premieres ‘Best Medicine’, ‘Animal Control’, ‘Memory of a Killer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFox<\/a> has selected three shows to get a big NFL lead-in for their series or season premieres: new dramas Best Medicine<\/a> and Memory of a Killer<\/a> and returning comedy Animal Control<\/a>. All will be getting special advance debuts ahead of their previously announced midseason premiere dates<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt has been rare for Fox, whose lineup skews toward unscripted fare, to use all of the lofty post-NFL launch pads for scripted series. The network is doing it to boost two fully owned shows, comedy Animal Control and drama Best Medicine, and one co-production, Memory of a Killer. <\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 4 of Animal Control, starring Joel McHale, will have a special premiere on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 8 PM, immediately following an NFL doubleheader. It will be followed by all-new episodes of The Simpsons, Krapopolis and Bob\u2019s Burgers. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnimal Control will make its Thursday 9 PM time period premiere as scheduled on Jan. 15 with an original episode, leading to the Season 2 premiere of Going Dutch, starring Denis Leary.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew series Best Medicine, starring Josh Charles, will have a special debut on Sunday, Jan. 4 at 8 PM, immediately also following an NFL doubleheader. It will be followed by an all-new episodes of Krapopolis in its 9 PM slot and The Simpsons airing at a special time at 9:30 PM. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn its Tuesday 8 PM time period premiere on Jan. 6, as previously scheduled, Best Medicine will re-air the series opener, followed by the winter premiere of hit medical drama Doc, starring Molly Parker and Felicity Huffman and featuring the return of Scott Wolf. Both medical dramas will continue airing originals, with Best Medicine\u2019s second episode debuting Jan. 13.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew psychological thriller Memory of a Killer, featuring Patrick Dempsey\u2019s return to broadcast television alongside Michael Imperioli and Gina Torres, will now have a two-night premiere. It will begin Sunday, Jan. 25 10 PM, immediately following the NFC Championship Game, followed by the previously announced Monday, Jan. 26, time-period opener at 9 PM, following the Season 2 premiere of survival series Extracted.<\/p>\n

\n\tUPDATED FOX WINTER 2026 PREMIERE DATES
(All Times ET\/PT Except as Noted)<\/p>\n

\n\tSunday Dec. 28
8-8:30 PM ET \/ Live to All Time Zones \u2014 Animal Control (Special Advance Season 4 Premiere)
Immediately Following the FOX NFL Doubleheader
8:30-9 PM ET \/ Live to All Time Zones \u2014 The Simpsons (New Episode, Special Time)
9-9:30 \u2014 Krapopolis (New Episode)
9:30-10 PM \u2014 Bob\u2019s Burgers (New Episode)<\/p>\n

\n\tSunday, Jan. 4
8-9 PM ET \/ Live to All Time Zones \u2014 Best Medicine (Special Advance Series Premiere)
Immediately Following the FOX NFL Doubleheader
9-9:30 PM \u2014 Krapopolis (New Episode)
9:30-10 PM \u2014 The Simpsons (New Episode, Special Time)<\/p>\n

\n\tTuesday, Jan. 6
8- 9 PM \u2014 Best Medicine (Series Premiere Episode)
9-10 PM \u2014 Doc (Winter Premiere)<\/p>\n

\n\tThursday, Jan. 15
8-9 PM \u2014 Hell\u2019s Kitchen (New Episode)
9-9:30 PM \u2014 Animal Control (Time Period Premiere, All-New Episode)
9:30-10 PM \u2014 Going Dutch (Season 2 Premiere)<\/p>\n

\n\tSunday, Jan. 25
6 PM \/ Live to All Times Zones \u2014 NFC Championship Game
10 PM-11:10 PM ET \/ Live to All Time Zones \u2014 Memory of a Killer (Series Premiere)<\/p>\n

\n\tMonday, Jan. 26
8-9 PM \u2014 Extracted (Season 2 Premiere)
9-10 PM \u2014 Memory of a Killer (Time Period Premiere, All-New Episode)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox has selected three shows to get a big NFL lead-in for their series or season premieres: new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[68358,170775,88,6265,170776,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-339701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-animal-control","9":"tag-best-medicine","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fox","12":"tag-memory-of-a-killer","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}