What’s on FOX tonight? Here is the full FOX schedule for Thursday, October 29, 2026, with times in Eastern Time (ET).

Fox gives Thursday two hours of reality and hands the rest to local stations

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Fox has two hours of its own on Thursday, both reality competitions, and then it steps aside. Hell’s Kitchen at 8pm ET/PT (7pm Central) and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test at 9:02pm ET/PT (8:02pm Central) are the whole network night. From 10pm, the schedule is local programming for two hours, and that is the longest block on the evening. Hell’s Kitchen is the pick, by a small margin.

Hell’s Kitchen at 8pm

This is the stronger slot, and it has the more established show. Hell’s Kitchen has 25 series and 383 episodes to date, with Gordon Ramsay listed as its cast. It is a cooking competition and a reality series, and it runs 62 minutes, so it spills just past the hour. It is also up against the busiest opening of anyone: 9-1-1 on ABC, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage on CBS, The Real Housewives of Orange County on Bravo and The Office on Comedy Central. Beat Bobby Flay on Food Network is the closest rival in kind. Three stars. A show with a run that long is a known quantity.

Special Forces at 9:02pm

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test is a much younger show: a 2023 series with one series and 10 episodes to date, based on SAS: Who Dares Wins. Rudy Reyes, Jason Fox, Remi Adeleke and Billy Billingham are the names attached to it. It starts at 9:02pm and runs 58 minutes, so it finishes at 10:00pm on the dot, handing over to local news and whatever the stations schedule next. It faces 9-1-1: Nashville on ABC, Ghosts on CBS and American Horror Story on FX. Three stars too, but this is the hour with less certainty behind it.

What the rest of the day looks like

There is no network programming to flag outside primetime. Fox runs local programs overnight from midnight, through the morning from 6am, through the afternoon from noon and in the early evening from 6pm. What airs in those blocks depends on the local station. The 10pm slot is two hours of local programming, which is the main reason Fox is a short night: viewers who finish at 10pm will find competitors such as Grey’s Anatomy on ABC and Cupertino on CBS starting just as Fox hands off.

Two shows, two hours. If only one is worth the time, Hell’s Kitchen gets the vote.


Also on TV tonight at 8pm ET

  • ABC: 9-1-1
  • NBC: The Traitors: New Blood
  • CBS: Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
  • PBS: This Old House
  • The CW: Scrabble
  • ION: FBI
  • TCM: The Beguiled
  • AMC: It (from 6pm ET)
  • FX: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (from 5:30pm ET)
  • Freeform: Monsters University (from 6:05pm ET)

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Frequently asked questions

What’s on FOX tonight?

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, FOX shows Hell’s Kitchen at 8pm ET, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test at 9:02pm ET and Local Programs at 10pm ET.

Is there a movie on FOX tonight?

No. FOX has no movies in its evening schedule on Thursday, October 29, 2026.

What time does FOX’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with Local Programs at 6pm ET.