American Dad Will Officially Return to Fox in the 2026 Midseason

It’s back, erstwhile again. Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad is returning to Fox erstwhile much and is present officially slated to person its 2nd debut connected the web successful 2026, alongside caller episodes of MacFarlane’s different deed bid Family Guy.

Bringing some bid backmost for the midseason marks a homecoming for the shows, which was primitively with Fox from 2005 to 2014 earlier moving to TBS done March of this year. Both American Dad and Family Guy are portion of a propulsion to support a “winning position” successful primetime tv programming.

“Building connected our winning presumption successful some cardinal demos and co-viewing this season, Fox delivers a 2025-26 docket that’s filled with irreverence, amusive and much-needed laughter,” Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade said successful a connection via Variety. “Next twelvemonth much than ever, we’re bringing that committedness to beingness with a terrific slate to delight our audiences crossed linear, Hulu and beyond.”

American Dad is back. Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images.

Fox is presently afloat of caller developments erstwhile it comes to the what and however of their upcoming programming, including unveiling the sanction of their caller streaming service. Fox One volition harvester news, sports, and amusement programming into 1 platform, according to a property merchandise from the network, and volition see some unrecorded streaming and connected request entree to the afloat catalog of Fox brands, including the enactment to bundle with Fox Nation wrong 1 platform.

American Dad does not yet person a premiere day for its Fox resurgence, but nary substance what, we’ll beryllium watching (and singing that taxable song). And it seems it volition astir apt beryllium disposable connected Fox One astatine that constituent too, but we'll cognize for definite sometime adjacent year.

Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.