Fox is bringing back both Animal Control and Going Dutch for the 2025-2026 primetime season. The network confirmed they’ve renewed Animal Control starring Joel McHale for season four, and Going Dutch with Denis Leary will return for season two.
“Animal Control and Going Dutch are proven winners thanks to signature FOX characters brought to life by Joel and Denis — two of the funniest comedic voices on TV today, giving us an ideal foundation for building our new comedy block,” stated Michael Thorn, President, FOX Television Network. “With a focus on creating irreverent, fun workplace humor that’s both outrageous and unpredictable, Joel, Denis, their castmates, and production teams deliver reliably laugh-out-loud moments week after week that will keep fans coming back season after season.”
Animal Control season three stars McHale, Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, and Grace Palmer. The first season of Going Dutch featured Leary, Taylor Misiak, Danny Pudi, Laci Mosley, and Hal Cumpston.
“Animal Control follows a group of local Animal Control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not,” reads Fox’s synopsis. “McHale stars as Frank Shaw, an over-qualified, over-opinionated Animal Control officer who has an almost superhuman ability to understand animals. But humans… not so much.”
The comedy was created by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Dan Sterling. Tad Quill is the showrunner and serves as an executive producer along with Fisher, Greenberg, Sterling, and Joel McHale.
“Going Dutch centers on the arrogant, loudmouth U.S. Army Colonel Patrick Quinn (Leary), who — after an epically unfiltered rant — is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he is punished with a command position at the least strategic army base in the world, notable for its Michelin Star commissary, top-notch bowling alley, lavender-infused laundry, and the best (and only) fromagerie in the U.S. Armed Forces,” per Fox. “Surrounded by a diverse group of military misfits, the colonel tries to reinstate discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who just happens to be his estranged daughter, Captain Maggie Quinn (Misiak).”
Created by Joel Church-Cooper, the half-hour workplace comedy is executive produced by Church-Cooper, Denis Leary, and Jack Leary.
