Fox is jumping into the dating-show pool with a series featuing people who want out of the dating pool.
The network has picked up a show called Marriage Market for the 2026-27 season. Comedian Whitney Cummings will host the series, which will follow single people “who are officially over swiping, ghosting, and endless first dates” and their families, who will do the matchmaking for them. The catch: Once those families think they’ve found a good match, the couple gets engaged on the spot, and both the couples and their families move in together to see if the arranged relationship will work out.
The show comes from Fox Entertainment Studios, with showrunner Alycia Rossiter and John Carr executive producing. Fox is also selling the format worldwide, with a version of the show having already aired in Germany in 2023.
Marriage Market joins a group of “get married fast” shows that includes Peacock’s (and formerly Lifetime’s) Married at First Sight and TLC’s many-armed 90 Day Fiancé franchise.
“Marriage Market gives all new meaning to ‘shotgun wedding,’ turning dating on its head with one of the most extreme marketplace spectacles you’ve ever seen,” Fox Television Network president Michael Thorn said in a statement. “Watching families come together to make these matches is deeply relatable and wildly emotional, giving this distinctive concept all the ingredients of a signature Fox unscripted series.”
Added Fox Entertainment Studios unscripted head Allison Wallach, “Marriage Market is a bold new format that reflects our strategy of creating distinctive IP that take the kind of big and culturally relevant risks that viewers love. We’ve taken a timeless idea and reimagined it in a modern, high-stakes way with the families in full control and the talented, always funny Whitney Cummings presiding over it all as host.”
Marriage Market is the first new unscripted show Fox has ordered for next season. It joins a pair of dramas, Baywatch and The Interrogator, in the network’s lineup for 2026-27. THR’s broadcast scorecard has a rundown of all new series pickups, renewals and cancellations.
