Every part that’s previous is new once more, even once we’re speaking about iconic crimson swimsuits from the ‘90s. That’s proper, Baywatch is slo-mo working its means again into the popular culture zeitgeist within the type of a TV reboot, and fortunately not as a sequel to the 2017 Baywatch film with The Rock and Alexandra Daddario. The venture has been in improvement for some time now, and the efforts have clearly been worthy, as Fox introduced a straight-to-series order for the beach-set reboot, albeit with an enormous change behind the scenes.
The newest Baywatch venture originated a few years in the past with manufacturing firm Fremantle, however took an enormous step ahead in early 2024 when Fox gave it a script dedication. On the time, the reimagining was being spearheaded by Lara Olsen, a TV author recognized for such reveals as Personal Follow, Reba, 90210 and extra. On the time, she was famous as being the showrunner and government producer, but it surely doesn’t seem as if she’s nonetheless hooked up after some behind-the-scenes modifications had been made.
Baywatch’s TV Reboot Now Has A New Showrunner
Taking on for Olsen can be Matt Nix, whose most celebrated creation so far is arguably USA’s long-running crime dramedy Burn Discover, with Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell. Nix additionally created a number of different reveals that did not fare practically as properly, akin to USA’s Problems and the Fox dramas APB and The Good Guys, to not point out Disney+’s Turner and Hooch and CBS’ True Lies. Solely his Marvel-adjacent collection The Gifted went behond a single season.
Nix will function each showrunner and EP alongside the co-creators of the O.G. collection, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann and Doug Schwartz, with Dante Di Lorteo additionally on board.
It seems like Bonann may be providing his abilities in a bigger capability behind the scenes, as Fox’s President Michael Thorn shared the next assertion to hype the information:
In its first run, Baywatch outlined a whole period of seaside life and elevated lifeguards to an iconic standing. Now, with our companions at Fremantle, this tv juggernaut is about for a modern-day comeback. Collectively, Fox and Fremantle, together with Matt Nix and authentic co-creator Greg Bonann, will deliver the California dream to a complete new technology of followers with recent tales, rising stars and all of the spectacle that make the Baywatch franchise a worldwide sensation.
Talking to his poing about recent tales and rising stars, no precise storylines or casting bulletins have been made simply but, however now that the present is 100% taking place, these updates can be on the horizon little doubt.
Baywatch’s Episode Rely And Premiere Window
On the time of this writing, Baywatch is being arrange for a 12-episode first season, though this sounds just like the form of deal the place the community may connect one other 9 or ten episodes to it for a full season.
As properly, Fox is aiming to deliver Baywatch again to viewers past the 2025 TV schedule, and is aiming for the 2026-2027 TV cycle, that means it will doubtless be arrange with a premiere in Fall 2026. Except after all the 12-ep order is particularly geared for a midseason arrival.
Fox’s earlier lifeguard-centric collection Rescue: HI-Surf was being developed on the identical time Lara Olsen was engaged on that iteration of Baywatch. The previous collection was canceled after a single season, making extra room for such characters to take over primetime.
Baywatch already made waves earlier in 2025 when the worldwide sensation hit streaming for the primary time, following a slew of rights points and different authorized formalities that needed to be discovered first. That each one got here within the wake of the 2024 docuseries After Baywatch: Second within the Solar, which mirrored on the O.G. collection’ wildly profitable run.
Keep tuned for extra particulars about Baywatch‘s return to tv, and keep protected within the water.