Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 is happening, but it's held until 2025

In some good news, Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 is happening. Fox hasn’t canceled too much on its schedule from the 2023–2024 season. Now eyes are on when the new season could arrive.

Fox announced its fall 2024 schedule, and Alert: Missing Persons Unit isn’t on there. Instead, Accused and the new drama Murder in a Small Town will take over Tuesdays in the fall. That pushes both Alert and the newly renewed The Cleaning Lady to the midseason.

Will Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 premiere in January 2025?

The earliest we’ll see the season is January 2025. This is just the earliest, and there’s no guarantee that Fox will opt for January starts for the midseason. This is the usual time for a midseason run, though.

It is possible that the season could be held for March instead. This would work for potential episode counts for Accused and Murder in a Small Town, keeping Alert on Tuesdays.

Murder in a Small Town is set to be nine episodes. There isn’t a confirmed episode count for Accused, but the first season had 15 episodes. We could see something similar for Season 2. That would push Accused into January and February, allowing for a March premiere for Alert: Missing Persons Unit.

The benefit of a March premiere is that with 10 to 13 episodes, the series could have a strong run through the rest of the TV season. The season would wrap in May and there wouldn’t need to be any breaks in the schedule.

Why a midseason premiere makes sense for Alert

There will be some fans of this series disappointed that the show is held for the midseason again. However, this could be a good move by Fox. Tuesday dramas do struggle against the FBI lineup on CBS. Shows in the midseason traditionally end up with lower linear ratings than fall shows.

Alert wasn’t the strongest show on the network. With a fall start, lower linear ratings would be a death sentence for the series. By putting it on in the midseason, Fox is giving it a chance and showing that there is some support for it. That’s what we want so that we see more of these compelling stories.