5 shows to watch while you wait for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3

If you’re in the mood for another story about finding missing people, you’re not alone. In some great news, Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 is happening. In some bad news, we have a wait on our hands for it.

Fox has confirmed that the third season will not arrive until 2025. It’s still part of the 2024–2025 TV season at this point, but we’re not going to get it until January 2025 at the earliest. This matches the release of the first two seasons.

So, we need something else to watch while we wait. Here are five shows that will help you get through this break.

Found

NBC brought its own missing persons drama last season. We got the series Found, which focuses on a private team for hire that does the job that the police fails to do. This firm is run by Gabi Mosley, a woman who was once a missing person who had to save herself and a fellow young girl called Bella.

We learn that there is far more to the story than meets the eye. Gabi hasn’t let her past go, and not just in the form of finding other missing people. She has her former captor in her basement, and he’s helping her find the missing people. The question is how long she can keep him locked up down there.

Big Sky

For three seasons, we watched as two women worked together to find missing people, solve crimes, and more. It all started with Danielle and Grace being taken by a truck driver. Private detectives Cody Hoyt and Cassie Dewell went in search for them, only for it to end with Cody going missing. Well, we know what happened, but Cassie and Cody’s estranged wife, Jenny, didn’t.

The two women go on the hunt for the two missing sisters and the missing private detective. They find that this is much deeper than a case of a couple of missing girls.

Tracker

CBS also has a missing persons series, but this one brings a twist. Colter Shaw isn’t your usual cop or private detective looking for a missing person. He’s a rewardist. He follows the money, but sometimes, he does things for friends as well.

Colter has his own past to contend with as well. His father died when he was young, and Colter has believed his brother was involved for the longest time. What if there is something more to that story? That could be something for him to figure out in Season 2.

Without a Trace

If you need something with a few seasons to get through while waiting for Alert: Missing Persons Unit, you’ll want to turn to Without a Trace. There are seven seasons of this series.

The procedural follows the FBI’s Missing Persons Squad. As the name of the squad suggests, they take a look at various cases to find missing people. They also need to figure out whether the people have been abducted or have simply run away. Then there are the cases of murder and suicide. This brings more of the psychological profiling than other shows do.

Absentia

Finally, we have a Prime Video series that ran for three seasons and came to its own intended conclusion. The series started with Emily Byrne suddenly reappearing after being presumed dead for the last six years. She had been abducted and had managed to escape.

Of course, as an FBI agent, there were plenty of questions about whether she actually went missing or if she orchestrated it herself. When there are a string of murders, Emily needs to prove that she really was taken and that she has nothing to do with the recent crimes. All the while, she needs to deal with the way her family moved on without her.