Cooking Shows Next Week (Sept. 21–27, 2026): Hell's Kitchen Season 25 Premieres Thursday
This page was written for the week of Sept. 21–27, 2026; the season has since moved on.
Hell's Kitchen season 25 premiered Thursday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX — that was the one appointment of the week. Around it: Halloween Baking Championship's second episode Monday at 9 p.m. ET, two new Bobby Flay hours Tuesday, The Great British Baking Show landing on Netflix early Friday, and Halloween Wars Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.
Six new competition hours in all, spread over four nights. Wednesday is blank for the first time since April 15, when MasterChef started its Global Gauntlet run; that season ended Sept. 16.
| Night | What's new | Time (ET) | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sept. 21 | Halloween Baking Championship, ep. 2 — “Into the Wild” (2 hrs.) | 9–11 p.m. | Food Network; HBO Max and discovery+ the next day |
| Tue., Sept. 22 | Bobby's Triple Threat, “Titans vs Kenny Gilbert”, then Bobby Flay's The Line | 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. | Food Network. In Britain, Bake Off series 17 opens the same night on Channel 4 at 8 p.m. U.K. time — 3 p.m. ET |
| Wed., Sept. 23 | Nothing new | — | MasterChef's season is over |
| Thu., Sept. 24 | Hell's Kitchen season 25 premiere — “25th Premiere Party” | 8 p.m. | FOX; Hulu the next day |
| Fri., Sept. 25 | The Great British Baking Show, Collection 14 | 3 a.m. (12 a.m. PT) | Netflix |
| Sat., Sept. 26 | Nothing new | — | — |
| Sun., Sept. 27 | Halloween Wars, ep. 3 — “Misfit Monsters” | 9 p.m. | Food Network; HBO Max the next day |
West Coast: both networks run these at the same local hour, so Food Network's Monday and Sunday hours are 9 p.m. Pacific and Hell's Kitchen is 8 p.m. Pacific. Only Central is shifted an hour earlier — that is what Food Network's “9|8c” and FOX's “8/7c” mean. Netflix is the exception: it drops at midnight Pacific, which is 3 a.m. Eastern.
Both Food Network runs were mid-elimination that week: Halloween Baking Championship was playing for $25,000, and Halloween Wars, an all-stars season billed “Back from the Dead,” for $30,000. Monday was the last long night of the baking season — two hours, then 90 minutes on Sept. 28, then straight hours through Oct. 19.
What's the biggest night next week?
Thursday. Hell's Kitchen had been off the air since January, and the field FOX named was 18 chefs with nobody older than 25 — nine men on blue, nine women on red. The premiere was built around the show's 25th season rather than a standard opening service, and it ran 62 minutes, so the hour bled a couple of minutes past 9. The only other episode FOX had listed at the time — “A Tale of Two Kitchens” — aired the following Thursday, Oct. 1. Our season 25 guide has the roster, and the premiere page carries the start time by zone.
When does Bake Off hit Netflix in the U.S.?
It hit Netflix on Friday, Sept. 25 at 3 a.m. ET — midnight on the West Coast. Channel 4 showed the same episode in Britain three days earlier, Tuesday at 8 p.m. U.K. time, opening on Cake Week with a stout-cake signature and Nigella Lawson's first episode as judge. Netflix then holds Fridays weekly, and the week-by-week Bake Off table lists both halves of the schedule.
Sources
- Season framing, prize money and premiere nights for the Halloween shows: Food Network's press release.
- Bake Off's Channel 4 night and 8 p.m. U.K. start: Stylist, matching Readdork's listing and the series 17 entry on Wikipedia.
- Is Hell's Kitchen On Tonight? Season 25 Thursday Schedule, Time and Streaming
- Halloween Wars Season 16: Air Time, Judges, the $30,000 Prize and the Full Sunday Schedule
- Cooking Shows Next Week (Sept. 14–20, 2026): Halloween Baking Monday, Jake Kelley Wins MasterChef Wednesday
- Great British Baking Show 2026: Netflix US Release Date and Full Schedule