February 18, 2026

Running Wild with Bear Grylls is coming back to television for a ninth season on what will be its third network. The action-adventure series is moving to Fox this spring, with a premiere date already set for Tuesday, April 21.

The show follows legendary adventurer Bear Grylls as he takes celebrities into some of the most wild and remote locations in the U.S. and around the world for a 48-hour journey of a lifetime. Each celebrity must endure the harsh environment of the wilderness in high-action journeys including activities such as skydiving and rappelling down cliffs. These excursions force Grylls and each celebrity to push their bodies and minds to the limit.

This season, Grylls leads cast members on a globe-spanning adventure through some of the planet's most unforgiving landscapes - from Norway's glacial wilderness to the legendary mountains of Eryri in Wales. The journeys cut through Arctic rainforest, vast canyonlands, and brutal desert terrain, with glacier crossings, canyon descents, high-risk extractions, and an adrenaline-charged freefall from 11,000 feet, into an adventure along the Irish Sea.