Overview
- Fox announced the premiere timing at its upfronts Monday, setting a January 2027 launch on the network.
- Stephen Amell leads as a grown-up Hobie Buchannon, with Shay Mitchell, Hassie Harrison, Noah Beck, Brooks Nader, Jessica Belkin and Thaddeus LaGrone in the main ensemble.
- A first-look photo showed gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne in the red suit, and she will recur as junior lifeguard Grace in her acting debut.
- Cast members said they completed three to four weeks of lifeguard and CPR training to portray rescues credibly, citing the show’s history of viewers learning real lifesaving skills.
- Producers and actors describe a modernization with bigger, more cinematic action and ties to the original, with David Chokachi returning and David Hasselhoff’s involvement unconfirmed.