EXCLUSIVE: Whitney Cummings is entering the Marriage Market.

The comedian is to host the dating show for Fox. The unscripted series will launch as part of Fox’s 2026/27 broadcast season.

Marriage Market sees singles ready for marriage relinquish total control of their love lives to their closest family members, who marry them off at a market like no other.

The series is an original Fox-owned series and has had an interesting genesis. The show comes from Fox Entertainment Studios and was created inhouse before initially being launched in Germany on commercial broadcaster ProSieben.

It is now coming full circle and launching in the U.S.

Cummings will welcome singles, who are officially over swiping, ghosting, and endless first dates, into an actual Marriage Market, where they’re up for trying something radical…putting their love lives in the hands of family members that know them best and risking it all for one shot at forever – in an arranged marriage. 

Per the logline, when two families believe they’ve found a match, their singles are introduced and engaged on the spot – with the ultimate goal of making it to the altar. From there, the couples and their families move in together, navigating real-life compatibility, big personalities, and even bigger expectations. At any point, each of the newly matched singles’ families can decide they’ve found them “the one,” or send their single loved one back into the Marriage Market for another chance at finding them love.

It’s good timing for Cummings, who got engaged in November. Cummings is best known as a standup comedian, who is currently touring with Big Baby special. She has released six specials and is the co-creator of CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and creator of NBC’s Whitney. She also hosted Friends: The Game Show.

Marriage Market is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios with Alycia Rossiter, who worked on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, serving as showrunner. She will exec produce alongside John Carr.

“Marriage Market gives all new meaning to shotgun wedding, turning dating on its head with one of the most extreme marketplace spectacles you’ve ever seen,’” said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network. “Watching families come together to make these matches is deeply relatable and wildly emotional, giving this distinctive concept all the ingredients of a signature Fox unscripted series.”

“Marriage Market is a bold new format that reflects our strategy of creating distinctive IP that take the kind of big and culturally relevant risks that viewers love,” added Allison Wallach, Head of Unscripted, Fox Entertainment Studios. “We’ve taken a timeless idea and reimagined it in a modern, high-stakes way with the families in full control and the talented, always funny Whitney Cummings presiding over it all as host.”