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FOX has recruited another batch of familiar faces to see how much physical discomfort they can endure. The ratings for this reality show haven’t been great, so it remains to be seen how much longer the network will endure mediocre viewership. Will the numbers improve this year? Will Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test be cancelled or renewed for season four? Stay tuned.
A physical competition series, the Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test TV show is based on a British format. In season three, 16 household names train in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, and will endure the harsh reality of ocean warfare. The recruits must learn the art of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable as they are faced with training challenges across the country’s vast terrain of both land and sea, including high-pressure hostage rescue, a treacherous ladder crossing between steep cliffs nearly 100 ft above the sea, a boat dunk drill where they will be submerged into the frigid ocean and tasked with performing essential survival duties, a surf immersion where they will have to control their panic in an exercise that takes them to the brink of drowning, and much more. The participants are Nathan Adrian, Stephen Baldwin, Alana Blanchard, Landon Donovan, Carey Hart, Brody Jenner, Marion Jones, Ali Fedotowsky-Manno, Cam Newton, Kayla Nicole, Kyla Pratt, Denise Richards, Christy Carlson Romano, Trista Sutter, Golden Tate, and Jordyn Wieber. They are led by Directing Staff (DS) agents Rudy Reyes, Jason “Foxy” Fox, Mark “Billy” Billingham, and Jovon “Q” Quarles, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives. In this experiment, there are no votes and no eliminations — just survival.
Nielsen Ratings
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For comparisons: Season two of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on FOX averaged a 0.25 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 1.27 million viewers.
Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
As of March 17, 2025, Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test has not been cancelled or renewed for a fourth season. Stay tuned for further updates.
What do you think? Do you like the Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test TV series on FOX? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season?
Give us more!! Love this show!
Need not if it!! We are addicted to it. Exciting, challenging, educational. Live ut
Getting really sick and tired of Cam. He’s blessed with a huge and strong body, but has developed a huge and annoying ego and horrible, patronizing attitude..
Strong body, weak mind. And he’s a coward.
I’m sorry that Stephen was kicked off. He was hilarious.
Funniest line of the show: “I’m a thespian!” And he said it like Daffy Duck would say it. I was rolling on the floor.
And then he asked another contestant if he needed to go to the bathroom? Like he was a toddler? Hilarious.
This show is boring and pathetic recruiting washed up, pathetic FORMER stars and athletes. Then exploiting Travis Kelce on National TV to again give Kayla Nicole more king attention. FOX TV should be sued by the whole Kelce family for defamation. I will never watch this despicable show again.
I say shame on Stephen & also Denise. They stole those spots & should have stayed home! Someone else might have done a lot better.