FEAR FACTOR: 48 HOURS OF FEAR: L-R: Contestants Brion, Meg, Blake, Tatum, Adrienne and Jeff. Premiers with part 1 on Thursday, May 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and part 2 on Thursday, May 21 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX and the next day on HULU. CR: Serguei Bachlakov/FOX. ©2026 FOX Media LLC.

Best-bets for May 14: crime, cooks and extra fear

1) “Fear Factor: 48 Hours of Fear” opener, 9 p.m., Fox. We thought the first two versions of “Fear Factor” were creepy enough. But this two-week show adds more: People face challenges while going 48 hours without sleep. Contestants (shown here)P are a yacht captain, a firefighter captain, a lawyer, a dental hygienist and people who work in marketing and health care. Read more…

1) “Fear Factor: 48 Hours of Fear” opener, 9 p.m., Fox. We thought the first two versions of “Fear Factor” were creepy enough. But this two-week show adds more: People face challenges while going 48 hours without sleep. Contestants (shown here)P are a yacht captain, a firefighter captain, a lawyer, a dental hygienist and people who work in marketing and health care.

2) “Next Level Chef,” 8 p.m., Fox. This started with three five-person teams — home chefs, social-media chefs and professionals. Now all of the others are gone, but four pros remain — Connor Caine, 30; Cole Lawson, 31; and Darian Bryan and Gabrielle Coniglio, both 34. Now, a week from the finale, they must make a signature dish … but there’s a catch.

3) “M.I.A,,” 10 p.m., NBC. This nine-part series arrived in one fierce gulp last week on the Peacock streamer. Now the first episode reruns here: When her family is murdered by a Miami drug cartel, a young woman begins an intense path toward revenge.

4) “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” 8 and 9 p.m., NBC. First, Anthony Edwards guests in a story of a murder during New York’s “Fleet Week.” Then we see that the rush to rescue a kidnap victim leads to errors that make it hard to convict the kidnapper.

5) “Elsbeth,” 9 p.m., CBS. Tracy Ullman has her second turn as a villain. Last time, she was a fortune-teller; now she’s a vengeful gossip columnist. That’s followed by a rerun, with behind-the-scenes schemes at a debutante ball. Earlier, “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” has a cash windfall and the “Ghosts” inn is considered for a movie location.

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