2020–21 United States network television schedule (late night)
The 2020–21 network late night television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2020 to August 2021.
Legend
- Light blue indicates local programming.
- Gray indicates encore programming.
- Yellow indicates late night talk or variety shows.
- Gold indicates network news programming.
- Light green indicates sporting events.
Schedule
- New series are highlighted in bold.
- All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
- Affiliates fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
- NBC's programming might be pre-empted from July 23 to August 8, 2021 for the network's coverage of the rescheduled 2020 Summer Olympics from Tokyo, Japan.
Weeknights
| Network | 11:00 p.m. | 11:30 p.m. | 12:00 a.m. | 12:30 a.m. | 1:00 a.m. | 1:30 a.m. | 2:00 a.m. | 2:30 a.m. | 3:00 a.m. | 3:30 a.m. | 4:00 a.m. | 4:30 a.m. | 5:00 a.m. | 5:30 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Local programming | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (11:35) | Nightline (12:35) | Local programming (1:06) | ABC World News Now | America This Morning | Local programming | |||||||
| CBS | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (11:35) | The Late Late Show with James Corden (12:37) | Local Programming (1:37) | CBS Overnight News | CBS Morning News | |||||||||
| NBC | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (11:35) | Late Night with Seth Meyers (12:37) | A Little Late with Lilly Singh (1:37) | Local Programming (2:05) | Early Today | |||||||||
- Note: ABC, CBS and NBC offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
- Note: ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting markets that do not offer encores of the local late news; some stations with encores of local late news will air alongside the network evening news rebroadcasts leading in to the networks' overnight newscasts, or with syndicated and time-lease programs.
Saturday overnights
| Network | 11:00 p.m. | 11:30 p.m. | 12:00 a.m. | 12:30 a.m. | 1:00 a.m. | 1:30 a.m. | 2:00 a.m. | 2:30 a.m. | 3:00 a.m. | 3:30 a.m. | 4:00 a.m. | 4:30 a.m. | 5:00 a.m. | 5:30 a.m. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox | Fall | Labor of Love (R)[1] | Local programming | ||||||||||||
| Mid-fall | Cosmos: Possible Worlds (R)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Winter | I Can See Your Voice (R)[3] | ||||||||||||||
| NBC | Local programming | Saturday Night Live (11:29)[4] | 1st Look (1:02) | Local programming (1:32) | |||||||||||
- Note: ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting markets that do not offer encores of the local late news; some stations with encores of local late news will air alongside the network evening news rebroadcasts leading in to the networks' overnight newscasts, or with syndicated and time-lease programs.
Sunday overnights
| Network | 11:00 p.m. | 11:30 p.m. | 12:00 a.m. | 12:30 a.m. | 1:00 a.m. | 1:30 a.m. | 2:00 a.m. | 2:30 a.m. | 3:00 a.m. | 3:30 a.m. | 4:00 a.m. | 4:30 a.m. | 5:00 a.m. | 5:30 a.m. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Local programming | ABC World News Now | America This Morning | Local programming | |||||||||||
| CBS | CBS Overnight News | CBS Morning News | |||||||||||||
| NBC | Fall | NBC Sunday Night Football[5] | Local programming | Early Today | Local programming | ||||||||||
| Winter | Local programming | ||||||||||||||
- Note: ABC, CBS and NBC offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
- Note: ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting markets that do not offer encores of the local late news; some stations with encores of local late news will air alongside the network evening news rebroadcasts leading in to the networks' overnight newscasts, or with syndicated and time-lease programs.
References
- "LABOR OF LOVE (FOX)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- "COSMOS (NGC)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- "I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE (FOX)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (NBC)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- "SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (NBC)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
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