2021–22 United States network television schedule (afternoon)
American television schedule
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The 2021–22 afternoon network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2021 to August 2022. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2020–21 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV and The CW (as the programming services also don't offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns). Fox is not included on the weekday schedule: Fox only airs daytime programming (in the form of sports on weekend afternoons)
Effective this season, The CW turned over its weekday daytime hour to its affiliated stations on September 6, 2021;[1] as such, The CW will not be listed in any afternoon network schedule articles from this season onward until additional national programming is added.
Legend
- Light blue indicates local programming.
- Yellow indicates talk shows.
- Chartreuse indicates soap operas.
- Blue-gray indicates news programming.
- Light green indicates sporting events.
- Light teal indicates programs not applicable to the above categorizations.
- Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
- New series are highlighted in bold.
- All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (select shows) scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Pacific (for selected shows), Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
- Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs.[2] Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
- All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or primetime programming after game completion.
Weekdays
| Network | Noon | 12:30 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Local and/or syndicated programming | GMA3: What You Need To Know | General Hospital* | Local and/or syndicated programming | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir | Local and/or syndicated programming | ||||||||||
| CBS | Local and/or syndicated programming | The Young and the Restless | The Bold and the Beautiful | The Talk | CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell | |||||||||||
| NBC | Local and/or syndicated programming | Days of Our Lives | Local and/or syndicated programming | NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | ||||||||||||
Notes:
- ABC stations have the option of airing General Hospital at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
- Depending on their choice of feed, CBS stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern (airtime adjusted by time zone), and/or The Young and the Restless at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time (in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones).
- NBC stations have the option of airing Days of Our Lives at varying airtimes (usually between Noon and 2:00 p.m. local time), depending on the station's preference and choice of feed.
- Fox aired Fox NFL Thursday on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. ET live in all time zones during the fall.[3]
- ABC, CBS and/or NBC stations may air their corresponding network's early evening newscast anytime between 6:00- 8:00 p.m. ET and PT/5:00-7:00 p.m. CT/MT, depending on the station's choice of feed.
Saturday
| Network | Noon | 12:30 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 7:30 p.m. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | ESPN College Football on ABC[4] | College Football Scoreboard | Saturday Night Football[5] (continued to game completion) | |||||||||||||
| Winter | Local, syndicated and/or ESPN on ABC sports programming | UFC Live | NHL on ABC[6] | Local and/or syndicated programming | ABC World News Tonight with Whit Johnson | Local and/or syndicated programming | |||||||||||
| Spring | World of X Games | WNBA on ABC | Local and/or syndicated programming | ||||||||||||||
| Summer | WNBA on ABC | MLS on ABC | Local and/or syndicated programming | ||||||||||||||
| CBS | Fall | Local, syndicated and/or CBS Sports programming | College Football Today | SEC on CBS[4] | Local and/or syndicated programming | CBS Weekend News | |||||||||||
| Winter | College Basketball on CBS | ||||||||||||||||
| Spring | Local, syndicated and/or CBS Sports programming | PGA Tour on CBS | |||||||||||||||
| Summer | Local and/or syndicated programming | Big 3 on CBS | |||||||||||||||
| Fox | Fall | Fox College Football (continued to game completion)[7] | |||||||||||||||
| Winter | Fox College Hoops | Local and/or syndicated programming | |||||||||||||||
| Spring | Local, Syndicated and/or Fox Sports programming | USFL on Fox | Local and/or syndicated programming | Fox Major League Baseball (continued to game completion) | |||||||||||||
| Summer | Local, syndicated and/or Fox Sports programming | ||||||||||||||||
| NBC | Fall | Local and/or syndicated programming | Premier League on NBC[8] | Notre Dame Football on NBC[4] | Local and/or syndicated programming | NBC Nightly News with Jose-Diaz Balart | Local and/or syndicated programming | ||||||||||
| Winter | Premier League Goal Zone | Golf Channel on NBC | |||||||||||||||
| Spring | Monster Energy Supercross on NBC | ||||||||||||||||
| Summer | Local, Snydicated and/or NBC Sports programming | ||||||||||||||||
Notes:
- To comply with FCC educational programming regulations, stations may defer certain programs featured in their respective network's E/I program blocks to determined weekend late morning or afternoon time periods if a sporting event is not scheduled in the timeslot or in place of paid programming that would otherwise be scheduled.
- NBC Nightly News with Jose-Diaz Balart is preempted in the Eastern and Central Time zones when Notre Dame Football on NBC airs a 3:30 p.m. ET game, all other time zones air the program or sometimes may be preempted for other sporting events scheduled to air in the Afternoon (primetime in the Eastern and Central Time zones).
- CBS Weekend News is preempted in the Eastern and Central time zones when SEC on CBS airs a 3:30 pm ET game, all other time zones air the program.
- ABC, CBS and/or NBC stations may air their corresponding network's early evening newscast anytime between 6:00- 8:00 p.m. ET and PT/5:00-7:00 p.m. CT/MT, depending on the station's choice of feed.
Sunday
| Network | Noon | 12:30 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Local, Syndicated And/or ESPN on ABC sports programming | WNBA on ABC[9] | Local and/or syndicated programming | ABC World News Tonight with Linsey Davis | ||||||||||
| Winter | Local and/or syndicated programming | NBA Countdown[10][11] | NBA Sunday Showcase[10][11] | Local and/or syndicated programming | |||||||||||
| Spring | NBA Playoffs on ABC | ||||||||||||||
| Summer | Local, Syndicated and/or ESPN on ABC sports programming | MLS on ABC | Local and/or syndicated programming | ||||||||||||
| CBS | Fall | The NFL Today | NFL on CBS (continued until game completion)[12] | ||||||||||||
| Winter | College Basketball on CBS | Local and/or syndicated programming | CBS Weekend News | ||||||||||||
| Spring | Local, Syndicated and/or CBS Sports programming | PGA Tour on CBS | |||||||||||||
| Summer | Big 3 on CBS | ||||||||||||||
| Fox | Fall | Fox NFL Sunday | Fox NFL (continued to game completion)[12] | ||||||||||||
| Winter | Fox Sports programming | NASCAR on Fox | |||||||||||||
| Spring | Local, syndicated and/or Fox Sports programming | ||||||||||||||
| Summer | Local, Syndicated and/or Fox Sports programming | NHRA on Fox | |||||||||||||
| NBC | Fall | Local and/or syndicated programming | NASCAR America | NASCAR on NBC[13] | Local and/or syndicated programming | NBC Nightly News with Kate Snow | |||||||||
| Winter | NBC Sports programming | Golf Channel on NBC | |||||||||||||
| Spring | IndyCar Series on NBC | USFL on NBC | |||||||||||||
| Summer | Local, syndicated and/or NBC Sports programming | ||||||||||||||
Notes:
- To comply with FCC educational programming regulations, stations may defer certain programs featured in their respective network's E/I program blocks to determined weekend late morning or afternoon time periods if a sporting event is not scheduled in the timeslot or in place of paid programming that would otherwise be scheduled.
- Airtimes of sporting events may vary depending on the offerings scheduled for that weekend.
- When CBS and/or Fox offer an early singleheader NFL game, a post-game show airs after the game from 4:30–5:00 p.m. ET (the length of which may vary depending on the timing of the early game's conclusion) with local, syndicated or non-NFL sports programming airing after from 5:00–7:00 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, when CBS and/or Fox offer a late singleheader NFL game, local, syndicated or non-NFL sports programming airs from 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. PT.
- CBS and Fox stations in the Pacific Time Zone receiving an NFL singleheader game must air a late singleheader game, if possible.
- ABC, CBS and/or NBC stations may air their corresponding network's early evening newscast at 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. ET and PT/5:00 or 5:30 p.m. CT/MT, depending on the station's choice of feed.
- NBC Nightly News with Kate Snow airs live in all time zones during Fall to avoid pre-emption due to the live airing of NBC Sunday Night Football.
- ABC World News with Linsey Davis airs live in all time zones during Spring to avoid pre-emption due to the live airing of American Idol.
- CBS Weekend News is preempted on the Eastern and Central time zones when NFL on CBS airs late NFL Games, all other time zones air the program.
By network
Renewals and cancellations
Series renewals
ABC
- NHL on ABC—Renewed for a ninth season on March 10, 2021; deal will into a fourteenth season in 2027.[14]
CBS
- The Bold and the Beautiful—Renewed through the 2023–24 season on March 2, 2022.[23]
- College Basketball on CBS—Renewed through the 2022–23 season on July 24, 2017.[15]
- NFL on CBS—Renewed through the 2032–33 season on March 18, 2021.[16]
- SEC on CBS—Renewed for a twenty-seventh season; deal will conclude with its twenty-ninth season in 2023.[17]
- The Talk—Renewed for a thirteenth season on April 18, 2022.[24]
- The Young and the Restless—Renewed through the 2023–24 season on January 30, 2020.[18]
Fox
- Fox College Football—Renewed through the 2022–23 season on July 24, 2017.[15]
- Fox NFL Sunday—Renewed through the 2032–33 season on March 18, 2021.[16]
- NASCAR on Fox—Renewed through the 2023–24 season on August 2, 2013.[20]
NBC
- Days of Our Lives—Renewed through the 2022–23 season on May 11, 2021.[25] On August 3, 2022, it was announced that the series would be moving to Peacock.[26]