2020–21 United States network television schedule (late night) explained

The 2020–21 network late night television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2020 to August 2021. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2019–20 television season.

PBS is not included at all, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. (PBS does offer its member stations packages of Amanpour & Company and BBC World News to air in late night timeslots Monday–Friday, and optional overnight access to its satellite feed, which rebroadcasts prime time programs shown either the previous evening or earlier in the week.) Ion Television is not included since the network's late-night schedule consists of syndicated drama reruns and paid programming, nor are MyNetworkTV and The CW as neither programming service offer late night programs of any kind.

Fox is not included in the weekday schedule, as it only airs late night network programming on Saturdays, and ABC and CBS are not included in the weekend schedule as both networks only air late night network programming on weekdays. On Sundays, NBC does not offer any network late night programming year-round, outside of overruns of its prime time Sunday Night Football game telecasts into the time period during Fall.

Schedule

New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time 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, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs, and fill timeslots not allocated to network programs with local, syndicated, or paid programming at their discretion.^[1] 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 a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any overrunning 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 correspondence to U.S. Eastern Time scheduling; in situations in which a scheduled sporting event overruns into the late night time period (as with telecasts of ABC's Saturday Night Football during Fall and NBA Saturday Primetime during Spring, and Fox's Thursday Night Football during Fall,^[2] all of which typically ran into the 11:00 p.m. ET hour), local late-night programming started or were joined in progress on owned and affiliated stations (particularly in the Mountain, Central and Eastern Time Zones) after the game's completion.

Weekday late nights

Network		11:00 p.m.	11:30 p.m.	12:30 a.m.	1:00 a.m.	1:37 a.m.
ABC		Local programming	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Nightline	Local programming
CBS	Fall		A Late Show with Stephen Colbert	The Late Late Show with James Corden		Local programming
CBS	Summer		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	The Late Late Show with James Corden		Local programming
NBC	Fall		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Late Night with Seth Meyers		A Little Late with Lilly Singh †
NBC	Summer		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Late Night with Seth Meyers		Local programming ^[3]

Notes:

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 that air encores of their local late newscasts will air the rebroadcast alongside the network evening news rebroadcasts (either acting as a lead-in to the networks' overnight newscasts), or with syndicated and time-lease programs.
A Little Late with Lilly Singh ended its two-season run on June 3, with reruns continuing to air until August 13. NBC returned the weeknight 1:37 a.m. ET timeslot over to its owned-and-operated and affiliated stations on August 16, in order for them to accommodate either a rebroadcast of their late local newscasts, syndicated programming, or a network-provided rebroadcast of NBC Nightly News.

Saturday late nights

Network		11:00 p.m.	11:30 p.m.	12:00 a.m.	12:30 a.m.	1:00 a.m.
Fox	Fall	Fox College Football	^[4]		Local Programming
	Late Fall	^[5]		Local Programming
	Winter	*I Can See Your Voice* ^[6]
	Spring	Name That Tune ^[7]
	Summer	*Game of Talents* ^[8]
NBC		Local programming	Saturday Night Live^[9]			Local programming

Notes:

The Fox lineup began at 11:00 p.m. Pacific /10:00 p.m. Mountain on weeks when the Fox College Football does not carry primetime games through fall and early winter.