NewsNation fills in the final piece to go 24/7

News Nation  Cable TV News 

       

        Nexstar owned cable news channel is about to complete the goal of going to 24/7 news and news-based programming and has picked and interesting date to start.   As previously mentioned previously mentioned , NewsNation recently expanded their weekend live news programming to run until 4pm ET , then 3 hours of Blue Bloods before returning to the long running "Prime" programming in the evening. The drama Blue Bloods is leaving the line up as the network now finishes its goal of going 24/7. 

            On June 1, the network adds NewsNation Now with Adrienne Bankert airing Saturdays and Sundays 4-7PM ET.   Bankert previously hosted and co-hosted their morning show "Morning in America".  This now gives NewsNation a 24/7 news based line up.  

  

        Earlier this year, weekend programming started to expand with the launch of a weekend version of Morning in America, then later the addition of The Hill Sunday, in March, and the aforementioned launches of  weekend versions of  NewsNation Live and NewsNation Now. 

      June 1 is an interesting date for them to pick,  since that's a date known where CNN, the first cable news channel, launched in 1980.  It helps that it also fell on a Saturday this year to launch cable news programming.   It will also be the end of what was left of WGN America's remains as a cable entertainment channel that also sometimes gave viewers Chicago news and sports from WGN-TV.  The network has slowly been drifting away its final contracts for scripted shows and replacing them with news shows as the slow transition started in March 2021.  Weekdays were completed in April 2023. 

            Here is the Line up starting June 1, all times ET 

Saturdays

7-10 AM ET– Morning in America with Hena Doba
10-1 PM ET – NewsNation Live
1-4 PM ET – NewsNation Now with Anna Kooiman
4-7 PM ET – NewsNation Now with Adrienne Bankert
7-10 PM ET – NewsNation Prime with Natasha Zouves

Sundays 

7-10 AM ET– Morning in America with Hena Doba
10-11 AM ET – The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt
11-1 PM ET – NewsNation Live
1-4 PM ET – NewsNation Now with Anna Kooiman
4-7 PM ET – NewsNation Now with Adrienne Bankert
7-10 PM ET – NewsNation Prime with Natasha Zouves

Full Press release , after the jump

Fall TV 2024: The CW

The CW   Fall TV Look 2024  Upfronts 

       The CW's uncharted new world continues. Only two pre-Nexstar purchase series are on the line up in the fall, those include the final season of Superman & Lois and Whose Line Is It Anyway?.   All American, Walker, and Wild Cards are currently missing from the line up. "Wild Cards" is hoped to be picked up by the network, whilst "Walker" and "All American" are waiting over costs.   Family Law is also to be determined - it was renewed by home network, Global, in Canada in January.  Penn and Telller: Fool US has also not been officially renewed either.   Lots of uncertainty on that part of the CW. 

            The network is getting into game shows with a Monday night block based off two board games  with Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble.  The great WWE shift around continues, the CW rejoins working with it by having the program WWE NXT , which is moving from USA network, air on Tuesday Nights there.   

            Inside the NFL will be moving to Friday nights. In speaking of sports, the network has been getting rights to as much as they can.  They've picked up Pac-12 Football games, along with continuing ACC Football, NASCAR Xfintiy Series is also coming to the network.   Saturday Night, much like the other networks, will be sports night. 

        The scripted programming on the line up will  be on Wednesday and Thursday nights with  the return of Sullivan's Crossing , and a new series Joan.  Joan is a British crime drama and has six episodes, so the the CW will need something to fill the rest of the fall.  The final season of  Superman& Lois will air on Thursdays along with new series , The Librarians: The Next Chapter. 

 

    The CW Sunday Night Movie, will also be a continuing feature.   The CW does have two scripted shows waiting in the wings  Good Cop/Bad Cop and Sherlock's Daughter . 

Here's the full line up , all times ET/PT/Denver/Saint Louis , new series highlighted in blue 

Monday 

8pm  Trivial Pursuit 

9pm  Scrabble 

Tuesday 

8-10pm  WWE NXT (new to the CW) 

Wednesday 

8pm  Sullivan's Crossing (season 2) 

9pm  Joan 

Thursday 

8pm Superman & Lois (Season 4) 

9pm The Librarians: The Next Chapter 

Friday 

8pm  Whose Line Is It Anyway?  (season 13) 

8:30pm Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Original Episode) 

9pm Inside the NFL (season 2) 

Saturday

CW Sports Saturday

Sunday 

7-10pm  The CW Sunday Night Movie 

Full press release after the jump 

Fall TV 2024: ABC

ABC FallTVLook2024 Upfronts 

 ABC is being interesting in their fall line up. Grey's Anatomy, which hits season 21, will be moving on down to the 10pm ET, whilst a new series  Doctor Odyssey takes up the slot before.  The Thursday night line up  starts with 9-1-1.  This also means Thursdays moves from a night with 2/3 Shonda Rhimes made shows to a night 2/3 Ryan Murphy night. 

        The Conners isn't part of the fall line up, its final season will air in the midseason. The Rookie and Will Trent  will also be in midseason.   Comedy on ABC is only one half hour in the fall that's Abbott Elementary , Wednesdays at 9:30pm ET. 

        The new crime procedural High Potential is getting the post Dancing with the Stars slot on Tuesdays.  Following in CBS' footsteps, they will be having 90 minute episodes of an unscripted show on Wednesdays with The Golden Bachelorette .   Wednesdays will finish out with a new drama Scamanda.   

       Monday Nights haven't been fully planned out , it will be mostly Monday Night Football, but less games than  in the 2023 season.  ABC also has decided to keep Dancing With the Stars on the network instead going back to Disney Plus. 

         Sunday is down to ABC just airing the long running America's Funniest Home Videos and movies from Disney.  

Here's the fall line up, all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted, new series are highlighted in blue 

Monday 

8pm Monday Night Football/ TBA Programming 

Tuesday 

8pm Dancing with the Stars 

10pm High Potential 

Wednesday 

8pm  The Golden Bachelorette 

9:30pm Abbott Elementary 

10pm Scamanda 

Thursday 

8pm 9-1-1 

9pm  Doctor Odyssey 

10pm  Grey's Anatomy 

Friday

8pm Shark Tank 

9pm 20/20 ( 2 hours) 

Saturday

7:30pm/4:30pt  College Football 

Sunday 

7pm  America's Funniest Home Videos

8pm The Wonderful World of Disney 

full press release after the jump

Fall TV 2024: FOX

FOX  Fall TV Look 2024   Upfronts

 FOX has released its fall line up.  A big change is that Family Guy will not be part of the fall line up, the series has been bumped to a mid season slot. The network has been expanding how many animated series it has  and that has caused some disruption to its animated line up.  Last season, Family Guy moved to Wednesday for a part.   That's not the only returning series returning in mid season, that also includes Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady, and Alert. 

    Also, gone from the line up is WWE SmackDown which is departing the network and moving to USA.  The network has decided to replace the slot with live sports with college football/basketball and the UFL. 

       9-1-1 : Lone Star was delayed because of the strikes  and is now making a return to the line up on Monday nights, the slot its sister show held.  The network is leading out the night with a new series Rescue: Hi-Surf.  

            Tuesdays also include another show that ended up skipping the 2023-24 seasons  Accused.  The night rounds out with Murder In a Small Town, a Canadian series that FOX has acquired. 

          Wednesdays are still unscripted with "The Masked Singer" and "The Floor" and Thursdays have Hell's Kitchen  and Special Forces: World Toughest Test, which has moved from Mondays. 

         Sunday night, new animated series Universal Basic Guys, which also has been rewed for a season second before debut, is coming.  FOX has decided to bump Family Guy to midseason to make room.  The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers will surround the show and Krapopolis will move to 9:30pm/8:30c.  

        Part of the midseason, going beyond Family Guy , other returning series will be Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady, and Alert. 

 Here's the  line up , all times ET/PT, unless otherwise noted, new series highlighted in blue 

Monday 

8pm  9-1-1 : Lone Star 

9pm Rescue: Hi-Surf  

Tuesday 

8pm Accused 

9pm Murder in a Small Town 

Wednesday 

8pm The Masked Singer 

9pm The Floor  

Thursday 

8pm Hell's Kitchen 

9pm Special Forces: World's Toughest Test 

Friday 

8pm ET/ 5P PT  FOX College Football Friday/ FOX College Hoops/ FOX UFL 

Saturday 

7-10:30pm ET/4-7:30pm PT  Fox Sports Saturday 

Sunday 

7pm  NFL on FOX 

7:30pm The OT/ FOX Animation Encores 

8pm  The Simpsons 

8:30pm Universal Basic Guys 

9pm Bob's Burgers

9:30pm Krapopolis 

Full Details in press release, below 

Fall TV 2024: NBC

NBC    Fall TV Look 2024   Upfronts 

          

        NBC is ready for fall with the release of their 2024-25 fall TV season line up. It's a mixture of a stable consistency and new programming added in.  For the new shows, two are medical based, with a comedy St. Denis Medical and a drama Brilliant Minds. Reba McEntire is back on network TV with a new comedy  Happy's Place.   

        Tuesdays and Fridays 8/7c hour will be comedy, focused on a mixture of workplace comedy on Tuesdays and family based on Fridays.   Brilliant Minds gets the post The Voice comfy lead in slot  on Mondays.   Chicago nights continues on Wednesdays ,  Law & Order Thursdays has been cut to two hours with L&O: Organized Crime moving to Peacock.  Found finds itself placed on Thursday nights after the two Law and Orders. 

  The rest of Friday continues with "Dateline NBC". Football, of various kinds, take Saturday and Sunday.  

  Other new series will be launching at midseason those include:  The Hunting Party ,The Americas, Destination X. 

   Here's the full line up, all times at ET/PT unless otherwise noticed, and all new series are highlighted in blue. 

Monday 

8-10pm  The Voice 

10-11pm  Brilliant Minds 

Tuesday

8-8:30pm  St. Denis Medical 

8:30-9pm  Night Court 

9-10pm The Voice 

10-11pm The Irrational 

Wednesday

8-9pm  Chicago Med

9-10pm Chicago Fire 

10-11pm Chicago PD 

Thursday

8-9pm Law & Order

9-10pm Law a& Order: SVU 

10-11pm  Found 

Friday 

8-8:30pm Happy's Place 

8:30-9pm Lopez Vs. Lopez

9-11pm Dateline NBC 

Saturday 

7pm/4pt  Big Ten Pregame/ Notre Dame Pregame (also live on Peacock) 

7:30/4:30pt  Big Ten Saturday Night/ Notre Dame Football (also live on Peacock) 

Sunday 

7-8:20pm/4-5:20pt  Football Night in America (also live on Peacock) 

8:20pm/5:20pt  NBC Sunday Night Football (also live on Peacock) 

Full press release after the jump

NewsNation Expands Live News Programming on Weekends

News Nation 

    

        

        Nexstar Media Group and its cable news channel NewsNation continue the growth of adding live news programming and moving away from the WGN America era of entertainment programming the previous weekend of May 4th the network added a block of news for weekends from Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4pm ET. This replaces 3 hours of the drama Blue Bloods, the network's lone entertainment program as of earlier this year.   A weekend block of "News Nation Now" runs from 1-4pmET with anchor Anna Kooiman  in New York City.   

           This is another latest extension of news programming on weekends for the network, back on April 13, it added a weekend version of "News Nation" airing Saturdays 10am -1pmet and Sundays 11am -1pm ET.   Earlier this year,  a weekend version of "Morning in America" and a Sunday morning talk show "The Hill on Sunday" were added.  The network replaced religious infomercials and scripted comedy and dramas that were airing on the weekend pre 7pm ET slots. "News Nation Prime" was the only news program on weekends prior.    

      Kooiman anchored the launch of that  and now has been shifted to "Now" with Laura Ingle taking over the "Live" slots.  

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— Laura Ingle (@lauraingle) May 5, 2024

        All this programming also shows a shift of the network having a majority of it's output on weekends from New York City, instead of home base Chicago. Chicago is still home to "Prime" on weekends.  Weekday programming from Chicago is still going from 6AMET to 3pm ET, as much of the afternoons and evenings shifted to New York and D.C modeling other cable news channels.   

  The current weekend line up as of May 5, 2024 is 

Saturdays (all times Eastern) 

7-10am Morning in America 

10-1pm  News Nation Live

1-4pm  News Nation Now 

4-7pm  Blue Bloods 

7-10pm NewsNation Prime 

10pm-7am  Weeknight programming encores, specials, NewsNation Prime replay

Sundays (all times Eastern) 

7-10am Morning in America 

10-11am The Hill Sunday 

11-1pm  News Nation Live

1-4pm  News Nation Now 

4-7pm  Blue Bloods 

7-10pm NewsNation Prime 

10pm-6am  Weeknight programming encores, specials, NewsNation Prime replay

         

CBS Releases 2024-25 Season Line Up

CBS  Fall TV Look 2024 Upfronts 

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      After a struck season where things ended up being pushed to February, CBS and the other networks are hoping for a more normal time.  CBS has taken the move of announcing their entire 2024-25 schedule, not just fall.  

       "The Big Bang Theory" universe? continues with "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" a  spinoff of "Young Sheldon"  will be taking the former's slot on Thursdays at 8PM ET.  "Ghosts" will continue in its 8:30pm ET slot.    

       "Tracker" which has proven to be a break out hit for the network, will be moving to an earlier slot on Sundays at 8pmet, following the high rated "60 Minutes" (and Football) .   "The Equalizer" moves down to 9pmet, and new series "Watson" at 10pm ET. 

        Tuesdays will still be "FBI" nights.  Wednesday will be reality and competition night. "Survivor" is on the line up in the fall and spring.  "The Amazing Race" returns in spring, "The Price is Right at Night", "Raid the Cage" and a new "Hollywood Squares" in winter.   A new series "The Summit" will follow the fall "Survivor" 

        "Matlock" which was pushed from the 2023-24 season, premieres in the fall leading with "Elsbeth" following on Thursday nights.   

      CBS recently uncanceled "S.W.A.T" will get a new season on Fridays in the fall, "Blue Bloods" which CBS decided to break that show's final season into to parts will finish up in the fall.  In spring,  "S.W.A.T" takes "Blue Bloods"  and "NCIS: Sydney" will lead the nights. 

        Mondays has "Poppa's House", another series that was pushed to the new season, following "The Neighborhood" rounding out CBS' 4 comedies.  "NCIS" continues followed by "NCIS: Origins" 

Here's the full line up, all times ET (unless otherwise noted) new series are highlighted in blue. 

Monday  (fall and spring) 

8pm The Neighborhood

8:30pm Poppa's House 

9pm NCIS 

10pm NCIS: Origins

Tuesday (fall and spring) 

8pm FBI 

9pm FBI :International 

10pm FBI: Most Wanted 

Wednesday (fall) 

8pm Survivor  

8:30pm  The Summit 

Wednesday (January) 

8pm The Price is Right at Night

9pm Raid the Cage 

10pm Hollywood Squares 

Wednesday (spring) 

8pm  Survivor  

9:30pm The Amazing Race 

Thursday (fall and spring) 

8pm  Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage 

8:30pm Ghosts 

9pm Matlock 

10pm Elsbeth 

Friday  (fall) 

8pm S.W.A.T 

9pm Fire Country

10pm Blue Bloods (finale episodes) 

Friday (spring) 

8pm NCIS : Sydney

9pm Fire Country

10pm S.W.A.T 

Saturday 

8pm CBS Encores 

10pm 48 Hours 

Sunday 

7pm 60 Minutes 

8pm  Tracker  (new time) 

9pm  The Equalizer 

10pm Watson 

Full press release after the jump