Is Late Night With Seth Meyers New Tonight? 12:35 a.m. ET Air Time and Guests
Short version: not on a weekend. Late Night with Seth Meyers makes four episodes a week, Monday through Thursday, at 12:35 a.m. ET on NBC, so Friday through Sunday there is normally no first-run hour; NBC lists guests for Friday, Nov. 6, this week’s exception. Weekends have never been part of the pattern.
The question most people were typing in September was when the show would come back at all. It returned Monday, Sept. 21. Repeats had filled the 12:35 slot since the last new hour on July 30, the longest planned break in the show's run, and Season 14 opened with a booked guest rather than a quiet return.
What time is Late Night with Seth Meyers on?
12:35 a.m. ET, right after The Tonight Show. NBC lists it as 12:35/11:35c, so the clock changes depending on which time zone you are in.
| Time zone | Late Night airs | What is before it |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern | 12:35 a.m. | The Tonight Show, 11:35 p.m. |
| Central | 11:35 p.m. | The Tonight Show, 10:35 p.m. |
| Mountain | 11:35 p.m. | The Tonight Show, 10:35 p.m. |
| Pacific | 12:35 a.m. | The Tonight Show, 11:35 p.m. |
Because the episode starts after midnight in the East, the listing for "Monday" is technically early Tuesday morning. Set a recording for the day the guest is announced, not the calendar date on the clock.
Which nights are repeats?
Friday, most weeks. NBC runs the show four nights a week, the same pattern The Tonight Show moved to in 2024, and there is normally no Friday edition to miss.
Longer gaps happen too. Late Night takes several multi-week breaks a year, and during those stretches every night at 12:35 is a rerun pulled from earlier in the season. That is what ran from July 30 until the Sept. 21 return.
Who was the first guest back?
Kelly Clarkson, on Sept. 21, which was a neat piece of booking. Her own daytime show ended Aug. 31 after seven seasons, so her first stop after wrapping it was somebody else's couch.
Clarkson is a Late Night regular by now, with eight appearances already behind her. One of them produced the 2018 "Day Drinking" segment that people still send around. We track where every host ended up in our 2026 talk show hosts guide.
She had a busy Monday. Earlier the same evening she was on The Voice for its Season 30 premiere at 8 p.m. ET, her second season running as a coach after Season 29; our sister site has the Voice Season 30 schedule and coaching panel.
Who else is booked this week?
The week of Nov. 2 is in the box near the top. The week of Oct. 26 ran Liev Schreiber and Morgan Spector on Monday, Bowen Yang, Bradley Whitford and Jessica Tarlov on Tuesday, Sharon Horgan and Justin Hartley on Wednesday and Rose Byrne and George Fouracres on Thursday, Oct. 29. The week of Oct. 5 opened Monday with Jessica Biel and Slayyyter, then Sebastian Stan on Tuesday, Ben Affleck and David Byrne on Wednesday and James McAvoy on Thursday. The week before that, Dakota Johnson and Mike Tomlin closed it on Thursday, Oct. 1, after Kate McKinnon and Christopher Abbott on Monday, Rachel Maddow, Eric Idle and Danny Meyer on Tuesday, and Florence Pugh and comedian Ms. Pat on Wednesday.
Every booking across the six weeknight shows for the week of Oct. 5 was collected in our week-of lineup, and older nights sit in the late-night archive.
Where can I stream Late Night with Seth Meyers?
Peacock, the next day. NBC posts the full episode there rather than leaving it on a cable app, and the monologue plus "A Closer Look" usually hit the show's YouTube channel within a few hours of air.
No cable login is needed for the Peacock route. If you are cutting the cord and want all six weeknight shows, our no-cable guide lists what each one costs.
How does Late Night fit into the rest of the schedule?
It is the last of the network hours, and the field is smaller than it was a year ago. CBS ended The Late Show in May, which left NBC with two hours and ABC with one.
That reshuffle is laid out in our late-night TV schedule, and the daytime side has its own schedule page. If you are checking the 11:35 hour instead, see is The Tonight Show new tonight for NBC and is Jimmy Kimmel new tonight for ABC.
FAQ
Is Late Night with Seth Meyers new tonight? Only Monday through Thursday, and only outside a hiatus. Friday is a repeat in most weeks; the week of Nov. 2 is the exception on NBC’s listings, with guests for Friday, Nov. 6.
When did Seth Meyers return with new episodes? Monday, Sept. 21 — airing at 12:35 a.m. ET, so the clock read early Tuesday. Kelly Clarkson was the Season 14 premiere guest.
What channel is it on? NBC, at 12:35 a.m. ET and 11:35 p.m. CT.
Is there a weekend episode? No. Saturday and Sunday have no Late Night at all — NBC fills the hour with Saturday Night Live repeats and paid programming depending on the market.
Has Late Night been cancelled? No. NBC's cut landed on the band, not the show — the 8G Band played its last on-air set in August 2024 and the series carried on without it.
Why is the 12:35 slot a rerun? Either it is a weekend, a Friday, or the show is on one of its scheduled breaks. The summer run of repeats began after July 30, and the return week closed by airing that very episode again on Sept. 25.
Is Stephen Colbert still on after Seth Meyers? No, and he never was — that was CBS. The Late Show ended May 21, 2026; what he has done since is in our Colbert update.
Friday's grid, repeats and all, is broken down in why late-night is repeats on Fridays.
Sources
Listings data via TVmaze. Return date and air time cross-checked against TV Insider and LateNighter, which also reported the Clarkson booking and her visit count. Her daytime finale date comes from TV Insider's report on the Kelly Clarkson Show finale. The 8G Band cut was reported by TheWrap and The A.V. Club. The Sept. 21–25 guest grid matches both LateNighter's by-show lineups and Interbridge, which is also where the Sept. 25 repeat is identified as the July 30 episode. The week of Nov. 2 was read on NBC's Late Night page and matched against those same two lineups. Mike Tomlin's NBC Sports role comes from NBC Sports' announcement, and the Mountain times follow NBC's one-hour-earlier pattern, as on Denver station KUSA's listing. Lineups change often — the update time above is when this page was last checked against all of them.