Late-Night TV Schedule 2026: Every Show, Time and Channel After CBS Left the Business

Quick answer: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) and Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) air at 11:35 p.m. ET, 10:35 p.m. CT and 11:35 p.m. PT. Late Night with Seth Meyers follows on NBC at 12:35 a.m. ET, 11:35 p.m. CT and 12:35 a.m. PT, and The Daily Show airs on Comedy Central at 11 p.m. ET, 10 p.m. CT and 11 p.m. PT. All four are new Monday through Thursday, and Fridays are usually repeats. Bravo's Watch What Happens Live runs Sunday through Thursday at 9 or 10 p.m. ET, depending on what Bravo airs before it that night; outside Eastern time, check your Bravo listing.

That grid holds every week. What changes is who is booked, and whether a network event knocks a night out — the dated weekly block near the end of this page is checked against the listings each time it is updated.

What time is every late-night show on?

The gist: five weeknight shows, four networks, and a CBS slot that no longer belongs to a talk show at all. That last part is the biggest change to this grid in thirty years.

Which late-night shows are still on the air in 2026?

Four of the traditional hosted hours survive: Fallon and Meyers on NBC, Kimmel on ABC, and The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live is the fifth, though at 30 minutes it plays by different rules.

All four of the weeknight shows now run Monday through Thursday. Fallon dropped new Friday episodes back in 2024 and has made only occasional exceptions since, such as the night of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in February.

What happened to The Late Show on CBS?

It ended on May 21, 2026, and CBS retired the franchise rather than recasting it. Stephen Colbert's eleven seasons and David Letterman's twenty-two closed out a 33-year run, and the network called the decision a financial one.

The slot went to Byron Allen's company the following night. Comics Unleashed took 11:35 and the comedy game show Funny You Should Ask took 12:35 — cheaper programming for an hour that had become expensive.

The show still had the last word with voters. Its final season won Outstanding Variety Series at the Sept. 14 Emmys, beating Kimmel and The Daily Show.

Why were late-night shows in repeats this summer?

Summer breaks got longer in 2026. Fallon, Kimmel and The Daily Show were all dark for stretches of August, returning together on 8 September, and Seth Meyers took seven weeks — the longest planned hiatus since Late Night launched in 2014 — before coming back on 21 September.

The rhythm to remember: these shows tape the day they air, so a repeat usually means the studio is empty that week, not that a single night fell through.

What time is late night in your time zone?

Broadcast late night is tape-delayed on the West Coast, so Los Angeles and New York see the same clock time while Chicago and Denver run an hour earlier. Cable works the opposite way: Comedy Central and Bravo carry East and West feeds, which is why The Daily Show hits 11 p.m. in both coasts and 10 p.m. in the middle of the country.

Where does each show stream the next day?

NBC's pair goes to Peacock, Kimmel to Hulu, The Daily Show to Paramount+, and WWHL to Peacock. None of them hold a full episode back longer than a day, and the shows' own YouTube channels post individual segments overnight for free.

Our guide to watching without cable goes through which subscription covers what, and where an antenna is enough.

Is late night shrinking?

By any count you like, yes. Ten years ago the 11:35 hour held three hosted talk shows across NBC, ABC and CBS; it now holds two, and CBS's replacement programming costs a fraction of what a staffed monologue does.

The four-night week is the second squeeze. Between dropped Fridays and longer summers, a show that once made roughly 170 new episodes a year now makes closer to 140, and the gaps land in exactly the weeks when viewers go looking.

What has not changed is the shape of a night: a monologue, a desk piece, two guests and a band. Every show on this grid still runs that structure, which is why a guest booking is still the thing worth knowing in advance.

What about the weekly shows?

Real Time with Bill Maher holds Fridays on HBO at 10 p.m. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has Sundays at 11 p.m., back from its break on 20 September, and Saturday Night Live opened its 52nd season on 26 September.

Those three follow their own calendars, which is worth knowing in any week the weeknight shows go dark.

How are these listings checked?

Against three sources that disagree often enough to be worth cross-reading: TVmaze's network listings, the networks' own weekly guest releases, and the daily lineup services Interbridge and LateNighter. A name goes in the weekly block below once it appears on at least two.

Repeat nights are the easy tell — an encore carries its original air date in the listing, which is why Friday rows read differently from the rest of the week. Fallon has his own week-by-week page at is The Tonight Show new tonight.

FAQ

Is there still a late-night show on CBS? Not a hosted talk show. Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen airs at 11:35.

Does Jimmy Fallon air on Fridays? No — new episodes run Monday through Thursday.

What time is The Daily Show on? 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central, Monday through Thursday.

When did Colbert's last show air? May 21, 2026.

For one show at a time, The Tonight Show's schedule page answers the repeat question on its own. Each night's version of this grid, with actual guests, is in the late-night section — start with the weekly lineups. Daytime has its own schedule guide, and the hosts are listed in who hosts what in 2026.

Sources · Listings data via TVmaze · CBS News — The Late Show to end · TV Insider — CBS's new 11:35 lineup · NBC Insider — Tonight Show schedule · LateNighter — summer hiatus dates · NBC — The Tonight Show air time · NBC — Late Night air time · ABC — Jimmy Kimmel Live air time · Bravo — fall 2026 schedule

By the Talk Show On Air desk · Updated Oct. 11, 10:09 a.m. ET