2021–22 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The **2021–22 daytime network television schedule** for the major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 2021 to August 2022. The daytime schedules of the major networks that offer morning and/or afternoon programming are expected to remain consistent with the prior television 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 (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).

The CW and Fox are not included on the weekday schedule as The CW airs network programming only on Saturdays and Fox airs only during the weekends.

## Schedule

* New series are highlighted in **bold**.
* 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. 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 programming by affiliates in western time zones after game completion.
* NBC's daytime programming is scheduled to be pre-empted from February 4–20, 2022 for the network's live coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing, China.

### Weekdays (Part 2)

**Notes:**

* ABC, CBS and NBC offer their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
* 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.
* CBS stations have the option of airing *Let's Make a Deal* at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern, depending on the station's choice of feed.
* CBS stations in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones have the option of airing *The Young and the Restless* at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time, depending on the station's choice of feed.

### Saturday (Part 2)

**Notes:**

* ABC and Fox do not handle programming responsibilities for their programming blocks, but offers syndicated blocks of E/I-compliant programming that are intended for exclusive distribution to their stations. Litton's Weekend Adventure is offered to ABC stations by arrangement with Litton Entertainment and Xploration Station is offered to Fox stations by arrangement with Steve Rotfeld Productions.
* NBC may occasionally aired *NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition* on certain Saturdays; depending on the local station's scheduling at their discretion to fulfill the FCC educational programming requirements, and the program is not part of the network's *The More You Know* block.
* 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. Scheduling overruns may occur due to events going into overtime, weather delays or other game stoppages, preempting scheduled local or syndicated
* *NBC Nightly News with Kate Snow* airs at 6:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific/5:30 p.m. Central and Mountain on weeks where *Notre Dame Football on NBC* does not air.

### Sunday (Part 2)

**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. Scheduling overruns may occur due to events going into overtime, weather delays or other game stoppages, preempting scheduled local or syndicated programming.
* *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*.