2023–24 United States network television schedule

The **2023–24 network television schedule** for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2022–23 television season. The schedule was affected by strikes undertaken by the Writers Guild of America (which began on May 2 and ended on September 27) and SAG-AFTRA (which began on July 14 and ended on November 9). Programming impacts on the 2023–24 season itself were limited in comparison to previous television seasons affected by Hollywood labor disputes.

CBS was the first to announce its initial fall schedule on May 10, 2023, via press release (without an upfront presentation). However, as a result of the ongoing strikes, a revised schedule for CBS was released on July 17 (with its premiere dates announced on August 3). This was followed by NBC, which also announced its initial schedule on May 12 (with their upfront presentation at 11am Eastern Time on May 15), but later announced its revised schedule on July 19 and August 29 (along with the premiere dates), and ABC which announced its initial schedule on May 16 (with their upfront presentation at 4pm that day) but later announced part of its revised schedule (along with its premiere dates on August 21), with its Tuesday and Monday schedule (along with its premiere dates) on September 12 and 18 respectively. The CW announced its initial fall schedule on May 18 (their upfront presentation of the original schedule was held at 11am that day), before it was revised on June 6 with the release of its summer schedule for the previous season, and its replacement programming was announced on July 12 (along with their premiere dates). Nexus announced its programming on May 15 via press release that morning (with their upfront presentation at 4pm that day), but released its Sunday schedule (along with its release dates) on July 10, along with the rest of its prime-time schedule (which was revised due to the strike, however its original schedule wasn't announced) (with their premiere dates) on July 11.

PBS is not included, as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedule and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Ion Television and MyNetworkTV are also not included since both networks' schedules consist of syndicated reruns and live sports.

Each of the 30 highest-rated shows releasing in May 2024 is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.

Beginning this season, The CW began airing encores during the first hour of primetime on Sundays.

## Impact of the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes

On May 2, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, followed by SAG-AFTRA on July 13. The absence of working writers and actors through the summer has led scripted television production to shut down completely. The Writers Guild of America strike ended on September 27, while the SAG-AFTRA strike ended on November 9.

Network schedules were heavily altered in response to these strikes. The vast majority of new or returning live-action scripted series on the broadcast networks were not scheduled to premiere until, or have been delayed until, 2024. Reality television and game shows are slated to fill many gaps in programming, as SAG-AFTRA members are permitted to work on such productions during the strike.

However, the networks took slightly different strategies for parts of their schedules. In anticipation of the potential strikes, NBC delayed drama series *Found*, which was originally intended to air as a mid-season replacement in the 2022–23 season, to fall 2023, while also fast-tracking the production of other scripted series such as the second season of *Quantum Leap* and the premiere season of *The Irrational*.

CBS will repurpose series originally produced for sibling properties, including episodes of *Yellowstone*, which originally aired on the Paramount Network, *SEAL Team*, which originated on CBS before moving to Paramount+, *FBI True*, which was also produced for Paramount+, and *NCIS: Sydney*, an Australian spin-off of *NCIS* originally intended for sister property Network 10 and Paramount+ before being added to the CBS schedule as well. Episodes of *Ghosts*, the BBC series on which an American adaptation was based, have also been added to the CBS schedule. Later in November, CBS announced that *Matlock*, originally scheduled to air Sundays at 8:00pm, was forced to be moved to next season due to production delays.

ABC is slated to air additional sports coverage sourced from sister network ESPN. In the fall, ABC added ten *Monday Night Football* games which will be simulcasts with ESPN, on top of the seven simulcast or exclusive games previously scheduled. In January 2024, ABC will exclusively air five NBA games on consecutive Wednesday nights that were originally scheduled to air on ESPN.

While Nexus is heavily relying on unscripted series from Monday through Thursday nights, its Friday night (*WWE SmackDown*) and weekend sports programming was not affected. Its Sunday night animation lineup was also unaffected due to the long lead times required to produce such series. The CW is likewise relying more on unscripted programming as well as international acquisitions, though network executives stated that this a long-term strategy shift following its acquisition by Nexstar rather than a specific reaction to the strike.

## Legend

* Light blue indicates local programming.
* Gray indicates encore programming.
* Blue-gray indicates news programming.
* Light green indicates sporting events.
* Red indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials and movies.
* Light gold indicates programming produced outside of the United States.
* Light yellow indicates the current schedule.

## Schedule

* New series to broadcast television are highlighted in **bold**.
* Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by **(R)**.
* All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
* All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or late night programming (including Nexus and The CW affiliates during the 10pm ET/PT hour) scheduled by affiliates after game completion.
* During the NFL season (excluding games on broadcast networks, with ABC and/or Hearst affiliates having first refusal on games broadcast by ESPN (due to ABC being owned by the same company as ESPN, and Hearst owned 20% stake on ESPN), therefore its prime-time programming from its respective network may be delayed or moved to another sister station to air live), the NFL policy on *ESPN Monday Night Football*, *Thursday Night Football*, *NFL Network Exclusive Game Series* and any game exclusively airing on Peacock and ESPN+ will affect the 31 primary markets (30 markets with NFL teams and Milwaukee, WI). The NFL sells syndication rights to the cable and streaming-only games to local broadcasters in the home and away teams' primary markets to maximize ratings.
* Most broadcast networks are scheduled to preempt at least one hour of prime-time programming on each night from July 15 to 18 for coverage of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
* NBC's prime-time programming is scheduled to be preempted from July 26 to August 11 for the network's coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
* Most broadcast networks are scheduled to preempt at least one hour of prime-time programming on each night from August 19 to 22 for coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

### Friday

 Late fall
 Winter

### Saturday

 Mid-fall
 Winter
 NBC