2025-26 Syndication News

[Action Newsroom 1376]

Derek Hough, Dancing with the Stars pro-dancer and judge, will replace Billy Bush as the new host of Extra.

https://deadline.com/2025/08/derek-hough-new-host-extra-entertainment-news-magazine-1236485101/

[nickp 393]

10 hours ago, Action Newsroom said:

Derek Hough, Dancing with the Stars pro-dancer and judge, will replace Billy Bush as the new host of Extra.

https://deadline.com/2025/08/derek-hough-new-host-extra-entertainment-news-magazine-1236485101/

Interesting! Never would have guessed this would ever happen 

[Megatron81 343]

I didn't think that Derek Hough would be the new host of Extra, congrats Derek on being named new host of Extra on Sep 8. 

[24994J 5888]

On 7/7/2025 at 11:50 AM, Action Newsroom said:

Eva Pilgrim, formerly of ABC News, will succeed Deborah Norville as the next anchor of Inside Edition.

She debuted today. Nothing groundbreaking, just plugged her into the current opens.

 

 

[TVHead 21]

Looks so cheap with the green screen.

[Megatron81 343]

Here's the update

 

Here the new syndication shows in West Michigan:

WOTV:

Sep 8 Scrambled Up 9AM to 10AM,

Investigate TV 2AM to 2:30AM & weekend edition SUN 11AM to 11:30AM replacing Matter Of Fact which has ended,

In Depth 2:30AM to 3AM.

 

WXMI FOX17:

Live PD+ 2:30AM to 3:30AM,

The Backstage Experience SAT on Sep 6 11:30PM to 12:30AM,

Caught On Clips Late SUN/Early Mon 3:30AM to 4AM.

 

WWMT:

Sep 8 The Perfect Line 3:30PM to 4PM,

Daytime J 3PM to 3:30PM,

Kelly Clarkson moves to 4PM to 5PM replacing Dr. Phil,

She's In The Game will be aired in early morning hours sometimes fill in when there is no sports has it on 1:30PM Sep, 14, also maybe on ARC-WMI,

Fire Country Late Sun/Early Mon 12:30AM to 1:30AM.

 

WZZM:

Judge Judy 5 EPs 10AM to 11AM, along with it staying been in the full hour at 4PM & 7:30PM.

 

CW6:

The Neighborhood will get a full hour M-F 12:30AM to 1:30AM replacing American Housewife on Sep 8,

Comics by Byron Cheapskate Allen 1:30AM to 2AM which moves from sister station WOTV,

Opry Live Early SAT 4AM to 5AM & Early SUN 6AM to 7AM,

Deadline To Disaster Late SAT/Early SUN 2AM to 3AM,

Weird Earth Late SAT/Early SUN 3AM to 4AM replacing Highway Thru Hell,

Deep Water Salvage SUN 3PM to 4PM & 11PM to 12AM,

Gametime SUN 10:30PM to 11PM,      

Weather Gone Viral Late SUN/Early MON 12AM to 1AM,

SOS: How To Survive Late SUN/Early MON 3AM to 4AM replacing Highway Thru Hell.

 

WXSP: Tribunal Justice at 12PM to 1PM,

Judge Mathis second run at 2AM to 3AM,

Court Cam 4AM to 5AM,

In Depth 9:30AM to 10AM.

 

ARC-MWI:

Steve Wilkos 1PM to 2PM which replaces Dr. Phil  & 3PM to 4PM,

She's In The Game replaces Chancing Down With Madison Brown Sun 8AM to 8:30AM,

Taste Buds Sun Sep 14 5PM to 5:30PM,

Lost In Sun 5:30PM to 6PM.  

Edited September 8, 2025 by Megatron81

[H-Town TV Fan 250]

I'm not sure where to put this, but I'll put this in this thread: On September 9-10, 2025 (at least, I didn't watch on September 8), KIAH CW 39 in Houston aired two episodes of "Judge Judy" in place of "Judy Justice" at 3:00-3:30pm, with the same two episodes of the former show airing on KRIV Fox 26 an hour later as well. Was this some sort of programming error on CW 39's part?

[justin2kx 246]

Sorry for being late. Life happens. Here's what's been happening in gotham city.

WCBS: Comics Unleashed (syn) replaced by Funny you should ask as the former show takes hold of the post-colbert time slot at 12:35a this coming late monday, replacing the forgone After Midnight. FYSA still runs on sis station WLNY at 4p. Fire Country reruns (2x) replaces The Equalizer late night saturday at 12:05a. NCIS Hawaii (2x) late night sunday at 1:05a.

 

WNBC: Matter of Fact with Soledad o' brien concluded the weekend of sept. 30. Nothing else much changed.

 

WNYW: Person, place or thing, Pictionary and EXTRA (encore) replaced by TMZ rerun at 1:30p and People's Court at 2p, which moved from 4p. FOX 5 News Block (basically a 4p newscast, who you're kidding?) debuted 9/8 at 4p. "Family feud favorites" debuted this week at 12a leading into 25 words' 2nd run at 12:30a. Meanwhile, Battleground with SE Cupp, which aired during last year's presidential season for FOX O&Os, returned on FOX Local focused this time on the ongoing NYC mayoral race, thus its edition of "BG NYC: the fight for your vote" air at 11p, bumping Good night New York to 11:30p. It'll rerun at 4a before GD Wakeup and 1a on My9. Why don't they air other FOX local produced shows like 'Portia' or 'The Jason Show', which has since expanded to other FOX (non o&o) affiliates, on their or their My9 sked instead of treating more like a rerun farm is telling to me but I digress.

 

WABC: "She's in the game" airs as a weekend filler (ex. one time sun morning at 5a) Nothing else changed.

 

WWOR: Divorce Court airs solo at 8:30a, replacing People Puzzler. The former replays on FOX Soul at various times. Although the latter is still in syndie circuit, it's not appearing elsewhere as other stations relegated it to overnight or early morning since last year. GDNY simulcast its 9a hour on My9 starting this past week. "The noon" repeats at 1p, started last week. J-Hud + Sherri encores switch slots at 3p + 4p respectively. Dish Nation departed last week. Its spinoff, Side Dish, lives on at FOX Soul, YT and Tubi. Crime expose with Nancy o' Dell departs for WLNY 9/22. In turn, Family Feud will run 5-8p. That's 3 hours of feud, alongside the other hour at 10p, four total. Reminder that My9 is essentially an independent, not so exclusive + rerun program farm. If it's first run alone, it's airing elsewhere on other platforms. Also, MNTV in NOT a network, don't @ me. The sked resembles more of an abandoned parking lot at the old 9 broadcast plaza, waiting for demolition, but I digress.

 

WPIX: Tribunal Justice (2x) airs at 11a, replacing Mathis Court, moving to WLNY. Live PD Presents (2x) airs at 3p, replacing the zombified Dr. Phil.

 

WLNY: Scrambled up at 4a, Court cam at 4:30a, the 5:30a slot is filled with mystery + true crime filler featuring' cruise ship killers', 'alien discourse files', 'top secret files', 'almost unsolved', and 'heartland homicide', some featured from true crime network. Judge Milian's justice for the people runs 1x at 12p, making room for Mathis court (1x) at 12:30p. Crime expose moves from My9 to 10/55 at 3p, joining Icrime at 3:30p this monday. Fire Country + NCIS Hawaii reruns replace The equalizer at least on Saturday nights 8-10p. CBS Saturday morning gets a double run at 12p. American Housewife left syndie last week, so did the zombified Paternity Court.

Edited September 21, 2025 by justin2kx

[mre29 1967]

6 hours ago, justin2kx said:

WWOR: [...]  Reminder that My9 is essentially an independent, not so exclusive + rerun program farm. If it's first run alone, it's airing elsewhere on other platforms. Also, MNTV in NOT a network, don't @ me. The sked resembles more of an abandoned parking lot at the old 9 broadcast plaza, waiting for demolition, but I digress.

 

That's a great description for what stations like WWOR look like these days.  

 

[nathannah 2792]

The only change of note (because nobody should consider the Amazon Judy-produced show reruns new) in Milwaukee is the move of Drew to overnights on WDJT (or next day after WMLW's 7am newscast) because they replaced the celebrity half hour with Tribunal Justice, along with what looks to be the substitution of Crime Expose over CBS's Comics Unleased run. Everything else is just replacing generic game shows and court shows with new generic game shows and court shows. Same in Green Bay, where there's just deck-chair shuffling and People Puzzler moves later on WGBA to air the NBC News Daily noon hour (which was how it was scheduled the year before). Seinfeld switches to WMLW for a 10pm double run from WITI, with Dateline moving there. WGBA also moved Kelly back to 4pm, ending the baffling Good Morning Football repeat which aired at that time last year.

 

This is probably the least excited I've ever been about a syndication season; Tribunal Justice is just Hot Bench with the serials shaved off and more egos (and judges that just seem angry and refuse to let the litigants actually speak), Scrambled Up is just another Game Show Network show with the same pointless prize and bonus round, and Perfect Line is just Chain Reaction but with concepts rather than words (so much so that GSN took Chain Reaction off their schedule to prevent comparison). Even Byron Allen can't muster anything new, which isn't the best sign.

Edited September 21, 2025 by nathannah

[KS-IL-IA 63]

40 minutes ago, nathannah said:

The only change of note (because nobody should consider the Amazon Judy-produced show reruns new) in Milwaukee is the move of Drew to overnights on WDJT (or next day after WMLW's 7am newscast) because they replaced the celebrity half hour with Tribunal Justice, along with what looks to be the substitution of Crime Expose over CBS's Comics Unleased run. Everything else is just replacing generic game shows and court shows with new generic game shows and court shows. Same in Green Bay, where there's just deck-chair shuffling and People Puzzler moves later on WGBA to air the NBC News Daily noon hour (which was how it was scheduled the year before). Seinfeld switches to WMLW for a 10pm double run from WITI, with Dateline moving there. WGBA also moved Kelly back to 4pm, ending the baffling Good Morning Football repeat which aired at that time last year.

 

This is probably the least excited I've ever been about a syndication season; Tribunal Justice is just Hot Bench with the serials shaved off and more egos (and judges that just seem angry and refuse to let the litigants actually speak), Scrambled Up is just another Game Show Network show with the same pointless prize and bonus round, and Perfect Line is just Chain Reaction but with concepts rather than words (so much so that GSN took Chain Reaction off their schedule to prevent comparison). Even Byron Allen can't muster anything new, which isn't the best sign.

Perfect Line is nothing like Chain Reaction, although I agree with you on the underwhelming syndication season.

[Megatron81 343]

WXSP:

Judy Justice moves to 1PM to 2PM,

Family Feud 5PM to 7PM then remains on sister station WOTV 7PM to 8PM 3 hours of Family Feud is overkill also how I feel about Judge Judy even know it is spread out throughout the day.

 

Friends 11PM to 11:30PM replacing Dish Nation I wonder if that is just stop gap for Ghost which debuts in syndication in 2 weeks on Oct 6,

Crime Beat at 2AM to 3AM.

[nathannah 2792]

Mike & Molly is completely out of syndication as of today; CMT and TV Land are done with them too.

[KS-IL-IA 63]

Is The Goldbergs really gone from syndication? I've looked at the schedules of dozens, if not hundreds of stations through October and it's still there.

[Megatron81 343]

On 9/27/2025 at 8:30 PM, KS-IL-IA said:

Is The Goldbergs really gone from syndication? I've looked at the schedules of dozens, if not hundreds of stations through October and it's still there.

 

The Goldbergs are still on in syndication. 

[KS-IL-IA 63]

On 9/29/2025 at 2:11 PM, Megatron81 said:

 

The Goldbergs are still on in syndication. 

Several sources quoted here said it was leaving.

[nathannah 2792]

It still has its double-run on My24 in Milwaukee at 5pm daily, so it obviously didn't leave at all. It may have been downgraded in several markets to accommodate the new Seinfeld contract, but that airs on a completely different station in Milwaukee (WITI>WMLW).

[KS-IL-IA 63]

Ghosts on 10-week trial run on CBS stations and WCIU:

https://substack.com/redirect/09d8d8bb-ea9b-405e-9c60-e2624ae67731?j=eyJ1IjoiMWxyejk4In0.IEOHQY2J4GgWxzyrJTSIh73nz2UWpIZvP0ayd9YU7sE

[mvcg66b3r 103]

4 minutes ago, KS-IL-IA said:

Ghosts on 10-week trial run on CBS stations and WCIU:

https://substack.com/redirect/09d8d8bb-ea9b-405e-9c60-e2624ae67731?j=eyJ1IjoiMWxyejk4In0.IEOHQY2J4GgWxzyrJTSIh73nz2UWpIZvP0ayd9YU7sE

 

Paywall-free link:

https://archive.ph/4CaZ9

Edited October 21, 2025 by mvcg66b3r

[Megatron81 343]

I think Ghost goes national syndication in 2026 in my opinion, which I thought that was case this year but that was only in a few large markets.

[Glimmer 340]

CBS Media Ventures is launching a new court show starring Judge Judy’s son next fall, as well as the third syndicated run of America’s Funniest Home Videos

 

https://deadline.com/2025/12/judge-judy-son-adam-levy-courtroom-show-1236651614/

[Megatron81 343]

I can see Adam's Law being on WZZM since they have aired CBS Media Ventures court shows forever in West Michigan. I don't think America's Funniest Home Videos was ever cleared in West Michigan as I never saw it on local broadcast only on cable I remember AVF on there. Which AVF will outlive us all LMAO like COPS & The Simpsons as well. 

[KS-IL-IA 63]

Does anyone have online access to TVNewsCheck for the article "As Media Consolidates, TV Stations Consider Their Programming Options"? If so, can you cut and paste the content here? Thanks!

[Yankees4life 599]

On 12/18/2025 at 11:44 PM, Glimmer said:

CBS Media Ventures is launching a new court show starring Judge Judy’s son next fall, as well as the third syndicated run of America’s Funniest Home Videos

 

https://deadline.com/2025/12/judge-judy-son-adam-levy-courtroom-show-1236651614/

Judge Adam is coming soon?

[phillynewslover 166]

The new court show will actually be called "Adam's Law," which is really odd to me considering that's the name of the federal law that categorizes sex offenders into different tiers, and it's also an anti-hazing law in Virginia. Obviously the show has nothing to do with either one of those, but you would think they would've called it "Adam's Court" or something.

 

Also, why is CBS distributing "America's Funniest Home Videos?" Or am I misunderstood and they're just going to be carrying it on their stations (I assume the independent sidecar stations) without actually distributing it?