NBC’s announcement of its upcoming fall 2025 primetime lineup confirmed the network’s renewed Brilliant Minds with Zachary Quinto and The Hunting Party starring Melissa Roxburgh. The two returning dramas join new episodes of the Chicago trio (Med, Fire, and PD) as well as Law & Order and Law & Order SVU on the network’s September/October 2025 lineup.
The fall lineup kicks off in September with the return of The Voice, with Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan, and Reba McEntire coaching season 28. October brings the NBA back to NBC, and then in November the network debuts new seasons of returning comedies Happy’s Place and St. Denis Medical.
NBC expands its comedy lineup with The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe. And the network has pilots of Stumble and an untitled comedy from Superstore‘s Sierra Teller Ornela that may be picked up for series as part of the 2025-2026 season.
Unfortunately, the news hasn’t been great for fans of Lopez vs. Lopez, Night Court, Found, The Irrational, and Suits LA. NBC has axed those shows, with only Grosse Pointe Garden Society‘s fate still unconfirmed.
NBC FALL SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2025-26 SCHEDULE
MONDAY
8-10 P.M. – The Voice
10-11 P.M. – Brilliant Minds
TUESDAY (SEPTEMBER)
8-10 P.M. – The Voice
10-11 P.M. – ON BRAND WITH JIMMY FALLON
TUESDAY (OCTOBER)
8-11 P.M. – NBA
WEDNESDAY
8-9 P.M. – Chicago Med
9-10 P.M. – Chicago Fire
10-11 P.M. – Chicago P.D.
THURSDAY
8-9 P.M. – Law & Order
9-10 P.M. – Law & Order: SVU
10-11 P.M. – The Hunting Party
FRIDAY
8-9 P.M. – ON BRAND WITH JIMMY FALLON
9-11 P.M – Dateline NBC
SATURDAY
7-7:30 P.M. ET – Big Ten Pregame / Notre Dame Pregame (also live on Peacock)
7:30-11 P.M. ET – Big Ten Saturday Night / Notre Dame Football (also live on Peacock)
SUNDAY
7-8:20 P.M. ET – Football Night in America (also live on Peacock)
8:20-11 P.M. ET – NBC Sunday Night Football (also live on Peacock)
THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS – A disgraced former football player is on a mission to rehabilitate his image. The series stars Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe, Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan, Precious Way, Jalyn Hall.
ON BRAND WITH JIMMY FALLON – An innovative unscripted series that follows what happens when Jimmy Fallon starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the most creative, clever and competitive go-getters he can find. Fallon recruited Bozoma Saint John as the On Brand Agency’s Chief Marketing Officer, where she will mentor the creatives and evaluate their work.
In each episode, the On Brand Agency creatives will work with a major brand in need of a big idea for a massive, high-priority campaign – from creating earworm jingles and unbelievable activations to producing the most quotable commercials and must-have merchandise. They will have unprecedented access to the client’s businesses before pitching their vision to a brand representative, along with Saint John and Fallon, with only the best ideas moving on to proof of concept and the opportunity to see their campaign brought to life on the national stage after each episode.
SURVIVING EARTH – NBC is going way back in time to see how life not only survived cataclysmic events but thrived in the unscripted special event series order Surviving Earth. A co-production between Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group, and UK indie Loud Minds, the eight-episode Surviving Earth will take an incredible journey into prehistory to learn the lessons from past mass extinctions.
Adopting cutting-edge digital technology, each episode transports the viewer back to meet the bizarre and amazing creatures and breathtaking landscapes of a vibrant lost world. Audiences will witness how life finds a way to survive on a planet where meteors fall, super volcanoes erupt, seas boil and the land moves. From the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs and Primeval, these are the stories of the survivors, fighters and lucky ones that shaped the world we live in.
