NBC finally gave pickups to ‘Brilliant Minds’ and ‘The Hunting Party’ and is adding one new comedy and one unscripted series to its fall lineup.
NBC revealed its Fall 2025-2026 schedule on Monday morning, which, after several cancellations, will be focused at least two nights a week on sports.
In October, NBC will begin to air NBA and WNBA regular-season and playoff basketball games. Peacock will livestream exclusive national Monday night games while NBC/Peacock will present national coverage of regional doubleheaders on Tuesday nights. NBC Sports will also launch Sunday Night Basketball in 2026 across NBC and Peacock, providing NBA fans with three consecutive nights of national coverage across NBCUniversal platforms during the second half of the regular season. The playoffs and WNBA coverage begin in the spring of 2026. In addition, primetime television’s #1 program, Sunday Night Football, begins in the fall to kick off the NFL season.
As for scripted programming, NBC previously gave pickups to its dramas Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. In announcing its fall schedule, it also gave Season 2 pickups to the medical drama Brilliant Minds and The Hunting Party.
On the comedy front, joining Happy’s Place and St. Denis Medical will be the Tracy Morgan–Daniel Radcliffe-starrer The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins about a disgraced former football player (Morgan), who is on a mission to rehabilitate his image.
Joining The Voice in the unscripted area is On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a competition series in which Fallon starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the most creative, clever and competitive go-getters he can find.
NBC FALL 2025-26 SCHEDULE (SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER)
Sunday (Fall/Winter)
7 p.m. Football Night in America
8:20 p.m. Sunday Night Football
Sunday (Spring)
8 p.m. Sunday Night Basketball
Monday (September)
8 p.m. The Voice
10 p.m. Brilliant Minds
Monday (November)
8 p.m. St. Denis Medical
8:30 p.m. TBD (see above)
9 p.m. The Voice
10 p.m. Brilliant Minds
Tuesday (September)
8 p.m. The Voice
10 p.m. On Brand with Jimmy Fallon
Tuesday (October)
8 p.m. NBA
Note: There will be East and West Coast games, both starting at 8 p.m.; the Central time zone will get the East Coast game.
Wednesday
8 p.m. Chicago Med
9 p.m. Chicago Fire
10 p.m. Chicago P.D.
Thursday
8 p.m. Law & Order
9 p.m. Law & Order: SVU
10 p.m. The Hunting Party
Friday (September)
8 p.m. On Brand with Jimmy Fallon
9 p.m. Dateline NBC
Friday (November)
8 p.m. Happy’s Place
8:30 p.m. TBD (see above)
9 p.m. Dateline NBC
Saturday
7 p.m. Big Ten Pregame/Notre Dame Pregame
7:30 p.m. Big Ten Saturday Night/Notre Dame Football
