List of programs broadcast by American Broadcasting Company

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This article is about the ABC in the United States of America. For the Australian ABC, see List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs. For the Filipino ABC, see List of programs broadcast by Associated Broadcasting Company.

The following is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast on ABC.

Contents

[edit] Currently broadcast by ABC

[edit] News

[edit] Drama

[edit] Sitcom

[edit] Reality

[edit] Late Night/Variety

[edit] Talk Show

[edit] Soap Opera

[edit] Sports

All Sporting events airing on ABC will be known as ESPN on ABC starting September 2nd 2006


[edit] Current Schedule

(Times given are for Eastern Time. For other time zones make corrections listed below.)

Comedies are in Green; Dramas are in Light Blue; Reality are Yellow, Movie/Special are Orange, News programming are Pink, Sports are Brown, and Gameshow are Red. NOTE: Schedules usually depend on the ABC affiliate

7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
Sunday America's Funniest Home Videos Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (R) Desperate Housewives Brothers & Sisters †††††
Monday Local Programming Dancing with the Stars The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman ††††
Tuesday Dancing with the Stars Dancing with the Stars ††† Boston Legal
Wednesday George Lopez George Lopez According to Jim (R) In Case of Emergency Lost
Thursday Ugly Betty Grey's Anatomy Notes from the Underbelly Notes from the Underbelly
Friday Grey's Anatomy (E) Wife Swap (R) †† 20/20
Saturday Various Movies/Specials/Encore Programming
  • - Show starts at 10:01p.m.
  • †† - Show starts at 9:01p.m.
  • ††† - Show starts at 9:03p.m.
  • †††† - Show starts at 9:31p.m.
  • ††††† - Show starts at 10:02p.m.
  • (E) - Encore Presentation
  • (R) - Rerun


* For all non-sports programming, the local times for the airing of the shows are the same for cities in Pacific Time, and one hour earlier in Mountain and Central times. As sports shows are aired live nationwide, the times need to be adjusted according to timezone (i.e. one hour earlier for EST/CDT, two hours for MDT, and three for MST/PDT). Any timeslots emptied by the above time-shifting of shows are filled by use of local programming.

[edit] Spring Schedule

(Times given are for Eastern Time. For other time zones make corrections listed below.)

Comedies are in Green; Dramas are in Light Blue; Reality are Yellow, Movie/Special are Orange, News programming are Pink, Sports Entertainment are Brown, Gameshow are Red, and Talk Shows are Olive. Scheduled premiere dates are shown in parentheses. NOTE: Schedules usually depend on the ABC affiliate

7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
Sunday America's Funniest Home Videos Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Desperate Housewives Brothers & Sisters
Monday Local Programming Dancing with the Stars The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman
Tuesday George Lopez George Lopez (4/17) Dancing with the Stars Boston Legal
Wednesday According to Jim (4/18) Notes from the Underbelly (4/18) Lost (E) (4/25) Lost
Thursday Ugly Betty Grey's Anatomy October Road
Friday Grey's Anatomy (E) Wife Swap †† 20/20
Saturday Various Movies/Specials/Encore Programming
  • - Show starts at 10:01p.m.
  • †† - Show starts at 9:01p.m.
  • (E) - Encore Presentation
  • (R) - Rerun

[edit] Struggling and Endangered shows

* What About Brian has finished airing its second season and it is unknown whether or not the show will return for a third season.

[edit] Summer Schedule

(Times given are for Eastern Time. For other time zones make corrections listed below.)

Comedies are in Green; Dramas are in Light Blue; Reality are Yellow, Movie/Special are Orange, News programming are Pink, Sports Entertainment are Brown, Gameshow are Red, and Talk Shows are Olive. Scheduled premiere dates are shown in parentheses. NOTE: Schedules usually depend on the ABC affiliate

7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
Sunday America's Funniest Home Videos (R) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (R) Desperate Housewives (R) Brothers & Sisters (R)
Monday Local Programming TBA
Tuesday George Lopez (R) George Lopez (R) TBA Boston Legal (R)
Wednesday The Next Best Thing (5/30) American Inventor (6/6) Traveler (5/30)
Thursday Ugly Betty (R) Grey's Anatomy (R) TBA
Friday Grey's Anatomy (R) National Bingo Night †† (5/18) 20/20
Saturday Various Movies/Specials/Encore Programming
  • - Show starts at 10:01p.m.
  • †† - Show starts at 9:01p.m.
  • (E) - Encore Presentation
  • (R) - Rerun

[edit] Summer 2007

[edit] Current Late Night schedule

NOTE: Schedules usually depend on the ABC affiliate

  11:00 PM 11:35 PM 12:05 AM 12:35 AM 1:05 AM 1:35 AM 2:00 AM 2:30 AM 3:00 AM
ABC News Nightline Jimmy Kimmel Live Local Programming World News Now

[edit] Current daytime schedule

Some stations on the West Coast, such as KOMO-TV, KGO-TV, and KABC-TV shift all the times earlier one hour (from 10:00 to 15:00) to allow for local programming starting at 3 pm.

To see the American daytime schedule on all three networks (just daytime dramas), see soap opera. NOTE: Schedules usually depend on the ABC affiliate

  11:00 AM 11:30 AM 12:00 PM 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
ABC The View Local Programming All My Children One Life to Live General Hospital

[edit] Formerly broadcast by ABC

[edit] News

  • 20/20 Downtown (?)
  • Day One (1993-1995)

[edit] Sitcom

[edit] Dramedy

[edit] Drama/Mystery

[edit] Soap Opera

[edit] Science Fiction

[edit] Action/Adventure

[edit] Western

[edit] Reality Show

[edit] Game Show

[edit] Talk Show

[edit] Variety Show

[edit] Variety/Drama

[edit] Sports

[edit] Primetime Animation

[edit] Saturday Morning

[edit] Other