‘Golden Bachelor’ & ‘Big Brother’ Get New Thursday Start Times As Primetime Is Delayed For Biden’s Address

Nellie Andreeva
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UPDATED: The four major broadcast networks are shuffling their Thursday night schedules to accomodate President Joe Biden’s televised address to outline U.S.’ response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel and Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox will all carry the address live at 8 PM ET/CT. As a result, their regular Oct. 19 lineups will be delayed by 15-22 min in the Eastern and Central time zones, depending on the network. (Some news divisions will provide commentary/analysis immediately following the speech.)

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The affected programs include ABC’s The Golden Bachelor and Bachelor In Paradise, CBS’ Big Brother and the season finale of The Challenge: USA, NBC’s Transplant and Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and LEGO Masters.

The start of NBC’s late-night block of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! also will start late. (CBS’ Late Show is dark for the rest of the week as host Stephen Colbert is recovering from Covid. Repeats will air instead.)

The primetime and late-night schedules will remain intact in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.

All the networks opting to simply slide their primetime schedules is indicative of how diminished the importance of start times is in the era of delayed/on-demand viewing. In the past, schedules were so rigid, nets would have to preempt programs to carry the President’s address or join the originally scheduled show in progress after the address is over, frustrating fans.

Here is the Thursday primetime lineup for each of the four major broadcast networks with the revised start times in Eastern/Central time zones.

ABC
8:22 PM ET/CT The Golden Bachelor
9:24 PM Bachelor in Paradise
11:22 PM Local news
11:57 PM Jimmy Kimmel Live!
12:59 AM Nightline

CBS
8:20 PM Buddy Games
9:20 PM Big Brother
10:20 PM The Challenge: USA

NBC
8:20 PM Law & Order SVU (encore)
9:20 PM Transplant
10:20 PM Dateline NBC
11:20 PM Local news
11:50 PM The Tonight Show
12:50 AM Late Night

Fox
8:15 PM Hell’s Kitchen
9:15 PM LEGO Masters

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