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President Donald Trump is taking to primetime tomorrow, April 1, to reside nan federation astir nan warfare successful Iran. Scheduled for 9 PM ET, his remarks will beryllium carried unrecorded by each 4 awesome broadcast networks, causing a awesome disruption successful nan networks’ schedules which are stacked pinch all-new programming Wednesday night. With conscionable 24 hours heads-up, nan broadcasters connected Tuesday nighttime scrambled to make accommodations.
For East Coast viewers, nan reside will interrupt nan two-hour play finale of Fox’s The Masked Singer and CBS’ typical two-hour section of Survivor, which are some slated for 8 PM – 10 PM, arsenic good arsenic caller episodes of NBC play Chicago Fire and ABC crippled show The Greatest Average American astatine 9 PM.
The Masked Singer and Survivor will some beryllium paused astatine 9 PM ET to move to Trump’s address, which is scheduled to tally for 20 minutes. Once it ends, nan reality title shows will prime up wherever they near disconnected and complete their episodes astatine 10:20 PM ET, pinch The Masked Singer crowing a winner.
At that time, Fox will spell to section news. CBS will aerial an all-new America’s Culinary Cup (originally scheduled for 10 PM) from 10:20 PM – 11:20 PM ET earlier nan section newscasts start.
At NBC, a caller Chicago Med will aerial from 8 PM – 9 PM ET arsenic scheduled. Chicago Fire will commencement astatine 9:20 PM ET, aft nan Presidential address, followed by a Chicago P.D. original astatine 10:20 PM, starring to section news astatine 11:20 PM.
CBS and NBC’s precocious nighttime besides will slide, pinch The Late Show and The Tonight Show, some successful originals this week, starting astatine 11:50 PM ET.
There will beryllium nary primetime aliases latenight interruption connected nan West Coast wherever Trump’s reside will aerial astatine 6 PM PT.
Due to nan sum of nan address, ABC has opted to switch nan original episodes of unscripted bid The Greatest Average American astatine 9 PM and Shark Tank at 10:01 PT tomorrow nighttime pinch repeats connected some coasts. successful nan East, Trump’s reside will preempt the Greatest Average American rerun, pinch nan web joining nan section successful advancement erstwhile nan typical news sum is complete astatine 9:20 PM ET. The Shark Tank encore will commencement astatine 10:01 PT ET, keeping section news and Jimmy Kimmel Live (in reruns this week) connected schedule crossed nan country.
