The 2025 TV schedule has been a tumultuous time for the world of late night television, including the quiet cancellation of After Midnight in the spring and the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show in July. In fact, that latter cancellation caused such massive waves that huge names in pop culture spoke up in solidarity with Colbert. Jimmy Fallon, longtime host of The Tonight Show, expressed support for the Late Show icon… not long before his new show got a premiere date, officially being set to air twice a week on NBC starting in late September.
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Just like Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘s Jimmy Kimmel from ABC, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon didn’t hold back from showing support for the CBS host who was technically his competition in late night television. He posted in a since-expired Instagram Story that he was “just as shocked as everyone” about Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and “really thought I’d ride this out with him for years to come.”
Seth Meyers as well as Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Adam Sandler, and more celebs for a funny bit on The Late Show in one of the first shots back at CBS for the cancellation.
Law & Order: Organized Crime is returning to NBC, On Brand with Jimmy Fallon received its premiere date(s). The new program’s first night of the week will be Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET, starting on September 30. The second night of the week will be Fridays at 8 p.m. ET, starting on October 3.
The Tonight Show will continue to air Monday – Thursday, as has been the case since NBC cut the Friday night broadcasts last September. So, what is On Brand with Jimmy Fallon? Well, the unscripted series follows Jimmy Fallon after he starts a marketing agency and fills it with the most creative and competitive people he can find, with Bozoma Saint John as the “On Brand Agency’s” Chief Marketing Officer to mentor and evaluate the participants.
In each episode, the participants of the On Brand Agency will work with a major brand that is looking for a new campaign, including Captain Morgan, Dunkin’, KitchenAid, Marshalls, Pillsbury, SONIC, Southwest Airlines, and Therabody. By the end, one creative will be left standing and receive a cash prize as well as the experience gained from competition. Fallon is on board On Brand as host, executive producer, and creator.
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What About The Tonight Show?
I don’t want to claim that anything is guaranteed in late night TV after the shocker of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show cancellation, but Jimmy Fallon renewed his deal with NBCUniversal as the host of The Tonight Show through 2028 last summer. It seems that he should be safely on the air for another few years if all goes according to plan. Seth Meyers also renewed his deal with NBCUniversal to continue hosting Late Night through 2028. Late Night follows The Tonight Show on weekday nights.
That may partially explain Meyers’ somewhat optimistic take about the future of late night TV… but then again, he made those comments before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert got the axe. For now, though, there are indeed reasons to be hopeful about the future of late night on at least NBC. Plus, if you’re a fan of his work on The Tonight Show, you can get more of Jimmy Fallon starting this fall on September 30 with the premiere of On Brand with Jimmy Fallon.
Warning! The following contains spoilers for the 90 Day: Hunt For Love episode “The Boy with Pepperoni Nipples.” Stream it with an HBO Max subscription, and read at your own risk!
Everyone is a star on 90 Day: Hunt For Love, but I think if we had to say who the main characters of this program are in the inaugural season, it would be Jeniffer Tarazona and Cole Anderson. The new 90 Day Fiancé spinoff has revolved around the drama involving these two and Rob Warne, and I’m just so tired of hearing about it at this point that I wish there was more to talk about.
she initially slept with Rob at the beginning of 90 Day: Hunt For Love that she didn’t intentionally mean to hurt Cole’s feelings. Then, after deliberately lying about sleeping with him and continuing to hang out with him any time she’s at odds with Cole, I think it’s fair to say this is just a game to her. It seems she’s not looking to get serious with anyone, and if she is, it’s certainly not with Cole.
Cole Needs To Move On And Go On Dates With Someone Else At The Resort
At some point, I can’t help but wonder why Cole just doesn’t try to go on some dates with someone else at the resort. Jeniffer is clearly uninterested in an actual relationship with him, and if she is, why would he want to date someone who hooks up with another dude whenever he does something that she doesn’t approve of?
In fairness, Cole doesn’t have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to the 90 Day cast of women. Tiffany Franco already has two dudes getting into fist fights over her, and Cortney Reardanz is feeling guilt-stricken after Colt Johnson’s devastating injury. Oh, and there’s Chantel Everett, whose entire storyline revolves around her clearly wanting to leave the resort and pursue a relationship with a friend back home.
There is a cynical part of me that believes Cole continues to pursue Jeniffer because he knows he’ll get more screentime on 90 Day: Hunt For Love if he does so, and let’s face it, these people go on these shows so they can be on television. A woman lost her job as a principal after doing the TLC spinoff, so I can hope that maybe Cole’s outrage about Jeniffer and Rob’s casual fling is more about guaranteeing he’s on TV than anything else.
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90 Day: Hunt For Love airs on TLC on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET. Catch up with the series over on Max, and be sure to check out all the other 90 Day content on the platform. You can also watch it to see Cole continue to be upset about Jeniffer, but I wouldn’t recommend that.
Fans of Law & Order: Organized Crime have been waiting since back in June of the 2025 TV schedule to learn if Christopher Meloni’s SVU spinoff will be renewed for Season 6, following its first season as a streaming original for those with a Peacock subscription. Well, OC is coming back to TV soon… sort of. The drama will return to its former 10 p.m. ET time slot on NBC, but not for a sixth season. Starting this fall, the network will air the fifth season that is already available streaming.
While I have no complaints about an excuse to watch the episodes again, I do have questions about how NBC will handle the F-bombs and increased violence that could fly on Peacock. Now, I won’t drop any spoilers about the season beyond that there were times that it felt like a totally different show and the ways that the series felt more realistic in Season 5, but the big news reminded me of what star Rick Gonzalez told CinemaBlend about getting to swear.
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NBC Is Bringing Law & Order: Organized Crime Back To Thursday Nights
The Voice holding onto slots on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the Law & Order/Law & Order: SVU duo coming back to Thursdays. The shocker was that Law & Order: OC was listed in its old time slot of 10 p.m. ET on Thursday nights, following SVU at 9 p.m. ET.
Deadline cleared up what’s happening: Season 5 is getting broadcast on network television. According to the outlet, the fifth season wasn’t as dark as expected and could run for the 10 p.m. ET primetime slot and potentially reach a new audience.
It remains to be seen if/how this will affect Organized Crime having a future on Peacock or NBC, but I still have questions about how OC will be moved back to its old slot. Even if less dark than expected, there are some lines crossed on Peacock that certainly never happened when OC was on network. That includes F-bombs, and it turns out that Rick Gonzalez was about as big of a fan of dropping them on camera as his character, Detective Bobby Reyes, was.
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What Rick Gonzalez Told Us About F-Bombs On Peacock
Now, anybody who has watched an R-rated movie tweaked for broadcast television or an HBO show cut for basic cable undoubtedly knows that it’s not hard to just silence an expletive or dub it over with another word. I wasn’t a big fan of how Suits approached dropping F-bombs on USA, but it’s doable.
In fact, when I live-blogged the version of the OC Season 5 premiere that aired on NBC after already seeing the version that streamed on Peacock, I noticed that “fucking dolls” on the streamer was changed to “stupid dolls” on the network. But it was just fun to see the detectives a bit more unleashed on Peacock, and Reyes in particular embraced the new F-bomb freedom.
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When I spoke with Rick Gonzalez and got the scoop on what he “spoke with the writers” about for a big Reyes episode, I had to ask about characters getting to… expand their vocabularies, so to speak, on Peacock, and he shared:
I knew that. I was excited for that. I was like, ‘This is great. What can I say?’ And I’m just literally on set telling the director and the writers, like, ‘So can I say the F-bomb right now?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, great, because I’m gonna say that right now!’ For all those times where they made me say, ‘Screw that!’ … No, it’s time.
“Screw that!” really didn’t do justice to some of what would go down on Law & Order: Organized Crime even during its NBC days, so who could blame Gonzalez for being excited about getting to shift over to “Fuck that!” on Peacock? When I noted in our interview that some of the murders from the first four seasons weren’t really “Gosh dang it” kinds of situation, he agreed, saying:
We don’t need to ‘screw’ those murders. We need to get to it.
For as excited as Rick Gonzalez was to drop F-bombs and clearly made the most of the opportunities to do so, he shared that there was another fun element of Season 5 moving past the NBC language barriers. After sharing that it was “not tough at all” to get used to the new normal on Peacock, he said:
For me, I got a kick out of just seeing Stabler say curse words. I’m like, ‘No, give him all the curse words. We need to see more F-bombs out of Stabler.’
Who else can think of some specific instances that Stabler might have dropped an F-bomb back in his SVU days? That’s not even to mention all the twists that really called for some harsher language once he moved over to launch Organized Crime! So, I’m left with questions.
Will NBC dub over every “fuck” like what happened when the Season 5 premiere aired on NBC? Or just silence them so that there’s a gap in the dialogue? Or is there a reality in which Stabler or Reyes or anybody else could actually go beyond the usual “Screw this” or “Damn that” that might usually be possible on network TV?
While I’m not expecting anybody to be shouting any Peacock-level expletives on NBC, shows that air in the 10 p.m. slot can often get darker than episodes that air during early hours. Just look at how Chicago P.D. compares to Chicago Fire and Chicago Med elsewhere on NBC!
Whether or not you’ve already seen the episodes on Peacock, Law & Order: Organized Crime begins its full Season 5 run on Thursday, September 25 at 10 p.m. ET, following the Season 27 premiere of Law & Order: SVU at 9 p.m. ET and the Season 25 premiere of Law & Order at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Law & Order will be back without one series regular, although a guest star already pitched how his character could be a great fit to join full-time.
After making his return to the television space last year for the first time since his snowplow accident with Mayor of Kingstown Season 3, Jeremy Renner is months away from appearing in his first movie since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame (minus a voice cameo in Black Widow). Renner is contributing to the 2025 movies schedule by starring in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, i.e. Knives Out 3. However, he only agreed to do this Netflix subscription-exclusive feature for one reason, and it had to do with him reevaluating his professional life following the accident.
Following his physical recovery after nearly dying from the snowplow that ran over him on January 1, 2023, Renner decided that he wouldn’t take on a project if it didn’t line up with his family priorities. Luckily for him, Wake Up Dead Man filled that criteria, as he informed Empire while promoting his book My Next Breath:
The decision-making is, ‘I’ll never work again unless it’s with the people I want to work with, and my family can be there, or my daughter can be there, or my friends can be there.’ I didn’t see any of my career, or my jobs, when I died. Nothing. Not one clip. It was all just the love experiences that I had. So I’ll continue to water that garden with the people I love. I took 15 family members last summer to shoot Knives Out in London, and I only did it because I could bring them all.
Knives Out world, as his likeness was used for a bottle of hot sauce in Glass Onion. However, he won’t be playing himself in Wake Up Dead Man, but rather a character named Dr. Nat Sharp. Just like with the first two movies, Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc will be investigating a murder, and Dr. Sharp will somehow factor into the nefarious goings on.
These two are joined in the cast by Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church. While it remains to be seen if Wake Up Dead Man will have any kind of special theatrical release like Glass Onion did, it’ll be available to stream on Netflix starting December 12.
The NCIS franchise is set to return to CBS this fall amid the 2025 TV schedule, with new seasons of the Mothership, Origins, and Sydney, hitting the air. All the while, fans have also been waiting for the new spinoff series NCIS: Tony & Ziva, and the series is set stream with a Paramount+ subscription beginning on September 4. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for the franchise, but this raises the question of what other shows could be in store, and will it ever be taken back to the procedural that started it all, JAG?
Before NCIS grew to be one of the biggest TV franchises, it was kicked off by a backdoor pilot on the military drama JAG, which ran for 10 seasons. Mark Horowitz, who was an EP on NCIS and a co-EP on JAG, previously opened up about NCIS’ beginnings and distancing it from JAG, which was in its eighth season by the time the two-part backdoor pilot rolled around.
Entertainment Weekly about the chances of a revival of his hit show happening, and he seems optimistic:
Harm and Mac’s relationship had always been a bit complicated.
At the very least, even if there isn’t a JAG revival in the future, original cast members could always appear on NCIS or its many spinoffs. For now, select episodes of JAG are streaming on Paramount+ in the meantime, and some seasons are streaming for free on Pluto TV.
SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the end of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. If you have not yet seen the movie, proceed at your own risk!
The post-credits scene in Thunderbolts* provides fans with some big revelations about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s not only said that there are two different Avengers teams (the groups in conflict over the moniker), but the final moment revealed the arrival of the Fantastic Four into the universe via rocket ship. It was particularly cool to see the latter play out when the blockbuster arrived in theaters last May, the glimpse serving as a fun cliffhanger… but those of you who saw Fantastic Four: First Steps this past weekend may have noticed that the new release doesn’t make any kind of effort to link up with its MCU predecessor.
release of the epic Avengers: Doomsday in December 2026? CinemaBlend’s own Jeff McCobb recently broached that subject in an interview with director Matt Shakman during the Los Angeles press day for the new 2025 movie, and the filmmaker gave an honest answer: he couldn’t connect the end of his movie to the end of the blockbuster also known as The New Avengers because that movie’s end credit scene didn’t exist when the script was being written. Said Shakman,
oversight of the Marvel Studios Parliament and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, there is often a misconception about the Marvel Cinematic Universe that there is a big master plan and specific beats coordinated in every release. There is a Marvel timeline maintained and big picture ideas that influence upcoming Marvel movies and upcoming Marvel TV shows – but in the case of Fantastic Four: First Steps, for instance, there was no directive to have the story written so that it would end with Marvel’s First Family arriving in the MCU (a.k.a. go from their home on Earth 828 to Earth 616).
As a result of Fantastic Four: First Steps seeing all of its action kept to a single level of the multiverse, we currently have no idea how the team will be executing the reality hoping that will be necessary to see them enter the universe where two different Avengers rosters are in conflict. Because it’s doubtful that an answer will be arriving next summer with the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (in theaters July 31, 2026), it’s likely going to be a part of the plotting in Avengers: Doomsday.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is now playing in theaters everywhere, and we now have less than a year-and-a-half before the arrival of the next MCU capstone film, as Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled to debut December 18, 2026. The massive blockbuster, helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo and featuring an outstanding roster of heroes, is now in production, so be sure to stay tuned here on CinemaBlend in the coming days, weeks and months for all of the biggest updates and reveals about it.
