NBC associates, due to the presence of Saturday Night Live, have typically aired off-network syndicated reruns either main out of SNL-and in some cases, the network's Saturday overnight programming-or relegated them solely to Sunday nights in recent years (compared to such legacy serials as Quincy, slots M.E., Highway to Heaven and ER), with NBCUniversal Syndication Studios' reruns of their in style Law & Order and Chicago franchises largely being offered to associates of other networks (including owned-and-operated affiliates of Fox), and often exterior slotsonline of weekend late nights together with on the aforementioned MyNetworkTV programming service; since 2008, the network has offered a 90-minute block of life-style programs from its sister production unit, 78win LXTV, to air as a lead-out to SNL.

Despite being a recognized graveyard slot, there have been notable exceptions to this rule, together with the aforementioned CBS serials as well as NBC's Homicide: Life on the road, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Providence in the course of the 1990s and early 2000s. Family-oriented sitcoms, together with the aforementioned sitcoms throughout ABC's TGIF years (in addition to Reba on The WB through the 2000s and https://7ba.biz Last Man Standing on ABC and Fox in the 2010s), have additionally been modestly successful on Friday nights, and WWE SmackDown has additionally experienced success on broadcast and slots cable television since its launch on UPN in 1999.

In addition, a handful of cable channels have additionally had success with Friday night time programming; prominent examples have included the Disney Channel, which throughout the 2000s and 2010s aired various made-for-Tv movies and scripted sitcoms that appealed to a pre-teen audience including Wizards of Waverly Place, Phineas and Ferb, The Suite Life on Deck, Jessie and Girl Meets World (largely serving as somewhat of a successor to sister community ABC's unique TGIF lineup, albeit with a youthful audience as compared), and Hallmark Channel, 78 win which then as now premieres unique made-for-Tv films on Friday and Saturday nights several instances per 12 months as an try to maintain potential moviegoers at home.