Shows like Nightline

Loved Nightline? These shows share its genre and mood — pulled from live data and reshuffled every visit, each with a trailer and where to stream.

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Nightline

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Nightline, or ABC News Nightline, is a late-night news program that is broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main anchor from March 1980 until his retirement from the program in November 2005. Nightline airs weeknights at 12:37 a.m. Eastern Time, after Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It previously ran for 31 minutes, but in 2011, the program was reduced to 25 minutes. When the program moved to 12:37 a.m. ET, the program was expanded to 30 minutes. In 2002, Nightline was ranked 23rd on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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Every show here is picked to match Nightline — similar genre, similar tone — and the set reshuffles on each visit, so it stays fresh instead of going stale like a hand-written list.

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