2008–09 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 2008–09 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2008 to August 2009. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2007–08 season.

Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV (as the programming service doesn't offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns). Fox is not included on the weekday schedule: Fox only airs daytime programming (in the form of sports on weekend afternoons).

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Light blue indicates local programming.

Gray indicates encore programming.

Yellow indicates talk shows.

Pink indicates game shows.

Chartreuse indicates soap operas.

Blue-gray indicates news programming.

Light green indicates sporting events.

Light purple indicates children's and/or E/I-compliant programming.

Light teal indicates programs not applicable to the above categorizations.

Schedule

 * New series are highlighted in bold.
 * All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (select shows) scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Pacific (for selected shows), Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
 * Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
 * All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or primetime programming after game completion.

ABC
Returning series:
 * ABC World News Tonight
 * All My Children
 * College Football Scoreboard
 * General Hospital
 * ESPN College Football on ABC
 * One Life to Live
 * ABC Kids
 * Power Rangers Jungle Fury

New series:
 * ABC Kids
 * Power Rangers RPM

Not returning from 2007–08:
 * NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad

CBS
Returning series:
 * As the World Turns
 * The Bold and the Beautiful
 * CBS Evening News
 * College Football Today
 * Guiding Light
 * NFL on CBS
 * The NFL Today
 * SEC on CBS
 * The Young and the Restless

The CW
Returning series:
 * Everybody Hates Chris (reruns)
 * The Game (reruns)

New series:
 * 4Real
 * The Drew Carey Show (reruns)
 * The Jamie Foxx Show (reruns)
 * Judge Jeanine Pirro
 * The Wayans Bros. (reruns)''

Not returning from 2007–08:
 * All of Us (reruns)
 * Girlfriends
 * Gossip Girl
 * One Tree Hill
 * Reba (reruns)
 * What I Like About You (reruns)

Fox
Returning series:
 * Fox College Football
 * Fox News Sunday
 * Fox NFL Sunday
 * Fox Saturday Baseball
 * NASCAR on Fox
 * NFL on Fox
 * This Week in Baseball

NBC
Returning series:
 * Days of Our Lives
 * Early Today
 * Meet the Press
 * NBC Nightly News
 * Notre Dame Football on NBC
 * Today
 * Qubo
 * My Friend Rabbit
 * The Zula Patrol

New series:
 * Qubo
 * Turbo Dogs

CBS

 * Guiding Light— Canceled after 72 seasons (57 years on television and 19 years on radio, with simultaneous radio and television broadcasts from 1952 to 1956) on April 1, 2009; the series concluded its CBS run on September 18, 2009.