What’s on Antenna TV tonight? Here is the full Antenna TV schedule for Tuesday, October 27, 2026, with times in Eastern Time (ET).

Antenna TV spends primetime on three sitcoms, and The Jeffersons is the one to stay for

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Antenna TV’s Tuesday is a straight run of half-hour comedies, and the strongest stretch is the middle of it: The Jeffersons at 9pm ET. It was a CBS series with 253 episodes over 11 seasons, and it grew out of All in the Family. Antenna has two back to back at 9pm and 9:30pm ET, and it is the best-stocked slot of the night.

One Day at a Time opens primetime at 8pm ET. This is the 2017 version that began on Netflix, which makes it the youngest show on the channel’s schedule by a wide margin. It gets two half hours, then hands over to the classics. Worth knowing before you settle in: the same title airs twice today, so a missed episode is easy to catch.

Sanford and Son closes the block at 10pm and 10:30pm ET. An NBC sitcom with 136 episodes across six seasons, it is the lightest of the three and a fair place to wind down before Johnny Carson takes the 11pm ET hour.

Antenna leans hard on repetition. The Jeffersons also fills the 6am ET slot, and the same goes for Sanford and Son at 7am ET, so anyone who finds tonight’s pairing too late can catch it at breakfast. Primetime competition is mostly reality and procedural: Dancing with the Stars on ABC and NCIS on CBS at 8pm ET. If neither appeals, this is the quiet alternative.


Also on TV tonight at 8pm ET

  • ABC: Dancing with the Stars
  • NBC: NBA Basketball
  • CBS: NCIS
  • FOX: 2026 World Series
  • PBS: Finding Your Roots
  • The CW: WWE NXT
  • ION: Chicago Fire
  • TCM: Arsenic and Old Lace
  • AMC: A Nightmare on Elm Street (from 7pm ET)
  • FX: Independence Day (from 6pm ET)

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Frequently asked questions

What’s on Antenna TV tonight?

On Tuesday, October 27, 2026, Antenna TV shows One Day at a Time at 8pm ET, One Day at a Time at 8:30pm ET, The Jeffersons at 9pm ET, The Jeffersons at 9:30pm ET, Sanford and Son at 10pm ET and Sanford and Son at 10:30pm ET.

Is there a movie on Antenna TV tonight?

No. Antenna TV has no movies in its evening schedule on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

What’s on Antenna TV late tonight?

After 11pm ET, Antenna TV has Johnny Carson at 11pm ET.

What time does Antenna TV’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with Three’s Company at 6pm ET.

A sitcom every half hour: what Antenna TV is

Antenna TV is a classic sitcom channel, and almost nothing else. Its day is a rotation of network comedies from the 1960s to the 1990s, an hour of each (usually two episodes back to back), with Johnny Carson closing the evening at 11pm. Across the week we tracked, 86% of its airtime went to titles that came back on three or more days, and it showed no films.

Where some classic channels run one show for half a day, Antenna TV changes title every hour. A weekday on it carries around twenty different sitcoms, from Hazel and I Dream of Jeannie in the morning to Sanford and Son at night.

What a weekday on Antenna TV looks like

From Monday to Thursday the schedule is identical, hour for hour. In Eastern time:

  • 5am: Three’s Company
  • 6am: The Jeffersons
  • 7am: Sanford and Son
  • 8am: Barney Miller
  • 9am: The Partridge Family
  • 10am: Hazel
  • 11am: I Dream of Jeannie
  • Noon: Bewitched
  • 1pm: Maude
  • 2pm: Alice
  • 3pm: The Facts of Life
  • 4pm: Too Close for Comfort
  • 5pm: Family Ties
  • 6pm: Three’s Company
  • 7pm: Barney Miller
  • 8pm: One Day at a Time
  • 9pm: The Jeffersons
  • 10pm: Sanford and Son
  • 11pm: Johnny Carson

After midnight the channel moves to later comedies: Becker, Wings, Mad About You, Designing Women and 227 fill the hours until 5am.

So Antenna TV’s primetime is four sitcoms in a row: Barney Miller at 7pm, then One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son, two episodes each, before Carson at 11pm. Several shows appear twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, so if you miss The Jeffersons at 6am you can catch it at 9pm.

Weekends, and the Halloween marathons

Saturday keeps the classic shows but shuffles them, with Mork & Mindy in the morning and The Ropers and Three’s a Crowd alongside Three’s Company. Sunday moves later, to the late 1970s and 1980s: The Facts of Life, Too Close for Comfort, Soap, Benson and Head of the Class, then Who’s the Boss? from 7pm and Just Shoot Me from 9pm, two hours each, with The Drew Carey Show late.

The fixed weekday shape gives way at Halloween. In the week we tracked, the channel ran Sabrina, the Teenage Witch for most of the day before Halloween and Bewitched for most of Halloween itself. That is a seasonal habit; for most of the year the hourly rotation holds.

Popular shows on Antenna TV

Bewitched is a sitcom that ran on ABC from 1964 for eight seasons and 254 episodes, with Dick York, Dick Sargent and Agnes Moorehead in the cast. It has the noon weekday slot and is the channel’s most-aired title.

Sanford and Son is a sitcom that began on NBC in 1972, starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson, and ran for six seasons and 136 episodes. It airs at 7am and 10pm on weekdays.

The Jeffersons is a sitcom that ran on CBS from 1975 for 11 seasons and 253 episodes, with Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford and Marla Gibbs. Antenna TV shows it at 6am and 9pm.

I Dream of Jeannie is a comedy series that began on NBC in 1965, starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, and ran for five seasons and 139 episodes. It takes 11am on weekdays.

The Facts of Life is a sitcom that began on NBC in 1979 and ran for nine seasons and 209 episodes, with Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields. It airs at 3pm on weekdays and leads off Sunday.

Johnny Carson is the channel’s nightcap: an hour of Carson’s late-night talk show at 11pm, on almost every night of the week we tracked.

How to watch Antenna TV

Antenna TV is a free over-the-air channel. You can watch it with a TV antenna, with no subscription, on a digital subchannel of a local station in most of the country. The channel number depends on your area, so rescan your TV if you can’t find it.

It has also started to appear on live TV streaming services, though not yet on most of them. Check the channel list of the one you use.

Channels like Antenna TV

  • MeTV runs classic sitcoms in the evening, with The Andy Griffith Show, Everybody Loves Raymond and The Golden Girls, after a day of westerns and crime shows.
  • Cozi TV is the sitcom channel for the 1990s and 2000s, with The Nanny, The King of Queens and Two and a Half Men in long blocks.
  • TBS is the cable home of more recent sitcoms such as Friends and The Big Bang Theory.
  • H&I is the action and science-fiction counterpart, with the same fixed weekday timetable.

Who it’s for

Antenna TV is for people who grew up on network sitcoms and want them back on a schedule they can learn in a day. It is free with an antenna and changes show every hour, so it suits dipping in. If you want dramas, films or anything made in the last twenty years, it has almost none.

How can I watch Antenna TV without cable?

With a TV antenna: Antenna TV is free over the air on a local station’s subchannel in most markets. A few live TV streaming services carry it as well.

What time is Johnny Carson on Antenna TV?

At 11pm Eastern, on almost every night.

What’s on Antenna TV in primetime?

On weeknights: Barney Miller at 7pm, One Day at a Time at 8pm, The Jeffersons at 9pm and Sanford and Son at 10pm, two episodes each.

Does Antenna TV show movies?

No. In the week we tracked it showed only sitcoms and Johnny Carson.