Everything worth watching on Monday, November 2, 2026, across 38 channels.

ABC and NBC split Monday, and NBC has the longer case

See also: Tuesday's TV guide

Monday is a network night. ABC and NBC have each built an evening around one big show, and most viewers will end up choosing between them. Cable has plenty of reruns and a handful of real movie options after 9:30pm ET, but the weight of the night sits on the two networks.

The pick: The Voice at 9pm ET/PT (8pm Central)

The Voice is tonight’s recommendation, mostly because of its slot. “Cut Week” (S30E11) takes NBC’s two-hour block from 9pm, so there is no second-guessing at 10pm. The rivals at that hour are thin: CBS has CIA, ION has Chicago P.D. and USA Network has Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

The cost is Dancing with the Stars. Its Disney Night episode (S35E09) starts at 8pm ET (5pm PT), an hour before The Voice, and for anyone who wants a single show it is the stronger opener. The two overlap for an hour, from 9pm to 10pm ET, so watching both means choosing which to catch later. Four stars each. The Voice takes the pick because it fills the whole middle of the evening.

ABC follows at 10pm ET/PT with Shark Tank (S18E01), a season opener with no real rival at that hour. Enough to keep ABC on, not enough to change the answer.

The 8pm scrum

Eight o’clock is the most crowded hour, and the interesting options are not the obvious ones. NBC opens with St. Denis Medical (S03E01), then runs The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins at 8:30pm, a ninety-minute run-in to The Voice. Food Network starts Holiday Baking Championship (S13E01), and Hallmark Channel has A Dream of Christmas (2016) while Hallmark Mystery has Five Gold Rings (2024). Both channels carry another Christmas title at 10pm, A Grand Ole Opry Christmas and The Royal Nanny (2022), so the holiday schedule is clearly under way.

FBI on CBS and Chicago P.D. on ION are the steady hour-long options. They hold their ground without being a reason to leave the bigger network shows.

Movies, and where the best are hiding

The strongest 8pm movie is on Grit: High Plains Drifter (1973), against the 8pm network slate and little real movie competition. Two Mules for Sister Sara follows on Grit at 10pm. Elsewhere at 8pm, Paramount Network has The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and TCM has King of Jazz (1930), and Finding Dory (2016) starts on Freeform at 8:55pm.

At 9:30pm ET three movie channels go head to head. AMC has Back to the Future Part II (1989), HBO has It (2017) and Syfy has The Golden Compass (2007). Back to the Future Part II is the safest and most rewatchable of the three. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) on FX at 10pm runs 155 minutes, long for a Monday, and it is the weakest of the night’s movies.

Late and left-field

MeTV has the best comfort viewing. The Andy Griffith Show opens its fourth season (S04E01) at 8pm ET, and The Golden Girls (S06E01) starts at 10pm, followed by S06E02, with two Everybody Loves Raymond episodes in between. TNT has College Basketball at 10pm. FOX and The CW both give 10pm to local programming, which is why neither features above.

If you read nothing else

Put The Voice on at 9pm ET and stay for both hours. For a movie, Back to the Future Part II at 9:30pm ET, or High Plains Drifter on Grit at 8pm ET.


What’s on tonight — Monday, November 2, 2026

Time Channel Show
8:00 PM ABC Dancing with the Stars: Disney Night
8:00 PM A&E Live PD: Greatest Shifts
8:00 PM Bravo Below Deck: Diva Down Bad For A Deckie
8:00 PM CBS FBI: Atonement
8:00 PM Discovery Contraband: Seized at the Border: Tijuana Cross the Border?
8:00 PM Disney Channel Phineas and Ferb: Attack of the Candace Suit; Book Flub
8:00 PM Food Network Holiday Baking Championship: Welcome to Santa’s Village
8:00 PM FOX Name That Tune
8:00 PM Hallmark Channel A Dream of Christmas
8:00 PM Hallmark Mystery Five Gold Rings
8:00 PM HBO The Gilded Age
8:00 PM HGTV My Lottery Dream Home: Moms, Best Friends and Helping Hands
8:00 PM History History’s Greatest Mysteries: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden: Case Closed
8:00 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: Fairies
8:00 PM ION Chicago P.D.: Impulse Control
8:00 PM Lifetime NCIS: Obsession
8:00 PM NBC St. Denis Medical: He Ain’t Noah Wyle
8:00 PM Paramount Network The Devil Wears Prada
8:00 PM PBS Antiques Roadshow US: Sensational Finds
8:00 PM Showtime Dexter: Resurrection
8:00 PM SundanceTV NCIS: Stakeout
8:00 PM TBS The Big Bang Theory: The Einstein Approximation
8:00 PM TCM King of Jazz
8:00 PM The CW Private Eyes West Coast
8:00 PM TLC 90 Day: Hunt For Love
8:00 PM USA Network Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Haunted
8:00 PM Antenna TV Who’s the Boss?: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
8:00 PM Cozi TV The King of Queens: Shear Torture
8:00 PM Grit High Plains Drifter
8:00 PM Heroes & Icons Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais?
8:00 PM MeTV The Andy Griffith Show: Opie the Birdman
8:10 PM Comedy Central The Office
8:30 PM Disney Channel Phineas and Ferb: The Bad Old Days; Mantis Fact!
8:30 PM HGTV My Lottery Dream Home: Golden State of Mind
8:30 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: Stefania Arrives
8:30 PM NBC The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
8:30 PM TBS The Big Bang Theory: The Large Hadron Collision
8:30 PM Antenna TV Who’s the Boss?: Seer of Love
8:30 PM Cozi TV The King of Queens: Inn Escapable
8:30 PM MeTV The Andy Griffith Show: Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army
8:45 PM Comedy Central The Office
8:55 PM Freeform Finding Dory
9:00 PM A&E Live PD: Greatest Shifts
9:00 PM Bravo Still Flipping Out
9:00 PM CBS CIA
9:00 PM Disney Channel Phineas and Ferb: Tropey McTropeFace; Biblio-Blast!
9:00 PM HBO Youth
9:00 PM HGTV My Lottery Dream Home: Sarasota Scratcher
9:00 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: Humm Vac
9:00 PM ION Chicago P.D.: Born Screaming
9:00 PM Lifetime NCIS: Borderland
9:00 PM NBC The Voice: Cut Week
9:00 PM PBS Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana
9:00 PM Showtime MobLand: Ace of Spades
9:00 PM SundanceTV NCIS: Dog Tags
9:00 PM TBS Foul Play with Anthony Davis
9:00 PM The CW Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent: Face Value
9:00 PM TLC 90 Day: Hunt For Love
9:00 PM USA Network Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity
9:00 PM Antenna TV Just Shoot Me: Pass the Salt
9:00 PM Cozi TV Two and a Half Men: Ergo, the Booty Call
9:00 PM Heroes & Icons Star Trek: The Next Generation: Eye of the Beholder
9:00 PM MeTV Everybody Loves Raymond: The Children’s Book
9:00 PM Outlaw Bonanza: Day of Reckoning
9:01 PM Discovery All Access PD: Grand Rapids
9:01 PM FOX Celebrity Weakest Link
9:02 PM History History’s Greatest Mysteries: The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
9:20 PM Comedy Central The Office
9:30 PM AMC Back to the Future Part II
9:30 PM Disney Channel Big City Greens: Saxon Saxability; Remy Dillemy
9:30 PM HBO It
9:30 PM HGTV My Lottery Dream Home: Santa Fe Family Home
9:30 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: The Canister
9:30 PM Syfy The Golden Compass
9:30 PM TNT CBB Hall of Fame Series Studio Show
9:30 PM Antenna TV Just Shoot Me: The Walk
9:30 PM Cozi TV Two and a Half Men: The Unfortunate Little Schnauzer
9:30 PM MeTV Everybody Loves Raymond: The Gift
9:43 PM TBS Foul Play with Anthony Davis
9:55 PM Comedy Central The Office
10:00 PM ABC Shark Tank: Beast Mode
10:00 PM Bravo Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen: Season 23 Episode 178
10:00 PM CBS Harlan Coben’s Final Twist
10:00 PM Disney Channel Big City Greens: Swashbuckled; Nick Scouts
10:00 PM Food Network Beat Bobby Flay: Love Is Sweet
10:00 PM FOX Local Programs
10:00 PM FX Thor: Love and Thunder
10:00 PM Hallmark Channel A Grand Ole Opry Christmas
10:00 PM Hallmark Mystery The Royal Nanny
10:00 PM HGTV House Hunters International
10:00 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: Net Worth
10:00 PM ION Chicago P.D.: Heroes
10:00 PM PBS Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld
10:00 PM Showtime Dexter: Resurrection
10:00 PM SundanceTV NCIS: Internal Affairs
10:00 PM TCM Hollywood Canteen
10:00 PM The CW Local Programs
10:00 PM TLC Sister Wives
10:00 PM TNT College Basketball
10:00 PM USA Network Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Blood
10:00 PM Antenna TV Just Shoot Me: Nina in the Cantina
10:00 PM Cozi TV Two and a Half Men: The Spit-Covered Cobbler
10:00 PM Grit Two Mules for Sister Sara
10:00 PM Heroes & Icons Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rules of Acquisition
10:00 PM MeTV The Golden Girls: Blanche Delivers
10:00 PM Outlaw Bonanza: The Abduction
10:01 PM A&E Live PD: Greatest Shifts
10:01 PM Discovery Contraband: Seized at the Border
10:03 PM Lifetime NCIS: Patriot Down
10:05 PM History History’s Greatest Mysteries: The Unabomber: Case Closed
10:26 PM TBS Impractical Jokers
10:30 PM Bravo The Real Housewives of Potomac: Tough Love
10:30 PM Comedy Central The Office
10:30 PM Disney Channel Kiff: Thirst to be the First; The Fourth Bath
10:30 PM Food Network Beat Bobby Flay: Lights! Camera! Distraction!
10:30 PM HGTV House Hunters International
10:30 PM IFC Everybody Loves Raymond: Let’s Fix Robert
10:30 PM Paramount Network Movie
10:30 PM Antenna TV Just Shoot Me: College or Collagen
10:30 PM Cozi TV Two and a Half Men: Golly Moses, She’s a Muffin
10:30 PM MeTV The Golden Girls: Once, in St. Olaf
10:57 PM TBS Impractical Jokers