List of programs broadcast by CNN

This is a list of news programs broadcast by CNN, a 24-hour cable news network.

This list details live and original programming and does not include the scheduling of evening and overnight repeats or simulcasts of CNN International, which is aired at various points when the channel is not broadcasting its own live programming.

Current programming

Weekday programming

Saturday programming

Sunday programming

CNN Original Series

Broadcast specials

• CNN Newsroom Live (simulcast on CNNI outside of primetime hours during breaking news events of major significance)
• Election Night in America (flagship banner for CNN's election coverage, simulcast on CNNI)
• New Year's Eve Live (annual coverage of Times Square's ball drop festivities, simulcast on CNNI)

Special programming

• CNN Heroes (2007–present)
• AC 360° Weekend (2025–present)
• The Lead Weekend (2025–present)

Upcoming programming

• Decades in Sports (premieres 2026)
• Eva Longoria: Searching for France
• New Orleans
• This Land Is Your Land

Former programming

Original series

• American Prince: JFK Jr. (2025)
• ' (2013–18)
• Believer (2017)
• Billionaire Boys Club (2025)
• Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (2019)
• Chicagoland (2014)
• Christiane Amanpour Sex & Love Around the World (2018)
• Cold War (1998)
• Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies (2016–19)
• ' (2023)
• Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain (2025)
• First Ladies (2020)
• History of the Sitcom (2021)
• How It Really Happened (2024), previously aired on HLN from 2016 to 2022.
• The Hunt with John Walsh (2014–17)
• Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury (2021)
• The Kennedys (2018)
• Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took Over the World (2025)
• Lockerbie: The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (2025)
• Long Road to Hell: America in Iraq (2015)
• The Messy Truth with Van Jones (2016 documentary series and 2017 studio programs)
• Millennium (1999)
• Morgan Spurlock Inside Man (2013–16)
• The Movies (2019)
• Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (2018)
• The Radical Story of Patty Hearst (2018)
• ' (2021–22)
• The Story of Late Night (2021)
• The Redemption Project with Van Jones (2019)
• See It Loud: The History of Black Television (2023)
• Somebody's Gotta Do It (2014–16)
• This Is Life with Lisa Ling (2014–22)
• Twitter: Breaking the Bird (2025)
• United Shades of America (2016–22)
• United States of Scandal (2025)
• The Wonder List with Bill Weir (2015–17) (moved to CNN+ in 2022)

Special programming

• CNN Republican Town Hall with Donald Trump (May 11, 2023)

See also

• CNN Films

References