NFL Thursday Night Football on NFL Network: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

NFL Thursday Night Football is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights, and occasionally on Saturdays in the later portion of the season. Most of the games kick off at 8:25 p.m. Eastern Time. Debuting on November 23, 2006, the telecasts were originally part of NFL Network's Run to the Playoffs package, which consisted of eight total games broadcast on Thursday and Saturday nights (five on Thursdays, and three on Saturdays, originally branded as Saturday Night Football) during the latter portion of the season. Since 2012, the TNF package has begun during the second week of the NFL season. Beginning in 2014 the CBS Network began airing NFL Football on Thursday nights and in 2015 the CBS Network and the NFL Network split-up taking turns airing Thursday night games with CBS beginning the season and the NFL Network doing the last half of season games.

Series details

• Title: NFL Thursday Night Football on NFL Network
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2006-11-23
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: NFL Network
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 180 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 30943

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 2006: premiered 2006-11-23; final listed air date 2006-12-30.
• Season 2007: premiered 2007-11-22; final listed air date 2007-12-29.
• Season 2008: premiered 2008-11-06; final listed air date 2008-12-20.
• Season 2009: premiered 2009-11-12; final listed air date 2009-12-25.
• Season 2010: premiered 2010-11-11; final listed air date 2010-12-25.
• Season 2011: premiered 2011-11-10; final listed air date 2011-12-22.
• Season 2012: premiered 2012-09-13; final listed air date 2012-12-13.
• Season 2013: premiered 2013-09-12; final listed air date 2013-12-12.
• Season 2014: premiered 2014-09-11; final listed air date 2014-12-20.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-09-17; final listed air date 2015-12-26.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-09-15; final listed air date 2016-12-25.
• Season 2017: premiered 2017-09-14; final listed air date 2017-12-25.
• Season 2020: premiered 2020-09-17; final listed air date 2020-12-26.
• Season 2021: premiered 2021-09-09; final listed air date 2021-12-23.

Source and licence

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