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NBC reveals 2020-21 show lineup with familiar favorites, exciting additions

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Missing your favorite NBC shows? Tuesday sparked some excitement as NBC released its 2020-21 show lineup and due to a successful year, the primetime schedule features more returning favorites than additions.

Viewers can expect the return of everything from NBC’s No. 1 drama series “This Is Us” and Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise, to returns “New Amsterdam,” “Manifest" and its beloved comedies, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Superstore."

Plus -- DUN DUN -- In addition to “Law & Order: SVU,” there will be a SVU spin-off: “Law & Order: Organized Crime" featuring Christopher Meloni.

Meloni is reprising his beloved “Law & Order: SVU” role as Elliot Stabler, who returns to the NYPD to battle crime after a personal loss.

“Thanks to the ingenuity of our creative teams and our partner studios, NBC has assembled a remarkably stable schedule at a time when stability is called for,” said Paul Telegdy, Chairman of NBC Entertainment in the release. “With the reopening of the Universal lot for select productions this week, we are confident that our schedule will premiere intact later this fall. We design shows for longevity and this schedule remains a powerful propulsive force for shows to start here and carry on entertaining across generations.”

NBC Fall Schedule 2020

MONDAY

8-10 P.M. — The Voice

10-11 P.M. — Manifest

TUESDAY

8-9 P.M. — The Voice

9-10 P.M. — This Is Us

10-11 P.M. — New Amsterdam

WEDNESDAY

8-9 P.M. — Chicago Med

9-10 P.M. — Chicago Fire

10-11 P.M. — Chicago P.D.

THURSDAY

8-8:30 P.M. — Superstore

8:30-9 P.M. — Brooklyn Nine-Nine

9-10 P.M. — Law & Order: SVU

10-11 P.M. — LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME

FRIDAY

8-9 P.M. – The Blacklist

9-11 P.M — Dateline NBC

SATURDAY

8-10 P.M. — Dateline Saturday Night Mystery

10-11 P.M. – Saturday Night Live* (encores)

SUNDAY

7-8:20 P.M. — Football Night in America

8:20-11 P.M. — NBC Sunday Night Football

Other returning shows for the 2020-21 schedule include “Ellen’s Game of Games,” “Good Girls,” “Making It,” and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.”

Additional previously announced new series include “Kenan,” “Mr. Mayor,” “Small Fortune,” “That’s My Jam” “Transplant,” “True Story,” “Who Do You Think You Are?,” and “Young Rock.”

Don’t miss NBC show returns this fall on Channel 11.

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