It’s going to be another week of laughless evenings for The Tonight Show fans.
NBC’s long-running late-night series will remain off the air for yet another week with no new episodes of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon set to air the week of February 16. In fact, there are no episodes at all airing with the show remaining off the schedule as NBC heads into its final week covering the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics has taken over its schedule, impacting NBC’s entire lineup of programming including its primetime and late-night slate. While fans of shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert have at least been able to watch reruns while waiting for new episodes, the same has not been true for The Tonight Show viewers.
After NBC airs a three-hour block of Winter Olympics coverage in the evening, there is a brief 35-minute break for local news coverage before NBC turns things back over to the Olympics. Instead of airing The Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC instead brings fans another block of Olympics coverage that begins at 11:35 p.m. and runs through 1 a.m. before another block of Olympics programming.
The bad news is that there will be no episodes of The Tonight Show on the schedule from Monday, February 16 through Friday, February 20. There is some good news for fans of NBC’s hit late-night series.
NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage will come to a close with the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, February 22, 2026. After that, The Tonight Show will return to NBC’s lineup as will Late Night with Seth Meyers and we’re expecting that both shows will return with new episodes. NBC has yet to release the programming slate to know for certain that there will be new episodes the week of February 23, but we imagine it won’t want to keep the shows in reruns after having them off the air entirely for the better part of a month.
When Fallon does finally return, he’s going to have plenty of talking points to react to. While he might not go too hard on touching upon the various political happenings that have been unfolding, we imagine he’ll have a lot of fun reacting to the Winter Olympics. In fact, we won’t be surprised if the first week back for The Tonight Show includes more than a few stars from Team USA.
There’s no better way for NBC to wrap up its Winter Olympics coverage than by lining up some of the biggest winners and breakout stars for The Tonight Show. We’ve also got some amazing movies and shows coming up in the month of March, so there will surely be no shortage of incredible guests dropping by to chat with Fallon when The Tonight Show finally returns!