CNN Tonight


CNN Tonight, branded as CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, is a late evening news program featuring interviews and commentary airing on CNN and CNN International, presented by journalist and news anchor, Don Lemon.
The show currently airs weeknights live from 10:00pm to midnight ET, with taped rebroadcast from 2:00am to 4:00am ET, since 2019 from Time Warner's new base at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City. It was previously broadcast from Time Warner Center, also in New York City or CNN's studios in Washington, D.C.

Original series

A program of the same name aired on CNN in the spring of 1985, as a replacement for Sandi Freeman until Larry King Live premiered. Another program of the same name debuted in 2001 with Bill Hemmer as anchor, but it was cancelled the same year.
Another program was then debuted on November 16, 2009, and was hosted by a rotating series of anchors as an interim replacement for Lou Dobbs Tonight following Lou Dobbs' resignation from the network on November 11, 2009. The program featured reporters who filed reports for Lou Dobbs' program, including Dana Bash, Candy Crowley, and Kitty Pilgrim. It was discontinued after January 15, 2010, due to a scheduling shift which occurred the following Monday, extending Rick Sanchez's hour during the CNN Newsroom block into a two-hour program known as Rick's List, which pushed The Situation Room up an hour into Lou Dobbs' former timeslot. On March 22, 2010, the final hour of The Situation Room was replaced by John King, USA, the official replacement for Lou Dobbs Tonight.

Revival

In April 2014, the program was revived as a replacement for Piers Morgan Live amid a new primetime schedule with more taped content. The show first began in March 2014 when CNN president Jeff Zucker called Don Lemon to ask him to present a nightly one-hour program at 10 p.m. ET to discuss theories about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.