Court TV
United States
Court TV provides gavel-to-gavel coverage of criminal trials and legal proceedings from courthouses across the United States. The channel focuses on real-time courtroom footage, with legal analysts and commentators offering context during breaks or recesses. Programming centers on high-profile cases, including murder trials, civil lawsuits, and appeals, often featuring expert testimony and jury deliberations. Documentaries and original series explore forensic science, criminal investigations, and landmark legal battles, while news segments report on developing cases and judicial rulings. The content appeals to viewers interested in the mechanics of the justice system, true crime, and courtroom procedure.
Beyond its cable and satellite distribution, the channel streams live trial coverage through its website and mobile app, allowing access to ongoing cases without a television subscription. TV guide listings typically note trial schedules and documentary airtimes, though live proceedings can shift unpredictably due to court recesses or extended arguments. The network does not produce scripted entertainment or sports programming, maintaining a consistent focus on actual legal events and analysis.
Schedule
00:00 - 01:00
48 Hours
The Widow on Solway Road
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
The investigation into the death of a woman's husband reveals he is not the first man she married who died under suspicious circumstances.
01:00 - 02:00
48 Hours
Peter Chadwick: Caught
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A "48 Hours" report helps trip up a wanted fugitive who spent more than four years on the run for allegedly killing his wife and staging a kidnapping scheme.
02:00 - 03:00
48 Hours
Death After Midnight
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A man charged with killing his wife maintains it was a suicide.
03:00 - 04:00
48 Hours
The Widow on Solway Road
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
The investigation into the death of a woman's husband reveals he is not the first man she married who died under suspicious circumstances.
04:00 - 05:00
48 Hours
Peter Chadwick: Caught
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A "48 Hours" report helps trip up a wanted fugitive who spent more than four years on the run for allegedly killing his wife and staging a kidnapping scheme.
05:00 - 06:00
48 Hours
Death After Midnight
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A man charged with killing his wife maintains it was a suicide.
06:00 - 07:00
48 Hours
Blood in the Sand
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
DNA on one of two teenage girls killed similarly on a California beach six years apart leads investigators to a suspect who worked inside the police department.
07:00 - 08:00
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
Judgment of The Anti-Muslim Shooter
Series, Crime
Emotions ran high in the days following the Nov. 11, 2001 attack on the U.S.; for the most part, the grief and anger brought people together but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.
08:00 - 09:00
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
Judgment of the Armored Car Killer
Series, Crime
It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.
09:00 - 10:00
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
The Odd Couple
Series, Documentary, Crime
What begins as a love story between Amber Bray and Jeffrey Ayers ends in tragedy when police catch Ayers and Bray red-handed, stabbing her mother to death; examine how young love leads to such violence.
10:00 - 11:00
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
If You Can't Do the Time
Series, Documentary, Crime
Bonny Lee Bakley had nine husbands before she met former "Baretta" star Robert Blake, and he would be her last; as she waited for Blake outside a Los Angeles restaurant, someone approached her car and shot her in the head.
11:00 - 11:30
Corrupt Crimes
Passenger Plane Down
Series, Crime, Drama
Young co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashes a German airliner into the remote French Alps, killing all 150 passengers aboard.
11:30 - 12:00
Corrupt Crimes
Protected by Affluence
Series, Crime, Drama
Texas teen Ethan Couch kills four people while drinking and driving and is sentenced only to probation.
12:00 - 12:30
Corrupt Crimes
Murder on the Lacrosse Team
Series, Crime, Drama
College athlete George Huguely goes on a drinking binge which leads to a deadly encounter with his ex-girlfriend.
12:30 - 13:00
Corrupt Crimes
Bomb in Madrid
Series, Crime, Drama
A Spanish court convicts 21 people for the Madrid subway train bombings, but acquits a lead suspect and six others.
13:00 - 13:30
Corrupt Crimes
Long Island Railroad Killer
Series, Crime, Drama
Collin Ferguson walks onto a Long Island Rail Road train and fires methodically at passengers, killing six and wounding 19.
13:30 - 14:00
Corrupt Crimes
Assassination of Anna
Series, Crime, Drama
A world-renowned writer and human rights activist is shot and killed in the elevator of her Moscow apartment block.
14:00 - 15:00
Accomplice to Murder, With Vinnie Politan
GA v. Duke
Series, Crime, Documentary
Former Miss Georgia contestant Tara Grinstead vanished without a trace in 2005; Ryan Duke, the man arrested for her murder over a decade later, may have been manipulated into confessing by an accomplice who better fits the profile of a killer.
15:00 - 16:00
Accomplice to Murder, With Vinnie Politan
TX v. Lopez - Faith No More
Series, Crime, Documentary
The prosecution claims Darrin Lopez executed Jamie Faith to be with high school sweetheart Jennifer Faith, with whom he had an online BDSM affair; the defense argues Jennifer exploited Darrin's trust and PTSD.
16:00 - 17:00
Accomplice to Murder, With Vinnie Politan
FL v. Chavis & King - Groomed To Kill?
Series, Crime, Documentary
The confession by teenagers Alex and Derek King that they bludgeoned their father to death is called into question after the family friend who turned the boys in, Ricky Chavis, is revealed to be a pedophile who wanted Alex to himself.
17:00 - 18:00
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
Burning Jealousy
Series, Documentary, Crime
David Coffin's house burned down with him in it, but it wasn't the fire that killed him, it was the bullet in his head; investigators immediately focused on Scott Davis, the estranged husband of Coffin's new girlfriend.
18:00 - 19:00
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
Murder and Missing
Series, Documentary, Crime
When the bodies of Ruby Joyner and Halima Jones were discovered beaten, strangled and shot, police turned to someone they both knew; but Lewis Joyner was nowhere to be found.
19:00 - 20:00
Someone They Knew With Tamron Hall
Safe at Home
Series, Documentary, Crime
When Atlanta homemaker Sara Tokars is kidnapped, shot and killed in front of her two young children, police are baffled; the answer may lie in the home safe of her husband Fred.
20:00 - 21:00
Interview With a Killer
Extreme Influence
Series, Crime
A Neo-Nazi turned Islamic jihadist shoots two of his roommates after an argument; in a combative interview with journalist David Scott, Devon Arthurs, now claiming to be remorseful, attempts to explain his descent into madness.
21:00 - 22:00
Interview With a Killer
Mad Love
Series, Crime
Rebecca Keller and Keri Murphy murdered Murphy's mother after she did not approve of their high school relationship; in her first TV interview ever, Keller explains to David Scott her role in the killing and even tries to justify why she did it.
22:00 - 23:00
48 Hours
Secrets, Lies and Alibis
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A wealthy couple are targeted for death.
23:00 - 00:00
48 Hours
Murder on Red River
Series, Newsmagazine, Crime, Law
A filmmaker and a former Marine work to find a woman's killer.