New AEW Saturday night show will reportedly air on TNT

The show rumored to be called AEW Collision had been rumored to be headed to TBS.

TNT may be getting ready to triple the amount of AEW content it broadcasts each week.

Already the home of AEW Rampage on Friday nights, it appears the channel could be the home of the wrestling industry’s worst kept secret, AEW’s upcoming Saturday night show. Like AEW Dynamite on Wednesdays, that series (which is rumored to be titled AEW Collision) will be two hours each week, likely from 8-10 p.m. ET.

What was unknown until now was which of the Turner networks will carry the show. Andrew Zarian of Wrestling Observer and the Mat Men podcast thinks he knows.

Rampage is broadcast from 10-11 p.m. on Friday nights … usually. It ends up getting moved around a fair number of times every year due to Turner’s sports lineup, which includes NBA and NHL games.

That will be an issue for the Saturday show as well. A look at the network’s upcoming schedule, for instance, finds that on Saturday, May 6, there are NHL playoff games when the AEW series would usually be airing.

A number of other questions remain. Chief among them is whether the new show will be used as a showcase for CM Punk, who is expected to return this summer and call the new series his home. AEW may do a “brand split” similar to the one WWE does between Raw and SmackDown to keep Punk siloed away from people who would prefer not to work with him, like The Elite.

And there’s speculation about what this means for Rampage, which already has the stigma of being something less than must-watch TV for AEW fans. Along with its late Friday time slot, it faces the challenge of being taped most weeks after Dynamite instead of live. The Saturday show is presumed to be live, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.

Wrestling Observer notes that AEW CEO and GM Tony Khan is scheduled to appear on this week’s Dynamite, potentially to provide details about the company’s TV schedule going forward. If he does, that will go a long way toward defining how AEW fans will be planning their nights each week for the rest of 2023 and beyond.