NBC Sports NOW is adding two new shows to its Monday-through-Friday lineup starting Aug. 31, Awful Announcing has learned.
NBC Sports’ free 24/7 streaming channel’s returning anchors stay in place: PFT Live with Mike Florio at 7 a.m. ET, with rotating co-hosts Chris Simms, Devin McCourty, and Michael Holley; The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m.; The Dan Le Batard Show; and Chris Simms Unbuttoned, back with co-host Connor Rogers for the 2026 NFL season.
Joining that lineup at noon is Not So Fast with Paul Pabst & Andrew Perloff, picking up immediately after Patrick’s show signs off, followed on Mondays at 6 p.m. by Fanta in 60, an hour-long show hosted by NBC Sports’ John Fanta and betting analyst Jay Croucher.
A few weeks later, on Sept. 18, Jac Collinsworth debuts a third new show, the Friday countdown program 10/10: NBC Sports Ranks.
Not So Fast pairs longtime Dan Patrick Show executive producer Paul Pabst with former Patrick Show regular Andrew “McLovin” Perloff. Both broadcast from the same Milford, Connecticut “man cave” that’s long been the Patrick Show‘s home base.
I spoke with both of them about how the show came together. Perloff became available earlier this year when Maggie & Perloff, his show with Maggie Gray, was dropped from the lineup as Audacy’s Infinity Sports Network folded into Westwood One Sports at the end of 2025. Pabst said the two had stayed close in the years since Perloff left Milford for CBS Sports Radio, and once NBC and Peacock came looking for something to follow Patrick’s show, the timing lined up.
“I’m a kid, I’m from the South Side of Chicago, Irish Catholic, Notre Dame, Bears, all that stuff, C students, state school,” Pabst told Awful Announcing. “Andrew is from the Philadelphia area. He probably went to a private school. He tells me he went to high school with Kobe Bryant about every three weeks. He went to Dartmouth. He told me Stanford was a safety school. So we don’t really have a lot in common, growing up, or what we like about sports, and our debates are real.”
The show runs an hour, noon to 1 p.m. ET, picking up the instant Patrick signs off. Where The Dan Patrick Show is, in Perloff’s words, “a radio show that’s on TV,” this one is built as a TV show from the ground up, with a faster pace and a tighter structure. NBC gave the two almost no formal notes beyond matching the spirit of Patrick’s program, Pabst said, calling it “a compliment” to how much creative rope the flagship show has always gotten.
Producer Scott Messina is charged with keeping the pair on target in a way the radio show never had to be, and both cited PTI as the touchstone they’re building toward, minus the strict countdown clock. If they’re deep into an argument, like whether a team should start one quarterback over another in Week 1, and still have more to say, they’ll use a phrase borrowed from basketball substitutions, calling for “a 20,” the way Jason Kidd used to at Cal, to signal they need another 20 seconds before moving to the next topic. It’s their answer to a hot-take culture that rewards moving fast over actually finishing an argument, paired with a separate segment they’re calling “warm takes,” the lower-temperature alternative to the format they say most sports shows have leaned into.
“We don’t want hot takes, we don’t wanna scald you,” Pabst said. “We just want a nice warm, comfortable take that maybe you keep for the rest of the day.”
John Fanta has spent the better part of the last year turning himself into one of NBC Sports’ most-used names. He left Fox to become the network’s lead Big East voice last August, made his NBA on NBC play-by-play debut in February, contributed to his first Sunday Leadoff baseball broadcast in May, worked the Kentucky Derby infield in April, and hosted NBC and Overtime’s OT7 high school football coverage in June, on top of the 60-second Fanta in 60 halftime segments he’s run all season at Big Ten Saturday Night and Notre Dame games, quick hits on whatever’s been wild or wacky that particular Saturday.
Starting Aug. 31, those 60 seconds become 60 minutes.
Fanta told me the idea came from NBC Sports coordinating producer Alexa Maremaa, who approached him in May about folding everything he already covers, across football, basketball, baseball, and whatever else he’s posting about that week, into one standing Monday show rather than scattering it across several different properties.
The hour airs Mondays at 6 p.m. ET alongside betting and fantasy analyst Jay Croucher, whose work with NBC’s Rotoworld site gives the show a built-in fantasy performers segment aimed at Monday-night waiver-wire decisions. Beyond that, the show is built around a fan voicemail line, a live YouTube chat during the broadcast, and a tag board tracking real-time reactions on X.
“I want to hear from people and get their problems,” Fanta said, describing the voicemail box he built the whole show around. “I want to be a Dear Abby hotline. And if we’re an airing of grievances for people, we welcome that. I want our fans to dictate what we talk about.”
The two new shows join a returning slate that also includes MLB According to CC, with Hall of Famer CC Sabathia and Ahmed Fareed; The 2 Robbies, Premier League analysis from former players Robbie Earle and Robbie Mustoe; and Rushing the Field, college football coverage from Nicole Auerbach and Joshua Perry.
More from both conversations is coming in a longer feature.
About Sam Neumann
Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.