WWE SmackDown is returning to two hours sooner than previously reported, with Dave Meltzer clarifying the timeline after earlier indications pointed to the change happening in July.
Meltzer stated in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the shift to a two-hour format will happen in June, with the May 29 episode serving as the final three-hour show in the current run. The longer format is therefore ending at the end of May, not in early July as originally suggested.
Beginning June 5, the third hour on USA Network will be filled by the second season of Everything on the Menu, a show in which Braun Strowman visits restaurants across 12 cities. Mark Henry and Alexa Bliss are each set to appear in two episodes of the series.
The show will not occupy the slot for the entire remainder of the year, with another program expected to take over that hour for approximately three additional months.
The current TV deal structures SmackDown to run three hours for six months each year and two hours for the other six months, making the format shift a recurring pattern rather than a permanent change in either direction.