Over the next few years, WFXT, for the most part was unable to acquire the better syndicated programs and continued to only acquire shows that WSBK, WLVI, and the market's network affiliates passed on. In addition to Fox programming, most of the shows added to WFXT's schedule were low-budget, first-run syndicated programs and cartoons. However, in 1988, the station did manage to buy two popular weekday syndication shows away from WNEV—"Hollywood Squares" (the then-current John Davidson version) and "Entertainment Tonight"—when the CBS affiliate phased them off its schedule, due to other programming commitments. WFXT aired "Squares" through its 1989 cancellation; it carried "ET" weeknights at 7:00 p.m., as the lead-in to "A Current Affair", until selling the show back to WHDH (the former WNEV) in 1990. WFXT has again aired "ET" since 2015.