Black Friday TV

Well, it’s that holiday time of year again when all you want is some mindless entertainment to spare you from dealing with your relatives and TV programmers screw with you by replacing all your familiar favorites with sappy specials and marathons of your least liked shows made more inpenetrable by the one line crawl of uselessness that TV Guide channel has become.

Thank goodness kindly uncle ek is here to highlight a few moments of blessed distraction as well as some of the potential pitfalls to be avoided.

I look on it as a public service.

My job is made a little easier because of a neat little network ‘day at a glance’ feature of Zap2it TV Listings.  Click on the channel name.  I’m going from my last diary to Paid Programming.  I’m putting the main meat below the fold because the table is too long for the Front Page.  It’s arranged by time and marathons (4 half hour episodes, 3 hour episodes, double features, themes, and Instapeats) may be noted earlier than you expect, but they do also include the running time so you know when they end.

Nothing like watching A Christmas Story 25 times in a row.

I’ll mention at this point a ton of research goes into these, 41 channels and nearly 150 links, not because I’m complaining but because it’s a little daunting to get them posted on deadline.  This one I’m rolling publishing because I’m still a bit tired from yesterday and I want you to have something to relax you from your early Black Friday forays.  Right now this covers until 10 am.  Expect an update before that.

Update: Now good through 7 am.

7 am

8 am

8:30 am

9 am

10 am

10:30 am

  • ToonBen 10 marathon until 2 pm

11 am

11:30 am

Noon

  • ABC– College Throwball, West Virginia @ Pittsburgh
  • AMCAirplane II: The Sequel
  • ESPN– College Hoopies (teams TBA)

12:30 pm

1 pm

1:30 pm

2 pm

2:30 pm

  • CBS– College Throwball, Auburn @ Alabama
  • ESPN– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
  • ESPN2– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
  • Turner ClassicDial M for Murder

3 pm

3:30 pm

  • ABC– College Throwball, Colorado @ Nebraska
  • ToonGenerator Rex marathon until 5 pm

4 pm

4:30 pm

5 pm

5:30 pm

6 pm

6:30 pm

7 pm

7:30 pm

8 pm

9 pm

9:30 pm

10 pm

10:30 pm

11 pm

11:30 pm

Midnight 11/26

1 am

1:30 am

2 am

2:30 am

3 am

3:30 am

  • ESPN– College Throwball, Boise State @ Nevada (repeat)
  • Sci FiSanctuary (premier Instapeat)

4 am

4:30 am

5 am

6:30 am

2 comments

    • on 11/26/2010 at 12:27
      Author
    • on 11/27/2010 at 02:02

    25 times in a row? “Kung Fu Panda”.

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