Holiday TV Saturday

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’m rolling publishing again because it’s much easier.  Right now this covers until 10 am and I’m missing 10 channels.  Expect an update.

Update: Now good to 7 am with all 41 channels and you didn’t miss anything.  Tomorrow is the last edition of extended Thanksgiving coverage.

7 am

7:30 am

8 am

9 am

9:30 am

10 am

10:30 am

11 am

11:30 am

Noon

12:30 pm

1 pm

1:30 pm

2 pm

  • NBC– College Throwball, Grambling State v. Southern
  • FX13 Going on 30
  • National GeographicGreat Migrations marathon until 7 pm
  • Sci FiAnacondas: Trail of Blood
  • SpeedDangerous Drives marathon until 5 am
  • VH1SNL marathon until 11 pm

2:30 pm

3 pm

3:30 pm

  • ABC– College Throwball, teams TBA
  • CBS– College Throwball, LSU @ Arkansas
  • DisneyCars
  • ESPN– College Throwball, Florida @ Florida State or Northwestern @ Wisconsin
  • ESPN2– College Throwball, North Carolina State @ Maryland
  • SpikeStar Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  • StylePretty in Pink

4 pm

4:30 pm

5 pm

5:30 pm

6 pm

7 pm

7:30 pm

  • ESPN– College Throwball, Georgia Tech @ Georgia
  • Vs.– College Throwball, Oregon State @ Stanford

8 pm

9 pm

9:30 pm

10 pm

10:30 pm

11 pm

  • AMC– [Something’s Gotta Give Something’s Gotta Give]
  • FXThe League marathon until 1 am
  • LifetimeAccidental Christmas
  • Sci FiBone Eater
  • Turner ClassicFunny Girl
  • USASemi-Pro

Midnight 11/28

12:30 am

1 am

1:30 am

2 am

3 am

3:30 am

  • ESPN– College Throwball, Georgia Tech @ Georgia (repeat)
  • ToonGitS: SAC 2nd Gig Pu239 (Episode 7)

4:30 am

6:30 am

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