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
- ABC Family– To Grandmother’s House We Go
- ESPN– Sports Center marathon until noon
- Speed– Pinks- All Out marathon until 5 am
- TLC– What Not To Wear marathon until 10 pm
8 am
- A&E– Criminal Minds marathon until 4 am
- History– Pawn Stars marathon until 8 pm
- Turner Classic– My Forbidden Past
- TV Land– Jerry Mcguire
8:30 am
- FX– Firehouse Dog
9 am
- Discovery– Deadliest Catch marathon until 9 pm
- Nick– Spongebob Squarepants marathon until 3 pm
- Turner Classic– The Bribe
- Toon– Batman: The Brave and The Bold marathon until 10:30 am
10 am
- AMC– Airplane
- National Geographic– Alone in the Wild marathon until 2 pm
- Sci Fi– From Russia With Love (Connery)
10:30 am
- Toon– Ben 10 marathon until 2 pm
11 am
- Bravo– Real Housewives marathon until 5 pm
- E!– Bruce Almighty
- ESPN2– College Throwball, Louisville @ Rutgers
- FX– Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
- Lifetime– The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Spike– No Country for Old Men
- TBS– Seinfeld marathon until 8 pm
- Turner Classic– Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock marathon until 8 pm)
- TNT– The Last Castle
11:30 am
- ABC Family– Richie Rich
- VH1– Back to the Future (start of a triple feature, all 3 movies)
Noon
- ABC– College Throwball, West Virginia @ Pittsburgh
- AMC– Airplane II: The Sequel
- ESPN– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
12:30 pm
- Sci Fi– Diamonds Are Forever (Connery)
1 pm
- Comedy– National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- E!– Bruce Almighty
- FX– Black Knight
- Lifetime– Never Been Kissed
- Turner Classic– Strangers on a Train
1:30 pm
- ABC Family– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- TNT– Outbreak
(Depp)
2 pm
- AMC– Volcano
- Food– Triple D marathon until 10 pm (2 premiers)
- National Geographic– Ultimate Factories marathon until 8 pm
- Spike– National Security
- Toon– Sym-Bionic Titan marathon until 3:30 pm
- VH1– Back to the Future Part II
2:30 pm
- CBS– College Throwball, Auburn @ Alabama
- ESPN– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
- ESPN2– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
- Turner Classic– Dial M for Murder
3 pm
- Comedy– Beerfest
- FX– Are We There Yet?
- Lifetime– Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Nick– iCarly marathon until 8 pm
- Sci Fi– The Spy Who Loved Me (Moore)
3:30 pm
- ABC– College Throwball, Colorado @ Nebraska
- Toon– Generator Rex marathon until 5 pm
4 pm
- ABC Family– Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Spike– GoodFellas
- TNT– U.S. Marshals
4:30 pm
- AMC– The Perfect Storm
- Turner Classic– To Catch A Thief
- VH1– Back to the Future Part III
5 pm
- Bravo– Fight Club
- ESPN– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
- ESPN2– College Hoopies (teams TBA)
- FX– Are We Done Yet?
- Lifetime– Lucky 7
- Toon– Clone Wars (Series Premier repeat)
5:30 pm
- Sci Fi– Tomorrow Never Dies (Brosnan)
6 pm
- Comedy– School for Scoundrels
- Oxygen– Titanic
6:30 pm
- TNT– Air Force One
7 pm
- ABC Family– A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- ESPN– College Throwball, Arizona @ Oregon
- ESPN2– Hoopies, Rockets @ Bobcats
- FX– Kung Fu Panda
- Lifetime– Beauty Shop
- Toon– Young Justice League (premier)
7:30 pm
- AMC– Deep Blue Sea
8 pm
- Bravo– Ocean’s Twelve
- Disney– I’m in the Band (premier)
- Nick– Victorious (premier)
- Sci Fi– Professional Wrestling!
- Style– Sweet November
- TBS– The Wizard of Oz
- Turner Classic– The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Toon– Firebreather
- USA– Elf
9 pm
- ABC Family– Snoopy, Come Home
- Discovery– Swamp Loggers
- FX– Alvin and the Chipmunks
- History– Modern Marvels, Dogs (premier)
- Lifetime– No Reservations
- TNT– Michael Clayton
- True– Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura marathon until 3 am
9:30 pm
10 pm
- AMC– The Walking Dead (this week’s)
- Discovery– Swamp Loggers (premier)
- E!– The Soup (premier)
- ESPN– College Throwball, Boise State @ Nevada
- Food– Outrageous (premier)
- Nick– George Lopez marathon until 6 am
- Oxygen– Titanic
- Sci Fi– Sanctuary (premier)
- USA– Semi-Pro
10:30 pm
- Bravo– Ocean’s Twelve
11 pm
- AMC– Deep Blue Sea
- Discovery– Deadliest Catch
- Lifetime– Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- MTV– 8 Mile
- Sci Fi– You Only Live Twice (Connery)
- Style– How Do I Look? marathon until 3 am
- Turner Classic– Days of Heaven
11:30 pm
- TNT– Three Kings
Midnight 11/26
- Discovery– Swamp Loggers
- FX– Terriers (this week’s)
- TBS– Shanghai Knights
- USA– Along Came Polly
- VH1– Back to the Future Part III
1 am
- Discovery– Swamp Loggers (premier Instapeat)
- ESPN2– Hoopies, Rockets @ Bobcats (repeat)
- Turner Classic– Burn!
1:30 am
- AMC– The Walking Dead (this week’s)
- Bravo– Derailed
- Sci Fi– Moonraker (Moore)
2 am
- National Geographic– Ultimate Factories marathon until 6 am
- TBS– Antz
- TNT– The Negotiator
- USA– Over Her Dead Body
2:30 am
3 am
- Disney– Horse Sense
- ESPN2– Hoopies, [Warriors ] @ [Grizzlies ] (repeat)
- Turner Classic– Strange Behavior
3:30 am
- ESPN– College Throwball, Boise State @ Nevada (repeat)
- Sci Fi– Sanctuary (premier Instapeat)
4 am
- TBS– Married With Children marathon until 7 am
4:30 am
- AMC– Blood of Dracula
- Turner Classic– Remember My Name
5 am
- Sci Fi– Stargate Universe (this week’s)
6:30 am
- Turner Classic– Across the Wide Missouri
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25 times in a row? “Kung Fu Panda”.