New Year’s Eve TV

Happy Amateur Night!  If you’re like me you’re not that into sharing the road or even a space.  I remember one year when someone poisoned themselves on 1.75 of Stoli, announced they had to pee, stood up, turned around, and proceeded to do so on the couch they had previously been sitting on.

Being a charitable fellow I literally held the bag for him as he detoxified before he slept it off.  I will admit I let him do it on the same couch (well, we had to burn it anyway).

In any event to kick off the festivities I direct your attention to the Holiday Bowl Big Balloon Parade.  Yup, bigger than Macy’s and more concentrated, only an hour at 9 am on USA.  The results of last night’s Holiday Bowl itself?  Washington 19 – 7 over Nebraska.

Expect updates.  This edition good until noon.  Now through 8 pm.  Up to 11 pm.  Now until 2 am.  6 am.

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6 am

• USA– House marathon until 9 am
• Turner Classic– Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant day)

6:30 am

• Oxygen– Lizzie McGuire Movie

7 am

• VH1– SNL marathon until Midnight
• Style– Pelican Brief

8 am

• Turner Classic– My Favorite Wife
• FX– Zodiac
• E!– Honey
• Sci Fi– Twilight Zone marathon until 8 pm
• History– Pawn Stars, American Pickers marathon until 4 am

8:30 am

• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon until 10:30 pm
• Oxygen– Center Stage

9 am

• USA– Holiday Bowl Big Balloon Parade
• AMC– Three Stooges marathon until 10:30 am
• Discovery– Deadliest Catch marathon until 2 am
• National Geographic– Guide to the Planets marathon until Noon
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb

9:30 am

• Turner Classic– The Philadelphia Story

10 am

• USA– House marathon until 6 am
• Style– Chasing Liberty

10:30 am

• AMC– Back to the Future (Triple Feature x 2)

11 am

• Lifetime– James Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffany’s
• Oxygen– Center Stage: Turn It Up

11:30 am

• Turner Classic– Penny Serenade

Noon

• Disney– Phineas and Ferb Summer Belongs to You
• ESPN– College Throwball, Meineke Car Care Bowl: Clemson v. South Florida
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Northwestern @ Purdue, College of Charleston @ Tennessee
• FX– Doomsday
• National Geographic– Fishing marathon until 3 am
• CBS– College Hoopies, Kentucky @ Louisville

12:30 pm

• Comedy– The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
• Food– Next Network Star marathon until 4 am
• Style– Little Miss Sunshine

1 pm

• AMC– Back to the Future Part II
• Lifetime– One Angry Juror
• TV Land– Bonanza marathon until 4 pm

1:30 pm

• Oxygen– Center Stage (again)
• Turner Classic– Arsenic and Old Lace

2 pm

• FX– Cloverfield
• Toon– Johnny Test until 3 pm
• CBS– College Throwball, Sun Bowl: Miami v. Notre Dame
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, College of Charleston @ Tennessee

2:30 pm

• Comedy– 200 Cigarettes

3 pm

• Lifetime– The 19th Wife
• Style– The Bridges of Madison County

3:30 pm

• AMC– Back to the Future Part III
• ESPN– College Throwball, Liberty Bowl: Central Florida v. Georgia
• Oxygen– Hairspray (not the good 1988 version)
• Turner Classic– The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

4 pm

• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Florida @ Xavier
• Toon– Adventure Time with Finn and Jake marathon until 9 pm

4:30 pm

• Comedy– Bachelor Party Vegas

5 pm

• Lifetime– Reviving Ophelia
• Nick– iCarly marthon until 8 pm

5:30 pm

• Turner Classic– North by Northwest

6 pm

• AMC– Back to the Future (Triple Feature)
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Ohio State @ Indiana
• FX– The Simpsons Movie
• Oxygen– Uptown Girls
• Style– The Pelican Brief (again)

6:30 pm

• Comedy– Hot Rod

7 pm

• Lifetime– The Pregnancy Pact

7:30 pm

• ESPN– College Throwball, Chick-fil-A Bowl: Florida State v. South Carolina

8 pm

• FOX– Rocky Balboa
• Disney– Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Seton Hall @ Cincinnati
• Nick– Fred: The Movie
• Oxygen– Elf x 2 until Midnight
• TBS– Men In Black
• Turner Classic– Animal Crackers (switching to [Marx Brothers  “I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.  How how got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”)
• TNT– Troy (“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”)

8:30 pm

• PBS– Live from Lincoln Center (premier)
• AMC– Back to the Future Part II
• Vs.– Coyotes @ Blues

9 pm

• Lifetime– The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

9:30 pm

• Turner Classic– Monkey Business (“You call this a party?  The beer is warm, the women cold and I’m hot under the collar.”)

10 pm

• ABC– Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011 (premier)
• E!– The Soup (premier)
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Oklahoma State @ Gonzaga

11 pm

• AMC– Back to the Future Part III
• Bravo– Watch What Happens Live: Andy’s New Year’s Party x 2 until 2:30 am
• CNN– New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin
• FOX– New Year’s Eve Live
• ESPN– New Year’s Eve: Year of the Quarterback Countdown
• Turner Classic– Horsefeathers (“I’ve got to stay here, but there’s no reason why you folks shouldn’t go out into the lobby until this thing to blows over.”)
• TNT– 300 (“Joey, how about those gladiators”)
• Vs.– NHL Winter Classic Eve Special

11:30 pm

• CBS– Dave in repeats from 11/16
• ABC– Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011
• NBC– NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly

Midnight

• Oxygen– Hairspray (not the good 1988 version)

12:30 am

• Comedy– 200 Cigarettes (again)
• FX– Archer until 2 am
• Lifetime– The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Turner Classic– Duck Soup (“You’re a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you’re out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we’ll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are.”)

1 am

• TNT– Mission Impossible III

1:30 am

• Turner Classic– A Night at the Opera (“You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Claus!”)
• TBS– Road Trip
• ESPN2– College Throwball, Meineke Car Care Bowl: Clemson vs. South Florida
• AMC– Back to the Future

2 am

• Vs.– NHL Winter Classic Eve Special

2:30 am

• Comedy– Bachelor Party Vegas
• TBS– Eurotrip

3 am

• ESPN– College Throwball, Chick-fil-A Bowl: Florida State v. South Carolina
• VH1– SNL until 6 am

3:30 am

• Turner Classic– A Day at the Races (“Ice Cream!  Get your Tutsi Fruitsie Ice Cream!”)

4 am

• AMC– Three Stooges marathon until 6 am.
• Toon– Actually Signs Off!  I’ll believe it when I see it.

5:30 am

• Turner Classic– Go West (“I’d have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn’t have a tape measure.”)