So I’ve already outlined how to set up your template and harvest your shows on Zap2it and how to make them look pretty. Let’s talk about links.
There’s not really much to say. There are 2 main sources- IMDB and Wikipedia. IMDB has an entry for almost anything you can think of but they’re all very short and shallow. Wikipedia has some gaps, but if there is one the entry usually contains something interesting. To find stuff I use the internal search engines by cutting and pasting the havested titles. They both suck. You can do a better job with Google by preceding your search term with ‘IMDB’ or ‘Wiki’ because it’s much better at finding near matches.
What do you do when you can’t find something? You can drop it, but having done all the work to get to this point I usually italicize it with ‘<i></i>’ and just move on. If I have time (which I never do) I’ll use the other source and Google to chase it down, but that’s a lot of effort. I usually find this happens with some of Turner Classic’s more obscure offerings, very new series, and Lifetime, Oxygen, and SciFi straight to TV movies.
So why bother? Well firstly I look on it as a public service, especially during Holidays. Since I spend so much time working on my computer and watching TV it’s very disruptive to concentrate on an unreliable TV Guide channel scroll of limited time coverage and tedious duration.
But the other reason is content. As I’ve said many times there’s nothing sadder than a site that looks the same as the last time you visited. This is something that you can set up somewhat in advance to cover the times when you’re too busy to do something substantial.
And now you too know how to fish. No requirement to thank me, but attribution is appreciated.
This entry covers 6 am to 6 am. Completed to 2 am. Wikipedia temporarily down. Complete.
Happy Thanksgiving.
6 am
- AMC– Mad Men (Marathon until 9 am)
- Turner Classic– Gold Diggers of 1937
- TNT– Law & Order (Marathon until 2 pm)
7 am
- A&E– A Few Good Men (again)
7:30 am
- ABC Family– Matilda (again)
- E!– Fashion Police (again)
8 am
- E!– The Soup (again)
- FX– The Rocker
- History– American Pickers (Marathon until 9 pm)
- MSNBC– Up with Chris Hayes
- Nick– Spongebob Squarepants (Marathon until 11 am)
- Oxygen– Pride & Prejudice (again)
- Turner Classic– In a Lonely Place
8:30 am
- TBS– Friends (Marathon until 10:30 am)
9 am
- Animal Planet– River Monsters (Marathon until 5 pm)
- Spike– Star Wars
- TV Land– Hot in Cleveland (Marathon until 11 pm with premier)
- USA– NCIS (Marathon until 4 am)
9:30 am
- ABC Family– Snow
- E!– Jersey Girl (again)
10 am
- A&E– Sopranos (Marathon until 1 pm)
- AMC– Blazing Saddles
- Bravo– Real Housewives (Marathon until 4 am)
- FX– Adventureland
- Lifetime– A Christmas Carol: The Musical (again)
- SciFi– The Rocketeer
- Turner Classic– Inside Daisy Clover
10:30 am
- Comedy– Revenge of the Nerds
- Speed– Formula One Interlagos (live blog)
- TBS– Runaway Bride (again)
11 am
- Nick– Fairly Oddparents, Timmy’s Secret Wish (again)
- Oxygen– Erin Brockovich (again)
11:30 am
- ABC Family– Snow 2 Brain Freeze
- E!– Knocked Up (again)
noon
- AMC– No Country for Old Men
- Discovery– Planet Earth (Marathon until 4 pm)
- FX– Bride Wars
- Lifetime– All She Wants for Christmas
- Nick– Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Marathon until 2 pm)
- Spike– The Empire Strikes Back
- Style– Sex and the City (Marathon until 2 pm)
- Turner Classic– Some Like It Hot
- Toon– Flubber
- TV Guide– The Story of Us (again)
12:30 pm
1 pm
- CBS– Throwball
- NBC– Skiing
- Fox– Throwball
- TBS– Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
1:30 pm
2 pm
- NBC– Figure Skating
- E!– Kardashians (Marathon until 7 pm)
- ESPN– Women’s College Basketball, Baylor @ Tennessee
- Lifetime– Eve’s Christmas
- MTV– Beauty Shop (again)
- TLC– Sister Wives (Marathon until 8 pm)
- TNT– Twister
- Toon– Inspector Gadget
- TV Guide– When Harry Met Sally (again)
2:30 pm
- AMC– Walking and Talking Dead (Marathon until 3 am, 2 premiers, with Hell on Wheels premier at 10 pm)
- FX– Spider-Man 3
- Turner Classic– Gandhi
3 pm
- SciFi– The Invisible
- Spike– Return of the Jedi
3:30 pm
- TBS– Miss Congeniality
- Toon– Level Up
4 pm
- CBS– Throwball
- Fox– Throwball
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
- ESPN– Women’s Billiards
- Lifetime– Call Me Claus
- MTV– How High (again)
- Nick– Fred: The Movie
- TNT– Men in Black II
- TV Guide– Something to Talk About (again)
4:30 pm
- Comedy– Bad Santa (again)
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
- ESPN2– College Hoopies, Old Spice Classic
5 pm
- SciFi– My Bloody Valentine
- Toon– Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (again)
- Travel– When Vacations Attack (Marathon until 9 pm with premier)
5:30 pm
- FX– Twilight
- TBS– Pretty Woman
6 pm
- ABC Family– Christmas Cupid
- Lifetime– The Road to Christmas
- Turner Classic– The Maltese Falcon
- TNT– Transformers
- Toon– Open Season 3 (again)
- TV Guide– The Wedding Planner
6:30 pm
- Comedy– Just Friends
- ESPN2– College Hoopies, Old Spice Classic
- Spike– Star Wars (again)
7 pm
- CBS– 60 Minutes (premier)
- Fox– Animation Domination (until 10 pm, 4 premiers)
- E!– Sex and the City
- Nick– Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (premier)
- SciFi– An American Werewolf in London
7:30 pm
- Nick– Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (premier)
8 pm
- CBS– Amazing Race (premier)
- NBC– Throwball, Steelers @ Chiefs
- PBS– Nature
- ABC Family– Desperately Seeking Santa (x 2 until midnight)
- FX– Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (x 2 until 2 am)
- Lifetime– Comfort and Joy
- Nick– Friends (Marathon until 5:30 am)
- TBS– The Wedding Date (again)
- Turner Classic– There’s No Business Like Show Business
- TLC– 19 Kids and Counting (premier)
9 pm
- PBS– Masterpiece Contemporary
- ESPN– 2011 World Series Highlights
- ESPN2– College Hoopies, 76 Classic
- Food– Next Iron Chef (premier)
- History– Real Deal (Series Premier)
- SciFi– Drag Me to Hell
- TLC– Sister Wives (premier)
- TNT– Leverage (premier)
9:30 pm
- History– Real Deal (premier)
- Spike– The Empire Strikes Back (again)
- TBS– Four Christmases
- TV Guide– The Wedding Planner (again)
10 pm
- E!– Kourtney and Kim Take New York (Series Premier)
- Food– Iron Chef America (premier)
- History– IRT Deadliest Roads (premier)
- Turner Classic– Strike Me Pink
- TLC– All-American Muslim (premier)
- TNT– Double Jeopardy
10:30 pm
- PBS– Smitten
- Lifetime– Dear Santa
11 pm
- E!– After Lately (Series Premier)
- History– Around the World in 80 Ways (premier)
- Oxygen– Law & Order (Marathon until 3 am)
- SciFi– An American Werewolf in London (again)
- TLC– Sister Wives (premier again)
11:30 pm
- TBS– Miss Congeniality (again)
midnight
- E!– Kourtney and Kim Take New York (Series Premier again)
- Food– Next Iron Chef (premier again)
- Lifetime– Comfort and Joy (again)
- Turner Classic– The Mysterious Lady (shhhhh)
- TLC– All-American Muslim (premier again)
- TNT– Leverage (premier again)
12:30 am
- Comedy– Futurama, Bender’s Big Score
- Spike– Return of the Jedi (again)
1 am
- E!– After Lately (Series Premier again)
- Food– Iron Chef America (premier again)
- History– Real Deal (Series Premier again)
- SciFi– Boogeyman 2
- TLC– 19 Kids and Counting (premier again)
- TNT– Transformers (again)
1:30 am
- E!– The Soup (again)
- History– Real Deal (premier again)
2 am
- History– IRT Deadliest Roads (premier again)
- Lifetime– Dear Santa (again)
- TBS– Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (again)
- Turner Classic– Ivan the Terrible, Part One
3 am
- History– Around the World in 80 Ways (premier again)
- SciFi– Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
3:30 am
- E!– The Soup (again)
- Turner Classic– Ivan the Terrible, Part II
4 am
- AMC– Virus
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb (Marathon until 6 am)
- USA– Law & Order: CI (Marathon until 8 am)
4:30 am
- TBS– Married with Children (Marathon until 7 am)
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