Turkey Day TV (Part the First)

It’s Holiday TV time again and just as every year the networks are junking up your schedule with special events replacing your regular shows.

I provide these diaries as a public service so you can find some distraction from the friends and relatives that if you really liked you would see more often.

This particular edition covers the cooking overnight period on Wednesday through the start of the Throwball games Thursday.  Special holiday liveblogs tomorrow are the Big Balloon Parade and both games.  Saturday and Sunday are the final Formula One races at Interlagos.  Other than that we’ll continue to maintain our regular schedule as closely as we can out of consideration for our readers.

Marathons are 4 half hour episodes or 3 hour episodes in a row and noted at the start, for current TV Listings I recommend Zap2it.  As always the shows I highlight are the ones I would consider watching, your tastes are probably different.

6 pm

• ABC Family– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Depp, Wonka Marathon)
• AMC– Gone With the Wind (x 2 until 5 am)
• Discovery– Mythbusters (Marathon until 3 am)
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Maui Invitational
• History– Aliens and Conspiracy Theories (Marathon until 4 am)
• Nick– Fred: The Movie
• Spike– Rambo: First Blood Part II
• Turner Classic– Mogambo
• TLC– Extreme Couponing (Marathon until 3 am, breaks at 9 & 11 pm)
• Travel– Man v. Food (thank goodness, Marathon until 4 am)
• USA– NCIS (Marathon until 11 pm)

7 pm

• ESPN2– College Hoopies, NIT Semi-Final
• Food– Restaurant: Impossible (Marathon until 5 am, breaks at 11 pm and 2 am for Next Iron Chef)

7:30 pm

• ESPN– College Hoopies, Maui Invitational
• FX– The Proposal
• Vs.– Rudy
• VH1– Ghostbusters

8 pm

• Animal Planet– River Monsters (Marathon until 2 am)
• Bravo– Top Chef (Marathon until 2 am)
• Lifetime– 12 Men of Christmas
• Nick– Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy’s Secret Wish (World Premier)
• Spike– Rambo
• TBS– Family Guy (Marathon until 10 pm)
• Turner Classic– Sweet Rosie O’Grady

8:30 pm

• ABC Family– Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Wilder)
• Disney– Underdog

9 pm

• E!– Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, NIT Semi-Final
• Nick– Friends (Marathon until 5:30 am)

9:30 pm

• ESPN– College Hoopies, Maui Invitational
• Turner Classic– Down Argentine Way

10 pm

• Comedy– South Park (Thanksgiving Special)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Maui Invitational
• Lifetime– Christmas in Paradise
• Oxygen– Law & Order: CI (Marathon until 3 am)

11 pm

• Turner Classic– Tea for Two

midnight

• ESPN– Sports Center (Marathon until 8 pm)
• Lifetime– 12 Men of Christmas (again)
• SciFi– You Only Live Twice (2 day James Bond Marathon)

12:30 am

• ESPN2– Throwball, Giants @ ‘9ers (2010 repeat)

1 am

• E!– Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (again)
• Turner Classic– That Touch of Mink

2 am

• Lifetime– Christmas in Paradise (again)
• USA– Martian Child

2:30 am

• SciFi– Dr. No

3 am

• TBS– The Mexican

4 am

• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (Marathon until 6 am)

4:30 am

• Turner Classic– The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

5 am

• TBS– Married with Children (Marathon until 7 am)

6 am

• Bravo– Top Chef (Marathon until noon)
• Style– Supernanny (Marathon until 3 am Friday)
• TLC– Cake Boss (Marathon until 3 am Friday)
• USA– Burn Notice (Marathon until 10 am)

7 am

• ABC Family– Bruce Almighty
• FX– Definitely, Maybe
• Nick– Rugrats Movie
• Oxygen– Roseanne (Marathon until 6:30 pm)
• Speed– Monster Jam (Marathon until 4 pm)
• Toon– Journey to the Center of the Earth

7:30 am

• Turner Classic– Little Women

8 am

• Disney– Aladdin (Princess Marathon until 12:30 pm)
• E!– Kardashians (Marathon until 3 pm, break 11 am – 1 pm)
• History– Swamp People (Marathon until 9 pm)
• Sci Fi– Thunderball
• TV Land– Andy Griffith Show (Marathon until 7:30 pm)

9 am

• CBS– Big Balloon Parade
• NBC– Big Balloon Parade
• ABC Family– Full House (Thanksgiving Special)
• AMC– Taxi Driver
• Animal Planet– Hillbilly Handfishing (Marathon until 5 pm)
• Discovery– American Guns (Marathon until 2 pm)
• Golf– European PGA
• Lifetime– The Preacher’s Wife
• Toon– Tom & Jerry (Marathon until 7 pm)
• Travel– Man v. Food (thank goodness, Marathon until 4 am Friday)

9:30 am

• Comedy– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Disney– Beauty and the Beast
• FX– The Proposal (again)

10 am

• Nick– Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy’s Secret Wish (again)
• Spike– On Deadly Ground
• TBS– Yours, Mine, and Ours
• Turner Classic– Meet Me in St. Louis
• TNT– Bones (Marathon until 7 pm)
• USA– NCIS (Marathon until 8 pm)

10:30 am

• SciFi– Diamonds Are Forever

11 am

• ABC Family– Gilmore Girls (Thanksgiving Special)
• Disney– Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
• E!– Jersey Girl
• MSNBC– Prison Porn (Marathon until 5 am Friday)
• Nick– The Penguins of Madagascar The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole

11:30 am

• AMC– The Godfather

noon

• Bravo– Real Housewives (Marathon until 6 pm)
• NBC– National Dog Show
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Old Spice Classic
• FX– Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• Golf– Autralian PGA
• Lifetime– A Christmas Wedding
• Nick– SpongeBob SquarePants Truth or Square
• TBS– 17 Again
• Turner Classic– The Secret Garden

12:30 pm

• Disney– Underdog (again)
• Spike– A Dangerous Man
• Fox– Throwball, Packers @ Lions

1 pm

• Nick– SpongeBob SquarePants Atlantis SquarePantis
• SciFi– Goldfinger

1:30 pm

• Turner Classic– The Music Man