Turkey Day TV 3: Black Friday

What?  You’re not shopping yet?  Don’t you know the whole Capitalist system not to mention our Galtian Overlords’ Rolexes depend on you spending yourself into bankruptcy?

Well good for you.

Today is the 20th Annual ‘Buy Nothing’ Day™, sponsored by Adbusters of #OWS fame, where we rebel in small ways and save ourselves a lot of aggravation and hassle by staying home and maybe watching some TV.

Each time I do this I have to remind myself what works and what doesn’t because frankly a ton of research goes into each one.

What I’ve discovered this year is that the largest amount of time goes into making the passes from one end to the other of my 40+ channel hot list, so it’s actually more efficient to cover a longer period of time than it is to break up the task into multiple segments.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that 6 am seems to be the common reset point for the day’s schedule.  Very few Marathons roll over past that point though some of the movie oriented stations will have a feature that persists through the transition.  If you can’t find it listed you might try yesterday’s effort and for immediate updates you can go directly to my source- Zap2it.

If you click on the link under the network name you see all the shows for the day.  You simply need to cut and paste the ones you’re interested in under the appropriate time label and your outline is done.  Tomorrow I’ll bore you with how to make it look pretty.

This particular schedule covers from 6 am to 6 am Black Friday.

6 am

• Bravo– Starship Troopers
• Disney– Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (again)
• ESPN– Sports Center (Marathon until noon)
• Oxygen– Raise Your Voice
• Turner Classic– Divorce American Style
• TLC– Say Yes to the Dress (Marathon until 1 pm)

7 am

• A&E– Storage Wars (Marathon until 4 am Saturday)
• FX– Space Chimps
• Nick– Spongebob Squarepants (Marathon until 9 pm)
• Speed– Monster Jam (Marathon until 11 am)

8 am

• Bravo– A Knight’s Tale (again)
• Disney– Beauty and the Beast (again)
• E!– Jersey Girl (again)
• History– American Restoration (Marathon until 10 pm)
• Oxygen– The Perfect Man
• Style– Project Runway (Marathon until 10 pm)
• Turner Classic– Marriage on the Rocks
• USA– State of Play

8:30 am

• SciFi– For Your Eyes Only

9 am

• Animal Planet– I Shouldn’t Be Alive (Marathon until 5 pm)
• Comedy– Accepted
• Discovery– Gold Rush (Marathon until 3 am with premier and repeat at 9 and 11 pm and breaks for Flying Wild at 10 pm and midnight)
• FX– Cheaper by the Dozen 2
• Spike– Auction Hunters (Marathon until 9 pm)

9:30 am

• AMC– The Natural

10 am

• E!– A Night at the Roxbury
• Oxygen– The Glee Project (Marathon until 8 pm)
• Turner Classic– Penelope
• TNT– The Rock

10:30 am

• USA– 3:10 to Yuma

11 am

• PBS– Sesame Street, Getting Centered (premier)
• Bravo– The Millionaire Matchmaker (Marathon until 2 am)
• Comedy– Waiting …
• ESPN2– College Throwball, Louisville @ South Florida
• FX– Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Lifetime– Call Me Claus
• SciFi– A View to a Kill
• Speed– Formula One: Interlagos Practice
• TBS– Meet the Browns

11:30 am

• Disney– Phineas and Ferb

noon

• ABC– College Throwball, Iowa @ Nebraska
• E!– Kardashians (Marathon until 4:30 pm)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Old Spice Classic, 76 Classic, NIT (Marathon until 7 pm)
• Food– Restaurant: Impossible (Marathon until 11 pm, repeats at midnight, 1 and 3 am)
• Turner Classic– Sunday in New York

12:30 pm

• CBS– The Young and the Restless, A Christmas Carol
• AMC– Apocalypse Now
• H&G– House Hunters (Marathon until 4 am)
• Speed– Monster Jam (Marathon until 3:30 pm)
• TNT– U.S. Marshals
• TV Land– Bonanza (Marathon until 5 pm)

1 pm

• NBC– Professional Ice Fight, Red Wings @ Bruins
• FX– In Her Shoes
• Lifetime– A Boyfriend for Christmas
• TBS– Diary of a Mad Black Woman
• USA– Angels & Demons

1:30 pm

• Toon– The Looney Tunes Show (Marathon until 3:30 pm)
• VH1– Michael Jackson’s This Is It (again)

2 pm

• SciFi– Octopussy
• Turner Classic– The Sundowners
• Vs.– College Hoopies, Battle 4 Atlantis

2:30 pm

• CBS– College Throwball, Arkansas @ LSU
• ESPN2– College Hoopies (Marathon until 3:30 am)

3 pm

• Comedy– Futurama (Marathon until 5 pm)
• Lifetime– Christmas in Paradise (again)
• National Geographic– Rocket City Rednecks (Marathon until 3 am)
• TNT– The Shawshank Redemption

3:30 pm

• ABC– College Throwball, Boston College @ Miami
• TBS– Madea’s Family Reunion
• Toon– Open Season (again)
• USA– Raiders of the Lost Ark

4 pm

• AMC– Se7en
• E!– The Girl Next Door
• FX– The Family Stone (again)
• Turner Classic– Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
• Vs.– College Hoopies, Battle 4 Atlantis

4:30 pm

• Disney– Good Luck Charlie (Thankgiving Special)

5 pm

• Animal Planet– Fatal Attractions (Marathon until 6 am)
• Lifetime– The Holiday
• SciFi– Die Another Day
• TV Land– MASH (Marathon until 8 pm)

5:30 pm

• TBS– Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail
• Toon– Level Up

6 pm

• FX– Baby Mama
• MSNBC– Prison Porn (Marathon until 1 am)
• MTV– Scary Movie (again)
• Turner Classic– With Six You Get Eggroll
• TLC– Say Yes to the Dress (Marathon until 10 pm)
• TNT– Four Brothers

6:30 pm

• USA– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

7 pm

• AMC– Jurassic Park
• ESPN– College Throwball, Pittsburgh @ West Virginia
• Toon– Ben 10/Generator Rex Special (premier)

8 pm

• ABC– Shrek the Third
• CBS– Hoops & Yoyo Ruin Christmas (World Premier)
• NBC– National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• Fox– Iron Man
• CW– Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
• Disney– Ant Farm (premier)
• E!– Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (again)
• FX– 27 Dresses
• Lifetime– A Christmas Carol: The Musical
• MTV– Scary Movie 2 (again)
• Oxygen– Freaky Friday (x 2 until midnight)
• Turner Classic–Ivanhoe
• TNT– You’ve been Gumped
• Toon– Clone Wars (premier)
• TV Land– Roseanne (Thanksgiving Special)

8:30 pm

• CBS– The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf’s Story (World Premier)

9 pm

• CW– Olive, the Other Reindeer
• PBS– Great Performances, Il Postino From LA Opera
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (premier)
• Nick– Friends (Marathon until 5:30 am)
• Spike– The Phantom Menace
• USA– Elf (again)

9:30 pm

• Disney– Good Luck Charlie (Thankgiving Special again)

10 pm

• AMC– The Walking Dead
• E!– The Soup (premier)
• ESPN– College Throwball, California @ Arizona State
• Lifetime– Secret Santa
• MTV– Beauty Shop
• SciFi– Sanctuary (premier)
• Turner Classic– Quentin Durward

10:30 pm

• E!– Fashion Police (premier)
• FX– The Devil Wears Prada

11 pm

• AMC– Jurassic Park (again)
• Style– How Do I Look? (Marathon until 3 am)
• TBS– Last Holiday
• TNT– The Shawshank Redemption (again)
• USA– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (again)

midnight

• Disney– Ant Farm (premier repeat)
• History– American Restoration (Marathon until 2 am)
• Lifetime– A Christmas Carol: The Musical (again)
• MTV– You Got Served
• Oxygen– The Perfect Man (again)
• SciFi– Sanctuary (premier Instapeat)
• Spike– Die Hard
• TBS– This Christmas
• Turner Classic– King Richard and the Crusaders

1 am

• Comedy– Bad Santa
• E!– The Soup (premier again)
• SciFi– Live and Let Die
• TLC– Say Yes to the Dress (Marathon until 3 am)
• TV Land– Roseanne (Thanksgiving Special again)

1:30 am

• E!– Fashion Police (premier again)
• USA– 3:10 to Yuma (again)
• VH1– Fletch

2 am

• AMC– The Walking Dead (again)
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (premier again)
• Lifetime– Secret Santa (again)
• MTV– How High
• Turner Classic– Freaked
• TNT– Four Brothers (again)

3 am

• AMC– Se7en (again)

3:30 am

• ESPN– College Throwball, Pittsburgh @ West Virginia (again)
• SciFi– Moonraker
• TBS– The House Bunny
• Turner Classic– UHF

4 am

• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (Marathon until 6 am)
• TNT– Law & Order (Marathon until 9 am)

4:30 am

• TBS– Married with Children (Marathon until 7 am)
• TV Land– The Nanny (Marathon until 9 am)