New Year’s Eve TV Day

The Hypnotoad.

"Television is a vast wasteland"

You should know the drill by now.  Marathons are 4 half hours or 3 hours.  I attempt to capture specials and ignore the really painful drek, but if you simply must look my source is Zap2it.

Links bring you to show and movie Wikipedia entries.  Look back at the previous entry for ultra long marathons that may have started more than 6 hours ago.  I might attempt consolidated sports listings, it’s hard to say.  One thing I’ve noticed is it’s not the holidays as it used to be.  There was a time when you would have to pick and choose between 17 different sporting events and New Year’s Eve Specials because everybody did one.  Now networks seem to try and keep as close to their normal schedule as possible.  I call it lazy programming.

Some of the countdowns and retrospectives have moved to the network cable news channels so you should check those out.

This edition covers the 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm.

6 am

• Military– World War II in Color (until 6 am)
• Oxygen– Can’t Buy Me Love
• Science– How Do They Do It? (until 2 am)
• USA– NCIS (until 8 pm)

6:30 am

• Turner Classic– Dance With Me, Henry (Abbott & Costello day)

7 am

• FX– The New Guy
• MSNBC– Morning Joe (New Year Special)

8 am

• BBCA– Doctor Who (until 6 am)
• History– Pawn Stars (until 4 am)
• H2– Modern Marvels (until 8 pm)
• Lifetime– Wife Swap (until 8 pm)
• Oxygen– License to Wed
• SciFi– The Twilight Zone (until 6 am)
• Turner Classic– Jack and the Beanstalk

9 am

• Animal Planet– Tanked (until 6 am)
• Toon– The Looney Tunes Show (until 10:30 am)
• Discovery– Moonshiners (until 4 pm)
• FX– Dude, Where’s My Car?
• Nick– SpongeBob SquarePants (until noon)
• True– World’s Dumbest (until 4 am)

9:30 am

• Disney XD– Kickin’ It (until 2 pm)
• Turner Classic– Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

10 am

• AMC– Coach Carter
• Comedy– Austin Powers in Goldmember
• Oxygen– 40 Days and 40 Nights

10:30 am

• Toon– The Amazing World of Gumball (until noon, premier)
• Spike– Gridiron Gang
• Turner Classic– Rio Rita

11 am

• CBS– The Price Is Right (Best of 2012)
• ABC Family– Full House (New Year Special)
• Disney– Austin & Jessie & Ally All Star New Year
• FX– Extract
• TNT– 10,000 B.C.

11:30 am

• ABC Family– The Lying Game (until 5:30 pm)

noon

• Toon– Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Comedy– Clueless
• Disney– Another Cinderella Story
• ESPN– College Throwball (Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl: North Carolina State v. Vanderbilt)
• ESPN2– College Hoopies (Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh)
• Nick– The Fairly OddParents (until 3 pm)
• Oxygen– Fever Pitch

12:30 pm

• Turner Classic– Lost in a Harem
• TNT– Braveheart

1 pm

• AMC– WarGames
• FX– Pineapple Express

1:30 pm

• Spike– Flight of the Phoenix

2 pm

• CBS– College Throwball (Hyundai Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech v. USC)
• Bravo– Meet Joe Black
• Toon– Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Comedy– Balls of Fury
• ESPN2– College Hoopies (Michigan State @ Minnesota)
• Oxygen– License to Wed
• Turner Classic– Abbott and Costello in Hollywood

3 pm

• Disney XD– Phineas and Ferb (For Your Ice Only, Happy New Year!)
• ESPN– College Throwball (AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Iowa State v. Tulsa)
• MSNBC– The Daily Rundown (New Year Special)
• Nick– iCarly

3:30 pm

• AMC– Four Brothers
• FX– The Other Guys
• Turner Classic– Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

4 pm

• Toon– Adventure Time (until 6 pm)
• Comedy– Beerfest
• Discovery– Amish Mafia “The Book of Levi” (3 hour special)
• ESPN2– College Hoopies (Indiana @ Iowa)
• Oxygen– Fever Pitch
• Spike– The Empire Strikes Back
• TNT– Transformers
• TLC– Cake Boss (9 pm, midnight, 2 am New Year Special premier, until 3 am)

5 pm

• Bravo– A Few Good Men (x 2 until 11 pm)
• Faux Noise– The Five “New Year’s Special” (premier)
• MSNBC– Hardball With Chris Matthews (New Year Special)
• Turner Classic– Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

5:30 pm

• ABC Family– Hook