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Alternative Super Bowl programming.

Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday.

As far as disrupting TV programming is concerned this is almost as big a holiday as Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s.  Much bigger than the 4th of July though St. Patrick’s Day, Memorial Day, and Veteran’s Day are bigger than the 4th too.

The hype on Faux starts at 2 pm so you have 4 hours of pre-game if you can stand it.  If you’re interested in something else you can check my listings below.  I’ll remind you that we’ll be live blogging Puppy Bowl VII at 2:45 pm and starting our XLV live blog at 5:45 pm.

Expect updates.  This edition good until 1 pm.  Now 7 pm.  Now 9 pm.  6 am, have a good night!

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Joined in progress.

I’m basically including this one to catch any post New Year sports activity.  What I’ve sampled so far (through Noon) doesn’t seem unusual for a Sunday, though there are some not bad movies in the afternoon and evening.

For instance tonight National Geographic is showing Restrepo: Afghan Outpost at 8 pm and again at 11 pm.  It was recently reviewed by Dennis Hartley over at Hullabaloo (digby’s place)-

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s no-frills portrait of one year in the life of a platoon deployed in Afghanistan is the most gut-wrenching and uncompromising piece of combat journalism I’ve seen since The World of Charlie Company (if you’re old enough to remember that one). There are no politics or voiceover narration to distract; just day-to-day life for a bunch of guys who want to do their duty, serve their tour and not get their asses shot off along the way. Saving Private Ryan and Platoon pale by comparison-this is the real deal.

I didn’t bother transferring the Amazon links.

This edition good until Noon.  Now 3 pm.  6 pm.  8 pm.  11 pm.  2 am.  Done, see you tomorrow for Prime Time.

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Expect updates.  This edition good until 1 pm when the Rose Parade is over.  Now until 4 pm.  Midnight.  Done.  Off to my party.

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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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Perhaps you think it’s  all about stuffing the things that don’t fit or you don’t want back in the boxes and returning them.  People who work for a living know different.

At some point I’ll talk to you about eating serf food, but today is not it.  I will give you my retail ranger tips.

Expect store credits not refunds.  You will be dealing with a supervisor or regular because temps are not taught how to do returns.  Every return has to be processed through the warehouse so you won’t get a size 10 even if there’s a stack of them next to the register.  Retail is not a swap meet.

I understand there will be discounts, but perhaps not as many as you expect.  In bad times you tighten inventories and limit selection.

My recommendation is that you spare yourself unless shopping is a sport and watch some Throwball ahead of next year’s lockout.

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Holiday 24 hour coverage ends today.  Regular Prime Time tomorrow.  Good through 8 pm.  Done.

Ho, ho, ho.

The box may seem empty but the message is clear-

Play Santa again and I’ll kill you next year

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This edition good until 6 pm.  Now until 11 pm.  See you tomorrow at 6 am!  Merry ek’s mas.

Ah Festivus, that holiday for the rest of us.  Break out your Aluminium Poles.  Time for the airing of the grievances of which one constant on my list is the laziness and vapidity of TV programming.

I’m not kidding when I say I consider these pieces a public service.  They take a ton of research (an average Prime Time takes 90 minutes and has 40+ links).

And you have to keep your blog busy and readers distracted.

I’m trying new Tools which will hopefully keep things a little more organized but I’m not expecting much.

It’s a fairly normal Thursday night so we’ll be picking it up at 6 am for early risers and running 24 hours.

As always-

It’s arranged by time and marathons (4 half hour episodes, 3 hour episodes, double features, themes, and Instapeats) may be noted earlier than you expect, but they do also include the running time so you know when they end.

You may notice not a lot from the broadcast and other networks.  That’s because they’re going with regular programming (except for maybe Holiday Episodes) as far as I can tell.  The usual tools are available for broader choices-

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This edition good until Noon.  Now 8 pm.  Now to 11 pm.  Done until dawn, but get to bed early so Santa can come.

Well, it’s that holiday time of year again when all you want is some mindless entertainment to spare you from dealing with your relatives and TV programmers screw with you by replacing all your familiar favorites with sappy specials and marathons of your least liked shows made more inpenetrable by the one line crawl of uselessness that TV Guide channel has become.

Thank goodness kindly uncle ek is here to highlight a few moments of blessed distraction as well as some of the potential pitfalls to be avoided.

I look on it as a public service.

My job is made a little easier because of a neat little network ‘day at a glance’ feature of Zap2it TV Listings.  Click on the channel name.  I’m going from my last diary to Paid Programming.  I’m putting the main meat below the fold because the table is too long for the Front Page.  It’s arranged by time and marathons (4 half hour episodes, 3 hour episodes, double features, themes, and Instapeats) may be noted earlier than you expect, but they do also include the running time so you know when they end.

Nothing like watching A Christmas Story 25 times in a row.

Today is the last day of your special 24 hour Holiday coverage.  Prime Time tomorrow as usual.  I’m rolling publishing again because it’s much easier.  Right now this covers until noon.  Expect an update.

Update: Good until 6 am.

Well, it’s that holiday time of year again when all you want is some mindless entertainment to spare you from dealing with your relatives and TV programmers screw with you by replacing all your familiar favorites with sappy specials and marathons of your least liked shows made more inpenetrable by the one line crawl of uselessness that TV Guide channel has become.

Thank goodness kindly uncle ek is here to highlight a few moments of blessed distraction as well as some of the potential pitfalls to be avoided.

I look on it as a public service.

My job is made a little easier because of a neat little network ‘day at a glance’ feature of Zap2it TV Listings.  Click on the channel name.  I’m going from my last diary to Paid Programming.  I’m putting the main meat below the fold because the table is too long for the Front Page.  It’s arranged by time and marathons (4 half hour episodes, 3 hour episodes, double features, themes, and Instapeats) may be noted earlier than you expect, but they do also include the running time so you know when they end.

Nothing like watching A Christmas Story 25 times in a row.

I’m rolling publishing again because it’s much easier.  Right now this covers until 10 am and I’m missing 10 channels.  Expect an update.

Update: Now good to 7 am with all 41 channels and you didn’t miss anything.  Tomorrow is the last edition of extended Thanksgiving coverage.

Well, it’s that holiday time of year again when all you want is some mindless entertainment to spare you from dealing with your relatives and TV programmers screw with you by replacing all your familiar favorites with sappy specials and marathons of your least liked shows made more inpenetrable by the one line crawl of uselessness that TV Guide channel has become.

Thank goodness kindly uncle ek is here to highlight a few moments of blessed distraction as well as some of the potential pitfalls to be avoided.

I look on it as a public service.

My job is made a little easier because of a neat little network ‘day at a glance’ feature of Zap2it TV Listings.  Click on the channel name.  I’m going from my last diary to Paid Programming.  I’m putting the main meat below the fold because the table is too long for the Front Page.  It’s arranged by time and marathons (4 half hour episodes, 3 hour episodes, double features, themes, and Instapeats) may be noted earlier than you expect, but they do also include the running time so you know when they end.

Nothing like watching A Christmas Story 25 times in a row.

I’ll mention at this point a ton of research goes into these, 41 channels and nearly 150 links, not because I’m complaining but because it’s a little daunting to get them posted on deadline.  This one I’m rolling publishing because I’m still a bit tired from yesterday and I want you to have something to relax you from your early Black Friday forays.  Right now this covers until 10 am.  Expect an update before that.

Update: Now good through 7 am.