It used to be that Thanksgiving was the day of THE TWILIGHT ZONE and THE HONEYMOONERS marathons. Now practically every channel has their own marathon scheduled for today. Here’s a list (along with a few comments from yours truly). And this doesn’t include local station marathons or tomorrow's marathons (of which there are many). Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
AMC (11:30am - 4:30am): THE GODFATHER Movie Marathon. Have a traditional horse head for Thanksgiving!
Animal Planet (9am - 5pm): HILLBILLY HANDFISHIN' Marathon. Do you even have to read any further????
Animal Planet (5pm - 6am): TANKED Marathon
BBC America (8am - 5am): STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION Marathon
BET (8am - 5pm): MY WIFE AND KIDS Marathon. Really?
BET (5pm - Midnight): REED BETWEEN THE LINES Marathon
Bravo (6am - Noon): TOP CHEF Marathon. That should make you hungry.
Bravo (Noon - 6pm): THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS Marathon. Be thankful you’re not them.
Cartoon Network (9am - 7pm): TOM & JERRY Marathon. Celebrate the holidays with the most violent cartoons ever.
Centric (8:30am - 6am): THE WAYANS BROS. Marathon. There’s a network called Centric?
Chiller (6am - 4pm): BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Marathon.
Cloo (6am - 6am): Cloo Thanksgiving + Weekend Western Movie Marathon. Indians don’t take enough abuse today.
Cooking Channel (2 - 8pm): NADIA G'S BITCHIN' KITCHEN Marathon. A tradition since 2011.
Discovery (9am - 8pm): AMERICAN GUNS Marathon. Gather the whole family.
Discovery Fit & Health (11am - 2am): Pregnant Marathon. For those who are stuffed.
DIY (7am - 4am): COOL TOOLS Marathon
Food Network (6 - 10pm): CHOPPED Marathon
fuse (6am - 6am): BEEF Marathon. Someone should have a “chopped beef” marathon.
FX (Noon - Midnight): Animated Movie Marathon
GMC (Noon - 11pm): THE WALTONS Marathon. Goodnight, John Boy.
GSN (8am - Midnight): DEAL OR NO DEAL Marathon. No deal for me.
HGTV (7am - 1pm; 3 - 8pm): PROPERTY BROTHERS Marathon
H2 (8am - 8pm): HOW THE STATES GOT THEIR SHAPES Marathon. You might want to eat your dinner in from of the TV so you don’t miss South Dakota.
History (8am - 8pm): IRT DEADLIEST ROADS Marathon. Another family favorite.
The Hub (7pm - Midnight; 1 - 6am): ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER? Marathon. I’m not making this shit up.
ID (7 - 10am; 2pm - 2am): DEADLY WOMEN Marathon
IFC (6am - 6am): ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Marathon. Alright!!!
Lifetime (Noon - 4am): Christmas Movie Marathon
Military (10am - 3am): WORLD WAR II IN COLOR Marathon. Spend the holiday with Hitler.
MTV (9am - 1pm): FRIENDZONE Marathon
MTV2 (11am - 3pm): RUN'S HOUSE Marathon
MTV2 (3pm - 9pm): MARTIN Marathon
Nickelodeon (Noon - 3pm): SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Marathon
Nickelodeon (4 - 7pm): ICARLY Marathon
Nick at Nite (9pm - 5:30am): FRIENDS Marathon
NickToons (Noon - 9:30pm): SPEED RACER - THE NEXT GENERATION Marathon
OWN (5pm - 3am): WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE'S Marathon. Huh? Has anyone ever even heard of that show?
Oxygen (7am - 7pm): ROSEANNE Marathon. You know I’ll be watching.
Oxygen (7pm - 2am): LAW & ORDER - CRIMINAL INTENT Marathon
Planet Green (4pm - 3am): MALL COPS - MALL OF AMERICA Marathon
ReelzChannel (10:30am - 6pm): Lethal Weapon Movie Marathon. More Jews will be watching the Christmas movie and WORLD WAR II IN COLOR marathons.
Science (6:30 - 10pm): PUNKIN CHUNKIN 2011 Marathon
SOAPnet (5pm - 1am): Walker Family Thanksgiving Marathon: BROTHERS & SISTERS Marathon
style (6am - 3am): SUPERNANNY Marathon
Syfy (8am - 5:30am): James Bond Movie Marathon. 007 of your favorite movies!
TLC (6am - Noon): CAKE BOSS Marathon
TLC (Noon - 8:30pm): CAKE BOSS - THE NEXT GREAT BAKER Marathon
TNT (10am - 8pm): BONES Marathon
TNT (8pm - 2am): CSI: NY Marathon
Travel (9am - Noon; 8pm - 4am): MAN V. FOOD Marathon
Travel (Noon - 8pm): MAN V. FOOD NATION Marathon
truTV (9am - 3pm): BLACK GOLD Marathon
truTV (7 - 11pm; Midnight - 3am): WORLD'S DUMBEST Marathon
TV Guide (3 - 8pm): DESIGNING WOMEN Marathon
TV Land (8am - 7:20pm): THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW Marathon
TV One (6am - 4pm): MARTIN Marathon. Hey! Someone else already has a MARTIN marathon.
TV One (4 - 8:30pm): Michael Jackson Marathon. Does not include the recent trial.
USA (10am - 8pm): NCIS Marathon
USA (2 - 8am): BURN NOTICE Marathon
WE (10am - 1am): BRAXTON FAMILY VALUES Marathons. Is this about Toni Braxton? I’m unfamiliar.
Thanks to TVTango.com. And again... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
A TV marathon. For the channel's programmer, it's easier than thinking.
ReplyDeleteWhere the heck did the twilight zone marathon go?? geez!
ReplyDeleteMy Chair: sit on my a** marathon:)
ReplyDeleteas always thanks Ken!
Ken, "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" - a show about a St. Louis soul food restaurant owned by Robbie Montgomery, former backup singer for Ike & Tina Turner - apparently has done relatively well for OWN. They've just ordered 10 more episodes to follow up on the eight that were shot earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to you & your family. Watching the parades & noticed that State Farm has co-opted the "Cheers" theme. Also,I'm either hallucinating already or Neil Diamond & Joba Chamberlain appear to be shilling for South Dakota?
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to all of the Levines and others who come here. I think I'll have an avoid-the-TV marathon.
ReplyDeleteI can't cook a turkey without a James Bond movie on. If they didn't have a marathon I'd have to rent one. Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteHad no idea about the Tom & Jerry marathon. My daughter thanks you. :D
ReplyDeleteHope you and the family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Did I miss it or did you omit the Partridge Family Marathon? I never heard of a lot of those networks.
ReplyDeleteKen, "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" - a show about a St. Louis soul food restaurant owned by Robbie Montgomery, former backup singer for Ike & Tina Turner -- apparently has done relatively well for OWN. They've just ordered 10 more episodes to follow up on the eight that were shot earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteShe was one of the Ikettes, whose one claim to fame was a great girl-group early soul song, "I'm Blue" ("I'm bluuu-uu-uuue, shoo-be-do-be-do-be-do..."), which Ken probably would have played had he been a DJ in the early '60s.
Umm, does anyone else have a problem with the idea of BBC America showing a Star Trek marathon? shouldn't they be showing something more, I don't know, British?
ReplyDeleteThey should have an ACTUAL marathon. Maybe a chance for everyone to work off all that food everybody eats over Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: given that Britain doesn't *celebrate* Thanksgiving (despite encroachment of expatriates), you're lucky to get *any* marathon at all out of the BBC.
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PS I can't remember if it was on Thanksgiving, but one year I watched a marathon on PBS - a full run of I, Claudius. Now, *that's* a marathon.
This list is both amazing and frightening.
ReplyDeleteKen...Centric is a black-oriented cable channel, as in "Afro-Centric".
ReplyDeleteAnonymous commenting on STAR TREK (THE NEXT GENERATION) on BBC America...two words--Patrick Stewart.
And how soon until you post this year's pie in the face footage?
I saw that some channel, maybe local, was having a "Three's Company" marathon. As far as I can tell, that appears to be the new regular programming on TV Land. To me, any two minutes of that show is a marathon.
ReplyDeletePat...this afternoon TV Land had an ANDY GRIFFITH marathon.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you omitted Major League Baseball Network and its Classic World Series highlights marathon. It got me through the day.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see so many people getting fit for the holidays.
ReplyDeletewatching the "Thanksgiving Orphans" episode of Cheers is my only set traditon for this day. Everything else falls into place around it.
ReplyDeletehaha - i watched part of the three's c marathon today - it was antenna tv. i know this is a cheers/mash/frasier oriented board that looks down on the lighter shows, but i"ll always love it, and actually it holds up much better than some of the so-called "important" shows (ahem maude/murphy brown/glee et al). anyhoo, naysayers be damned it kind of made my day.:) they ran some of my favorite episodes too (cue jeffrey tambor!) then i switched to arrested development.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see so many people getting fit for the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI discovered The X-Files "back in the day" when I was horribly sick on Thanksgiving and watched a marathon all day and night on FX, so I can't begrudge a turkey day 'thon because they gave me Mulder & Scully!
ReplyDeleteBirdie...some of don't have Antenna TV--what ARE the three C's?
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Not to mention TVLAND'S all 'commericals' marathon!b Funny, I don't remember Andy Griffith being a 37 minute show.
ReplyDeleteHave to ask: did the Michael Jackson marathon include all his noses, facial features, and skin tones, or wasn't there enough time?
ReplyDeletePaul Duca: You mean THREE words: SIR Patrick Stewart.
ReplyDeleteVP81955, I'm impressed that you know "I'm Blue," but confused by your assertion that it was the Ikettes' "sole claim to fame."
ReplyDeleteMost people know them as the backup singers/dancers for Ike & Tina, and not so much as recording artists in their own right. So, at least for people who know "I'm Blue," wouldn't that be _two_ claims to fame? I'm just sayin...
(Full disclosure: I'm from St. Louis and know Robbie Montgomery - backed up her and Bonnie Bramlett, another former Ikette, once at a show raising $$ for charity, and have played something like 200 Friday-lunch gigs at Sweetie Pie's over the past four years.)
Ah, the ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW marathon on TVLand. Where 25 minute sitcoms are hacked down to 20 minutes and then aired in 35 minute timeslots. One of these days the commercials are going to run longer than the programs.
ReplyDeletepaul duca - meant three's company, sorry about that. was respondng to pat reeder's comment.
ReplyDeleteAh, Deadly Women. One of the great bad shows of modern television. Quickie re-enactments of murders committed by, well, women, while we cut to various talking heads (usually true-crime writers or freelance "criminal profilers --" show them a messy crime scene and they'll deduce that the criminal was disorganized), while all is held together by a breathy-voiced female narrator. At least five times a segment, the re-enactment actress portraying the Femme Fatale du jour is required to stare into the camera buggy-eyed while brandishing a gun or waving a knife about, just in case you'd forgotten how EeeeVillll she's supposed to be.
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