Tonight on the Tube: New Year’s Eve TV Marathons and Countdown Specials

Happy New Year’s Eve! Can you believe that 2006 is almost over? The last year really flew by. There are many ways to ring in the New Year tonight on the tube. There are also a whole lot of TV marathons during the day and of course NFL games to be watched. The best of the New Year’s Eve TV Marathons are Ugly Betty on ABC Family, Entourage on HBO, Seinfeld on TBS, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on USA and the biggest of them all Twilight Zone on the Sci Fi Channel, which doesn’t end until Tuesday morning. See a pretty complete listing of marathons that can be found on TV today below and come back tomorrow for a list of New Year’s Day TV marathons. What TV marathon might get you in front of the tube today?

Update 12.31.2007: Check out the 2007 New Year’s Eve TV Marathons.

Prime Picks

Shark (CBS): Repeat. A young black woman was rundown and the high profile unit prosecutes the case.

Desperate Housewives (ABC): Repeat. Susan finds out that Mike has come out of his coma while she is away with Ian. Tom continues to chase his dream.

Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2007 (ABC): New. Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest host as Rihanna, KT Tunstall, Rascal Flatts and others perform.

Solid Selection

The Simpsons (FOX): Repeat. The “Jazzy and the Pussycats” episode replays with guests The White Stripes.
American Dad (FOX): Repeat. The “Stan of Arabia” episode replays.

Cold Case (CBS): Repeat. A photo of an overweight woman being forced to drink at a fraternity party turns up and gives the detectives some new direction to reopen the case.

Without a Trace (CBS): Repeat. The team searches for a missing columnist and are unsure what to make of items found in her apartment.

Cable Choices

Emeril’s Kicked Up New Years Celebration (Food Network): Repeat. See what Emeril cooks up for a special New Year’s dinner.

When Harry Met Sally (Oxygen): Released 1989. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in the classic romantic comedy that comes to a climax on New Year’s Eve. It runs two hours and plays twice tonight.

Sports Notes

• CBS has NFL Football.
• ESPN has the MPC Computers Bowl with Miami vs. Nevada on the fake blue grass field.
• FOX has NFL Football including the Seattle Seahawks at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the Hawks needing a win to go into the playoffs on a high note.
• NBC has the ADT Skills Challenge golf event and later Sunday Night Football with the Green Bay Packers at the Chicago Bears.

New Year’s Countdown Shows

• ABC has Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2007 with hosts Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest with performances by Christina Aguilera, Fergie, Meatloaf and more.
• BET has 106 & Party: BET New Year’s Eve Special with celebrity guests and music performances.
• FOX has New Year’s Eve ’06 with host Cat Deely and performances by Daughtry and Toni Braxton.
• FOX News has All American New Year: 2006 with hosts Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy.
• MTV has MTV Goes Gold: New Year’s Eve 2007.
• NBC has NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly with performances by Panic! at the Disco. You will also find this on Bravo, CNBC and MSNBC.
• PBS has Garrison Keillor’s New Year’s Eve Special with Keillor and his Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band performing.

New Year’s Eve TV Marathons

Update 12.31.2007: Check out the 2007 New Year’s Eve TV Marathons.

ABC Family has the first 10 episodes of the new ABC show Ugly Betty to get you up to speed for the show’s return on Thursday, January 4th.
AMC has Clint Eastwood movies all day long.
BBC America has 24 episodes of Absolutely Fabulous.
BET has the Notarized: Top 100 Video Countdown of 2006, which plays twice.
Bravo has eight episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Cartoon Network has 12 episodes of Bleach early and later 26 episodes of Naruto followed by 32 episodes of Metalocalypse that go well into tomorrow morning.
CMT has 10 episodes of Hee Haw.
Court TV has 18 episodes of Cops.
Discovery Channel has eight episodes of Man vs. Wild followed by 10 episodes of Everest: Beyond the Limit.
Discovery Times has 21 episodes of Yearbook.
ESPN has 11 episodes of World’s Strongest Man Competition – 2006.
ESPN2 has 16 episodes of the 2006 World Series of Poker.
Food Network has 12 episodes of Ace of Cakes.
FOX Reality has the nine episode season of Solitary.
G4 has 14 episodes of The Man Show.
GSN has 14 episodes of $100,000 Pyramid.
HBO has the first 12 episodes of Entourage season three to get you ready for the rest of the season, which returns March 18th.
History International has eight episodes of The SS.
Military Channel has 32 episodes of My War Diary.
MTV2 has 10 episodes of Hip Hop’s Toughest Rhymes followed by 20 episodes of Wild ‘n Out.
The N plays season one of Beyond the Break twice to get you ready for season two, which starts Friday, January 5th.
National Geographic has 16 episodes of Is It Real?
Sci Fi Channel plays Twilight Zone episodes from now until Tuesday, now that is a marathon.
Speed has 16 hours of the Barrett-Jackson Automobile Auction.
Spike has six episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
TBS has 12 classic episodes of Seinfeld.
TLC has six episodes of Trading Spaces and later has six episodes of Resolutionaries with five episodes of Property Ladder in between.
TNT has eight cleavage-licious episodes of Charmed.
Travel Channel has 9 WPT Poker Tour events, that’s 18 hours of poker play.
TV Land has the five hour special 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases.
USA starts playing 24 hours of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit today.
VH1 has seven episodes of I Love the ‘70s Volume 2.
Women’s Entertainment has 12 episodes of Platinum Weddings.