News & Notes
On cable tonight, Hallmark Channel has the TV movie premiere of Moonlight & Mistletoe and TBS has Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show special followed by The Comedy Festival Presents: Funniest Movies of the Year: 2008.
Episodes of the Crusoe miniseries are presently schedule to be moving to Saturday nights to finish out the shows run starting December 6th.
Prime Pick
Saturday Night College Football (ABC): Oklahoma (3) at Oklahoma State (12). The broadcast is scheduled to start around 8:00 p.m. ET.
Solid Selections
Numb3rs (CBS): Repeat. A killer is leaving clues from bible passages in “Thirteen” from last season.
48 Hours Mystery (CBS): New. Cops tracked down a teen suspected of murder and then work to help him out. Runs two hours.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. A homeopathic doctor may be responsible for a baby contracting AIDS in “Retro” from earlier this season.
Cable Choices
Chefology (Food Network): Repeat. Find out more than you would probably ever want to know about Guy Fieri. Plays again later.
Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show (TBS): New. It’s another variety show. Hopefully, this one is better than Rosie’s, which I read was pretty bad. Plays again later.
Trading Spaces (TLC): New. A couple of Hollywood stuntmen exchange places. Plays again later.
Sports Notes
- ABC has golf action with the LG Skins Game followed by regional college football action followed by Saturday Night College Football, see Prime Pick above for more info.
- CBS has doubleheader college football with Georgia Tech (22) at Georgia (11) followed by Auburn at Alabama (1).
- ESPN has two college football games with Virginia at Virginia Tech early and Notre Dame at USC (5) capping off the day.
- ESPN2 has three college football games with Kentucky (20) at Tennessee (19) being the third and then later some college basketball action.
- FOX Sports regional networks have college basketball and football games.
- NBA TV has the the Houston Rockets at the Orlando Magic.
- NBC has college football action with Grambling at Southern in the Bayou Classic.
- Versus has two college football games with Baylor at Texas Tech (7) followed by Oregon (23) at Oregon State (17).
Late Night
- MADtv (FOX): Repeat. Rapper Ne-Yo joins in the fun.
- Monk (USA): Repeat. Last night’s holiday episode, “Mr. Monk and the Miracle,” replays. Also replays earlier in the day.
- Psych (USA): Repeat. Last night’s holiday episode, “Christmas Joy,” replays. Also replays earlier in the day.
- Saturday Night Live (NBC): Repeat. Anne Hathaway hosted with musical guest the Killers.
- The Shield (FX): Repeat. This past Tuesday’s series finale episode, “Family Meeting,” replays. Runs 90 minutes.
- Talkshow With Spike Feresten (FOX): Repeat. His guest is radio host Adam Carolla.
TV Marathons
BET has 36 episodes of The Parkers.
Biography has six episodes of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!.
Bravo has six episodes of Project Runway.
Discovery Channel has 10 episodes of MythBusters.
DIY has episodes of Cool Tools all day.
FOX Reality has 10 episodes of Hell’s Kitchen.
Green has episodes of Emeril Green all morning and 12 episodes of Go for the Green tonight.
Hallmark Channel has Christmas themed movies all day long.
MSNBC has 18 hours of Lockup episodes.
MTV has six episodes of Made.
MTV2 has 13 episodes of High School Stories.
The N has 18 episodes of Drake & Josh.
Oxygen has eight episodes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta early.
Science has 20 episodes of How It’s Made: Redux.
Sci Fi has the four-part, eight-hour Stephen King’s The Stand miniseries.
TV Land has six episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation tonight.
TV One has episodes of Good Times most of the day.
VH1 has eight episodes of I Love the New Millennium.