Tonight on the Tube: 24 TV Marathons, Robin Hood & Beyond Sherwood Forest

News & Notes

On cable tonight, Animal Planet has a Your Pet Wants This special, CMT has the fourth season finale of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, Hallmark Channel has the TV movie premiere of The National Tree, HGTV has a Sandra Lee Celebrates: Holiday Homecoming special, Science has a Build It Better special, and Syfy has the TV movie premiere of Beyond Sherwood Forest.

Prime Picks

Dexter (Showtime): Repeat. Last Sunday’s episode, “Hungry Man,” replays, where Dexter has Thanksgiving with Trinity and finds out a whole lot more about him.

Robin Hood (BBC America): New. Robin gets word the King is heading home, so he decides to take over the castle at Nottingham and keep Prince John out until the King arrives. Plays again later. Last week’s episode replays right before. Next week is the third season, and also the series, finale.

Chopped (Food Network): Repeat. Four former champions return to compete again. Plays again later.

Solid Selections

The Good Wife (CBS): Repeat. In “Fixed” from earlier this season, Alicia may have found evidence of jury tampering for a big case the firm is trying.

Beyond Sherwood Forest (Syfy): TV Movie Premiere. This takes the story of Robin Hood and adds magic and monsters to the mix. It stars Robin Dunne (Sanctuary) as Robin Hood and Erica Durance (Smallville) as Maid Marian. Runs two hours. Plays again later.

Other Option

• Legend of the Seeker (Syndication): New. Plays either Saturday or Sunday. Find out when and where it’s playing in your area.

Sports Notes

• ABC has regional college football today and tonight has Saturday Night College Football.
• CBS has college football action with Florida State at Florida.
• ESPN has three college football games today with Arkansas at LSU capping off the day.
• ESPN2 has two college football games with a college basketball game in the middle.
• NBA TV has the Charlotte Bobcats at the Washington Wizards.
• Versus has college basketball action with Louisville at UNLV.

TV Marathons

BET has 23 episodes of The Game.
Bravo has 10 episodes of America’s Next Top Model.
Discovery Channel has 13 episodes of Dirty Jobs.
Disney Channel has 10 episodes of Sonny With a Chance.
DIY has 33 episodes of Cool Tools.
G4 has 14 episodes of Cheaters early and 10 episodes of The International Sexy Ladies Show tonight.
History has 12 episodes of Ice Road Truckers.
ID has five episodes of 48 Hours: Hard Evidence early.
Lifetime has Christmas/Holiday themed TV movies all day.
MTV has five episodes of World’s Strictest Parents early.
MTV2 has 10 episodes of Viva La Bam.
Nickelodeon has 16 episodes of George Lopez tonight into late night.
Oxygen has 16 episodes of Snapped.
Science has 20 episodes of Build It Bigger.
Speed has 14 episodes of Gearz followed by 15 episodes of Monster Jam.
Syfy has monster movies all day.
TLC has seven episodes of What Not to Wear tonight.
truTV has six episodes of World’s Wildest.
TV Land has 20 episodes of Married…With Children.
VH1 has eight episodes of Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy.
WE has six episodes of Raising Sextuplets and later 16 episodes of The Locator.