Today on the Tube: 38 TV Marathons, College Bowls & New Year’s Eve Specials to Help Ring in 2011

News & Notes

NCAA FootballTonight, ABC has Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011 and NBC has NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly.

Over on cable, Bravo has a Watch What Happens: Live: Andy’s New Year’s Party special, HBO has a Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On special, MTV has MTV’s New Year’s Eve Bash 2011, and Showtime has a Tom Arnold: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It special.

In late night, ABC has Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011 and FOX has New Year’s Eve Live.

Hope everyone has a Happy and Safe New Year’s Eve.

Sports Notes

  • CBS has college basketball action with Kentucky at Louisville followed by the Sun Bowl with Miami vs. Notre Dame.
  • ESPN has tripleheader college bowl action consisting of the Meineke Car Care Bowl with Clemson vs. South Florida, the Liberty Bowl with Central Florida vs. Georgia, and the Chick-Fil-A Bowl with Florida State vs. South Carolina.
  • ESPN2 has six college basketball games.
  • Versus has NHL action with the Phoenix Coyotes at the St. Louis Blues.

38 New Year’s Eve TV Marathons

A&E has 16 episodes of Criminal Minds.
ABC Family has nine episodes of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
AMC is playing the Back to the Future Trilogy twice.
Animal Planet has six episodes of Confessions: Animal Hoarding tonight.
BBC America has episodes of Doctor Who all day and tomorrow.
BIO has five episodes of American Gangster tonight.
Bravo has 14 episodes of The Real Housewives of …
Cartoon Network has 10 episodes of Adventure Time With Finn & Jake.
Centric has 36 episodes of In Living Color.
Chiller TV has seven zombie movies today.
CMT has 13 episodes of The Dukes of Hazard.
Cooking Channel has 15 episodes of Iron Chef.
Discovery Channel has 14 episodes of Deadliest Catch.
Discovery Health has eight episodes of Dr. G: Medical Examiner.
Food Network has nine episodes of The Next Food Network Star.
Golf Channel is playing Tin Cup four times today.
Green Channel has five episodes of Solving History With Olly Steeds early.
Hallmark Channel has four Christmas themed TV movies.
HGTV has 27 episodes of House Hunters International.
History is alternating between episodes of American Pickers and Pawn Stars all day.
ID has 24 episodes of Disappeared.
ION has 10 episodes of Without a Trace.
Logo has seven episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Military has nine episodes of World War II in Color.
MSNBC has 10 episodes of Lockup…
MTV has Jersey Shore episodes all day and all weekend.
Nat Geo Wild has 15 episodes of World’s Deadliest Animals.
Science has episodes of How It’s Made all day.
Speed has the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction all day.
Spike TV has 26 episodes of 1000 Ways to Die.
Syfy has episodes of The Twilight Zone all day and all weekend long.
TLC has nine episodes of 48 Hours…
Travel Channel has 12 episodes of Ghost Adventures.
Universal HD has 24 episodes of Life is Wild.
USA has 22 episodes of House, M.D.
VH1 has 13 episodes of Saturday Night Live.
WE has seven episodes of My Fair Wedding With David Tutera early and another five later.

See what TV marathons are playing on New Year’s Day and the day after.

What are your New Year’s TV/movie viewing traditions?

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