New Year’s Eve TV: College Football Bowl Games, TV Marathons, Doctor Who Christmas Special Encore & More

News & Notes

Tonight, ABC has a New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Presents the 30 Greatest Women in Music special and Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2014, NBC has A Toast to 2013! special and NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly 2013, and PBS has the 38th season finale of Live From Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic Gala With Yo-Yo Ma.

Over on cable, CNN has New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin, MTV has a Girl Code: New Year’s Code special and Showtime has a House of Lies Live special.

In late night, ABC has Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2014 and FOX has a New Year’s Eve Special.

Prime Picks

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (BBC America): Repeat. The 50th anniversary special episode replays. Runs 100 minutes. Plays again later.

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (BBC America): Repeat. This year’s Christmas special episode replays. Runs 80 minutes. Plays again later.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has tripleheader college football action with the AdvoCare V100 Bowl with Arizona vs. Boston College, the Liberty Bowl with Rice vs. Mississippi State and the Chick-Fil-A Bowl with Duke vs. Texas A&M.
• ESPN2 has five college basketball games with Ohio State at Purdue, Indiana at Illinois, Louisville at Central Florida, Memphis at South Florida and Connecticut at Houston.
• FS1 has five college basketball games with St. John’s at Xavier, Seton Hall at Providence, DePaul at Georgetown, Villanova at Butler and Marquette at Creighton.
• NBA TV has a game tonight.

New Year’s Eve TV Marathons

101 Chowdown Countdown (Travel Channel): Has all five episodes today.
7th Heaven (UPtv): Has 15 episodes.
Awkward. (MTV): Has 16 episodes early.
Banshee (MoMAX): Has 10 episodes tonight into late night.
Criminal Minds (ION): Has 10 episodes.
CSI: Miami (WEtv): Has eight episodes tonight.
Doctor Who (BBC America): Has episodes and specials all day.
Food Paradise (Travel Channel): Has six episodes early.
The Fosters (ABC Family): Has seven episodes today.
Futurama (Comedy Central): Has 13 episodes tonight.
Happy Endings (VH1): All three seasons and 57 episodes replay beginning tonight and then all day tomorrow.
House (UniversalHD): Has 24 episodes today.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX): Has 10 episodes tonight.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (USA Network): Has 16 episodes today.
The Librarian (TNT): All three TV movies starring Noal Wyle replay today.
Malcolm in the Middle (IFC): Has 21 episodes starting really early.
Modern Family (USA Network): Has 10 episodes tonight.
The Newsroom (HBO Signature): Has nine episodes tonight into late night.
True Blood (HBO2): Has 10 episodes tonight into late night.
The Twilight Zone (Syfy): Has episodes all day today and tomorrow.
The Walking Dead (AMC): Has episodes all day today and tomorrow.