new years day – tuesday
Happy New Year!
Picks for Wednesday follow today’s picks, scroll down.
Behind the Music marathon continues on VH1 (until 8pm).
The Twilight Zone marathon continues on the Sci-Fi channel (’til 2am Wednesday).
TNN has a Baywatch marathon.
TV Land has a marathon that features first episodes of classic series like Happy Days (TV Land, 6am and 4pm); Laverne & Shirley (TV Land, 6:30am and 4:30pm); Get Smart (TV Land, 7am); Hogan’s Heroes (TV Land, 7:30am); F-Troop (TV Land, 8am), The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Land, 8:30am); and plenty of others (full listings can be found here).
Rose Parade Through the Years (HGTV, 6am).
Early first season episodes of M*A*S*H (FX, 6am-9am) including the pilot.
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr have An Affair to Remember (AMC, 6:30am).
Whose Line Is It Anyway? marathon (Comedy Central, 7am-7pm).
Law & Order marathon (A&E, 7am-7pm).
History’s Lost and Found marathon (History Channel, 7am-6pm).
The NYPD Blue marathon that began on New Year’s Eve continues with episodes 7-22 (Court TV, 8am-midnight). That’s right, they’re airing the entire first season.
Coming Up Roses (CBS, 9am-10am). Coverage of the Rose Bowl Parade.
The Making of the 2002 Rose Parade (HGTV, 9am).
Florida Citrus Bowl Parade (ABC, 9am).
The Fiesta Bowl Parade (ABC Family Channel, 10am-11am).
The Tournament of Roses Parade (CBS, 10am-12:30pm) also (ABC, 10am-Noon) and (NBC, 10am-11:30am) and (HGTV, 10am-Noon). Note that HGTV is covering the parade without any commercial interruptions (good for them!).
Like Alias? Or simply been meaning to see if the show is any good? You can catch all ten of the episodes that have aired (thus far) in order in a nice marathon on ABC Family Channel (ABC Family Channel, 11am-9pm). Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, and Michael Vartan star in this series about a couple of double-agents. It’s fun, definitely worth a look.
Unwrapped marathon (Food Network, 11am-5:30pm). It’s a cute fun sometimes fascinating show. If you dig pop culture and/or food, especially.
SoapNet’s FANtastic Countdown (SoapNet, Noon-8pm; 8pm-4am). Top Ten Episodes of ABC Soaps for the past year, as voted on by the fans.
If you aren’t getting enough first episodes on TV Land, FX has a marathon of first episodes of their shows including Beverly Hills, 90210 (FX, 1pm); The X-Files (FX, 4pm and midnight); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 5pm-7pm); M*A*S*H (FX, 7pm-8pm); The Practice (FX, 8pm); and Ally McBeal (FX, 10pm). And yeah, this is the start of a whole new run of Buffy from the beginning on FX, where it will continue airing episodes at 5pm and 6pm weekdays (rerunning at 6am and 7am the following morning).
CBS will air “classic” episodes of their soaps (CBS, check your local listings), except for The Young and the Restless which is preempted. The Bold and the Beautiful will air yet another of Brooke’s weddings. The As The World Turns rerun will be of the episode where Kim Hughes has a sortof It’s A Wonderful Life experience from December 1997. And Guiding Light will air Philip and Beth’s wedding from 1991.
Here’s lookin’ at you, Casablanca (TCM, 2pm). A great great movie.
Another airing of the pilot movie of Hill Street Blues (Bravo, 6pm-8pm).
For the Troops: MTV’s USO Show (MTV, 7pm-9pm).
Good idea: HGTV reruns their coverage of The 113th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade in primetime (HGTV, 7pm, again at 9:30pm).
Rerun of the first two episodes of this season of Gilmore Girls (WB, 7pm-9pm).
Rerun of the “Flooded” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN, 7pm).
Walking with Dinosaurs (Discovery Channel, 7pm-10pm).
New episode of Roswell (UPN, 8pm) called “A Tale of Two Parties” which is set on New Year’s.
Stupid Pet Tricks, Vince Vaughn on a rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Kelly Ripa on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).
Caroline Rhea, Rich Hall on a very funny rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).
Christine Lahti, Zac Braff, Keb Mo on a rerun of The Late Late Show (CBS, 11:35pm).
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2002
Big changes to the daily lineups on the Sci-Fi channel and on Bravo, may also be other changes to other cable lineups or to your local stations, so keep an eye on those listings. I’ll try to cover the big things I notice.
Reruns of the first two episodes ever of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 6am, 7am) in case you missed ‘em on New Year’s Day. Catch the whole series from the beginning (it’s fun!).
The John Larroquette Show (USA, 7am) seems to be airing on USA more again (yay!). Now if only they’d get back to showing first season episodes (those were the best). Larroquette, Liz Torres (now of Gilmore Girls), Chi McBride (now of Boston Public), and Darryl “Chill” Mitchell are among the stars.
Scottish Terrier episode of Breed All About It (Animal Planet, 8:30am).
Antiques Roadshow reruns begin airing on Bravo (Bravo, 10am, 2pm weekdays).
Looks like the Sci-Fi channel is going to stop doing those mini marathons each day, now.
Viper begins another run on Sci-Fi with the first part of the pilot episode (Sci-Fi, 10am weekdays).
Bravo begins airing St. Elsewhere (Bravo, 11am weekdays) again from the very beginning with the pilot episode.
The Twilight Zone (Sci-Fi, 11am, 11:30am; midnight, 12:30am weekdays) is now airing again regularly on Sci-Fi.
The Wonder Years (ABC Family, 11:30am weekdays) begins airing again on ABC Family, starting with the pilot episode.
“Super Karate Monkey Death Car” episode of NewsRadio (A&E, 11:30am and 5:30pm).
thirtysomething (Bravo, Noon weekdays) now just airs at Noon on weekdays.
Crusade, the Babylon 5 spin-off, begins another run (Sci-Fi, Noon weekdays).
And Moonlighting is also on once daily (Bravo, 1pm weekdays).
The Outer Limits (Sci-Fi, 1pm and 1am weekdays). I think this is the new one, not the old classic.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Sci-Fi, 2pm weekdays) returns to the Sci-Fi lineup. Hooray for Kevin Sorbo (I have to say that, he’s from my hometown).
Caroline Rhea guest hosts The Rosie O’Donnell Show (syndicated, check your local listings). With guests William Baldwin, and that creepy John Edward.
Quantum Leap will now air at 3pm weekdays on Sci-Fi.
Babylon 5 (Sci-Fi, 4pm weekdays) moves from 6pm to 4pm.
“Deep Throat,” is a cool first season episode of The X-Files (FX, 4pm and midnight).
Star Trek (Sci-Fi, 5pm weekdays) remains at 5pm, think they’re starting over again as “The Man Trap” airs today (the first trek episode to air, though it wasn’t the first produced).
The first regular episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after the pilot (FX, 5pm and 6pm).
Hill Street Blues (Bravo, 6pm and 1am weekdays) begins airing on Bravo with the first episode after the pilot movie (the pilot movie aired on New Year’s Day). Another landmark television series gets a run on Bravo. Way to go, Bravo.
Earth: Final Conflict (Sci-Fi, 6pm weekdays) begins another run on Sci-Fi.
First Wave moves into the Farscape slot, where you can see it from the beginning (Sci-Fi, Monday-Thursdays at 7pm).
Rerun of the two-part “Manchester” episode of The West Wing (NBC, 7pm, 8pm). These are the episodes that opened this season of the show (after the special standalone one).
New episodes of Grounded For Live (FOX, 7:30pm), The Bernie Mac Show (FOX, 8pm), and Titus (FOX, 8:30pm).
Rerun of I Love Lucy’s 50th Anniversary Special (CBS, 8pm-10pm).
“White Water Rider” episode of Junkyard Wars (TLC, 8pm and 11pm).
“Honey” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).
Anne Heche on Revealed with Jules Asner (E!, 9pm).
Kevin Spacey on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).
Tales from the Crypt (Sci-Fi, 11pm, 11:30pm) now airs earlier each night on Sci-Fi.
Steven Wright, Jesse L. Martin (of Law & Order) on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).
“Son of a Gun” episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (Court TV, midnight). First of a series of episodes to feature Edie Falco and Lee Tergesen. Great first season stuff from my favorite show.
