Tuesday, December 31, 2019

New Year's Eve 2019 and New Year's Day 2020 TV Marathons

Welcome to a special New Year's style edition of the News Blog! As we end 2019 and start 2020, today we will give you a marathon recap on TV for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! Some of the major TV stunts include Antenna TV's NewsRadio New Year's Day Marathon starting at 5am. Ring in the new year with the Rose family by catching up on your favorite comedy series Schitt's Creek on Pop TV beginning today at 12 pm ET/PT through New Year's Day at 9:30pm. COZI TV will have a launch marathon of Roseanne on New Year's Day starting at 10am through 12am. Syfy has its 24th annual Twilight Zone New Year's Eve and Day marathon that starts New Year's Eve at 6am continuing through early Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 4am. IFC will have a Monty Python's Flying Circus marathon as soon the clock strikes midnight to ring in 2020 through 9:15am on New Year's Day! WPIX in New York will of course have their annual The Honeymooners marathon starting at 11:59pm on New Year's Eve through 5pm on New Year's Day. Also in New York City, WLNY-TV 55/10 will have a marathon of The Odd Couple once again starting at 10pm on New Year's Eve night through 9pm on New Year's Day for the eighth straight year.

TV One has a New Year's Eve marathon of Sanford & Son starting at 6am through 3am, followed by a New Year's Day marathon of Good Times also from 6am-3am. TV Land will go with multiple marathons on New Year's Day with The Golden Girls from 9am-1pm, The Andy Griffith Show from 1pm-8pm and The King of Queens from 8pm-3am. FXX will continue its marathon of The Simpsons that started a few weeks ago and will end on New Year's Eve night at 2am. Comedy Central ends the year with a South Park marathon from 9am-2am and then starts the year with Chappelle's Show on New Year's Day from 9am-5am, as we mentioned. There is a New Year's Eve and Day marathon of Sex and the City on E! that has already begun. USA Network has a Law & Order: SVU Resolve to Watch New Year's Eve and Day marathon starting at 6am on New Year's Eve. Other notable marathons on New Year's Eve includes Criminal Minds on ION, more Twilight Zone on Decaces, Law & Order/Law & Order: Criminal Intent marathon on WEtv, Chicago P.D. marathon on Oxygen and a Doctor Who marathon on BBC America that has already started and runs through 5am on Jan. 2.

It won't be the end of the year and the start of the year without ABC's Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2019 special on New Year's Eve from 8pm-10pm, followed by its annual specials at 10pm and 11:30pm. NBC and Fox air their own New Year's Eve specials hosted by Carson Daly and Steve Harvey, respectively. Movie wise, AMC, TNT, Freeform and many others will air movies on New Year's Day, while Hallmark Channel continues to air Christmas movies on New Year's Eve. Tune in Tuesday and Wednesday for all of this!


Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows

Saturday, May 17

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Complete TV Listings


Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of May 12)

Friday, May 16

  • Lunell (Lopez) - Watch Luenell on a repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm on ABC. She will also be on PIX11 Morning News on WPIX in New York at 9:39am.
  • Benito Skinner (Overcompensating) - Benito appears on a repeat of Late Night with Seth Meyers at 12:36am on NBC.
  • Mayan Lopez (Lopez vs Lopez) and Jerry O'Connell (We Are Men/Do Not Disturb/Carpoolers/My Secret Identity) - Mayan and Jerry are guests on a repeat of After Midnight at 12:37am on CBS.
  • Luke Kirby (Étoile) and Gideon Glick (Étoile/The Other Two) - Luke and Gideon talk about Étoile on NBC's Today in the 9am hour.
  • Stanley Tucci (Central Park) - Stanley talks about his new series Tucci in Italy with GMA co-anchor Michael Strahan on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am and on ABC's GMA 3: What You Need to Know at 1pm. He will also be on ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis at 7pm.
  • Howie Mandel (Good Grief) - Howie talks about America's Got Talent on Live with Kelly and Mark (check your local listings) and on Access Daily with Mario & Kit, so check your lcoal listings.
  • Marissa Jaret Winokur (What We Do in the Shadows/Retired at 35/Stacked) - Marissa talks about her latest project Mama I'm a Big Girl Now on Sherri, so check your local listings.


New on DVD and Blu-ray

The Wayans Bros. - The Complete Series Frasier (2023) - Season Two Abbott Elementary - The Complete Third Season The Drew Carey Show - The Complete Series* (missing 4 episodes and some music has been replaced or altered) Bewitched - The Complete Series - 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Blu-ray)

01/28 - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
02/04 - The Wayans Bros. - The Complete Series
03/11 - Frasier (2023) - Season Two
04/01 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Third Season
05/13 - The Drew Carey Show - The Complete Series* (missing 4 episodes and some music has been replaced or altered)
06/06 - Shoresy - Season 2
06/17 - Looney Tunes - Collector's Vault - Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
07/08 - Bewitched - The Complete Series - 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Blu-ray)

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