Planning a night out this New Year’s Eve? With gas prices at an all time low pretty much all over the county, experts say many will travel by car up to 50 miles for a night out this New Year’s Eve. If you’re planning a party and are wondering what might be on TV to keep your kids occupied, or perhaps be the center of entertainment, here’s a list of TV marathons on New Year’s Eve (December 31).
If you need a theme for your party, how about a Zombie Theme. AMC is starting a Walking Dead Marathon tomorrow, yes, I said tomorrow, Tuesday, December 30 at 8am, beginning with the first episode and continuing through Friday, January 2, 12am. I hope your guests don’t expect to stay that long.
All times listed are Central, and networks are listed alphabetically. If you want to confirm anything listed here, or want to know what’s coming on January 1 or any other days, you can click on the link above. You’ll probably have to put in your satellite/cable provider and your timezone, and may have to register (I’m not sure about that part). It’s quite an invaluable resource.
Of course if you’re still in Christmas mode, and many of us still are, and you’re looking for good quality Christmas programming, then you should head over to the Hallmark Channel. In addition to showing original Holiday movies on New Year’s Eve, they’ll be showing Episode 506 and 505 of Home & Family starting at 9am (CST) (That’s 4 hours worth of good advice at a time of year when you might need it). Talking about something to celebrate, they just did … celebrate … their 500 episode of Home & Family. Congrats Hallmark Channel … that’s quite a milestone.
A&E: Dec. 31, 9am Criminal Minds; 11am CSI: Miami; 1pm Wahlburgers; 5pm Duck Dynasty
ABC Family: Dec. 31, 6am The Middle; 10am New Year’s Eve; 12:30pm The Wedding Planner; 3pm Miss Congeniality; 5pm The Proposal; 7:30pm Pretty Woman; 10pm The 700 Club
AHC: Dec. 31, 8am 10 Commandments of the Mafia; 10am Mafia’s Greatest Hits; 4pm FBI’s 10 Most Wanted: Manhunts; 6pm I (Almost) Got Away With It
Walking Dead Season 2 Gallery Shot. Credit: Matthew Welch/AMC
AMC: Dec. 30, 8am CST: The Walking Dead Marathon starting with the very first episode from Season 1, Days Gone Bye. Continues through Friday, Jan. 2, 12am
Animal Planet: Dec. 31, 6am Africa; 1pm Frozen Planet; 4pm North America
Audience: Dec. 31, 1am The History Boys; 3am GCS Wiz Khalifa; 4am GCS Ziggy Marley; 5am GCS Phantogram; 6am JFK: A President Betrayed; 8am The Dan Patrick Show; 11am The Rich Eisen Show; 2pm The Box Score; 2:30pm ten x ten; 3pm Off Camera with Sam Jones: Jessica Chastain; 4pm GCS The Gaslight Anthem; 6pm 24 (Ssn 6 Ep 21: Day 6 2-3am); 6pm Locker Room Addiction; 7pm 54; 9pm The Clearing; 11pm NYPD Blue (Ssn 1, Ep 1 Pilot); 11:51pm NYPD Blue (Ssn 1, Ep 2 4b or Not 4b)
BBC America: Dec. 31, 12am Star Trek: The Next Generation – Ssn 5, Ep 8, Pt 2; 1am Ssn 5, Ep 9; 2am Ssn 5, Ep 10; 3am Ssn 5, Ep 11; 4am Ssn 5, Ep 12; 5am BBC World News; 8am Doctor Who Ssn 2, Ep 8; 9am Ssn 2 Ep 9; 10am Ssn 2 Ep 11; 11am Ssn 2 Ep 12; 12pm Ssn 2 Ep 13; 1pm Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned; 2:30pm Doctor Who Season 8 Ep 1; 4:15pm Doctor Who Season 8 Ep 11; 5:15pm Ssn 8 Ep 12; 6:30pm Doctor Who: Last Christmas; 8pm Doctor Who: The End of Time; 11pm Doctor Who: The Time of The Doctor
BET: Dec. 31, 7am Nellyville; 10am Top 100 Videos of 2014; 10pm 106 & Party: New Year’s Eve 2014
Bravo: Dec. 31, 5am The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; 6am Black Swan; 8:30 Gangs of New York; 12pm Hannibal Rising; 2:30pm The Prestige; 5pm Shutter Island; 8pm The Prestige; 10:30pm Gangs of New York
Cloo: Dec. 31, 5am NCIS: Los Angeles New Year’s Eve Marathon
CMT: Dec. 31, 10:30am Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge; 9pm Cops Reloaded
Destination America: Dec. 31, 8am Railroad Alaska all day/all night
Discovery HD: Dec. 31, 7am Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life; 7:30am It’s Supernatural! with Sid Roth; 8am Dual Survival; 2pm Naked & Afraid
DIY: Dec. 31, 12am Holmes Makes It Right (Ssn 1, Episode 11: Breaking Through); 3am Paid Programming; 3:30am Renovation Rookies (Ssn 1, Episode 1: Mudroom Madness); 4am Paid Programming; 6am The Vanilla Ice Project; 6pm Rev. Run’s Renovation
E!: Dec. 31, 6am Kourtney & Khloe Take the Hamptons; 11pm Sex & the City
ElRey: Dec. 31, 9am Dark Angel; 3pm Lucha Underground; 11pm Miami Vice
Esquire: Dec. 31, 6am Weekend Fix; 7:30am Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief; 10am 21; 12:30pm Red Dawn; 3pm Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief; 5:30pm 21; 8pm Snakes on a Plane; 10pm Best of Running of the Bulls 2014; 11pm Best Bars in America
Food Network: Dec. 31, 8:30am Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Grinders); 9am 5 Ingredient Fix (Reservations For Brunch); 9:30am Hungry Girl (Just Desserts); 10am Cupcake Wars (Dodgers Cupcakes); 11am The Pioneer Woman (Little School House on the Prairie); 11:30am Barefoot Contessa (Rehearsal Dinner); 12pm Semi-Homemade Cooking (Brunch for a Bunch); 12:30pm Ten Dollar Dinners (Dixie on a Time); 1pm Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (Crispy Stuffed Chicken Breasts); 1:30pm 30 Minute Meals; 2pm Giada at Home; 3pm Barefoot Contessa; 4pm The Pioneer Woman (Gathering Bulls); 4:30pm Southern at Heart (Pizza Party); 5pm Diners, Drive-ins & Dives; 6pm Cutthroat Kitchen; 3am Kitchen Casino
FX: Dec. 31, 6am The Insider; 9am The Tourist; 11am Salt; 1pm How I Met Your Mother; 3pm Anger Management; 4pm Two & a Half Men; 5pm Mike & Molly
FXM: Dec. 31, 7:55am Wabash Avenue; 9:30am The I Don’t Care Girl; 10:50am The Farmer Takes a Wife; 12:15pm High Time; 2pm Twilight; 4:30pm The Twilight Saga: New Moon; 10pm The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
FXX: Dec. 31, 6am Sports Night; 7am Parks & Recreation; 10:30am The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; 1pm Tropic Thunder; 3:30pm Click; 6pm The Simpsons Movie; 8pm The Simpsons
Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family celebrates their 500th Episode.
Hallmark Channel: Dec. 31 7am All I Want for Christmas; 9am Home & Family; 1pm Help for the Holidays; 3pm Matchmaker Santa; 5pm Meet the Santas; 7pm The Christmas Ornament; 9pm The Middle; 10pm The Good Witch’s Gift
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries: Dec. 31, 12am Finding John Christmas; 2am When Angels Come to Town; 4am Fallen Angel; 6am What I Did for Love; 8am A Kiss at Midnight; 10am Christmas Wishes; 12pm Finding John Christmas; 2pm Fallen Angel; 4pm Anne Tyler’s Saint Maybe; 6pm A Season for Miracles; 8pm A Kiss at Midnight; 10pm Christmas Wishes
HGTV: Dec. 31, 5:30am House Hunters International; 8pm-3:30am House Hunters
History: Dec. 31, 7am Brad Meltzer’s Decoded: Lincoln Assassination; 8am Lost History: White House Cornerstone; 9am Lost History: D-Day Footage; 10am Lost History: Moon Landing Tapes; 11am Lost History: Lee Harvey Oswald’s Ring; 12pm Lost History: Geronimo’s Skull; 1pm Lost History: Hitler’s Photo Album; 2pm Lost History: Missing Moon Rocks; 3pm Lost History: JFK’s Brain; 4pm American Pickers
H2: Dec. 31, 7am Mega Movers; 8am Ancient Discoveries
Investigation Discovery: Dec. 31, 5am Blood Relatives; 1pm My Dirty Little Secret; 7pm Momsters: When Moms Go Bad
IFC: Dec. 31, 12:30am Halloween (2007); 3am Saw VI; 5am Trapped in Paradise; 7:30am Comedy Bang! Bang! 8:45am Caddyshack; 11am Trapped in Paradise; 1:30pm House Party; 3:45pm Caddyshack; 6pm The Three Stooges
ION: Dec. 31, 12pm Rookie Blue; 3pm-11pm Cold Case; Jan. 1, 10am-1am (Jan. 2) Criminal Minds
Lifetime: Dec. 31, 12:02am Biography; 1:02am G.I. Jane; 4:04am Biography; 5:04-8:30am Informational Programming; 8:30am The Balancing Act; 9am Unsolved Mysteries; 10am How I Met Your Mother; 3pm The Surrogacy Trap; 5pm The Nightmare Nanny; 7pm Accused at 17; 9pm Missing at 17; 11pm Guilty at 17
LMN: Dec. 31, 12am Intervention; 2am Escaping Polygamy; 4am Intervention; 5-6:30am Informational Programming; 7am Fatal Desire; 9am Too Close to Home; 11am Murder at My Door; 1pm Murder in a College Town; 3pm Maid of Honor; 5pm Vows of Deception; 7pm The Preacher’s Mistress; 9pm The Good Mistress; 11pm Dark Desire
Logo: Dec. 31, 5am: T-Shirt Stories; 6am The ANTICS Roadshow; 7am Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite Tour; 9am RuPaul’s Drag Race
Nat Geo Wild: Dec. 31, 6am Dog Whisperer; 7am Monster Fish; 8am Wild Wives of Africa; 11am Caught in the Act; 4pm Animals Gone Wild
Ovation: Dec. 31, 12:30am A Dangerous Method; 2:30am Music Mavericks (Neil Diamond); 6am Raiders of the Lost Art (Leonardo da Vinci); 7am Raiders of the Lost Art (Vermeer); 8am Johnny Cash in San Quentin; 9am Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison; 11am Lonesome Dome Season 1, Episodes 1-4; 7pm Return to Lonesome Dove, Episodes 1-3 (Episode 4 airs at 1am on January 1)
OWN: Dec. 31, 5am Dr. Phil; 1pm Undercover Boss; 6pm Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
Oxygen: Dec. 31, 5am Love & Other Drugs; 7:30am My Wife & Kids; 10am Why Do Fools Fall in Love?; 12pm Soul Plane; 2pm Love Jones; 4pm Soul Plane; 6pm Magic Mike; 8:30 Magic Mike; 11pm Love & Other Drugs
Pivot Channel: Dec. 31, 1am Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 5am The Operatives; 6am Friday Night Lights; 8am Farscape; 8pm Angry Planet; 9pm Future of Water Part 1; Part 2 (10pm); Part 3 (11pm)
Reelz Channel: Dec. 31, 7am Access Hollywood LIVE; 8am TMZ Hollywood Sports; 8:30am Mansion Hunters; 9am EP Daily; 9:30am OK! TV; 10am Access Hollywood LIVE; 11am OK! TV Specials; 11:30am Holiday Movie Preview Review; 12pm Hatfields & The McCoy’s: Bad Blood; 2pm True Grit (1969); 5pm OK! TV; 6pm The Shooter; 8pm True Grit (1969); 11pm TMZ Hollywood Sports; 11:30pm OK! TV Specials; 12pm OK! TV Specials
Science: Dec. 31, 12am MythBusters, all day/all night
Spike: Dec. 31, 1:30pm Jail; 2pm Cops; 3pm World’s Wildest Police Videos; 5pm Cops; 6:30pm Jail; 7pm Cops; 7:30pm Jail; 8pm Cops
Syfy: Dec. 31, 8am The Twilight Zone all day/all night
TBS: Dec. 31, 5am Rules of Engagement; 5:30am Married with Children; 6:30am Lord of the Rings: Return of the King; 11am The Cleveland Show; 12pm American Dad; 1:30pm Family Guy; 2pm The King of Queens; 3pm Friends; 5pm Seinfeld; 7pm Family Guy; 7:30pm Big Bang Theory; 10pm Conan; 11pm Cougar town; 11:30pm Conan (repeat) 12pm Cougar Town
TLC: Dec. 31, 5am Hoarding: Buried Alive; 1pm Untold Stories of the ER; 7pm Strange Sex: The Year’s Best; 8pm Secret Sex Lives
TNT: Dec. 31, 12am CSI: NY; 5am Law & Order (the original); 7am Charmed; 9am The Mechanic; 10:45am The Fast & the Furious; 12:45pm Fast & Furious; 2:45pm Clash of the Titans; 4:45pm 300; 7pm The Expendables; 9pm Red; 11pm Law & Order (the original)
Travel: Dec. 31, Tastiest Places to Chowdown – Chowdown Countdown: 10am – Lobster Shack in Main, the BBQ Capital of Texas, Sausage; 11am – Big Red in Alabama; 12pm – soul food in Nebraska, a BBQ join with 100 years of pit experience, steak join in the south; 1pm – Brooklyn style pizza, the best lobster roll in New Hampshire, how the president likes his chili; 2pm – top 20 spots in the Chowdown Countdown; 3pm Booze Traveler; 9pm Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman; 11pm Booze Traveler
TruTV: Dec. 31, 9am World’s Dumbest; 11am Top 20 Most Shocking; 1pm Barmageddon; 3pm South Beach Tow7pm Hardcore Pawn; 10pm Barmageddon (New); 12am Hardcore Pawn
TV Land: Dec. 31, 8am The Andy Griffith Show; 10am Hogan’s Heroes; 12pm Gunsmoke; 1pm Bonanza; 3pm Walker, Texas Ranger; 7pm Family Feud; 8pm Everybody Loves Raymond; 9pm The Year: 2014; 11pm Friends
TV One: Dec. 31, 7am A Different World; 8am News One Now; 9am Martin
UP: Dec. 31, 8am Heartland; 9am Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman; 11am Touched by an Angel; 12pm Judging Amy; 2pm Heaven is Waiting; 4pm Fireproof; 6:30pm Facing the Giants; 9pm Courageous; 11:30pm King’s Faith
USA: Dec. 31, 12:30am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit all day
Velocity: Dec. 31, 7am South Beach Classics; 8am Wheeler Dealers
weTV: Dec. 31, 10:30am Judge Hackett; 11am Roseanne; 1pm Will & Grace; 3pm SWV Reunited
WGN America: Dec. 31, 8am America’s Funniest Home Videos
Small Screen Silver Surfer 