New Year’s Day TV Day

The Hypnotoad.

"Television is a vast wasteland"

This will show me to close my eyes just when magical thinking and rooting could make a difference.  I’ll never change my socks again.

Sigh.

Today’s featured distractions are the 124th Rose Parade, the Rose Bowl, and the ‘Gator Bowl (drink named after the team and not the other way around).

This edition covers the 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm.  Immediate gratification is here.  The previous edition is here.

6 am

• MSNBC– Morning Joe (Look-Back Roundtable 2012)
• SciFi– The Twilight Zone (until 5 am)
• Turner Classic– Finian’s Rainbow
• USA– Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (until 6 am)

7 am

• ABC Family– Boy Meets World (until 9:30)
• FX– Dude, Where’s My Car?

8 am

• H2– The Universe (until 4 am)
• Lifetime– Dance Moms (Season Premier, premier, until 4 am)

8:30 am

• Turner Classic– Funny Girl

9 am

• AMC– Awake
• Toon– Johnny Test (until noon)
• Comedy– Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person
• Discovery– Survival Series (until 3 am)
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (Where’s Perry? Parts 1 & 2)
• FX– Pineapple Express
• National Geographic– Doomsday Preppers (premier, until 10 pm)
• Nick– SpongeBob SquarePants (until noon)
• TNT– Blade: Trinity
• True– Hardcore Pawn (until 4 am)

10 am

• BBCA– The Tudors (until 6 am)
• Comedy– Beverly Hills Cop III
• Disney– Despicable Me
• Oxygen– America’s Next Top Model (until 3 am)
• Travel– Mysteries at the Museum (until 7 pm)

10:30 am

• Science– Fringe (until 2:30 am)

11 am

• ABC– The 2013 Rose Parade
• ABC Family– Bunheads (until 6 pm)
• AMC– Highlander
• Home & Garden– Rose Parade 2013
• TBS– The Hangover (x 4 until 8 pm)
• Turner Classic– My Fair Lady
• TNT– Resident Evil: Extinction

11:30 am

• NBC– 124th Tournament of Roses Parade
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb
• FX– Superbad

noon

• Toon– The Amazing World of Gumball (until 3 pm)
• Comedy– Beerfest
• ESPN2– College Throwball (Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Northwestern)
• MSNBC– Prison Porn (until 5 am)

1 pm

• ABC– College Throwball (Capital One Bowl: Georgia v. Nebraska)
• Disney– Radio Rebel
• ESPN– College Throwball (Outback Bowl: Michigan vs. South Carolina)
• TNT– I Am Legend

1:30 pm

• AMC– Mad Max

2 pm

• Animal Planet– Call of the Wildman (until 5 pm)
• Comedy– Let’s Go to Prison
• Food– Mystery Diners (until 7 pm)
• FX– Role Models
• Hub– Open Season
• Nick– SpongeBob SquarePants (until 7:30 pm)
• Turner Classic– Camelot

2:30 pm

• Disney XD– Phineas and Ferb (until 4:30 pm)
• TLC– Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (until 8 pm)
• TNT– 300

3 pm

• Bravo– Sleepless in Seattle
• Toon– Regular Show (until 5:30 pm)

3:30 pm

• AMC– Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

4 pm

• Comedy– Coming to America
• FX– What Happens in Vegas
• VH1– Three Amigos!

5 pm

• Animal Planet– Finding Bigfoot (until 6 am)
• Bravo– How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Disney– Austin & Jessie & Ally All Star New Year
• Disney XD– Race to Witch Mountain
• ESPN– 2013 Rose Bowl (Stanford vs. Wisconsin)
• TNT– The Dark Knight

5:30 pm

• AMC– Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Turner Classic– Hello, Dolly!