Top 10 New Year’s Day Cable TV Marathons

By Tom Rose
Fancast.com

So you’re groggy, your eyes are bloodshot and your head is swimming. Too much New Year’s cheer? No, you just finished watching the Top 10 New Year’s Eve Cable TV Marathon!

And just like the real thing, there’s nothing like a little hair of the dog to get you back on an even keel.

Yesterday we gave you the a list of things to watch on New Years eve, but today we present to you the Top 10 New Year’s Day Cable TV Marathon. A word of advice that always works: take two aspirins before your first sip and you’ll be fine the rest of the day!

1. Bravo: The Biggest Loser: Overweight contestants from all over America compete to win $250,000 by losing the highest percentage of their body fat after the first episode weigh-in.

2. Cartoon Network: Looney Tunes: The updated adventures of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and friends. A new take on an old classic.

3. Comedy Central: South Park: The misadventures of four pre-teen boys from a little Colorado town and the lessons they have to teach the idiotic adults who love them.

4. Discovery: Mythbusters: Quasi-scientists Adam and Jamie take tall tales and urban legends and give them the scientific treatment to determine their validity. Along the way there’s usually an explosion or two.

5. History: Ice Road Truckers In the thick of winter truckers in giant eighteen wheelers carry equipment and supplies to miners in the Canadian tundra.

6. Spike: CSI: NY: Forensic investigators use high-tech science to follow evidence and solve crimes in the Big Apple.

7. TNT: Bones: Dr. Temperance Brennan utilizes her uncanny forensics skills to read clues and solve murders with only the skeletal remains to go by.

8. Travel: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Anthony Bourdain; best selling author, celebrity chef, and culinary adventurer, circles the globe in search of the experiences you can’t find in the guidebooks.

9. TV Land: The Brady Bunch: Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Mike’s previous wife’s death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family.

10. USA: Monk: OCD and a host of phobias lead to very awkward situations for Monk, and anyone around him, as he goes about investigating baffling cases for the SFPD. However, those same personal struggles are what aid him in coming up with the right answers every time.

Check your local listings for start times and episode lists.

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