It’s Thanksgiving, and besides pretending that the parade is more interesting than it actually is, or having awkward interaction with relatives, there’s another great holiday tradition: reality TV marathons.
The Mythbusters gang tests myths all day long [Discovery, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.], and those 11 hours are followed by the two-hour “Punkin Chunkin” competition—yes, it involves chucking pumpkins—hosted this year by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.
Food Networks’ Ace of Cakes is ending after its upcoming 10th season, but TLC’s similar Cake Boss is still around and will air all day on Thanksgiving, if you want to get into a cake mood [TLC, 6 a.m. to 3 a.m.]. If you just want to celebrate your inner glutton, watch Adam Richman eat on Man v. Food [Travel Channel, 9 a.m. Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday]. But if you’d rather be inspired to clean, check out Clean House’s marathon [Style, 6 a.m. Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday].
If you need to cheer yourself up after all the family cheer, try the documentary series that follows homicide investigators, The First 48 [A&E, 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. Friday]. There’s other escapist television on, too, like an evening with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills [Bravo, 6 p.m. Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday], which is preceded by eight hours with the Millionaire Matchmaker [Bravo, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.].
Eavesdrop on people’s professions by watching Campus PD [G4, 12:30 p.m. to midnight], which is basically like Cops except on college campuses. So, you know, crazier. And Cops itself precedes and follows that marathon. There’s house porn and awkwardly scripted reality TV with 12 hours of House Hunters and House Hunters International [HGTV, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.],
Elsewhere, you can watch the aspirational series The Buried Life [MTV, 9 a.m. to noon] followed by the bratty series My Super Sweet 16 [MTV, noon to 5 p.m.]. On MTV’s sibling channel, there are marathons of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory [MTV2, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.] followed by Rob and Big [MTV2, 3 p.m. to midnight].
And of course, the Kardashians do their part and offer their lives up for entertainment. Keeping Up with the Kardashians [E!, 10 a.m. to noon, and 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.] will apparently keep doing that, because the family plans on sharing their lives via reality TV “forever.”
Friday, Nov. 26TV networks offer their own version of leftovers on Friday, with some additional reality TV marathons. There’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills [Bravo, Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.], My Super Sweet 16 [6 a.m. to 10 a.m.], and Teen Mom [MTV, 1 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.].
Elsewhere, Giuliana & Bill [Style 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.], followed by the network’s Jersey Shore rip-off Jerseylicious [Style, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.]
MTV2 hands over its schedule to Jackass spin-offs: Wildboyz [MTV2, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.], Bam’s Unholy Union [MTV2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.], and Viva La Bam [MTV2, 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.]
And for a dose of seriousness, check out “Diet Detective” Charles Stuart Platkin’s I Want to Save Your Life [WEtv, 2 a.m. to 5 a.m.], on which he helps someone lose weight, but without screaming at them, using a giant scale, or making them perform challenges—and via which he also really wants to help you.
Later, there’s the docudrama series that follows a recession-impacted family, Downsized [WEtv, 8 p.m. to midnight]. And on Friday night, the extreme school makeover series School Pride [NBC, 8 p.m.] ends its first, and perhaps only, season as it helps an L.A. school.
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