Greetings my friends and welcome once again to the last day of the year and one of my very favorite posts to do at this time. For a number of years, “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” has been lining out the complete episode rundown of “The Honeymooners” marathon that will be broadcast starting tomorrow on New Year’s Day at 12:30AM on WPIX Channel 11. If you’ve followed along with the website over the last few years you already know that this has become a bit of a tradition for me to do. I began running this in 2020 and at that time it actually began before the ball dropped but in the most recent years it has started after the network finished its own end of year celebration. As a comedy series, “The Honeymooners” has withstood the tests of time and still remains as funny as it ever was. Historically speaking the network began doing this sort of thing in 1996 and my family and I would always enjoy as much of it as we could watch on the holidays at the actual broadcast times while others opted to record on VHS Tape. You in the younger generation might not recall that this was the only method of catching shows that aired while you were asleep. Once again I used a pair of resources to cull this scheduling and that’s the Official PIX website AND the Spectrum Channel Guide and I was happy to find that they were totally in sync. The marathon will first run from 12:20AM to 4AM and then pause for local news programming. I’m still unsure why we need three hours of local news at that hour as opposed to one but I am not in the producer’s chair here. Trust me when I say that absolutely no one is interested in the local news over seeing additional episodes of “The Honeymooners”. While I’ve never attempted a live viewing from beginning to end I can say with some level of certainty that these three news hours would be when I chose to power nap before waking up to tackle more of the marathon. Since I always fall asleep around the time this begins I am relying on my DVR to enjoy this years go round.
Greetings friends and welcome to another special post with a dual purpose. I’m sending out a slightly early “Happy Thanksgiving” wish to you and your loved ones and also to share that PIX11 has just announced that a mini-marathon of episodes of “The Honeymooners” will once again be happening on Thanksgiving Day between the hours of from 11AM-3PM. According to the listings these episodes will be broadcast between showings of the holiday Laurel and Hardy classic “March of The Wooden Soldiers”. The first showing of that film will be in black and white while the one afterwards will be in color. I love sharing rundowns like this one because its such a classic show and it gets me prepped for the longer marathon which runs every New Year’s Eve. While I’ve been doing that one for awhile this is only the second time that I’ve shared about the Thanksgiving Day one and by doing it a day or so in advance you have time to program your DVR or maybe even VHS player if you still happen to have one that works and a tape. These eight episodes are good ones but I really can’t find a single episode from the “Classic 39” that doesn’t make me laugh out loud. Are any of your own favorites listed in this rundown? If so do please chime in later on. Since these episodes are beginning while a lot of the feast preparation is still going on, it might be wise to pull that small portable set out of the closet. Here’s the rundown of episodes.
There have been so many music related biographies released over the last few years and that’s a very good thing for sure. There’s been “Bohemian Rhapsody” about Queen and Freddie Mercury, “A Complete Unknown” about Bob Dylan and even The Boss with “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”. Now it’s the late, great Michael Jackson’s turn with a film simply titled “Michael”. Earlier this morning the folks at Lionsgate Movies dropped the Official Teaser and I’m presenting that down below with some light premise and the casting. Enjoy.
Though I’ve long appreciated the musical contributions of the great Neil Diamond, I never actually knew about the tribute act of “Lightning and Thunder” before seeing the trailer for this film. The folks from Focus Features have recently dropped the trailer for the film about them and you can check that out down below along with casting and the basic premise.
On June 20th, 1975, the Universal Pictures film “Jaws” became the first Summer blockbuster and kept beachgoers terrified about hitting the surf and rightly so. For it’s time it was truly ahead of the game and in honor of its 50th Anniversary the movie returns to the big screen for a limited time running from today 8/29 until 9/4. I’ve shared the celebration poster, some cast and a brief premise along with the original poster and trailer. It’s time for you to be afraid to go in the water….Again.
