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Rundown Of “The Honeymooners” New Year’s Day Marathon On PIX11 (1/1/2025)

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Greetings my friends and welcome again to what will pretty much amount to being the final post for this calendar year 2024 here on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”. If you’ve followed along with the website over the last few years and around this particular time, you know that we are here to talk about “The Honeymooners” because its time for the complete rundown of episodes that will be shown on PIX11 for their annual marathon. I’ve been doing this since 2020 and since its a longtime favorite show that has withstood the tests of time I’ve made this a bit of a year-end tradition. I remember the network doing this for many years even before we were publishing and a quick Google Search found that this has been done since 1996. I initially did this during the first year of the pandemic to help inspire people to remain inside but since so many in my circle aren’t doing too much and instead do mellow hangs I’ve kept it going. Now before I list the rundown, let me point out that the information on it was a little spotty and didn’t match up 100%. I used two resources to cull the data together and on the PIX11 website, the marathon shows as pausing from 4AM to 7AM to show local news and programming. On the other resource, the Spectrum TV Channel Guide, shows the marathon pausing from 4AM to 8AM for the same aforementioned programming. Then I saw a commercial on Channel 11 saying that there were “27” episodes to watch so I suggest just programming the whole time. Down below I’ve listed what can be found on the website listings. The other difference is that this year the marathon begins at 12:30AM on New Year’s Day as opposed to being the final hour of programming on the Channel before the New Year begins. We are also following Eastern Standard Time. If you’re in New York City like we are that means we are losing some five and a half possible marathon hours. IMHO, no one is that interested in regional and world news after partying and would likely rather spend the time with the Kramdens and the Nortons. Though I appreciate the fact that PIX11 does this marathon every year, they would serve their audience best by getting all the main important news into one broadcast for one hours time and leave the rest to the marathon. After the year that 2024 was, I would rather hear less about the things that are wrong since my regular news reminds me of that on a daily basis. The rundown is presented down below in full and please remember where it was sourced from if there should be any discrepancies. If anything is different when the broadcast happens do NOT yell at me in the comments and please instead send any gripes to the network directly via their social media profiles or website contact information. I think social media would work best in this case scenario and now onto the rundown.

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Presenting The 82nd Golden Globe Awards Nominations

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Earlier today, the 82nd Golden Globe Awards released their nominations in a press conference that was hosting by both Morris Chestnut and Mindy Kaling. Sadly I wasn’t able to view this myself but I culled all of the important information from a few sources to be able to present the full rundown of the nominations. The ceremony will be broadcast on January 5th and now without any further adieu, here are the nominations.

2025 Golden Globes Nominees:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama
Donald Glover, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Presumed Innocent”
Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Jackal”
Hiroyuki Sanada, “Sh?gun”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”

Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Volker Bertelmann, “Conclave”
Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist”
Kris Bowers, “The Wild Robot”
Clément Ducol, Camille, “Emilia Pérez”
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
Hans Zimmer, “Dune: Part Two”
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Walt Disney Studios “Snow White” Official Trailer

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With so many of Walt Disney’s beloved animated films being brought into the live-action realm it was only a matter of time before they got to “Snow White”. The original and now very, very classic “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” made its debut on the big screens of the nation in 1937 and since its release has generated more than $400M dollars. The new film promises to change things up a little bit whether the old school fans like it or not and Snow White will be played by Latina actress Rachel Zeigler. The first Official Trailer has recently dropped and you can check that out down below along with the basic premise, some casting and artwork.

The Premise: Disney’s Snow White, or simply Snow White, is about a princess who joins forces with seven dwarfs to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother, the Evil Queen. (c/o Wiki)
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PIX11 To Broadcast “The Honeymooners” Mini-Marathon on Thanksgiving

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Greetings my friends and welcome to a special post with a dual purpose. I am not only here to wish you and yours a very “Happy Thanksgiving” but also to tell you that PIX11 has recently announced that a mini-marathon of eight episodes of “The Honeymooners” will be broadcast between showings of the holiday classic “March of The Wooden Soldiers” on Thanksgiving Day. That’s the timeless Laurel and Hardy film if you for some odd reason have never heard of it. Now the readers of this website know that for the last few years I’ve been posting a rundown of “The Honeymooners” marathon that begins after the evening news on PIX11 on New Year’s Eve and runs for a number of hours into New Year’s Day pausing only for local news. This however will be the very first time that I preceded that post with one about the Thanksgiving mini-marathon and truth be told I don’t recall there having been one before. I could be wrong about that so please don’t chastise me. These eight episodes are surely a tease for the longer marathon to come for New Year’s Day and as I glance on the ones airing can confirm to having seen them numerous times over the years. I’m still going to watch them since it is something that always hits the funny bone. These episodes come from that is called the “Classic 39”. Since it starts at 11:00AM, those who are in charge of the cooking might want to get the small portable TV’s that many used to have for such events. Here’s the rundown of episodes.

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Now Playing: Universal Pictures “Wicked” (11/22/2024)

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Having already discussed the legacy and milestone status of the Broadway show “Wicked” in one of the previously posted trailer narratives I don’t have much more to add to the mix other that ask how excited is everyone for the opening of the film today. The advance reviews have been positive which is always a good sign and I know a lot of people that are anxious to enjoy its magic on the big screen. Down below I’ve shared the Official Release poster and if you didn’t see the Official Trailer or the Official Trailer 2 then just click the hyperlinked text to see those as that is why we post them. As expected, I’ve also added some casting and light premise. Check it out.

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The Premise: Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. After an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads.
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