Sunday, September 13th 2009

4:00am
Channel Umptee-3 1.01 - "The Music Show" (1997)
Animated children's educational television series. The main characters operate a pirate TV station "located in the white space between channels".

4:30am
Channel Umptee-3 1.02 - "Umptee Sunrise" (1997)

5:00am
Dark Angel 2.05 - "Boo" (2001)
Jessica Alba
On Halloween night, Max finds her "normal" world turned upside down when the creatures she let out of Manticore are able to walk the streets freely without fear of exposure. As she and Joshua, with a crazy band of characters, race against time to find a headless body before it carries out its intended lethal mission, Max is faced with the reality that Asha and Logan are getting closer than ever.

6:00am
Family Guy 4.14 - "PTV" (2005)
After a "wardrobe malfunction" occurs during a live broadcast, the FCC begins to censor all of Peter’s favorite television shows. As a result Peter creates his own TV station “PTV” which broadcasts from of the Griffin home. Peter and Brian create their own edgy programming for the station until the FCC shows up to shut down PTV, and censor all controversial material in Quahog.

6:30am
Max Headroom 1.01 - "Blipverts" (1987)
In the near future, it will be illegal to have a television that can be shut off. Ratings are all that matters. To improve ratings, Network 23 creates "Blipverts." Blipverts are high speed commercials condensed into a few seconds and embed themselves into the viewers mind. Unfortunately, a few viewers have exploded while watching them. Network 23 star reporter, Edison Carter, discovers that the Network executive Ned Grossberg is aware of the problem and is covering up the issues. Ned decides to replace Edison with a computer stimulated version of Edison. Bryce Lynch creates this computer simulated version, who calls himself Max Headroom.

7:00am
Max Headroom 1.02 - "Rakers" (1987)
Max is concerned that there is a homicidal madman running around and laying waste to people. He is surprised when he finds out that "Missile Mike" is a violent children's television show. There is an illegal sport called raking. Individual use these motorized skate board for a deadly match. Theora receives a phone call from her sister-in-law Winnie. Winnie is upset because Theora's brother, Shawn, has taken up the sport of raking. Theora sets Edison onto the case. Edison wants to keep this sport outlawed because it is so dangerous. Zik Zak is wanting to legalize it and sponsor it.

7:30am
Max Headroom 1.03 - "Body Banks" (1987)
Edison recruits the help of Blank Reg to help him deal with a doctor who is using blanks as unwilling organ donors.

8:00am
movie: "Network" (1976)
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.

10:00am
movie: "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005)
David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

11:30am
Radio Free Roscoe 1.13 - "Sports Ray-dio" (2003)
Ray can't turn down the chance of fame so takes on a role for Cougar Radio but realises he misses his old station.

noon
movie: "UHF" (1989)
Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Richards

2:00pm
Radio Free Roscoe 1.14 - "Count on Me" (2003)
Travis and Robbie have an accident with Lily's amp so they need to make some money to get her a new one. Travis sells 'antiques' on the air and Robbie gets a job working at Mickey's.

2:30pm
Beggars and Choosers 1.01 - "The Mountainmen(1)" (1999)
This showtime situation comedy focuses on the squabbling executives of a low-rated cable network.

3:30pm
Beggars and Choosers 1.02 - "The Mountainmen(2)" (1999)

4:30pm
movie: "Stay Tuned" (1992)
John Ritter, Pam Dawber
A husband and wife are sucked into a hellish TV and have to survive a gauntlet of twisted versions of TV shows they find themselves in.

6:00pm
Max Headroom 1.04 - "Security Systems" (1987)
In this episode, Security Systems Incorporated (SSI) is the world's leading provider of personal and corporate security and surveillance systems. However, there is a hostile takeover of SSI happening. While the company's CEO says she is terrified, she is outwardly calm. Edison suspects something more is happening. After questioning her, he discovers his credit and his ID no longer work. He can not go home. He can not go to Network 23.

6:30pm
Max Headroom 1.05 - "War" (1987)
In this episode, a news package broker contacts Network 23. They offer an exclusive access to a terrorist group called White Brigade for a premium price. Cheviot refuses the offer; he does not want to be bought by a terrorist group. The next day the group blows up an entire city block, only rival network Breakthru Television has the coverage. Network 23's board or directors is anger over Breakthru's sudden ratings surge. The networks are all in the middle of a global rating sweep. Edison Carter wants to expose this sinister link between Brakkthru and White Brigade.

7:00pm
Beggars and Choosers 1.03 - "Once More Unto the Brech" (1999)
When he gets to work in the morning, Rob and his staff scramble to create scripts for The Mountainmen, while detectives snoop around LGT, investigating the disappearance of Kendall Gifford. Rob and his staff try to untangle the sticky web created by Sandra Cassandra's sexual harassment lawsuit against Casting VP Malcolm Laffley and LGT, and Parker Meridian's demand for a top-dollar renegotiation. Meanwhile, Development VP Lori Volpone proposes a miniseries on the life of Nikolai 'the Knife' Krasnakov, the son of a Russian mob boss--a risk to be sure, but a possible ratings booster, nonetheless. As if the pressure on Rob is not enough, his wife Cecile adds to it when she announces that she wants to have another baby, even though they are both past 40. While shooting is continuously interrupted by Yolanda's Tourette's Syndrome on the set of Puerto Vallarta, Lori is off with super agent Brad Advail, negotiating a story-rights deal with the Russian gangster. After going head to head with E.L.'s trophy wife, Lydia Luddin, Rob receives the next Mountainmen script, anonymously delivered by the missing Kendall Gifford. Sure, the script is inflammatory, advocating tax revolution, but it is still more interesting than the rehashed, predictable material provided by the stand-in scribes, and Rob decides to run with it, because the ratings, after all, can only go up. The relentless detectives are not considering scripts or ratings though, and call the FBI in for help. When she returns, Lori's answering machine yields a haunting, cryptic message to cease and desist when it comes to the story of the Knife. But Rob is doing much better at home, where, after secretly flushing Cecile's birth control pills down the toilet, he is working on giving her the baby she wants.

8:00pm
Family Guy 4.14 - "PTV" (2005)

8:30pm
Max Headroom 1.01 - "Blipverts" (1987)

9:00pm
Max Headroom 1.02 - "Rakers" (1987)

9:30pm
Max Headroom 1.03 - "Body Banks" (1987)

10:00pm
movie: "Network" (1976)
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

midnight
movie: "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005)
David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr

1:30am
movie: "Stay Tuned" (1992)
John Ritter, Pam Dawber

3:00am
Max Headroom 1.02 - "Rakers" (1987)

3:30am
Max Headroom 1.03 - "Body Banks" (1987)

4:00am