What’s Hot On TV Tonight – Happy Thanksgiving!

We can be thankful today to have some great offerings on TV all day long. We have three NFL games, and I don’t have to watch the Bears lose today, since they took care of that Sunday night, so I’m thankful. The Fine Living Network has holiday offerings throughout the day from Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart. We have a Survivor clip show, and some specials on network TV. If you want to catch all the Friends Thanksgiving episodes, find ‘em on TheWB.com. Mostly we have Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang to show us what the holiday is about. These guys have the right idea. It doesn’t matter what you eat, whether it be jelly beans, toast, and popcorn; it matters that your idea of family is all together.

1. FLN’s All You Can Watch Holiday Buffet. Worried about gaining extra pounds on Thanksgiving?  This is the one stop for calorie-free second helpings.  Beginning at 6AM on November 26th, check out the best of Thanksgiving from your favorite experts, including the Fab Five, Emeril and Martha Stewart.  Then, beginning at 5PM, catch up on season two of “Whatever, Martha!” thanks to a mini marathon, followed by “Martha Stewart’s Christmas Special” at 8PM.  With a lineup this good, you won’t even miss not having leftovers. 6 AM CT FLN

2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It’s one of the first movies I can remember seeing in a theater, and it came out when I was 4. Never mind the year. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for this movie and its songs. 8:00 AM CT Encore West

3. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We’re scheduled to see Andrea Bocelli, Boys Like Girls, Alan Cumming, Jimmy Fallon and the Roots, Billy Currington and Gloria Gaynor, plus Jane Krakowski, Ziggy Marley, Katharine McPhee, Jay Sean and Carly Simon. It’s the only way to start out Thanksgiving. 9:00 AM CT NBC

4. Home Alone. The first one is just such a classic. Before I was a parent I thought it was funny, and now that I am a parent I find it stunningly realistic, because I can actually almost see it happening. 11:00 AM CT FX

5. NFL Football: Packers at Lions. When the two teams met last month, the Green Bay held Detroit to just 149 total yards. 11:31 AM CT Fox

6. National Dog Show. John O’Hurley hosts this canine contest in which a pointer won last year. 12:00 PM CT NBC

7. NFL Football: Raiders at Cowboys. It’ll prove to be an interesting matchup, as Oakland has scored the fewest points of any NFL team so far, while Dallas has allowed the fewest points in the NFC. 3:00 PM CT CBS

8. Survivor: Samoa. It’s a clip show of the stuff they haven’t shown us so far of the first twenty-seven daysl 7:00 PM CT CBS

9. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. I’m not a big turkey fan, so I think I would actually prefer the ice cream sundaes, toast, pretzels, popcorn, and jelly beans. Either that or I could go to Chandler and Monica’s and have Funyons.7:00 PM CT ABC

10. Night at the Museum. Surprisingly good film about the crazy things that go on in a museum once everyone but the night watchman (Ben Stiller) go home. Everything back in history comes alive. 7:00 PM CT Fox

11. NBA Basketball: Magic at Hawks. Orlando won the series betwen the two teams last year 3-1. 7:00 PM CT TNT

12. Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving. Wanting to help her family get through financial troubles, a teen gets her mother and grandmother whom she’s never met to have a reunion. Based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott. 7:00 PM CT Hallmark

13. Larry King Live. The CNN Heroes: An All Star Tribute, which follows in the following hour, is discussed 7:00 PM CT CNN

14. Thursday Night Football: Giants at Broncos. These two teams have only played each other nine times. 7:00 PM CT NFL

15. NBC’s People of the Year. 2009’s most notable people are profiled and interviewed, including Taylor Swift, Octo-Mom, Susan Boyle, pilot Chelsey Sullenberge, Kobe Bryant, and ship captain Richard Phillips. 8:00 PM CT NBC

16. Beyoncé: I am … Yours. A summer performance of Beyoncé’s w hich includes backstage looks and videos of childhood. Hopefully Kayne West won’t be jumping onstage to declare it the best ever. 8:00 PM CT ABC

17. CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute. Anderson Cooper hosts this look at everyday people who do extraordinary things to help out. Performers include Leona Lewis and Carrie Underwood. Presenters include Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Neil Patrick Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes, Randy Jackson, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. 8:00 PM CT CNN

18. There’s a Rhino In My House! A warthog, a rhino, and hyena, all orphaned are raised by a safari-park owner in her eastern Zimbabwe home. 8:00 PM CT Animal Planet

19. Jay Leno Show. Megan Fox is the guest, with military men and women in the audience. 9:00 PM CT NBC

20. Paul McCartney: “Good Evening New York City. A performance of McCartney’s from last summer at Citi Field in Flushing, NY. He returns to the site of The Beatles’ 1965 appearance. 9:00 PM CT ABC

21. Saved By the Lioness. A wildebeest calf gets cared for by a lioness. 9:00 PM CT Animal Planet

22. NBA Basketball: Bulls at Jazz. Chicago gave Utah it’s first home loss last season 9:30 PM CT TNT

23. Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien. Pee Wee Herman, Donald Faison, and Bon Jovi are the guests tonight. 10:35 PM CT CBS