Looking for a distraction from the holiday season? Want to check out that new HD TV Santa left under the tree? Or, do you just want to put something on the tube to undercut happy holiday melodrama? Use Christmas Day TV to give you an escape when holiday pressure has you looking for the nearest exit.

ABC will offer fanciful diversion for the kids with the Walt Disney World parade starting at 10 am. Later in the afternoon, the network will offer NBA action while CBS gets sporty with golf. NBC will show the Holiday Celebration on Ice in the afternoon. On cable, ABC Family will showcase holiday movies including A Very Brady Christmas and Santa Baby. At 6 in the evening, Disney’s The Incredibles will offer CGI delight.

Cable will be offering a ton of repeats, just in case you need to watch the same movies back to back to back. Toon Disney will give you two chances to see Tim Allen in The Santa Clause 2, while USA banks on Will Ferrell with multiple airings of Elf (a movie that’s quickly becoming a holiday classic). FMC will show both versions of Miracle on 34th Street, playing first the original and then the remake several times in succession throughout the holiday. Lifetime will likewise offer holiday-themed movies for the entire day, while the History Channel will offer the most unusual Christmas Day programming - hours and hours of UFO exploration. And TBS, following up on the channel’s holiday tradition, will give viewers a multitude of opportunities to see A Christmas Story - which is being shown all day long (to be followed by a Family Guy marathon starting at primetime). VH1 will spend the day counting down great songs and great moments, part of the usual holiday year-end wrap-up.

But it’s the all-day marathons that make the season bright. Turn to A&E for Crossing Jordon repeats, or check out Wild Kingdom all day long on Animal Planet. AMC forgoes heartwarming holiday tales for a western movie marathon, while Discovery will show episodes of Survivorman to remind us all there is something worse than being stuck with family. Speaking of family, GSN will offer an all-day Family Feud marathon, and MTV will take a look inside other people’s homes with their own reality marathons. Episodes of The Hills air first, with a Run’s House marathon beginning later in the day.  E! will air a Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane marathon, while the National Geographic channel explores good dogs gone bad with the Dog Whisperer. TNT will air repeats of Cold Case all day in a marathon effort.

But if you want something a little bit different and wholly wonderful, tune in to Oxygen at 2 or 4 pm. The cable channel will be airing the ground-breaking (in its day) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the last in a long line of movies starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (whose torrid affair is the stuff of Hollywood legend). The performance by Sidney Poitier cemented him as one of the most bankable leading men.

When the day is winding down and you’re ready to relax into primetime, you’re likely going to be disappointed. The networks which have been plagued by re-runs in the last few months will continue to air repeat episodes, with only NBC checking in with a never-before-seen episode of Deal or No Deal.