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Thursday November 26, 2009 8:04 am

Complete Guide to Thanksgiving Day TV

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Your belly’s full, you’ve got the day off work and all you want to do is sit. If you’re doing it anyway, you might as well be in front of the TV, right? A lot of networks are nodding to the holiday - so give thanks for having plenty of options for your viewing pleasure this year.

Decide what you’ll tune into with your complete guide to Thanksgiving Day TV, to be revealed after the jump.

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If you’re starting the day out early, you can choose between two Thanksgiving Day parades. CBS and NBC will each be showing one, but it’s NBC who’s won the right to show off the most famous - Macy’s big New York-based event. Later in the day, will be offering football (4 pm), broadcasting the Dallas-Oakland game. ESPN2 will offer more sporting action by showing live college basketball games for the better part of the day.

The Godfather

Turkey Day is all about family, and AMC’s celebrating it with one of the most popular film families of all time - the Corleones. That’s right, they’re showing the entire Godfather trilogy (more than once!), and that’s an offer you can’t refuse. is also chiming in with a huge marathon of its own, airing the entire Band of Brothers mini-series. This one’s so long, it’ll be continued on Friday so you can make it a two-day affair.

Hallmark and ABC Family will go for a less gritty type of holiday offering, delivering plenty of sweetness instead of spice. Both cable networks are showing sappy holiday-themed movies for most of the day, helping you really get into the spirit. One-upping even this sap factor, TV Land is offering a Brady Bunch marathon.

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

In the 8 pm primetime hour, you’ll have one of two big decisions: nostalgia, or laughs? ABC is going for the former with an old favorite: A . Comedy Central is banking of their newest “it” guy Jeff Dunham, whose comedy special will show at 8 immediately following a mini-marathon of his new hit cable show.

Whatever you choose to watch, make sure you do it on a full stomach. It is, after all, Turkey Day.

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