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• TV Land has a Beverly Hillbillies marathon all night.
• HBO has an Entourage marathon all night.
• Sci-Fi has The Twilight Zone all night.
• Discovery has a Mythbusters marathon.
• At 8, PBS has a new Live From Lincoln Center, with Joshua Bell and the New York Philharmonic.
• AMC has a Planet of the Apes marathon all night, starting with the original at 8.
• At 10, ABC has Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve 2008 (whew!) with Clark and Ryan Seacrest. It's interrupted at 11 for local news then picks up again at 11:35.
• At 11, FOX has New Year's Eve Live, with Cat Deeley and Spike Feresten.
• CNN has Anderson Cooper in Times Square starting at 11.
• Motorcycle stunt rider Robbie Maddison is going to attempt to jump a football field in Las Vegas tonight. ESPN has live coverage starting at 11.
• Also at 11: MTV has New Year's Eve coverage too, with Tila Tequila.
• At 11:35, NBC has New Year's Eve with Carson Daly.

Check your local TV listings for more.

OK, I'm not sure if this Late Show with David Letterman episode that airs on CBS tonight is the purest definition of the word "classic," but at least it's not from two weeks ago like most repeats are on late night shows nowadays.

Jay Leno has been showing episodes from the 1990s lately, and now Letterman has reached into the vault. Tonight's show is from December 17, 1998 and features Angelina Jolie, Jeff Goldblum, and Third Eye Blind. I'm trying to figure out what was going on in Jolie's life at the time. She wasn't with Brad Pitt of course. Was this the Billy Bob Thornton/blood vials era? Here's the rundown on the show. Dick Clark makes a cameo (with a sketch about his New Year's Eve special), as does Casey Kasem. I wonder who got top billing back then, Jolie or Goldblum?

• The tradition continues: New Year's Eve means Dick Clark.
  
• There's a new quiz show coming, from the maker of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
  

And I'm not just talking about the FG swag (pens, notebooks, inflatable Brian dolls) either. The cast of FG is doing a live table read of the show's 100th episode titled "Stewie Kills Lois." The title says it all!

A FOX publicist advises anyone of the faint of heart and all non-Quagmire-types to consider making their way to the exit door. I don't see anyone leave.

• At 7, CBS repeats their 60 Minutes tribute to Ed Bradley.
• At 7:30 (or after football), FOX has The O.T.
• NBC has a new Football Night In America at 7, followed by the Packers vs. the Bears.
• At 8, PBS has a new Live From Lincoln Center, featuring Audra McDonald, followed by a New Year's Eve concert by Garrison Keillor and his band on a new Great Performances.
• HBO has The Producers at 8.
• Also at 8: TLC has several new episodes of Resolutionaries, where people see if they can stick to their New Year's resolutions.
• At 9, The CW has the magic special Keith Barry: Extraordinary, with guests Jessica Simpson and Matthew McConaughey.
• Sci-Fi has a Twilight Zone marathon all day and night (and tomorrow too), while TBS has a Seinfeld marathon.
• At 10, ABC has Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, then it's interrupted by local news at 11, then he and Ryan Seacrest countdown to midnight at 11:30.
• At 11, FOX has their New Year's Eve countdown.
• There's a new Lisa Williams on Lifetime at 11.
• At 11:30, MSNBC and CNBC has New Year's Eve With Carson Daly, which I assume NBC stations will show too if the football game and local news doesn't interrupt it.

New Year's resolutions vary from person to person. Some make a resolution to give up smoking, others to lose weight. My resolution is the same one as always: garner enough money and power to eventually become king of Earth. That, and getting soft-core porn onto network television.

Then there are some whose resolutions are much simpler. Take Ryan Seacrest, for example. When Mr. American Idol steps up to the platform to co-host Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2007 on Sunday all he really wants is to have a little snogging session with Christina Aguilera, who is performing on the show. Last year, Seacrest was able to lock lips with Mariah Carey.

Well, good luck to Ryan. And, if he can't get a kiss from Christina maybe he can get one from a musician in the band Rascal Flatts or a cast member from Broadway's production of Jersey Boys, who are also performing on the show.

• They want to make it easy for you to become obsessed: Starstyle.com is a new website makes it simple to buy the same music, clothes, and furniture as your favorite television characters.
• Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly insist they're not rivals over the chance to replace Dick Clark on New Year's Rockin' Eve.
  
• Jennifer Lopez's new dance reality show might be competition for ex-husband #2 Cris Judd's new reality show.