Ok, so you maybe you really don't have a thing to wear. Or maybe you don't like crowds of drunken party-goers screaming and celebrating the turn of another year. Heck, maybe you're having a gathering at home and need an official countdown to bring in the New Year. Whatever your reason, you can find what you need on TV this New Year's Eve.  Here's a list of countdown shows, specials and TV-show marathons to help you decide where to set your sights.

Annual network countdowns:

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest (ABC), 11:30 PM

Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest ring in the New Year with the countdown from Times Square in New York City, while Fergie hosts the festivities from Las Vegas. A variety of musical guests will perform in each location.

New Year's Eve Live (Fox), 11 PM

Host Carmen Electra welcomes 2010 in Las Vegas, where Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta and Sean Kingston are slated to perform. Also: the opening of Eva Longoria Parker's Vegas restaurant and nightclub, with appearances by Longoria Parker and Kim Kardashian; coverage of the ball drop from New York City's Times Square; a Top 5 countdown of 2009's best moments in movies, music and TV; and highlights from past Billboard Music Awards.

New Year's Eve with Carson Daily (NBC), 10 PM

Carson Daly rings in 2010 with the sixth annual year-end celebration from Times Square in New York City. Slated performers include Green Day and Rihanna. Natalie Morales and Alison Stewart serve as on-location correspondents.

New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin (CNN), 11 PM

Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin host coverage of the New Year's Eve celebration in New York City's Times Square and across the country, featuring an appearance by Lance Bass from Las Vegas. Don Lemon reports from the Times Square crowd; Gary Tuchman covers the annual Midnight Run in NYC's Central Park; Ed Henry handles the Honolulu beat; and John Zarrella reports from Key West, Florida. Bravo will be airing repeats performances of Griffin's comedy concerts starting with Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel at 1am, Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch at 2am and Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell at 3am.

For the sports fans:

New Year. No Limits: From Long Beach, Cal. (ESPN), 11 PM

Daredevil Travis Pastrana attempts a world-record rally-car jump over water in Long Beach. The event takes place at the Pine Street Pier with the Queen Mary docked in the background.

Winter Classic New Year's Eve Special (VS), 11PM

A preview of the outdoor game between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers, featuring player interviews, practice highlights and look-ins from Fenway Park.

If you're so musically inclined:

106 and Party (BET), 11 PM

106 & Park's host Terrence J brings in the new year with highlights from 2009.

Top 40 Videos of 2009 (VH1), Midnight

The top 40 videos of 2009 are counted down.

MTV s New Year s Eve: Top 9 of 2009 (MTV), 11 PM

A countdown to 2010, hosted by Adrienne Bailon and the cast of Jersey Shore. Included: a look at the most memorable moments of 2009.

For the kids:

New Year s Eve Star Showdown (DISNEY), 6 PM

Viewers favorite Disney episodes and music videos are featured. Also: Disney Channel stars compete in five game-show challenges.

ESOL alternatives:

Fiesta de Ano Nuevo (Telemundo), 10 PM

¡Feliz 2010! (Univision), 10 PM

Marathons:

Who doesn't like a good marathon?

If you like comedy:

Three Stooges (AMC)

South Park (Comedy Central)

Rosanne (TV Land)

The Nanny (NICK)

that British actor Patrick Stewart who's commanded various royal titles on stage and screen will be given the title of 'Sir' soon.

According to the article, Stewart tops the list for Brits to be dubbed Knight from Queen Elizabeth later this year. Stewart, age 69,  is widely known in America as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and recently as Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men movie series.  IMDB lists over one hundred acting, directing and producer credits for Stewart including Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), King Henry II (The Lion In Winter) and as Sejanus from the BBC's I, Claudius.

Knighthood is the highest honor bestowed in England. The award recognizes service and achievement in all fields of industry. Once knighted, men are called "sirs" while women are made dames.

Stewart currently can be heard and kinda seen as Chief Avery Bullock on Fox's animated comedy American Dad.

Ok, so you maybe you really don't have a thing to wear. Or maybe you don't like crowds of drunken party-goers screaming and celebrating the turn of another year. Heck, maybe you're having a gathering at home and need an official countdown to bring in the New Year. Whatever your reason, you can find what you need on TV this New Year's Eve.  Here's a list of countdown shows, specials and TV-show marathons to help you decide where to set your sights.

Annual network countdowns:

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest (ABC), 11:30 PM

Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest ring in the New Year with the countdown from Times Square in New York City, while Fergie hosts the festivities from Las Vegas. A variety of musical guests will perform in each location.

New Year's Eve Live (Fox), 11 PM

Host Carmen Electra welcomes 2010 in Las Vegas, where Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta and Sean Kingston are slated to perform. Also: the opening of Eva Longoria Parker's Vegas restaurant and nightclub, with appearances by Longoria Parker and Kim Kardashian; coverage of the ball drop from New York City's Times Square; a Top 5 countdown of 2009's best moments in movies, music and TV; and highlights from past Billboard Music Awards.

New Year's Eve with Carson Daily (NBC), 10 PM

Carson Daly rings in 2010 with the sixth annual year-end celebration from Times Square in New York City. Slated performers include Green Day and Rihanna. Natalie Morales and Alison Stewart serve as on-location correspondents.

New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin (CNN), 11 PM

Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin host coverage of the New Year's Eve celebration in New York City's Times Square and across the country, featuring an appearance by Lance Bass from Las Vegas. Don Lemon reports from the Times Square crowd; Gary Tuchman covers the annual Midnight Run in NYC's Central Park; Ed Henry handles the Honolulu beat; and John Zarrella reports from Key West, Florida. Bravo will be airing repeats performances of Griffin's comedy concerts starting with Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel at 1am, Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch at 2am and Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell at 3am.

For the sports fans:

New Year. No Limits: From Long Beach, Cal. (ESPN), 11 PM

Daredevil Travis Pastrana attempts a world-record rally-car jump over water in Long Beach. The event takes place at the Pine Street Pier with the Queen Mary docked in the background.

Winter Classic New Year's Eve Special (VS), 11PM

A preview of the outdoor game between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers, featuring player interviews, practice highlights and look-ins from Fenway Park.

If you're so musically inclined:

106 and Party (BET), 11 PM

106 & Park's host Terrence J brings in the new year with highlights from 2009.

Top 40 Videos of 2009 (VH1), Midnight

The top 40 videos of 2009 are counted down.

MTV s New Year s Eve: Top 9 of 2009 (MTV), 11 PM

A countdown to 2010, hosted by Adrienne Bailon and the cast of Jersey Shore. Included: a look at the most memorable moments of 2009.

For the kids:

New Year s Eve Star Showdown (DISNEY), 6 PM

Viewers favorite Disney episodes and music videos are featured. Also: Disney Channel stars compete in five game-show challenges.

ESOL alternatives:

Fiesta de Ano Nuevo (Telemundo), 10 PM

¡Feliz 2010! (Univision), 10 PM

Marathons:

Who doesn't like a good marathon?

If you like comedy:

Three Stooges (AMC)

South Park (Comedy Central)

Rosanne (TV Land)

The Nanny (NICK)

Remember back in the day when you there were only a few bowl games. You'd awaken from your hangover, eat breakfast watch parades and then saunter over to the sofa - snacks in hand, to spend the remainder of the day watching bowl games and getting re-drunk. Back then you only had four that mattered: the Orange Bowl (Miami, Fla.), the Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, La.), the Fiesta Bowl (Tempe, Ariz.) and the Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.). Nowadays you have a grand total of 34 different bowl games with corporate names like the Beef 'O' Brady St. Petersburg Bowl (seriously) to fill out the bowl-tourney season.

The bowl series which previously kicked off on New Year's Eve have now stretched from Dec., 19 through to the BCS Championship - Rose Bowl on Jan., 7. While some games have already been played, there's still a butt load of tourneys for you to veg out over. Here's a list of all bowl games including recently played games and upcoming scheduled match-ups.

After this tournament season, I hope the POTUS makes headway to change the way the BCS handles bowl games. I've grown tired of trying to figure out their alchemic methods for bowl pairings and ranking system.

Go [insert your school mascot name here] !!!

Schedule courtesy of ESPN.com

On Christmas Eve, The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder announced that he has confirmed an airdate for his animated series to return to Adult Swim on Cartoon Network for its third season. The popular show has been on hiatus for over two years. McGruder posted the following message on Twitter Thursday afternoon:

Finally got an airdate for Season 3. Not sure if I'm allowed to put it out yet, so I'll just say you got about three months! Merry Xmas!!

The Boondocks follows the misadventures of Huey Freeman (voiced by Regina King) his younger brother Riley (also voiced by Regina King) and grandfather Robert (John Witherspoon), a dysfunctional black family who move from urban Chicago to the upscale suburban neighborhood of Woodcrest, Maryland outside of Washington D.C. The controversial series has been nominated several awards and won the coveted Peabody Award for the episode "The Return of The King", an alternate reality episode where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr awakens from a coma after a failed assassination attempt to discover the new world and the corruption of his efforts for civil rights.

I wish I could take credit for compiling this impressive list of mid-season television shows, but the busy interns at Entertainment Weekly helped to create it. EW published their version a few weeks ago on Michael Ausiello's blog.

In case you're lost (get it) on tv's best bets, I've made it easy for you - all the good shows are in red. There's a few new shows premiering early 2010 as well, I've listed them in blue. To bone up on useless television news, I've included a few tidbits on some of the shows as well, just look for the asterick (*).

Friday, Jan. 1

Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns (Cartoon Network), 8 PM

* The award-winning series returns with two back-to-back episodes, "Grievous Intrigue" and  "The Deserter"

Saturday, Jan. 2

New series Demons premieres (BBCA), 10 PM

* A young Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister) discovers he's the great-great grandson of legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing of Dracula fame and sets out to reluctantly fulfill his destiny.

Sunday, Jan. 3

Desperate Housewives returns (ABC), 9 PM

Brothers and Sisters returns (ABC), 10 PM

Monday, Jan. 4

The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love premieres (ABC), 8 PM

The Secret Life of the American Teenager returns (ABC Family), 8 PM

Heroes returns (NBC), 8 pm (moves back to 9 PM on Jan. 11)

* Heroes moves on without central character Nathan Patrelli (Adrian Pasdar). Pasdar decided to leave the show, his character was killed off in the story line this year.

Make It or Break It returns (ABC Family), 9 PM

Tuesday, Jan. 5

NCIS returns (CBS), 8 PM

New season of The Biggest Loser premieres (NBC), 8 PM

NCIS: Los Angeles returns (CBS), 9 PM

The Good Wife returns (CBS), 10 PM

Wednesday, Jan. 6

Mercy returns (NBC), 8 PM

Law & Order: SVU (NBC), 9 PM

Modern Family returns (ABC), 9 PM

Friday Night Lights returns (DirecTV 101), 9 PM

Cougar Town returns (ABC), 9:30 PM

Ugly Betty returns (ABC), 10 PM (new night)

Final season of Nip/Tuck premieres (FX), 10 PM

* Nip/Tuck will end their series with its 100th episode airing Mar. 3

Friday, Jan. 8

Ghost Whisperer returns (CBS), 8 PM

Medium returns (CBS), 9 PM

Numb3rs returns (CBS), 10 PM

* According to Entertainment Weekly, CBS only ordered six episodes of the series so expect these to be the show's last.

Sunday, Jan. 10

New season of Big Love premieres (HBO), 10 PM

* Don't have HBO, watch full episodes of the series on TVDuck.com

New season of Chuck premieres (NBC), 9 PM

Monday, Jan. 11

Chuck settles into regular 8 pm timeslot

House returns (FOX), 8 pm

How I Met Your Mother returns (CBS), 8 PM

Accidentally on Purpose returns (CBS), 8:30 PM

Two and a Half Men returns (CBS), 9 PM

The Big Bang Theory returns (CBS), 9:30 PM

CSI: Miami returns (CBS), 10 PM

Castle returns (ABC), 10 pm

Tuesday, Jan. 12

New season of American Idol premieres (FOX), 8 PM

* Out with the old and in with the new. New Idol judge Ellen Degeneres joins the table replacing Paula Abdul after she left the show when contract negotiations broke down.

Wednesday, Jan. 13

The New Adventures of Old Christine returns (CBS), 8 p.m.

Gary Unmarried returns (CBS), 8:30 p.m.

Criminal Minds returns (CBS), 9 p.m.

CSI: NY returns (CBS), 10 p.m.

Leverage returns (TNT), 10 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 14

Bones returns (FOX), 8 PM

Community returns (NBC), 8 PM

Parks and Recreation returns (NBC), 8:30 PM

30 Rock returns with back-to-back episodes (NBC), 9 PM

CSI returns (CBS), 9 PM

Fringe returns (Fox), 9 PM

Grey’s Anatomy returns (ABC), 9 PM

Private Practice returns (ABC), 10 PM

New season of Project Runway premieres (Lifetime), 10 PM

The Mentalist returns (CBS), 10 PM

Sunday, Jan. 17

24 four-hour, two-night premiere part 1 (FOX), 9 PM

Monday, Jan. 18

One Tree Hill returns (The CW), 8 PM

Life UneXpected (The CW), 9 PM

24 four-hour, two-night premiere part 2 (FOX), 8 PM

Tuesday, Jan. 19

White Collar returns (USA), 10 PM

Wednesday, Jan. 20

New season of Being Erica premieres (SOAPnet), 10 PM

Thursday, Jan. 21

The Vampire Diaries (The CW), 8 PM

Supernatural returns (The CW), 9 PM

The Office returns (NBC), 9 PM

Burn Notice returns (USA), 10 PM

Friday, Jan. 22

Smallville returns (The CW), 8 PM

New series Caprica premieres (Syfy), 9 PM

* Now that Syfy's critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica is over, they're taking fans back to the beginning with a prequel series to explain how they got there in the first place by exposing the birth of the cylons.

Monday, Jan. 25

Damages returns (FX), 10 PM

Greek returns (ABC Family), 10 PM

Wednesday, Jan. 27

Psych returns (USA), 10 PM

Tuesday, Feb. 2

Final season of Lost premieres (ABC), 9 PM

* Look for analysis of the final season in CL's Televangelist column online.

Monday, March 1

Parenthood premieres (NBC), 9 PM

* Craig T. Nelson returns to the small screen in this dramedy based on the movie of same name from 1989. Could this be NBCs answer to Modern Family, we'll see.

Thursday, March 4

FlashForward returns (ABC), 8 PM

Monday, March 8

Gossip Girl returns (The CW), 8 PM

Tuesday, March 9

90210 returns (The CW), 8 PM

Melrose Place returns (The CW), 9 PM

Monday, March 22

New season of Nurse Jackie premieres (Showtime), 10 PM

New season of United States of Tara premieres (Showtime), 10:30 PM

* Don't have Showtime, watch full episodes of the show online at Yidio.

Tuesday, March 30

V returns (ABC), 10 PM

* According to numerous reports, this show was taken back to the drawing board and given a major overhaul.

Monday, April 12

Final season of The Tudors premieres (Showtime), 9 PM

* Don't have Showtime, watch full episodes of the show online at Watchthetudors.com

Tuesday, April 13

Glee returns (FOX), 9 PM

* You've downloaded the songs and purchased the soundtrack now Glee Vol. One: Road to the Sectionals is available on DVD (12/29). If that's not enough, keep on the lookup for the upcoming Glee tour some time in 2010.

Special Events

The Simpsons 20^th Anniversary Special: in 3-D! on Ice! (FOX), Jan. 10. at 8:30 PM

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (NBC), on Jan. 17

Dollhouse series finale (FOX), Jan. 22 at 9 PM

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TNT/TBS), Jan. 23

Smallville: Absolute Justice TV movie (CW), Feb. 5 at 8 PM

Superbowl XLIV (CBS), Feb. 7 at 7 PM

Winter Olympics (NBC), Feb. 12-28

It seems that 2009 was a banner year for big box office movies ... being bootlegged.

Last week TorrentFreak published a list of the most pirated movies of the year with JJ Abrams' Star Trek leading the pack. The numbers were pulled from peer-to-peer sharing site BitTorrent and reflect movies that were downloaded (not bootlegs sold). According to the article, Star Trek had 10,960,000 downloads. This is sharp increase in piracy rates considering last year's winner - The Dark Knight totaled only 7,030,000 downloads. Some movies that made it to this year's top 10 were not released this year. RocknRolla (3)  and Twilight (5) were both released in the Fall of 2008 and did not make last year's list.

Don't feel too bad for the movie companies, apparently piracy didn't hurting the studios too much. US and Canada box offices grossed more than $10 billion in ticket sales this year despite the millions of downloads that took place. Still, let me iterate that it is illegal to copy and distribute any copyrighted materials. According to The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), movie theft costs the industry $18.2 billion dollars worldwide with $7.1 billion of those losses attributed to online piracy.

Did you know The Beatles created Mickey Mouse. How about the discovery that The Beatles won the Superbowl against the New York Giants. More importantly, we finally uncover the truth: Scottie Pippin was in fact a Beatle. All these nuggets and more are mentioned in Scott Gairdner's mockumentary Beatles 3000.

In the video short, historians and archaeologist explain in lucid detail facts they've uncovered about the worlds most prolific music band. I've not seen anything like it since Futurama's (Hail Hypnotoad) the history of Atlantis.

Bang Media International reports that Susan Boyle the Britain's Got Talent phenom who stunned the world with her voice (not her looks) is being tapped to sing the theme song for the next James Bond film. Most remember Boyle's show stopping rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from YouTube that has amassed 81,404,945 views to date.

Its reported that Boyle is thrilled to be considered a prospect to perform the Bond theme. If chosen she will join the ranks of other chart-topping performers including Madonna, Alicia Keys, Duran Duran, U2, Sir Paul McCartney and Carly Simon. This will be the 23rd Bond film produced and Monty Norman, composer of the classic 007 theme music thinks Susan would be a "great" choice. Norman states, "They'll think seriously because she's got the right kind of sweeping voice".

Boyle is currently enjoying the success of her debut album aptly titled I Dreamed A Dream which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide in its first weeks of its release.

The Bond project (currently unnamed) will begin production sometime late next year and is expected in theaters in 2011.

According to Desi who is black and Wanda, a white woman who tested the HP Mediasmart desktop computer the facial tracking software doesn't recognize blacks. Desi goes so far as to state that HP computers are racist. As an HP user (printers) and a black man, I find this video hilarious. I wonder how HP will respond, maybe with a black software update.