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'007 Holiday Action' James Bond Marathon On Spike TV In December

To run from 17 through 28 December

Spike TV has released their schedule for their Christmas Bond marathon but its not as big as previous years. Heres the schedule:

007 HOLIDAY ACTION: JAMES BOND MARATHON
Settle in with Spike TV for the holidays with two James Bond movies a
day, every weekday morning. Schedule is as follows:

Monday, December 17
9:00 - 11:30 AM, ET/PT
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive
Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was
stolen by SPECTRE. Starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi and Pedro
Armendariz.

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, ET/PT
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971, Action/Adventure)
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where
he uncovers an extortion plot headed by his nemesis, Ernst Stavro
Blofeld. Starring Sean Connery, Jill St. John and Charles Gray.

Tuesday, December 18
9:00 - 11:30 AM, ET/PT
DR. NO (1962, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond's investigation of a missing colleague in Jamaica leads him
to the island of the mysterious Dr. No and a scheme to end the US space
program. Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman.

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, ET/PT
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981, Action/Adventure)
Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and
prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Starring Roger Moore, Carole
Bouquet and Lynn-Holly Johnson.

Wednesday, December 19
9:00 - Noon, ET/PT
LICENSE TO KILL (1989, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service to stop an evil drug
lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter. Starring Roger Dalton,
Carey Lowell and Robert Davi.

Noon - 3:00 PM, ET/PT
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977, Action/Adventure)
James Bond investigates the hijacking of submarines carrying nuclear
warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Starring
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach and Curt Jurgens.

Thursday, December 20
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974, Action/ Adventure)
Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most
expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him. Starring Roger
Moore, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland.

Noon - 2:30 PM, ET/PT
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967, Action/Adventure)
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and
stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war
is provoked. Starring Sean Connery, Akiko Wakayabishi and Mie Hama.

Friday, December 21
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
MOONRAKER (1979, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and
discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Starring Roger Moore, Lois
Chiles and Michael Lonsdale.

Noon - 2:30 PM, ET/PT
GOLDFINGER (1964, Action/Adventure)
Investigating a gold magnate's gold smuggling, James Bond uncovers a
plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Staring Sean Connery,
Honor Blackman and Gert Frobe.

Monday, December 24
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983, Action/Adventure)
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James
Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. Starring Sean
Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Max von Snyder.

Noon - 3:00 PM, ET/PT
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999, Action/Adventure)
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from
her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau and Robert Carlyle.

Tuesday, December 25
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
A VIEW TO A KILL (1985, Action/ Adventure)
An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad
industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by
destroying California's Silicon Valley. Starring Roger Moore,
Christopher Walken and Tanya Roberts.

Noon - 3:00 PM, ET/PT
GOLDENEYE (1995, Action/Adventure)
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian
research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a
fellow agent believed to be dead. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean
and Izabella Scorupco.

Wednesday, December 26
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973, Action/Adventure)
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with
a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
Starring Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto and Jane Seymour.

Noon- 2:30 PM, ET/PT
TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997, Action/Adventure)
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between
China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh.

Thursday, December 27
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from
starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order
to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Starring Timothy Dalton,
Maryam d'Abo and Jeroen Krabbe.

Noon - 3:00 PM, ET/PT
OCTOPUSSY (1983, Action/Adventure)
Faberge Egg found with a murdered British agent puts Bond on the trail
that leads to a plot to kill thousands to weaken NATO defenses in
Europe. Starring Roger Moore, Maud Adams and Louis Jourdan.

Friday, December 28
9:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981, Action/Adventure)

Noon - 3:00 PM, ET/PT
THUNDERBALL (1965, Action/ Adventure)
James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen
by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger and Adolfo Celi.

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What, no OHMSS?

I was hoping they will play OHMSS too but Spike TV is slowly reducing their Bond marathons until they replace them with Star Wars marathons next year. I hope if Spike gives up the rights to the classic Bond films then mabye AMC could play them like before, or even a network like Turner Classic Movies, where they would play them in widescreen and have no commercials. Looks like I'm going to have to pop in the OHMSS DVD this Christmas since its sort of a tradition to play that movie during Christmas.

Star Wars marathons?

Seems kind of odd that they're not even playing many of these Bond films in the evening.

Spike TV's television rights for all the Star Wars movies go into effect May of next year and in the following link comingsoon.net said that Spike intends to play the Star War movies in "highly promoted stunts and marathons."

comingsoon.net

As for not playing the Bond film in the evening, I think this is due to having a little success with the first Breakfest with Bond marathon back in August, and Spike is trying to milk as much ratings out of this time slot even reducing their usual full day marathons.

Definitely odd. Morning & early afternoon showings only are a little puzzling. Looks like Ultimate Fighter & reruns of CSI dominate the Thanksgiving schedule.

In my opinion, it's an absolutely idiotic idea. When I first wake up, I really don't rush to see if there's a Bond film on TV.

Thanks for posting this thread.

How long does TNN/ Spike's contract for the films run? They initially acquired 15 of the films in 2002 and then eventually obtained them all in 2003?


I hope another station takes the films. Spike is really annoying, IMO.

I did see that USA has the rights to Casino Royale. They will air it starting in June 2009. I guess that HBO will have Casino Royale in December.

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/90/16490.php

Oh and I agree! Not showing OHMSS is unacceptable!

Grrr, I won't get to watch them before I go to bed now.

Indeed. It still remains the "christmastime" Bond film.

Now in the CBn Calendar section...

'007 Holiday Action' James Bond Marathon On Spike TV In December

To run from 17 through 28 December

I don't exactly know when Spike TV's rights run out but I do know that when a station like this starts to shorten their marathons slowly like when they used to play Bond movies during their marathons from 9 a.m. et to 3 a.m. the next morning for several years but last year they started play them from 10 a.m. et to midnight with gaps in between where they would play CSI episodes, it usually means they are trying to get rid of them. Also the change for having their Christmas marathons being all day for at least 5 days of the marathon to this year where their only playing two in the morning of the same amount of days as in previous years. I don't think USA will pick the rights up since they usually like to play a bunch of TV shows like Law and Order and they hardly ever have that many movie marathons. They bought the rights to CR to premiere it and sell the rights to other stations. USA usually only premiere new movies and probably would not be interested in playing Bond marathons but a more likely choice to me would either be AMC or Turner Classic Movies. I would prefer TCM to play them since they play their movies in widescreen and without commercials but they probably could not afford to buy the rights of all the Bond films but just the classic ones. AMC has played the Bond movies before and did a better job with their marathons than Spike TV did and had more marathons than Spike TV which included a widescreen marathon they did in 2005.