Massive TV marathons of The Simpsons, Falling Skies and Camelot are coming to Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) over Christmas, with a marathon of The Walking Dead early in January on Fox FX (TopTV 110).
The Simpsons Christmas Hamper will run from 16:00 to 18:15 on 24 December on Fox Entertainment with 6 very special Simpsons Christmas episodes.
On 26 December TopTV subscribers will be able to gorge on what Fox Entertainment calls ''Boxing Day Box Sets": a TV marathon of the first season of the great new Steven Spielberg produced sci-fi drama Falling Skies, with episodes that will run from 13:30 until 21:00.
Camelot will follow after that, with the first season's set of episodes that will unspool back-to-back from 21:00 to 04:30.
The Walking Dead also gets a quick daily-repeat cycle. All the episodes from the first season as well as the first half of the second of The Walking Dead will be shown on Fox FX from 1 to 6 January from 21:15 every night before the second half of the second season's episodes start in February in America and which will again be shown in South Africa a few days later.
''The exclusive screeing of the second season of The Walking Dead on FX on TopTV showed that Fox International Channels (FIC) is serious about bringing quality, edgy, winning entertainment shows timeously to South Africa,'' says Thandi Davids, Fox Africa director.
''We beat the broadcasters with this one. In 2011 we kept the show locked on FX exclusively for TopTV subscribers, now we give them a unique experience early in the New Year,'' she says.
''This is good news for fans who want to play catch-up. We'll be showing the entire first season and the first part of season two. A series that will be going into a third season next year.''
The Walking Dead will have the following January broadcasting times:
Season 1, episodes 1 – 3: Sunday, 1 January, 21:15 – 23:45
Season 1, episodes 4 – 6: Monday, 2 January, 21:15 – 23:30
Season 2, episodes 1 – 3: Tuesday, 3 January, 21:15 – 23:45
Season 2, episodes 4 – 7: Wednesday, 4 January, 21:15 – 00:15
