`007 Days of Christmas` - Huge Bond marathon on USA TV, starts Christmas Eve

24-Dec-2003 • Media Alert

Spike TV (formely "TNN") in the USA is running a special "007 Days of Christmas" season, featuring 16 of the 20 Bond films.

007 Days of Christmas telecasts Wednesday December 24th through to Tuesday December 30th 2003.

The James Bond movie franchise premiered on the network November 2002 with a "Bond at his Best" week hosted by Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry. Last year`s, "Bond 007 Days of Christmas Marathon" was the highest rated week on the network in 2002.

Wednesday, December 24

9:00 AM-Noon, ET/PT -- NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983, TV-PG)
SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld hold NATO ransom, forcing James Bond to recover the warheads and kill his arch-enemy. Starring Sean Connery as Bond and Kim Basinger as Bond Girl Domino Petachi.

Noon-3:00 PM, ET/PT -- THUNDERBALL (1965, TV-PG)
Bond is called in when SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to date when its agents hijack a British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs and hold NATO to ransom for the sum of $100,000,000 in uncut diamonds. Starring Sean Connery as Bond and Claudine Auger as Bond Girl Domino.

3:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT -- YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967, TV-PG)
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space-jackings before nuclear war is provoked. Starring Sean Connery as Bond and Mie Hama as Bond Girl Kissy Suzuki.

6:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT -- DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971, TV-PG)
Agent 007 goes to Las Vegasto investigate the disappearance of diamonds in transit and discovers the involvement of his archenemy, Blofeld. Starring Sean Connery as Bond and Jill St. John as Bond Girl Tiffany Case.

9:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT -- THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999, TV-PG)
Agent 007 is called on to protect the daughter and heir of British oil tycoon Sir Robert King after he is killed in a bombing at the MI6 headquarters. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond and Sophie Marceau as Bond Girl Elektra King, Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, Judi Dench as M and Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT -- FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963, TV-PG)
Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative Dr. No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British Secret Service is desperate to get a hold of. Starring Sean Connery as Bond and Daniela Bianchi as Bond Girl Tatiana Romanova.