Much Brings a Whirlwind of Fun this March Break with Knee-Slapping Marathons of THE SIMPSONS, THE CLEVELAND SHOW, and SOUTH PARK

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• The laughs come to an end with the season finales of hit-comedy series BURNING LOVE, Wednesday, March 5 at 11 p.m. ET, and CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (11:30 p.m. ET), while Julie Gristlewhite returns as the bachelorette on the Season 2  premiere of BURNING LOVE, Wednesday, March 12 at 11 p.m. ET
• Viewers can enjoy special March Break programming with “VACATIONING WITH THE SIMPSONS, THE BROWNS, AND KYLE, STAN, CARTMAN AND KENNY” , including marathon back-to-back episodes of THE SIMPSONS, THE CLEVELAND SHOW, and SOUTH PARK, beginning March 10 at 4:30 p.m. ET
• The series premiere of NEWSREADERS takes flight Wednesday, March 12 at 11:30 p.m. ET
• Liz and Liz hit the  red carpet in the Season 2 finale of KROLL SHOW, Tuesday, March 25 at 10:30 p.m. ET
• Funny flicks come to Much this month including SCARY MOVIE 3, DUDE WHERE’S MY CAR?, AMERICAN PIE, and more

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Below is a chronological listing of detailed highlights for March. All programming is subject to change (all times ET; visit Much.ca to confirm local broadcast times).

Saturday, March 1

10 p.m. ET – SCARY MOVIE 3 (2003)

In the third instalment of the Scary Movie franchise, Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killer video tapes, and help the President in preventing an alien invasion, all while trying to escape death.

Sunday, March 2

2 p.m. ET –TOTALLY AWESOME (2006)

In this spoof of a typical 1980s teen movie, VH1 finds a long-lost, never-released teen film made in the 1980s and airs it in 2006 loaded with the typical formula: clichés, bad fashion, and stereotypical characters.

Wednesday, March 5

11 p.m. ET – BURNING LOVE – *Season 1 Finale*

Annie (Abigail Spencer) and Carly (Janet Varney) are invited to spend a romantic evening with Mark (Kevin Marino), who proposes to the woman of his dreams. Then, the ladies that Mark rejected have the chance to ask him some tough questions.

11:30 p.m.  ET – CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL – *Season 5 Finale*

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL lampoons the medical show genre by exploring the emotional struggles and sexual politics of a group of doctors with supercharged libidos. The season finale explores the dedication of these doctors to their personal lives and is interrupted only by the occasional need to treat sick children.

Friday, March 7

10 p.m. ET – AMERICAN PIE (1999)

Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) are four friends who make a pact that before they graduate they will all lose their virginity. The hard job now is how to reach that goal by prom night. While Oz joins a singing club to grab attention and Kevin tries to persuade his girlfriend to go all the way, Finch tries any easy route of spreading rumours, and Jim fails miserably.

Saturday, March 8

10 p.m. ET – DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR? (2000)

After a night of partying, two bumbling stoners, Jesse (Ashton Kutcher), and Chester (Sean William Scott), wake up and cannot remember where they parked their car, prompting them on a journey to find it. Along the way, they encounter a variety of people including their angry girlfriends Wilma (Marla Sokoloff) and Wanda (Jennifer Garner) whose house they trashed, an angry street gang, a transsexual stripper hounding them for a suitcase full of stolen money, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and a group of aliens in human form looking for a mystical device that could save or destroy the world.

Sunday, March 9

2 p.m. ET – SPRING BREAKDOWN (1983)

Stu (Paul Land) and O.T. (Steve Bassett) are two studs from the big city who arrive in Fort Lauderdale for spring break. They discover that the room they had reserved in an over-crowded motel is already being occupied by Nelson (David Knell) and Adam (Perry Lang), a pair of college-nerds. With no other accommodations available, Nelson and Adam reluctantly agree to share the room with Stu and O.T., who promise to show them a good time. The wet-T-shirt contests and beer-guzzling-fun are threatened when Nelson’s controlling step-dad shows up, along with a building inspector who wants to shut down the motel.

Monday, March 10

1 p.m. ET – BRING IT ON (2000)

The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has spirit, spunk, sass, and a killer routine that’s sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance (Kristen Dunst), the Toros’ road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen from the Clovers, a hip-hop squad from East Compton, by the Toro’s former captain.

4:30 p.m. ET – VACATIONING WITH THE SIMPSONS, THE BROWNS & KYLE, STAN, CARTMAN & KENNY– *Marathon*

From March 10- 22 viewers can enjoy spring break with vacationed themed episodes of THE SIMPSONS, and THE CLEVELAND SHOW, weeknights beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET and marathon blocks Saturday, March 15 and 22 from 8 p.m. ET – 3:30 a.m. ET.

Tuesday, March 11

1 p.m. ET – BRING IT ON AGAIN (2004)

College newcomer Whittier (Anne Judson-Yager) joins her new college cheerleading squad to relive her high school days as head cheerleader. But when she and her best friend Monica (Faune A. Chambers) quit because of the tyrannical and snobbish squad captain, Whittier and Monica quit and vow to form their own cheerleading squad made up of college campus misfits and social outcasts for a competition to see which squad will represent the college for the national cheerleader championship.

Wednesday, March 12

1 p.m. ET – BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING (2006)

At the elite seaside campus of Pacific Vista High School, Britney (Hayden Panettiere) is captain of the cheerleading squad and the envy of everyone at school. But Britney’s life turns from cheer-topia to cheer-tastrophe when her father’s job takes her family to Crenshaw Heights, a multi-ethnic working-class neighbourhood east of Los Angeles. At her new school, Britney is viewed with suspicion by most of the students, especially by Camille (Solange Knowles), the overly confident and acerbic leader of the Crenshaw Heights Warriors cheerleading squad.

11 p.m. ET – BURNING LOVE – *Season 2 Premiere*

Julie Gristlewhite, one of the bachelorettes who competed for Mark Orlando’s heart in Season 1, meets her own eligible suitors as the Bachelorette on Season 2 of BURNING LOVE.

11:30 p.m. ET – NEWSREADERS – *Series Premiere*

From the team behind Emmy Award^®-winning comedy, CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, NEWSREADERS is an absurd take on the television news magazine format, a show that goes behind the stories. In the series premiere cranky, old, out-of-touch correspondent Skip Reming (Ray Wise) experiences the horrors of modern air travel and perky, hot correspondent Xandra Dent (Alison Becker) meets robots who save and destroy the world.

Thursday, March 13

1 p.m. ET – BRING IT ON: IN IT TO WIN IT (2007)

Southern California high school senior Carson (Ashley Benson) arrives at the all-important “Cheer Camp Nationals” determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Brooke (Cassandra Scerbo) and her team, the East High Jets, are equally steadfast in their pursuit of the competition’s coveted “Spirit Stick.” As tension mounts between the two rival squads, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn (Michael Copon), not realizing he’s a Jet.

Friday, March 14

1 p.m. – AMERICAN PIE 2 (2001)

The whole gang are back and as close as ever. They decide to get even closer by spending the summer together at a beach house. They decide to hold the biggest party ever to be seen, even if the preparation doesn’t always go to plan. Especially when Stifler (Sean William Scott), Finch (Eddy Kaye Thomas), and Jim (Jason Biggs) become more close to each other than they ever want to be and when Jim mistakes super glue for lubricant.

Saturday, March 15

8 p.m. ET – VACATIONING WITH THE SIMPSONS, THE BROWNS & KYLE, STAN, CARTMAN & KENNY– *Marathon*

Kicking off the Saturday marathon block is THE SIMPSONS, “30 Minutes Over Tokyo” where Bart and Homer get thrown into jail after mistaking the Emperor for a Sumo wrestler and Marge has to use up most of their holiday money as bail. When Homer makes an origami crane out of their last million yen note and it blows away, they are forced to take part in a dangerous gameshow in order to win the money for their return flight.

Tuesday, March 18

1 p.m. ET – BRING IT ON: FIGHT TO THE FINISH (2009)

Lina Cruz (Christina Milian) is a tough, sharp-witted Latina cheerleader from East L.A. who transfers to a posh West Los Angeles high school. Lina finds herself a fish-out-of-her-environment at her new high school and faces off against Avery (Rachel Brooke Smith), the snobbish and ultra-competitive all-star cheerleading captain to qualify for a spot on the team.

Wednesday, March 19

1 p.m. ET – THE CUTTING EDGE: GOING FOR THE GOLD (2006)

Jackie Dorsey (Christy Carlson Romano) is the daughter of 1992 Winter Olympics Gold medalists Kate Moseley (Stephanie Kramer) and Doug Dorsey (Scott Thompson Baker). She grows up with ambitions of winning her own Olympic gold but that dream seems to come to an end when she has a career threatening injury. When Alex Harrison (Ross Thomas) joins her as her new pairs skate partner, Jackie is given a new chance at Olympic Gold.

Thursday, March 20

1 p.m. ET – THE CUTTING EDGE 3: CHASING THE DREAM (2008)

When Seattle’s golden boy Zack Conroy’s (Matt Lanter) figure skating partner Celeste Mercier (Sarah Gadon) is injured in a training accident, their coach Bryan Hemmings (Stefano DeMatteo) insists he takes a temporary partner to go on to the national championship, his ticket to the world championship in Paris. Zack and his temper discard all candidates from the circuit, but after an altercation with an ice hockey amateur team, he sets his mind on their only girl, Alejandra ‘Alex’ Delgado (Francia Raisa).

Friday, March 21

1 p.m. ET – AMERICAN WEDDING (2003)

Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) has finally found the courage to ask his girlfriend, Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) to marry him. She agrees to get married, but the problems are just beginning for Jim. Along with Paul Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Kevin Myers (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Jim must plan the wedding. Unfortunately, Steve Stifler (Sean William Scott) is in town and won’t let the wedding go past without having some fun himself, which includes setting up a secret bachelor party.

Saturday, March 22

8 p.m. ET – VACATIONING WITH THE SIMPSONS, THE BROWNS & KYLE, STAN, CARTMAN & KENNY – THE SIMPSONS –*Marathon*

The marathon continues with THE SIMPSONS, “Catch ‘Em If You Can” where

Marge and Homer decide not to go to Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate Uncle Tyrone’s birthday and go to Miami to enjoy a vacation without the children instead. When Bart and Lisa find out, they are insulted and decide to chase their parents so they cannot enjoy their vacation.

Tuesday, March 25

10:30 p.m. ET – KROLL SHOW *Season 2 Finale*

In the season finale, PubLizity promotes “Blisteritos” with a celebrity-studded red carpet event, CCzar graduates from Dad Academy, and Rich Dicks throw a party.

Friday, March 28

10 p.m. ET – BASEKETBALL (1998)

Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop (Trey Parker) and Remer (Matt Stone), invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities.

Saturday, March 29

10 p.m. ET– DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY (2004)

A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.

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