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Here's a guide to ushering in '10 on the tube

If you are staying at home tonight, you've got your choice of personalities to help you usher in 2010.

If you are staying at home tonight, you've got your choice of personalities to help you usher in 2010.

Ringing in the new year

Jennifer Lopez and Daughtry perform in New York's Times Square on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest" (10 p.m.-11 p.m., 11:30 p.m.-2:05 a.m., Channel 6).

Jay-Z and Rihanna team up on "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly" (10-11 p.m., 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Channel 10).

CBS 3 anchors Chris May and Susan Barnett host fireworks from Penn's Landing, broadcast this year in high-def. (11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Channel 3.)

Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta, Carmen Electra, Sean Kingston and Eva Longoria celebrate "Billboard's New Year's Eve Live" (11 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Channel 29).

Remember the old, ring in the new with "06 & Party" (11 p.m.-1 a.m., BET).

Circle the globe in "New Year's Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin" (11 p.m.-12:30 a.m., CNN), with new-year reports from far-flung correspondents.

Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck headline "All American New Year" (11 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Fox News Channel).

Spanish-speakers celebrate in "Feliz 2010" (10 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Univision) and "Fiesta de Ano Nuevo" (10 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Telemundo).

And ESPN gets extreme on "New Year, No Limits" (11 p.m.-midnight, ESPN).

Today's alternatives

Don't want to watch other people party?

Make your own kind of merry with other marathons starting today.

Vintage buffoons Larry, Moe and Curly slap and stick each other around the clock in "The Three Stooges" (today 7 a.m.-tomorrow 6 a.m., AMC).

Rod Serling guides us through "The Twilight Zone" (today 8 a.m.-tomorrow 7 p.m., Syfy).

Celebrities are lampooned in eight episodes of "South Park" (today 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Comedy Central).

Westerns fans get new fare with the arrival of the '60s hit "The Virginian" (tonight at midnight-tomorrow midnight, Encore Westerns).

The 90-minute episodes feature stars like Bette Davis, Ricardo Montalban, George C. Scott and Lee Marvin.

Marathons tomorrow

Some choices: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (6 a.m.-midnight, LOGO); "Summerland" (6 a.m.-Saturday 6 a.m., Universal HD); "The Unit" (6 a.m.-Jan. 4 at 6 a.m., Sleuth); "Barney Miller" (7 a.m.-9 p.m., WGN); "One Tree Hill" (2 p.m.-midnight, SOAPnet).