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Sunday Stew

TV programing block

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ7639553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sunday Stew was a block of programming aired on Sunday nights between 9-11 p.m. where MTV showed new episodes of their comedic programs targeted towards younger college-aged men. Like MTV2, the Stew showed short films before and after a show. The branding was discontinued on television in December 2005.

Sunday Stew line-ups

The following are the shows aired during the Sunday Stew for the time periods listed. Each lineup was referred to as a "season" by MTV; thus, the Sunday Stew aired six "seasons" between 2003 and 2005.

Ten-minute sneak peeks

Occasionally, MTV would air the first 10 minutes of a new movie at the conclusion of the programming block. Movies previewed included Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and The Chronicles of Riddick.

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“Sunday Stew” enters the record as tV programing block. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sunday, Stew and programing can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sunday Stew” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.