Television’s in holiday marathon mode

The night before July 4th is a traditionally slow night of television. Not even “First Responders Live” (9 p.m., Fox, repeat, TV-14) is live. And the cable hit “Yellowstone” (10 p.m., Paramount, TV-MA) takes the night off, sharing instead a five-minute “Sneak Peek” of next week’s intrigue.

Some networks are already in holiday marathon mode, offering continuous prime-time episodes of “The Walking Dead” (AMC); “Planet Earth” (BBC America); “Storage Wars” (FYI); “Last Man Standing” (CMT and WGN); “South Park” (Comedy Central); “Homestead Rescue” (Discovery); “Going RV” (GAC); “The Wrestlers” (Viceland); “Forged in Fire” (History); “NCIS” (Oxygen); “Criminal Minds” (Sundance); “The Big Bang Theory” (TBS); “Impractical Jokers” (TRU) and “Law & Order” (WE).

› Netflix begins streaming “The Last Czars.” Blending documentary history and expensively produced re-enactments, “Czars” recalls the eccentric Romanovs under Czar Nicholas, a headstrong autocrat whose resistance to change would inspire revolutionary tumult in 1905, leave Russia ill-prepared for WWI and finally result in two revolutions in 1917 — one that had the family deposed and another that saw them executed.

The limited review snippets made available show “Czars” to be long on melodrama, costumes and palace decor. Something to nibble on while awaiting the yet-unscheduled return of “The Crown.” This also offers a nice complement to the Amazon streaming series “The Romanoffs,” a quirky anthology loosely organized around living descendants of the decadent monarchs.

This “Czar” and “Romanoff ” programming is only one way the two streaming giants appear to be winking at each other. In Netflix’s popular Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler movie “Murder Mystery,” a running gag involves the idea of buying an Amazon gift certificate for an anniversary gift.

Recently, an authoritarian

religious group petitioned Netflix to cancel “Good Omens,” an apocalyptic comedy starring David Tennant as the Devil and Michael Sheen as an archangel. Only Netflix doesn’t stream “Good Omens”; Amazon does.

In a cheeky retort, Amazon promised Netflix that it would cancel “Stranger Things” if they went ahead and canceled “Good Omens.”

For the record, Netflix’s “Stranger Things” begins streaming its third season tomorrow.

› When film historians survey the career of Faye Dunaway (“Bonnie and

Clyde”), they will probably overlook her turn in the 1996 kids comedy “Dunston Checks In” (7 p.m., HBO Family), co-starring Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) and an orangutan.

Rupert Everett and Paul Reubens appear as well in a film described as “gut-wrenchingly horrible” by The Washington Post and “disturbingly graphic” and “definitely not appropriate for kids” by the Los Angeles Times.

They just don’t make ‘em like they used to!

Contact Kevin McDonough at kevin .tvguy@gmail.com.