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If it’s one factor we will all depend on, it’s the a great deal of holiday-themed programming obtainable for viewing all through this festive season. It will probably actually get a bit overwhelming. Don’t fret, Rotten Tomatoes is right here to assist preserve monitor of them. Beneath, is our 2022 information to all the vacation exhibits and flicks premiering on broadcast, cable, and streaming companies in via January 1.
Some highly-anticipated originals are actually obtainable on streaming, together with Tim Allen’s The Santa Clauses TV sequence on Disney+, the long-awaited return of Peter Billingsley as Ralphie in A Christmas Story Christmas on HBO Max, and Apple TV+’s Charles Dickens musical Spirited, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. Plus, 24-hour marathons of Elf and Nationwide Lampoon’s Christmas Trip will shut out the month on TNT and TBS.
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December has been jam-packed with vacation goodies, together with Freeform’s annual 25 Days of Christmas programming lineup, with vacation classics (like The Santa Clause trilogy, House Alone, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, and extra) slated for every night time of the month. AMC’s “Greatest Christmas Ever” vacation lineup is providing up all types of themed-programming, together with “A Murray Christmas,” that includes a collection of Invoice Murray vacation flicks, “Sweet Coated Christmas,” celebrating John Sweet titles like Planes, Trains, and Cars and Uncle Buck, and a “Merry 80’s Marathon” that’ll current classics like The Karate Child and Ghostbusters for some offbeat festive viewing. For all of the Peanuts and Snoopy–themed goodness your coronary heart needs, Apple TV+ is gifting the beloved animated characters in a set of traditional and new specials for the entire household.
After all, a complete slew of recent Lifetime and Hallmark unique vacation films have been dropping all season lengthy, in addition to their imitators on different networks attempting to get in on the treacly vacation cheer.
In case you’re in search of Rankin/Bass specials like Rudolph the Crimson-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman, they’re obtainable to buy on Vudu and different video on demand companies.
Bookmark this web page to verify again on new titles coming via New 12 months’s Day.
NOW STREAMING
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Catering Christmas
(2022)
Hulu
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Christmas on the Farm
(2021)
Hulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWe1tV5gUY4
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Donna Hay Christmas
Disney+
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A Wesley Christmas
(2022)
BET+
79%
78%
A Christmas Story Christmas
(2022)
HBO Max
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Santa Video games
(2022)
Hulu
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75%
Menorah within the Center
(2022)
Hulu
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Christmas on Repeat
(2022)
Hulu
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All I Need for Christmas
(2022)
Hulu
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My Christmas Fiancé
(2022)
Hulu
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0%
A Magical Christmas Village
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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Lights, Digital camera, Christmas!
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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A Royal Christmas on Ice
(2022)
GAC Household
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Merry Swissmas
(2022)
Lifetime
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A Maple Valley Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Films & Mysteries
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All Saints Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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Christmas Cookie Problem: Season 6
(2022)
Meals Community
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Properly Fitted to Christmas
(2022)
Lifetime
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Love on the Christmas Contest
(2022)
GAC Household
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Vacation Wars
Meals Community
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Vacation Baking Championship
Meals Community
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Vacation Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown
Meals Community
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The Claus Household 2
(2021)
Netflix
61%
56%
Falling for Christmas
(2022)
Netflix
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The First Noelle
(2022)
BET+
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Christmas on Mistletoe Lake
(2022)
Lifetime
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Designing Christmas
(2022)
Discovery+
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A Christmas Open Home
(2022)
Discovery+
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A Gingerbread Christmas
(2022)
Discovery+
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One Scrumptious Christmas
(2022)
Discovery+
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The Christmas Retreat
(2022)
UPtv
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In Merry Measure
(2022)
Hallmark and Peacock Channel
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The Canine Days of Christmas
(2021)
Lifetime
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Our Italian Christmas Recollections
(2022)
Peacock
100%
80%
Santa Camp
(2022)
HBO Max
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A Tiny House Christmas
(2022)
UPtv
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Reindeer Video games Homecoming
(2022)
Lifetime
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75%
The Royal Nanny
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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—
A Merry Christmas Want
(2022)
GAC Household
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Our Italian Christmas Recollections
(2022)
Hallmark Films & Mysteries
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The Christmas E-book
(2021)
UPtv
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40%
Christmas Sweethearts
(2019)
GAC Household
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Six Levels of Santa
(2022)
Lifetime
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50%
Christmas on the Golden Dragon
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
55%
The Santa Clauses: Season 1
(2022)
Disney+
79%
78%
A Christmas Story Christmas
(2022)
HBO Max
65%
63%
Christmas With You
(2022)
Netflix
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Christmas Get together Crashers
(2022)
BET+
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Candy Navidad
(2021)
Lifetime
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The Nice British Baking Present: Holidays: Season 5
(2022)
Netflix
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Martha Holidays: Season 1
(2022)
The Roku Channel
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60%
Greatest in Snow
(2022)
Disney+
69%
79%
Spirited
(2022)
Apple TV+
100%
Fraggle Rock: Again to the Rock: Season 1
(2022)
“Night time of the Lights Vacation Particular,” Apple TV+
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Sago Mini Mates: Season 1
(2022)
Thanksgiving Particular, Apple TV+
Josh Turner: King Dimension Manger, UPtv – Showcasing his unmistakable baritone voice, multiplatinum-selling recording artist and Grand Ole Opry star Josh Turner heralds within the vacation season along with his distinctive interpretation of nostalgic classics in addition to 4 unique songs.
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Inventing the Christmas Prince
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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A Nation Christmas Concord
(2022)
Lifetime
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Santa Bootcamp
(2022)
Lifetime
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Christmas in Pine Valley
(2022)
GAC Household
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83%
Three Sensible Males and a Child
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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Lengthy Misplaced Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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Christmas Fortunate Appeal
(2022)
UPtv
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A Present-Stopping Christmas
(2021)
Lifetime
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My Favourite Christmas Tree
(2022)
GAC Household
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Once I Consider Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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75%
A Waltons Thanksgiving
(2022)
The CW
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Small City Christmas
: The Harvest Particular, UPtv
My Little Pony: Winter Wishday, Netflix – This all new My Little Pony vacation particular will discover Zipp, Sunny, Izzy, Ruby and Hitch embarking on a wintry journey.
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33%
Christmas on Mistletoe Farm
(2022)
Netflix
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80%
A Christmas Winter Music
(2019)
Hulu
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75%
Merry Kiss Cam
(2022)
Hulu
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The Christmas Clapback
(2022)
BET+
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Vacation Hideaway
(2022)
BET+
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The Sound of Christmas
(2022)
BET+
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94%
Vacation Concord
(2022)
HBO Max
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76%
A Christmas Thriller
(2022)
HBO Max
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Baking All of the Method
(2022)
Lifetime
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My Southern Household Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
93%
80%
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular
(2022)
Disney+
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88%
The Hip Hop Nutcracker
(2022)
Disney+
—
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#Xmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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—
Steppin’ Into the Vacation
(2022)
Lifetime
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100%
A Royal Corgi Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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38%
Christmas on the Drive-In
(2022)
GAC Household
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A Story of Two Christmases
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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Religion Heist: A Christmas Caper
(2022)
Bounce
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Sometime at Christmas
(2021)
GAC Household
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—
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve
(2022)
Lifetime
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37%
Haul Out the Holly
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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100%
Time for Him to Come House for Christmas
(2022)
Hallmark Films & Mysteries
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A Christmas Cookie Disaster
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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59%
Mickey Saves Christmas
(2022)
Disney Channel
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58%
A Christmas… Current
(2022)
GAC Household
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86%
A Vacation Spectacular
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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A Christmas Spark
(2022)
Lifetime
The Motion Pack Saves Christmas, Netflix – The Motion Pack groups up with Santa Claus to save lots of the day when grasping Teddy Von Taker plots to steal all of the Christmas cheer from Hope Springs.
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59%
Mickey Saves Christmas
(2022)
Disney+
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The Nice Christmas Gentle Combat: Season 10
(2022)
ABC
Love Really: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer/ABC Information Particular, ABC – ABC Information anchor Diane Sawyer can have a primetime particular to mark the twentieth anniversary of the making of the vacation traditional Love Really.
(Photograph by CBS)
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91%
Reindeer in Right here
(2022)
CBS
Christmas in Rockefeller Middle, NBC – NBC heralds the arrival of the vacations with a blinding show of musical abilities, star-studded surprises and the lighting of the world’s most well-known Christmas tree for the ninetieth “Christmas in Rockefeller Middle.”
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Rolling Into Christmas
(2022)
BET+
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61%
A Hollywood Christmas
(2022)
HBO Max
Sesame Avenue The Nutcracker, HBO Max – The traditional story is retold Sesame Avenue-style in an animated particular that follows Elmo and his pet Tango on a fantastical journey stuffed with new music and pals, the place Tango speaks for the primary time. This 30-minute festive characteristic is a celebration of the best reward of all: friendship.
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I am Glad It is Christmas
(2022)
Hulu
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The Good Witch of Christmas
(2021)
Hulu
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34%
Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas
(2022)
Peacock
38%
72%
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
(2022)
Netflix [movie] (after a theatrical launch)
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Pentatonix: Across the World for the Holidays
(2022)
(Disney+)
57%
68%
Your Christmas or Mine?
(2022)
Prime Video
39%
59%
Christmas with The Campbells
(2022)
AMC+
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The Nice American Baking Present: Movie star Vacation
(2022)
The Roku Channel
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The Snoopy Present: Season 2
(2022)
“Happiness Is the Present of Giving” Vacation Particular, Apple TV+
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79%
I Desire a Canine for Christmas, Charlie Brown
(2003)
Apple TV+
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53%
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
(2010)
Apple TV+
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Interrupting Hen: Season 1
(2022)
“A Hen Carol” Vacation Particular, Apple TV+
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Pretzel and the Puppies: Season 1
(2022)
“Merry Muttgomery!” Vacation Particular, Apple TV+
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Cloudy With a Probability of Christmas
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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A Massive Fats Household Christmas
(2022)
Peacock
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100%
Matt Rogers: Have You Heard of Christmas?
(2022)
Showtime on demand or Showtime.com
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A New Orleans Noel
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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A Fabled Vacation
(2022)
Peacock
A Bocelli Household Christmas, YouTube – Andrea Bocelli and his 25-year-old son Matteo, and 10-year-old daughter Virginia are the protagonists of a fairy story, a live performance and a shared occasion, held between the Citadel and the streets of Gressoney.
Grace Notes, BYUtv.org – An unscripted sequence hosted by Elaine Bradley from Neon Timber that options performances and interviews with artists who’re uplifted and adjusted by music.
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Malory Towers: Season 3
(2022)
4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET, BYUtv.org
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Merry Textmas
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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Undercover Vacation
(2022)
Peacock
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47%
Match for Christmas
(2022)
Paramount+
50%
HouseBroken: Season 1
(2021)
: two back-to-back vacation episodes “Who’s Discovered Themselves In One Of These Magical Christmas Life Swap Switcheroos?” Fox.com
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Thomas & Mates: All Engines Go: Season 2
(2022)
“Christmas Mountain,” cartoonnetwork.com
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Mecha Builders: Season 1
(2022)
“Yip Yip Tree Tree/The Snowman Scarecrow,” cartoonnetwork.com
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Bugs Bunny Builders: Season 1
(2022)
“Looneyburg Lights,” cartoonnetwork.com
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Batwheels: Season 1
(2022)
“Holidays on Ice,” cartoonnetwork.com
TMZ’s Merry Elfin’ Christmas, Fox.com – This Christmas, a number of the largest names in leisure take over TMZ. Be a part of Publish Malone, Henry Winkler, Giada De Laurentiis, Kenya Moore, Smokey Robinson, Kenny G and Camille Vasquez on the all-new particular TMZ’s Merry Elfin’ Christmas as they provide their takes on the largest tales that stored everybody speaking in 2022.
Christmas All the time Finds Its Method, Prime Video – Coca-Cola’s first-ever Christmas Anthology movie sequence produced by award-winning filmmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Think about Leisure, these new movies all focus on one premise: to share and rejoice tales of human connection, instructed in magical methods.
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Scentsational Christmas
(2022)
8 p.m., Lifetime
Best Vacation Commercials Countdown 2022, cwtv.com – The annual look again at promoting’s most interesting will depend down 12 of the world’s greatest vacation commercials and try different nice commercials.
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A Miracle Earlier than Christmas
(2022)
BET+
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Random Acts
BYUtv.org
CMA Nation Christmas, Hulu and Disney+ – Filmed in Nashville, the particular options a few of nation music’s most beloved artists coming collectively for an intimate night time stuffed with vacation classics. Hosted by nation music star Carly Pearce, “CMA Nation Christmas” options performances by Steven Curtis Chapman, Dan + Shay, Scotty McCreery, Maren Morris, Outdated Dominion, Pearce, Molly Tuttle and The Battle and Treaty.
80%
86%
Idina Menzel: Which Approach to the Stage?
(2022)
Disney+
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Hulu
70%
65%
One thing from Tiffany’s
(2022)
Prime Video
—
Teen Titans Go!: Season 7
(2021)
“The Nice Vacation Escape,” CartoonNetwork.com
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HBO Max, discovery+, and the Magnolia app
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A Recipe for Pleasure
(2021)
mylifetime.com
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The Most Colourful Time of the 12 months
(2022)
Peacock
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Kirk Franklin’s The Night time Earlier than Christmas
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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Christmas Class Reunion
(2022)
Hallmark Channel and Peacock
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100%
A Christmas Fumble
(2022)
Oprah.com
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The Present of Peace
(2022)
Peacock
White Home Christmas 2022, discovery+ – The vacation particular showcases the glowing vacation décor of the Individuals’s Home.
The Nationwide Christmas Tree Lighting: Celebrating 100 Years, Paramount+ – Grammy Award-winning recording artist, actor and Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer LL Cool J will gentle up this vacation season as host of the annual ceremony.
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Single and Able to Jingle
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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61%
The Vacation Sitter
(2022)
Peacock
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Should Love Christmas
(2022)
Paramount+
Studio C, 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET, BYUtv.org – Deck the halls with laughter because the solid of fan-favorite sketch comedy present Studio C (now in its sixteenth season) brings audiences Christmas cheer.
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Dr. Seuss Baking Problem: Season 1
(2022)
Prime Video/Freevee
Discovering Concord, Hulu – John Legend and David Brown companion as much as remodel a fractured neighborhood right into a powerhouse refrain.
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Blackjack Christmas
(2022)
BET+
(Photograph by Bertrand Calmeau/CBS)
100%
Ghosts: Season 2
(2022)
“The Christmas Spirit,” Paramount+
Christmas Across the USA, CWtv.com – The particular explores how the vacation season is well known all through the nation, hosted by Dean Cain and Laura McKenzie.
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Report Breaking Christmas
(2022)
hour-long Christmas particular, “The Christmas Spirit” 8 p.m., Lifetime
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79%
Snow Day
(2022)
Paramount+ and Nickelodeon
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Lopez vs Lopez: Season 1
(2022)
“Lopez vs Christmas,” Peacock
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A Christmas to Treasure
(2022)
mylifetimetv.com
The ninetieth Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, CWtv.com – Hosted by Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean Cain, and Montel Williams (with Particular Co-Host Elizabeth Stanton).
iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, CWtv.com – Performances by artists together with Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Jack Harlow, Sam Smith, Pitbull, Charlie Puth, Black Eyed Peas, Demi Lovato, The Child LAROI, Khalid, Tate McRae, Lewis Capaldi, and extra.
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The Vacation Courting Information
(2022)
mylifetime.com
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‘Twas the Night time Earlier than Christmas
(2022)
Peacock
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5 Extra Minutes: Moments Like These
(2022)
Peacock
O Holy Night time: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir, BYUtv.org – Tony Award-nominated performer Megan Hilty and actor Neal McDonough, who every share Irish heritage and traditions, be part of The Tabernacle Choir to ship a deeply private program that weaves collectively well-known vacation tunes and traditional Christmas carols.
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Wrapped Up in Love
(2021)
mylifetime.com
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71%
Hanukkah on Rye
(2022)
Peacock
—
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When Christmas Was Younger
(2022)
Paramount+
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Movie star Vacation Bricktacular: Hovering Snowmobiles
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Mary Berry’s Final Christmas
(2022)
PBS.org
DECEMBER
Tuesday, Dec. 20
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!, 8 p.m., CBS and Paramount+ – Filmed in New York Metropolis at Madison Sq. Backyard, the live performance particular will characteristic a repertoire of Carey’s festive vacation hits, together with, “All I Need for Christmas Is You.” Further viewing alternatives of the particular will probably be supplied on MTV after the CBS broadcast.
Wednesday, Dec. 21
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Fuhgeddabout Christmas
(2022)
8 p.m. VH1
Thursday, Dec. 22
86%
89%
A Charlie Brown Christmas
(1965)
(Stream free of charge till Sunday, December 25) AppleTV+
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A Christmas Present
(2022)
BET+
Friday, Dec. 23
The twenty fourth Annual A House For The Holidays At The Grove, 8 p.m., CBS and Paramount+ – For the final 20 years, the award-winning particular has shined a light-weight on the 1000’s of American kids in foster care and has impressed tens of 1000’s of adoptions, shifting these kids into loving perpetually households. The particular is hosted by Gloria Estefan, who will even carry out reside, and can characteristic performances by performances by Andy Grammer, Little Massive City, and David Foster & Kat McPhee.
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5 Extra Sleeps ’til Christmas
(2021)
8:30-9 p.m. ET, NBC
Saturday, Dec. 24
Monitoring Santa, A Hulu/ABC Vacation Particular (Reside Broadcast), 6 p.m. – 2 a.m., Hulu and ABC – On this reside broadcast, ABC’s Owned Tv Stations will monitor Santa sightings throughout America as solely Disney properties can. Beginning at WABC in New York, the occasion will leap from station to station following Santa, with anchors within the studio tossing to reporters within the area, meteorologists monitoring atmospheric disturbances that may solely be Santa himself, celeb shout outs and vacation greetings, reside chats with Santa, and way more.
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The Snowball Impact
(2022)
7 p.m., UPtv
Sunday, Dec. 25
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
(2022)
AppleTV+
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Christmas in Wolf Creek
(2022)
7 p.m., UPtv
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, 7 p.m., ABC – Disney’s annual Christmas celebration returns Christmas morning with heartwarming tales, dazzling celeb performances and naturally, the Christmas Day Parade!
Monday, Dec. 26
The Kwanzaa Menu, 8 p.m., Meals Community [series premiere] – Host Tonya Hopkins, aka aka “The Meals Griot,” invitations a few of her favourite folks to rejoice Kwanzaa and its traditions via meals and dialog. In every of the seven episodes Tonya and a particular visitor put together a recipe that’s related to the day’s celebration. Collectively they’ll commemorate every day of Kwanzaa by cooking significant dishes and discussing the Nguzu Saba, the seven ideas, and historical past of the vacation. When introduced collectively, the collective dishes create a significant and celebratory Kwanzaa Menu.
The 12 months: 2022, 9 p.m., ABC – Anchored by Robin Roberts and that includes lots of ABC’s high information anchors, together with David Muir, Michael Strahan, George Stephanopoulos, Juju Chang, Linsey Davis, Janai Norman and Ginger Zee, the twelfth annual two-hour-long particular, introduced by ABC Information, will retrace the highest tales, tendencies and leisure obsessions we couldn’t get sufficient of in 2022.
Thursday, Dec. 29
Popstar’s Better of 2022, 8 p.m., The CW – Hosted by Elizabeth Stanton, the particular will depend down the best and most memorable moments and tendencies of 2022 based mostly on polls from Popstar Journal.
Saturday, Dec. 31
Lizzo: Reside in Live performance, HBO Max – Have fun the brand new 12 months with Emmy® and three-time GRAMMY-winning famous person Lizzo, her band The Lizzbians and The Little Bigs, The Massive Grrrls with particular friends Cardi B, SZA, and Missy Elliott for a spectacular present stuffed with a lot of love, positivity and unimaginable music.
Dick Clark New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2023, 8 p.m., ABC – Hosted by Ryan Seacrest reside from Occasions Sq., who will probably be joined by co-hosts Liza Koshy and Jessie James Decker, the present celebrates the 12 months’s perfect in music that includes an evening famous person performances. The nation’s most-watched New 12 months’s Eve celebration, which supplies viewers a take a look at New 12 months’s celebrations from across the globe, will wrap up the vacation season and kick off Disney’s 100 Years of Surprise celebration. The Disneyland segments will probably be pre-taped previous to the New 12 months’s vacation and award-winning multi-platinum-selling artist Ciara will oversee New 12 months’s Eve magic from the Happiest Place on Earth! Billy Porter will probably be again in New Orleans as co-host and DJ D-Good will return as this 12 months’s LA co-host.
New 12 months’s Eve Reside: Nashville’s Massive Bash, 8 p.m., CBS and Paramount+ – The return of CBS’s New 12 months’s Eve particular will characteristic performances by Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Massive City and Zac Brown Band amongst different nation music stars serving to to ring in 2023.
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