NBC Announces Holiday Programming 2024

NBC Thanksgiving Christmas New Year 

                    NBC is ready to round out the year with a bang.  NBC's Thanksgiving to New Year include the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, "Christmas at Rockefeller Center", "The National Dog Show" and "The Grinch" all return as NBC staples.  

           There are a couple new additions to the NBC line up. Leaving CBS, are two classic Rankin-Bass specials.  "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"  returns to NBC after leaving the network after the 1971 year, where the special will be celebrating its 60th anniversary.  NBC will air the special on the anniversary date of it's premiere from 1964. On December 6 with a 75 minute broadcast.   Also joining the network for the first time also moving from CBS is "Frosty the Snowman" which turns 55 this year it will premiere on December 5.  

             NBC will also air the 1966 special "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" , "It's A wonderful Life"  and "Shrek the Halls".  Here's a full look at the NBC line up all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted.  (Subject to change) 

Tuesday, November 19 

10-11pm Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

Wednesday, November 27

8-9pm Countdown to Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 

9-11pm A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving 

Thursday, November 28- Thanksgiving 

8:30-12pm  Macy's Thanksgiving Parade  (encore 2pm) 

12-2pm  National Dog Show 

Wednesday, December 4 

8-10pm  Christmas in Rockefeller Center 

10-11pm  Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular  

Thursday, December 5 

8-8:30pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

8:30-9pm  Frosty the Snowman 

Friday, December 6 

8-9:15pm  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Wednesday, December 11 

8-8:30pm Frosty the Snowman 

8:30-9pm Shrek the Halls

9-11pm  A Motown Christmas 

Thursday, December 12 

8-9:15pm Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

9:15-10pm E! News Presents NBC's Hot 10 of 2024 

Monday, December 16

8-10pm  Little Big Town's Christmas at the Opry 

Tuesday, December 17

 A Motown Christmas  (encore) 

Wednesday, December 18 

8-9pm  Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular  

9-11pm  A  Saturday Night Live Christmas 

Thursday, December 19 

8-9pm Little Big Town's Christmas at the Opry 

10-11PM Barry Manilow's A Very Barry Christmas 

Monday, December 23 

8-10pm  A  Saturday Night Live Christmas  

Tuesday, December 24- Christmas Eve 

8-11pm It's A Wonderful Life 

11:30pm-1am Christmas Eve Mass 

Wednesday, December 25- Christmas Day

8-8:30PM How the Grinch Stole Christmas  

8:30-11pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

Thursday, December 26 

9-11pm Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas 

Monday, January 1, 2025 

11-1pm ET/ 8-10am PT 135th Rose Parade 

Full Press Release after the Jump 

TBS: All I Watch for Christmas and TNT: Christmas Maximus Programming 2024

TBS  TNT  Christmas 

        TBS and TNT launch their Christmas programming starting November 2.  The two Warner Bros. Discovery cable channels  will be airing 8 weeks of Christmas themed programming. 

            TBS and TNT will keep their tradition of airing "A Christmas Story" for 24 hours, plus their newer traditions of airing 24 hours of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", and "Elf".   Other programming includes "Jack Frost" the 1966 version of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" , "The Polar Express". 

        Here are the full details

A Christmas Story 

 

TNT 

•    Monday, November 11 at 7:30pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, December 5 at 8pm and 12am ET/PT 
• Monday, December 16 at 7:45pm and 12am  ET/PT 
• 24-hour Marathon airs from December 24 at 9pm et/pt to December 25 at 9pm ET/PT 

TBS 

•     Saturday, December 7 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• 24 -hour Marathon from December 24 at 8pm et/pt to December 25 at 8pm et/pt 

A Christmas Story Christmas 

    TNT 

•  Monday, November 11 at 9:30pm ET/PT 
• Wednesday , December 25 at 9pm ET/PT

 A  Christmas Carol (1999) 

   TNT 

•   Thursday, December 5 at 10pm ET/PT and 2am ET/PT 

AMERICAN DAD! 

TBS 

Christmas Marathon 

• Sunday, December 22 starting at 7:30am ET/PT 

       All-New Christmas Episode 

•    Monday, December 23 starting at 10pm ET/PT  

AVENGERS: END GAME 

TBS 

New Year’s Eve Marvel Movie Marathon 

• Tuesday, December 31 at 4:15pm ET/PT 

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR 

TBS 

New Year’s Eve Marvel Movie Marathon 

• Tuesday, December 31 at 1:15pm ET/PT 

THE BIG BANG THEORY  

TBS 

Thanksgiving Themed Episodes Marathon 

• Thursday, November 28 starting at 6pm ET/PT 

Holiday Themed Episodes Marathons 

• Sunday, December 15 starting at 6pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 22 starting at 6pm ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 24 starting at 5pm ET/PT 

BLACK PANTHER 

TBS 

New Year’s Eve Marvel Movie Marathon 

• Tuesday, December 31 at 10:30am ET/PT 

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 3 at 3pm & 1am ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 10 at 12:30 am ET/PT 
• Monday, November 11 at 3pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 16 at 2:15pm & 2:00am ET/PT 
• Monday, December 23 at 1:45pm ET/PT 
• Wednesday, December 25 at 1:30am ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 31 at 8:15am &12am ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 2 at 11:15am ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 9 at 1:15pm & 12:15am ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 12am ET/PT 

DECK THE HALLS 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 10 at 3pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 12am ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 30 at 2am ET/PT 
• Saturday, December 7 at 1:30pm ET/PT 

DIE HARD 

TNT 

• Saturday, November 23 at 8pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 22 at 8pm & 10:30pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Sunday, November 3 at 10pm & 3am ET/PT 
• Saturday, December 14 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• Saturday, December 14 at 1am ET/PT 

DR. SEUSS HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966) 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 10 at 7:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 11 at 5pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 6:30pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 15 at 7pm, 9:45pm, & 12:30am ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 16 at 6:27pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 5:30pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, December 14 at 10am ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 15 at 2:45pm & 3:15pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, December 19 at 10pm & 10:30pm ET/PT 

ELF 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 10 at 8pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 11 at 5:30pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 9:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 8pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 at 11:30am & 4pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 2 at 6pm &10:15pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 8pm & 10pm ET/PT 
• Friday, November 22 at 10pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• 24-hour marathon airs from Friday, November 29 at 8 pm to Saturday, November 30 at 8pm ET/PT 

FAMILY MATTERS 

TBS 

Holiday Themed Episode Marathons 

• Sunday, December 22 starting at 6am ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 24 starting at 6am ET/PT 

FRED CLAUS 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 10 at 5:03pm & 10pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 1pm & 11 pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 at 9am & 1:30pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 2 at 3:30pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 3 at 3pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 16 at 2pm & 12:15am ET/PT 
• Friday, November 22 at 12am ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 2pm ET/PT 

FRIENDS  

TBS 

Thanksgiving Themed Episodes Marathons 

• Wednesday, November 27 starting at 10:30am ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 starting at 12:30pm ET/PT 

Holiday Themed Episodes Marathons 

• Sunday, December 22 starting at 1pm ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 24 starting at 11:30am ET/PT 

FOUR CHRISTMASES 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 3 at 5pm & 11pm ET/PT  
• Saturday, November 16 at 4:15pm & 12am ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 5:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 4pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 9 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• Sunday, November 10 at 6:15pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 1:48pm and 12am ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 at 12:15am ET/PT 
• Friday, November 29 at 12:57pm ET/PT 

JACK FROST 

TNT 

• Friday, November 15 at 3:45am ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 16 at 12pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 12:15pm & 1:30am ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 2 at 1:15pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 10 at 4pm ET/PT 

LAST CHRISTMAS 

TNT 

• Monday, November 11 at 11:45pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 3:45am ET/PT 

TBS 

• Sunday, November 17 at 3:33pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, December 7 at 3:30pm & 2:15am ET/PT  

LAST HOLIDAY 

TNT 

• Tuesday, December 24 at 12:15pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, December 7 at 5:45pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, December 26 at 11pm ET/PT 

MODERN FAMILY  

TBS 

Thanksgiving Themed Episodes Marathon 

• Thursday, November 28 starting at 10am ET/PT 

Holiday Themed Episodes Marathons  

• Sunday, December 22 starting at 9:30am ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 24 starting at 8am ET/PT 

NATIONAL LAMPOON CHRISTMAS VACATION 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 3 at 7pm & 9pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 16 at 10pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 7pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 7:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 6pm ET/PT 
• 24-hour marathon airs from Thursday, November 28 at 6 pm to Friday, November 29 at 6pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Sunday, November 10 at 8pm &10pm ET/PT 
• Friday, November 22 at 8pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 6pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 30 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• Saturday, November 30 at 10pm ET/PT 

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY 

TNT 

• Monday, December 16 at 5:30pm & 9:45pm ET/PT 
• Monday, December 23 at 10pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 9 at 5:45pm & 10pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 10 at 12am ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 5:48pm & 1:45am ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 15 at 12:30pm & 3:45pm ET/PT 

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 

TNT 

Cyber Monday Movie Marathon 

• Monday, December 2 at 11am ET/PT 

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST 

TNT 

Cyber Monday Movie Marathon 

• Monday, December 2 at 2pm ET/PT 

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END 

TNT 

Cyber Monday Movie Marathon 

• Monday, December 2 at 5pm ET/PT 

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 

TNT 

Cyber Monday Movie Marathon 

• Monday, December 2 at 8pm ET/PT 

THE POLAR EXPRESS 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 17 at 3:27pm & 9pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 3:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 2pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Sunday, November 3 at 10:30am & 5:30pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 9 at 3:45pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 10 at 2pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 16 at 4:27pm & 10:15pm ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 at 10:15pm ET/PT 
• Friday, November 29 at 2:42pm ET/PT 

THE WIZARD OF OZ 

TNT 

• Sunday, December 15 at 7:30pm & 10:15pm ET/PT  
• Tuesday, December 24 at 6:45pm ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 31 at 6am & 12:45pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 16 at 8pm ET/PT (Dinner and a Movie) 
• Sunday, November 17 at 11:33am ET/PT 
• Thursday, November 28 at 8pm ET/PT 
• Friday, November 29 at 5:45pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, December 7 at 10pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, December 8 at 1:45pm & 11pm ET/PT 

WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 24 at 11:30pm ET/PT 
• Monday, November 25 at 12pm & 10pm ET/PT 
• Monday, December 23 at 3:45pm & 8pm ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 24 at 4:45pm ET/PT 
• Tuesday, December 31 at 10:45am & 10pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 23 at 12pm &10pm ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 30 at 12am ET/PT 
• Wednesday, December 25 at 10pm ET/PT 

THE YEAR WITHOUT SANTA CLAUS (1974) 

TNT 

• Sunday, November 17 at 5:27pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 24 at 2:27pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 16 at 6:57pm ET/PT 
• Sunday, November 17 at 10:30am ET/PT 
• Saturday, November 23 at 4:27pm ET/PT 
• Friday, November 29 at 4:42pm ET/PT 

8-BIT CHRISTMAS 

TNT 

• Wednesday, December 25 at 11:15pm ET/PT 

TBS 

• Saturday, November 9 at 11am ET/PT 

Full PR after the jump 

CBS Announces Holiday Programming 2024

CBS  Thanksgiving  Christmas  New Year

            

         

           CBS has released holiday programming schedule for this year leading from Thanksgiving all the way to New Year.  

             There's also something of note this year,  CBS, for the first time since 1972, will not be airing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and for the first time ever since it premiered, will not be airing Frosty the Snowman.  This is pretty interesting as both specials have big anniversaries this year with Rudolph turning 60 and Frosty turning 55.  They will be moving to NBC, who's parent company owns the rights to these specials.  Freeform, the cable network, will still air these specials to, it's not a Peanuts moving to streaming situation here.  

          That also means, sadly- to me, that CBS will not be airing "Frosty Returns" and it also seems that  "The Story of Santa Claus" will not be airing meaning that CBS won't be airing it for the 2nd year in a row, it might be done at CBS.  Kind of a shame there.  

          Here's what they do have.   Here's the full line up all times in ET/PT unless otherwise noted. 

         Thursday, November 14 

        8pm   Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage (Thanksgiving) 

        Thursday, November 21 

        8-10pm  Nugget is Dead?  A Christmas Story (new movie) 

        Saturday, November 30 

        8-9pm  Reindeer in Here 

    

        Thursday,  December  5

         9pm  Matlock   

         10pm  Elsbeth 

        Sunday, December 8 

        8:30-9:30pm The Equalizer 

        Sunday, December 15 

        8:30-10pm/ 8-9:30pm PT  An Evening with Dua Lipa 

         Monday, December 16 

         9pm  NCIS 

        10pm  NCIS: Origins 

        Thursday, December 19

      8pm  One-Hour Ghostmas Special 

     9pm  Nate Bargatze's Nashville Christmas 

        Friday, December 20

        8pm  National Christmas Tree Lighting  

        9pm  Josh Groban & Friends Go Home for the Holidays 

        Sunday, December 22 

      8:30-11pm / 8-10:30pm PT   The 47th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

        Tuesday, December 24 

         8pm The Price is Right at Night 

        Friday, December 27 

        8pm  The Greatest @Home Videos : Holiday Edition

        9-11pm Grammy ® Greats: The Stories Behind the Songs 

       Sunday, December 29 

       9-11pm  9-11pm Grammy ® Greats: The Most Memorable Moments 

       Tuesday, December 31 

       8-10pm ET and 10:30-1:30AM ET/PT  New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash 

The CW  Holidays  Thanksgiving Christmas New Year 

            

        The CW has released its upcoming holiday programming schedule. That includes a new special  Best Christmas Movies Ever!  and returning favorites like Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer , The 92nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade , and Penn  &Teller: Merry Fool Us. 

        The network will be doing network premieres of The Family Man  and The Grinch from 2018.   Here's a full look at their programming , all times are ET/PT/Denver/Saint Louis.  

  

Sunday November 10 

7-10pm  The Family Man 

Saturday, November 16 

8-10pm A Waltons Thanksgiving 

Sunday, November 17

7-10pm The Holiday 

Wednesday, November 27

8-9pm  Superman & Lois 

9-9:30pm The Conners (Holiday themed episode) 

9:30-10pm The Conners (Holiday themed episode) 

Friday, November 29 

8-9pm Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer 

9-9:30pm Children Ruin Everything (Season 4 Premiere) 

9:30-10pm Children Ruin Everything (Original Episode) 

Sunday, December 1 

7-9pm TBA 

9-10pm  Penn & Teller : Merry Fool Us

Monday, December 2 

8-9pm Superman  & Lois (Series Finale) 

9-10pm Trivial Pursuit (special Night) 

Saturday, December 7 

8-10pm  A California Christmas 

Sunday, December 8

7-9pm  Illumination Presents : Dr. Seuss' The Grinch 

9-9:30pm  The Conners (Holiday Themed Episode) 

9:30-10pm The Conners (Holiday Themed Episode) 

Monday, December 9 

8-10pm Best Christmas Movies Ever! 

Wednesday, December 11 

8-9pm Sullivan's Crossing (season 2 Finale ) 

9-10pm Inside the NFL 

Saturday, December 14 

8-10pm  The 92nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade 

Sunday, December 15 

7-9pm Christmas with The Chosen: Holy Night 

9-9:30pm The Conners 

9:30-10pm The Conners 

Wednesday, December 18

8-9pm Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer (Encore) 

9-10pm  Inside the NFL

Saturday, December 21

8-10pm The Walton's Homecoming 

Sunday, December 22 

7-9:30pm Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas 

9:30-10pm The Conners (Holiday Themed Episode) 

Thursday, December 26 

8-9pm  Scrabble  (Season 1 Finale) 

9-10pm Trivial Pursuit (Season 1 Finale) 

Full PR after the jump 

NBC Announces Holiday Programming 2023

NBC Christmas Thanksgiving New Year Holidays

   NBC has released holiday programming plans, which of course includes the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Christmas in Rockefeller Center, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and more. 

     Holiday programming starts on Wednesday, November 22 with Countdown to Macy's  Thanksgiving Day Parade. Also that night is a special A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving, from 9-11pm ET. 

The 97th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade starts at 8:30am and ends at noon (all time zones) and followed by The National Dog Show. 

The annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center is on Wednesday, November 29. Along with  Christmas in Graceland. 

        The 1966 classic special How the Grinch Stole Christmas is on Thursday, November 30 along with Shrek the Halls. 

   NBC has also has their annual broadcast of It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve.   

     Musical themed specials include Christmas at the Opry and Barry Manilow's A Very Barry Christmas. 

        Here's the full line up, all times are ET/PT unless other wise noted 

Wednesday, November 22

8-9pm Countdown to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 

9-11pm  A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving Special 

Tuesday, November 23

8:30am-12pm  (all time zones)  97th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade  (encore 2pm) 

12-2pm (all time zones)   National Dog Show Presented by Purina 

Monday, November 27 

9pm That's my Jam 

Wednesday, November 29 

8-10pm  Christmas in Rockefeller Center 

10-11pm Christmas in Graceland 

Thursday, November 30

8pm  How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

8:30pm Shrek the Halls 

Monday, December 4

10pm Blake Shelton's Holiday Bartacular Featuring ICE T 

Thursday, December 7

8-10pm  Christmas at the Opry

Saturday, December 9 

8:30pm Trolls: Holiday in Harmony 

9pm Shrek the Halls  

Monday, December 11

10pm Barry Manilow's A Very Barry Christmas 

Thursday, December 14

8-10pm A Saturday Night Liev Christmas Special 

Friday, December 15 

8-10pm Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors

Wednesday, December 20 

8pm  Barry Manilow's A Very Barry Christmas (encore) 

9-11pm  Christmas at the Opry (encore) 

Thursday, December 21 

8pm Christmas at Graceland (Encore) 

9-11pm Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas 

Friday, December 22

8-10pm Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors : Circle of Love 

Sunday, December 24 

8-11pm It's A Wonderful Life 

11:30-1am  A Christmas Eve Mass 

Monday, December 25 

8pm  How the Grinch Stole Christmas  (1964) 

8:30pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Monday, January 1 

11am-1pmet/ 8-10am PT Rose Parade (live)

Press Release after the Jump

ABC Holiday programming 2023

ABC Christmas New Year 

            ABC is ready to get festive this year.  ABC's holiday line up includes the return of "The Great Christmas Light Fight" which will also be returning in 2024.  "The Wonderful World of Disney" movie presentations.  "Press Your Luck" gets a Christmas special, so does "Shark Tank", "Celebrity Family Feud",  "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune", and "The $100,000 Pyramid". The annual broadcast of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" is on December 12th.  The IHeartRadio Jingle Ball which moves from the CW to ABC this season.  Of course, everything finishes off with the annual "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" on December 31st.  

Here's the full listings and specials all times are ET/PT unless otherwise noted 

Sunday, November 26 

7pm  America's Funniest Home Videos 

8pm  The  Wonderful World of Disney :Magical Holiday Celebration 

10pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight  (Season Premiere) 

Sunday, December 3 

8pm The Santa Clause 

10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight 

Tuesday, December 5

10:01pm Press Your Luck 

Friday, December 8

8-9:01pm  Shark Tank 

Sunday, December 10 

7pm  Mickey Saves Christmas 

7:30 Olaf's Frozen Adventure 

8pm   Frozen 

10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight  

Tuesday, December 12

8pm Santa Claus is Comin' To Town 

9-11pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight 

Wednesday, December 13 

8pm  Celebrity Family Feud 

9pm  Celebrity Wheel of Fortune 

10pm The $100,000 Pyramid 

Thursday, December 14

8-9:02pm CMA Country Christmas 

Tuesday, December 19 

8pm  Disney's Prep and Landing 

8:30pm Disney's Prep and Landing 2: Naughty vs. Nice 

9-11pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight   (Season Finale) 

Thursday, December 21 

8-10pm  IheartRadio Jingle Ball  2023 

Sunday, December 24 

8-10pm Home Alone 

Monday, December 25

10-12pm/9-11am PT  Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade 

Sunday, December 31 

8pm-2:13am  Dick Clark's New Year Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 

Press release after the jump

CBS Announces Holiday Programming 2023

CBS Thanksgiving Christmas New Year 

        CBS is ready for the holidays with their annual holiday programming. This includes the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade , Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman , and more. The season caps off with the return of CBS' New Year's Eve  Live Nashville's Big Bash.   Here's a look at the line up.    All times are ET/PT , unless otherwise noted.

 Thursday, November 23

 

     9AM-12PMET/PT (Watch live 8AM CT/7AM MT)   The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS 

Friday, November 24 

    8pm    The Greatest @HomeVideos : Hosted by Cedric the Entertainer 

    9pm     Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 

Saturday, December 2 

     8pm  Reindeer in Here 

     9pm  Robbie the Reindeer 

Monday, December 4

   8pm The Price is Right at Night Christmas Week : Office Holiday Party

Tuesday, December 5 

   8pm  The Price is Right at Night Christmas Week :  College Students Home for The Holidays

Thursday, December 7

  8pm    The Price is Right at Night Christmas Week :  Blind Holidate

Friday, December 8

8pm   The Price is Right at Night Christmas Week : Holiday Heroes

Saturday, December 9 

8pm   Byron Allen Presents A Merry Soulful Christmas 

Friday, December 15th 

8pm National Christmas Tree Lighting 

Saturday, December 16

9pm Frosty the Snowman 

9:30pm Frosty Returns 

Monday, December 18

8pm The Price is Right At Night Christmas Week: Holidays with the Family. 

Friday, December 22 

8pm  The 25th Annual a Home for the Holidays 

9pm Fit For Christmas 

Sunday, December 24 

9pm When Christmas was Young

Monday, December 25 

 9pm Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All ! 

Friday, December 29 

9pm Must Love Christmas 

Saturday, December 31

7:30pm  New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash 

Full Press Release after the Jump 

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

New Years   The Flashback 

          In some room somewhere they at Rankin Bass thought that their Rudolph special  needed a sequel and  for a different network than where that one was airing.  First airing on December 10, 1976 on ABC (whilst original Rudolph aired on NBC and later CBS) "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" takes the idea that Rudolph now has to save the New Year because we need to have new years or something. 

        New Year's as  a holiday isn't really a big marketed thing, I mean in the way Christmas is, plus mostly it's just a trend of time and it happens right after Christmas. It's not the most fun of holidays anyway. That's right I said it.   

           I've made the statement before that Rankin Bass seemed to like the idea of taking Christmas songs and going "Hey Let's make that a special" and then try to wrap a story around that. It's creative, but it's also creative to see what they do with they don't.  I think "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" is their most original Christmas special since they really had no source material to work from except Rudolph existing.  

     So how does a New Year's special with Rudolph work?  They do take a creative (again this is another Rankin-Bass special written by Romeo Muller) idea of the concept of baby new year.  Baby New Year is a classic personification of  the time.  A new fresh year, rebrith-- birth--- baby.  

     Santa starts off the special and this one apparently takes place just after the famous Rudolph story The Santa in this special looks like the same model they used for "The Year Without A Santa Claus" but uses Rankin Bass go to -Paul Frees- as his voice. The Rudolph model is different too, but again it was about 12 years after the first special.   The special is voiced by Red Skelton, the famous entertainer, he voices the character of Father time, which also fits well for our New Year special here. This is Red Skelton after networks were cutting back on classic stars from the radio and early days of television because they wanted newer younger viewers.  He does fit with Rankin Bass using classic well-known performers to their  thing, and he does it well.  

I don't control Daylight Saving time, you dummies made that/ Copyright Warner 

         The story starts where Santa gets a letter from Father Time because the Happy, the baby New Year is missing. Apparently, if the baby is missing we will live in a loop of December 31st forever. (That doesn't sound too bad)  To raise the stakes, there's an awful snowstorm still, so enter Rudolph. That's the stakes, Rudolph has 6 days to find the baby or else. (What happens if he finds the baby later, couldn't that still, and what?)   

What? I didn't run that traffic light? / Copyright Warner 

            I do find the concept very creative, the baby New Year being the quest for Rudolph to find him. Father Time's world is a neat thing too, he has a clock work set up and shows him taking care of time. (not Life magazine)  I do find it interesting he has a scythe, like a grim reaper.  There's General Ticker who is a clock work solider, there's a whale named Big Ben, and a clock on his tail. A clock based camel as well.  Much like the first special, Rudolph gets some fun characters to work off of with. 

        There's Eon , a vulture, who doesn't want the baby to be found and brought back to Father Time because he's gonna die. That's not a joke of mine, they outright say that Eon can live until he's one eon old and turn into ice and snow, so death. (I looked how much an Eon is and apparently he lived a billion years?)  I think it's kind of a justifiable reason to not having something happen where he dies. That's an interesting character motivation for a villain.  (Also kind of dark that Rudolph's goal means that death of Eon has to happen) 

Of any villain he has a good reason / Copyright Warner

          More concept stuff is that it explains what happens when the years switch, well through the year the baby New Year ages( I also love the song used when Father Time explains it) it then hands its crown to the next year.  The special explains later that old years go to their own islands and this is the special I learned the  term archipelago from as a kid. So there are islands where it's 1965 , for example, and it's always that year. (Don't go to 2001 or 2020 island) Through the special you'll meet some of the old New Years. I'll get to them in a minute.

           Why did Happy leave? Well unlike his name, he wasn't very happy, he has big ears. When people saw him they laughed because big ears are funny or something. He ran away. This special does take Rudolph's story where he was maligned for being a misfit and he understands Happy's problem. So, again he has to find Happy before Eon and before midnight December 31st.  

He's not very happy/ Copyright Warner 

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NBC Announces Holiday Programming 2022

NBC Christmas Thanksgiving New Year Holidays 

      NBC has released their holiday programming slate that brings traditions and more to your TV.     NBC has the annual "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" and "National Dog Show" for Thanksgiving.  They also have "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"  a new Dolly Parton movie event.  The Annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting event, and much more round the line up.

 Here's the full schedule all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted.  Subject to change.

Saturday, November 19 

8-10pm  Trolls 

Wednesday, November 23

8-9pm  Countdown to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

9-11pm  A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving 

Thursday, November 24 (Thanksgiving) 

9AM-12pm (all time zones)  96th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade  (encore 2pm )

12-2pm (all time zones)  National Dog Show  

Friday, November 25

8pm  How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

8:30pm  Trolls in Holiday Harmony 

Saturday, November 26

8-10pm  National Dog Show (Encore) 

Tuesday, November 29

9-10pm Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City (originally aired in 2021) 

Wednesday, November 30 

8-10pm  Christmas in Rockefeller Center 

10-11pm Kelly Clarkson Presents When Christmas Comes Around (Originally aired in 2021) 

Thursday, December 1

8-10pm Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas  (new) 

10-11pm  The Wall (new) 

Monday, December 5

10-11pm  That's my Jam Holiday Special 

Tuesday, December 6

9-11pm  People's Choice Awards  

Monday, December 12 

10-11pm   Baking It: Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler's Celebrity Holiday Specail 

Wednesday, December 14

8-10pm  A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special 

Monday, December 19

8-10pm Shrek 2 

10-11pm  The Wall (Encore of December 1 special) 

Wednesday, December 21

8-10pm  Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas

Friday, December 23 

8pm  How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

8:30pm 5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas  

9-11pm  Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors : Circle of Love 

Saturday, December 24 

8-11pm  It's a Wonderful Life 

11:30-1am  Christmas Eve Mass 

Monday, December 26 

8-10pm  Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors 

Saturday, December 31 

8-10pm  A Toast to 2022! 

10:30-12:30am  Miley's  New Year's Eve Party 

Monday, January 2

11am-1pm/8-10am PT  134th Rose Parade Presented by Honda 

Full Press release after the Jump

ABC Holiday Programming 2022

ABC Thanksgiving  Christmas New Year   

             ABC has announced it's holidays programming plan for Thanksgiving through New Year. Including the return of classic specials and new programming as well.   

     

        Two music themed specials  include A Very Backstreet Christmas and Finding Harmony come in December.   ABC News will present their annual The Year special and a look at Love Actually.   

   

       Of course, there's holiday episodes of series and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023. 

 

         Here's the full line up all times ET (unless otherwise noted) 

        Wednesday, November 16

 8-8:30pm  The Conners (Thanksgiving Episode) 

8:30-9pm   The Goldbergs (Thanksgiving Episode) 

9:31-10pm   Home Economics (Thanksgiving Episode)

Tuesday, November 22 

10-11pm  The Rookie :Feds (Thanksgiving Episode)

Sunday, November 27

7-7:30pm Mickey Saves Christmas (New)

7:30-8pm Olaf's Frozen Adventure 

8-10pm  The Wonderful World of Christmas : Magical Holiday Celebration (new)

Monday, November 28

8-10pm  "The Great Christmas Light Fight" (Season Premiere) 

Tuesday, November 29 

8-9pm  Love Actually: 20 Years Later - A Diane Sawyer/ ABC News Special (New)

Thursday, December 1 

8-9pm   Santa Claus is Comin' to Town 

9-10:01pm  CMA Country Christmas (new)

Monday, December 5

8-10pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight (new)

Tuesday, December 6

8-9pm  Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (holiday episode)

9-10pm  Press Your Luck (holiday episode)

10-11pm  The $100,000 Pyramid (holiday episode) 

Wednesday, December 7

8-8:30pm The Conners (holiday episode) 

8:30-9pm  The Goldbergs (holiday episode) 

9-9:31pm  Abbott Elementary (holiday episode)

9:31-10pm  Home Economics  (holiday episode) 

Thursday, December 8

8-10pm The Wonderful World of Disney : Frozen II (broadcast premiere) 

Monday, December 12

8-10pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight (season finale)

Tuesday, December 13

8-8:30pm  Mickey Saves Christmas 

8:30-9PM  Olaf's Frozen Adventure 

9-9:30pm  Disney Prep & Landing 

9:30-10pm Disney Pres & Landing 2: Naughty Vs. Nice 

Wednesday, December 14 

8-9pm   A Very Backstreet Holiday (new)

10-11pm  Finding Harmony (new)

Tuesday, December 20

8-9pm  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' 

9-9:30pm  Toy Story that Time Forgot 

9:30-10pm  Shrek the Halls 

Saturday, December 24

8-10pm  The Wonderful World of Disney: Home Alone 

Sunday, December 25

10am-12pm ET/7-9AM PT  Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (new) 

Monday, December 26

9-11pm The Year : 2022 (New)

Saturday, December 31

8-10pm  Dick Clark's New Year Rockin'  Ever with Ryan Seacrest 2023 (new) 

10-10:30pm Local Programming

10:30-2:13am  Dick Clark's New Year Rockin'  Ever with Ryan Seacrest 2023 (new) 

Press Release after the Jump

It's a Lookback, Charlie Brown: For Auld Lang Syne

Peanuts 

      

     When started the Peanuts posts here on this site, there were 45 specials in all, the most recent of those was from 2011, that being  "Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown"   The 2010's by happenstance ended up being the first decade where there was only 1 new Peanuts special since the things started in the 1960's. 

     Most of the post Schulz death specials take a plot  or vignettes from the strips and purpose them into specials. Which wasn't a new thing, that happened after his death, but it seemed to be the way to go after his death.  In the 2010's there was a slight dry up of Peanuts media, not  a drought though.  There was a French shorts series called "Peanuts", that also ran on Cartoon Network/Boomerang in the US, there was some graphics novels, and even a movie.  

    Now of the 45 specials only a few had reruns by 2019, those being The Christmas one, the shorts Christmas one made to fill time because ABC wants more ads, The Great Pumpkin, Thanksgiving, an episode of "This is America Charlie Brown", You're Not Elected, I Want a Dog, New Year, She's a Good Skate. Be My Valentine, and A Charlie Brown Valentine. The Easter Beagle stopped running in 2014, because I guess Disney ABC just didn't care, that also meant they didn't run either , Lucy Must be Traded or Charlie Brown's All Stars any more anyway.

 

        In speaking of ABC, they did renew rights, after their initial pick up from CBS in 2000, and that contract was up in 2020.  The Streaming is the future folks decided to swerve and cause chaos, but before that some changes happened with Peanuts.  In 2010, United-Media owned 80 percent of Peanuts sold that to Iconix Brand Group, the Schulz Family still had 20 percent.  In 2017, Canada's DHX bought Iconix's stake  and this (as WildBrian ) is who co-owns Peanuts currently. They decided to jump into making Peanuts media quickly. They decided to work with new streaming service , in the great  streaming race, with Apple's Apple TV plus, which is the  one with that might not have alot of people using it.  

      

     Wildbrain made two series "Snoopy in Space" and "The Snoopy Show" for the streaming service, so far. They are doing that thing were they want to milk using Snoopy as  a centerpiece even though Peanuts has always been more about the people than Snoopy, but corporation gonna be corporate. In a more sad decision (though some will say, it's the future, and  that's where I walk away muttering under my breath) they decided to abandon normal television to have Peanuts specials , the holiday ones mostly,  stream on Apple TV Plus (I'm sure their subscriber was happy)  after running on  a broadcast network of some sort since 1965.   It's not really the future, it's that a desperate Apple had money to splash hoping that people would chose them for to be another streaming service they have to contend with.   This is did cause some backlash so Apple decided to go to PBS , to help them out  and run the fall/winter holiday specials at least once. 

      In this deal, they made a new special  and I don't like the title : "Snoopy Presents : For Auld Lang Syne"  the thing that bugs me is the name being that way. Snoopy Presents, instead of the conventional  like "For Auld Lang Syne, Charlie Brown"  or  "A Charlie Brown Auld Lang Syne" or "Charlie  Brown's  Auld Lang Syne"  the focus on Snoopy and his name as the brand is slightly tedious and annoying to me, I'm mostly writing this to say I don't like it as some one who loves Peanuts and even knows why the specials don't use Peanuts in the titles.   It's also annoying for consistency reasons where 45 specials use  some variation of  same title structure and number 46 just walks up here  and messes up things. I'm not going to use my distaste for the title though to take away from anything about the special itself. From 2021, this  is "Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne" (the only time I will call it this in this post) 

         The animation style is  pretty nice, I'm glad it's full 2D and not 3D CGI, but looks like the budget was increased from the 2000's days (The blanket one from 2011 had nice animation)  The backgrounds are nice and feel like Peanuts. 

Snowy day/ Copyright Peanuts 

    

   This special is going to be focused on Lucy, it's not the first time a Peanuts special focused on not Charlie Brown, especially if you've read my past  Peanuts posts. Lucy is happy that her Grandma is coming soon, this is the famous blanket hating grandma. Also we get a "Citizen Cane" mention.  Snoopy's brothers and his sister come over to the Brown house for their own fun with Snoopy.

The answer is Rosebud/Copyright Peanuts 

 

    Charlie Brown is feeling down that he didn't do well on his resolutions that past year. (I  mean, most people don't care about their resolutions after February so...)    The first 6   minutes are really setting up things  and maybe some Peanuts Easter eggs like they are trying to make sure they remember Peanuts' biggest hits. (I would do the same , but do 80's and 90's strip deep cut references), then on Christmas Eve and Lucy gets a phone call and gets news from Grandma that she's not coming.  

It's like a cheap game where you dress up a still Lucy/Copyright Peanuts

     Like the Peanuts Movie, using that as a comparison since this is new story instead of ripped from the comics, they use more famous 60's- early 80's designs of the characters (so girls not Peppermint Patty in dresses) the phone is rotary not even push button, etc.

More after the Jump 

NBC announces Holiday programming 2021

NBC Christmas Thanksgiving New Year Holidays 

        NBC has released their holiday programming schedule.  This incudes the traditional broadcasts of "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade",  "National Dog Show" , "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" , "The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lightning"  ,and more. 

    Here are the programing highlights , all times are ET unless otherwise stated 

Wednesday, November 24

9-11pm  A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving 

Thursday, November 25

9-12pm  Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (repeat 2pm) (same times all time zones) 

12-2pm  National Dog Show  (same time all time zones) (repeat November 27 at 8pm) 

Friday, November 26

8pm  How the Grinch Stole Christmas

8:30pm 5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas (new) 

9pm  Trolls' Holiday in Harmony

Wednesday, December 1

8-10pm  89th Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center 

10pm  Kelly Clarkson Presents when Christmas Comes Around 

Thursday, December 2

8-11pm Annie Live!

Saturday, December 4

8-11pm  It's a Wonderful Life

Monday, December 6

10pm   Michael Bublé's Christmas Party

Wednesday, December 15

9:30pm  A Very Chrisley Christmas 

10pm Kelly Clarkson Presents when Christmas Comes Around 

Thursday, December 16

8-9pm  The L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth

Friday, December 17

8-10pm Sing  (movie) 

Monday, December 20

8-11pm Annie! Live 

Wednesday, December 22

8-10pm Dr. Seuss' The Grinch

10pm   Michael Bublé's Christmas Party

Friday,  December 24

8-11pm  It's a Wonderful Life 

11:30pm-1am Christmas Eve Mass

Saturday, December 25

8pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

Saturday, January 1, 2022

11:30am-1pm/8:30-10:30pt  The Rose Parade 

Press Release after the Jump 

CBS Announces Holiday Programming 2021

CBS  Thanksgiving Christmas  New Year 

     It's that time of year again, as the closing of the year brings in the big holidays. That means holiday specials and CBS has released their programming.  CBS, of course, offers, "The Thanksgiving Day Parade", "Frosty the Snowman", "Frosty Returns", "Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer"  and more!   Also, CBS is getting into the New Year's Eve game after a nearly 22 year hiatus, but instead of New York they are in Nashville. Anyway here's the schedule details all times ET/PT, unless otherwise notice. 

Sunday, November 14 

8:30pm-10:30pmet/ 8-10pm PT (subject to the Football double header)  Adele : One Night Only

Monday, November 22

8pm  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 

Thursday, November 25

9-12am (live in ET/CT/MT)   Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS 

Friday, November 26

8pm  Frosty the Snowman 

8:30pm Frosty Return s

Saturday, November 27

8pm Robbie the Reindeer : Hooves of Fire 

8:30 pm Robbie the Reindeer: Legends of the lost Tribe 

9pm  The Story of Santa Claus 

Sunday, November 28 

8pm  One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga 

Sunday December 5

9:30pm-10:30pm ET/ 9-10pm PT (Subject to football double header)  The 23rd Annual Home For the Holidays  at the Grove

Saturday, December 11

8pm Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

9pm  Frosty the Snowman 

9:30pm Frosty Returns 

Sunday, December 12 

8:30pm-10:30pm ET/ 8-10PM PT  A Christmas Proposal 

Sunday, December 19

8-10pm  Christmas Takes Flight 

Wednesday, December 22

8pm The Price is Right at Night

9pm The 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors 

Friday, December 24

8pm  A Holly Dolly Christmas 

9pm  Kenny Rogers: All in for the Gambler

Friday, December 31

8-11pm/ 11:30-1:30am New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash 

Press release after the jump