Disney Channel's Fa-la-la -lidays programming announced

Disney Channel  Christmas 

 
    Disney Channel announces their holiday programming plans.

via press release

    DISNEY CHANNEL SPREADS HOLIDAY CHEER WITH ITS ANNUAL WINTER PROGRAMMING EVENT, "FA-LA-LA-LIDAYS"
--Includes New Holiday-Themed Episodes of "BUNK'D," "Girl Meets World," "K.C. Undercover," "Best Friends Whenever," "Austin & Ally," "Liv and Maddie" and "Disney Channel Fa-La-La-Lidays Celebrates a Radio Disney Family Holiday," hosted by Sabrina Carpenter
--Walt Disney Animation Studios' Short-Film "Frozen Fever" Makes Its Disney Channel Debut --
Disney Channel's fifth annual "Fa-La-La-Lidays" programming event kicks off with the television premiere of the Walt Disney Animation Studios' short-film "Frozen Fever" on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 and continues throughout December with holiday-themed episodes of "BUNK'D," "Girl Meets World," "K.C. Undercover," "Best Friends Whenever," "Austin & Ally" and "Liv and Maddie," beginning FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. Also premiering on that day is "Disney Channel Fa-La-La-Lidays Celebrates a Radio Disney Family Holiday," (9:00 p.m., ET/PT). Hosted by "Girl Meets World" star and Hollywood Records recording artist Sabrina Carpenter, the special will include performances by some of today's most popular Radio Disney artists and will be available via WATCH Disney Channel the following day, Saturday, December 5.
"Fa-La-La-Lidays" further celebrates the season with special on-air events, including "Toy Story That Time Forgot" (Saturday, December 5 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT), a new animated special "Bob's Broken Sleigh" (Friday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT) and the Disney Channel premiere of "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" (Friday, December 20 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT). Also returning to Disney Channel are holiday classics, including the Rankin-Bass specials "Frosty Winter Wonderland" (Saturday, December 5 at 8:30 p.m., ET/PT), "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (Monday, December 21 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT) and "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" (Monday, December 21 at 9:00 p.m., ET/PT).
The "Fa-La-La-Lidays" schedule is as follows (all times ET/PT):
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29
"Frozen Fever" - (Premieres During "Descendants" at 6:30 p.m., ET/PT)
It's Anna's birthday, and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but when Elsa catches a cold, her powers may put more than just the party at risk. Voice talent includes Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
*All series episodes are available to verified viewers on WATCH Disney Channel, beginning Friday, December 4*
8:00 p.m. - "BUNK'D"
"Secret Santa" - Ravi's advice to Emma and Lou on their CIT gift exchange doesn't go as imagined. Meanwhile, Skai, Xander, Jorge and Tiffany run into a disgruntled man they are convinced is Santa and must work together to save Christmas.
8:30 p.m. - "Girl Meets World"
"Girl Meets The New Year" - Farkle tells Riley that she has until midnight on New Year's Eve to tell everyone how she really feels about Lucas.
9:00 p.m. - "Disney Channel Fa-La-La-Lidays Celebrates a Radio Disney Family Holiday"
Hosted by "Girl Meets World" star and Hollywood Records recording artist Sabrina Carpenter, the special will include performances by some of today's most popular Radio Disney artists, including Carpenter, Andy Grammer, Charlie Puth, current 'NBT' featured artist Jacob Whitesides, Forever In Your Mind and Radio Disney country-music rising-star Mickey Guyton. The special will also feature appearances by Disney Channel stars, including Sofia Carson ("Descendants").
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6
8:00 p.m. - "K.C. Undercover"
"'Twas the Fight Before Christmas" - When K.C. gives her dad the perfect Christmas gift - a surprise visit from his father - she is the one who is surprised when she learns Craig and her Poppa Earl don't really get along, and he has no idea they are all spies. Guest starring is George Wallace as Poppa Earl.
8:30 p.m. - "Best Friends Whenever"
"The Girls of Christmas Past" - Things spin out of control when Cyd travels back to Christmas the year before to try and figure out the perfect gift for Shelby. Meanwhile, Barry and Naldo's Winter Wonderland experiment sparks an elf war, with Bret and Chet leading the charge.
9:00 p.m. - "Austin & Ally"
"Santas & Surprises" - When one of Austin and Ally's music students is sad about spending Christmas away from her father, the gang rallies around her to try and make her happy.
9:30 p.m. - "Liv and Maddie"
"Joy-To-A-Rooney" - Liv invites her "Voltage" director and crew over for the Rooney's traditional Christmas Eve dinner but is forced to enlist Artie's help to prepare the famed meal. Meanwhile, Maddie and Willow's gift exchange takes a surprising turn.
Disney Channel is a 24-hour kid-driven, family-inclusive television network that taps into the world of kids and families through original series and movies. Currently available on basic cable in over 96 million U.S. homes and to millions of other viewers on Disney Channels around the world, Disney Channel is part of the Disney ABC Television Group.
WATCH Disney Channel lets verified viewers of participating pay TV services watch a 24/7 live feed of the network and popular episodes on demand via desktops, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

ABC announces their winter season premiere dates

ABC   WinterTV 

     ABC has announced their winter premiere dates.  "Secrets and Lies" and  "Uncle Buck" The new series "The Catch" will take the "How To Get away with Murder"  Thursday 10ET slot , when that series ends its season on March.  Some series will take a little winter's nap and come back later.

Here's a look

January 3rd
8PMET  Galavant - (new season)

January 4th
8PMET  The Bachelor (new season)

January 5th
9PMET  Agent  Carter (2 hours )

January 6th
10PMET Amrican Crime

January 7th
8PM ET My Diet Is Better Than Yours (2 hours/ new series)
10PMET  Beyond the Tank (new season)

February 2nd
8PMET  The Muppets (returning )
8:30PMET  Fresh Off the Boat (return)

February 11th (return of T.G.I.T)
8pmet  Grey's Anatomy
9PMET  Scandal
10PMET  How to Get Away with Murder

March 2nd
Special preview of The Real O'Neals at 8:30 and 9:30pmet

March 3rd
9PMET The Family  (new series )

March 6th
8PMET Once Upon a Time (return)
9PMET  The Family (time period premiere)
10PMET  Quantico (return)

March 8th
8PMET  Fresh Off the Boat (new time)
8:30PMET  The Real O'Neals (time period premiere)
9PMET  Agents of SHIELD (return )
10PMET  Of Kings and Prophets (new series)

March 9th
10PMET  American Crime (season finale)

March 16th
10PMET  Nashville (return )

March 24th
10PMET  The Catch (New Series)

Press release after the Jump

METV Holiday schedule

METV  Classics  Christmas  

  METV is starting their Christmas programming early , on November 16th with Holiday episodes of your favorite METV programs and a few other things  too it will air weeknights at 9/8c  here's a look. They will also have some Thanksgiving episodes of shows too.    Note: Some METV stations may not air these programs all times are eastern/pacific -1 for central , -1 for Mountain.

November 16th
9PMET   Family Affair
9:30PMET  The Bob Newhart Show

November 17th
9PMET  Dobbie Gillis
9:30PMET The Lucy Show

November 18th
9PMET  21 Jump Street:  Christmas in Siagon

November  19th
9PMET  The Doris Day Show
9:30pm  Making Room for Daddy : Singing Sisters

November 20th
9PMET  Brady  Bunch : Then Un-Underground movie
9:30PMET  The Brady Bunch : The Voice of Christmas

November 23rd
9PMET  Saved by the Bell : A Thanksgiving Story
9:30PM   Cheers

November 24th
9PMET   The Beverly Hillbillies: Turkey Day
9:30PMET   Happy Days : The First Thanksgiving

November 25th
9PMET Our Miss Brooks :  Thanksgiving  Show
9:30pmet   The Donna Reed Show : Guest in the House

November 26th    
9PMET The Bob Newhart Show : An American Family
9:30PMET  That Girl : Thanksgiving comes but Once a year, Hopefully

November 27th
9PMET The Commish : No Greater Gift.

November 30th
9PMET  Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman  : Mikes Dream : A Christmas Tale

December 1st
9PMET  The White Shadow : A Christmas Present

December  2nd  
9 PMET  MacGyver : The Madonna

December 3rd
9PMET  Welcome Back, Kotter : Hark the Sweatkings

December 4th
9PMET Petticoat Junction : The Santa Claus Special
9:30PM   The Beverly Hillbillies  : Christmas at the Clampetts

December 7th
9PMET  Father Dowling Mysteries : The Christmas Mysteries

December 8th
9PMET Hill  Street Blues

December 9th
9PMET Kojak

more after the jump

COZI's Holidozi schedule

Christmas COZI TV 

    

    Cozi TV has announced their holiday programming or Holidozi.  Here is when they will be airing holiday episodes of their programming.   Starting the day after Thanksgiving. 

November 27th 

7PMET  Make Room For Daddy- Christmas and Clowns 

8PMET   Murder, She Wrote  - A Christmas Secret 

November 28th 

4:30PMET  Hollywood Treasure - Chasing Rudolph 

5:30PMET    Dick Van Dyke Show- The Alan Brady show presents 

6PMET  Make Room for Daddy  - Christmas Story 

7PMET  Starsky and Hutch  - Little Girl Lost 

10PMET   Quantum Leap  - Promised Land 

11PMET   Quantum Leap -  Little Miracle 

November 29th 

1PMET  Murder , She Wrote- A Christmas Secret 

2PMET   Baywatch - Silent Night , Baywatch Night Part 1 

3PMET   Baywatch - Silent Night, Baywatch Night Part 2 

4PMET    Starsky and Hutch  Little Girl Lost 

5PMET    Beverly HIllbilies  - Home for Christmas 

5:30PMET  Beverly Hillbillies - Christmas at the Clampetts 

December 4th 

8PMET  Murder, She Wrote  -A Christmas Secret

December 5th 

5PMET  The Real McCoys -The Diamond Ring 

5;30pmet  Dick Van Dyke Show- The Alan Brady show presents 

more after the jump 

Thanksgiving land : Rugrats : The Turkey that Came to Dinner

Thanksgiving  The Flashback

   There is noticeable lack of Thanksgiving specials, we could just review the Charlie Brown one (but to obvious) there is a sense that it could be a thing to make a special of ... kind of like Saint Patrick's Day. (It's a hangover , Charlie Brown)  that leads us to Rugrats... the TV series ran long enough  and had  a Thanksgiving episode. That's our lookback.
    Our special is called "The Turkey that Came to Dinner" (which sounds like a horror movie).   It starts with narration on the story of Thanksgiving from Didi , telling Tommy, Phil , and Lil.   It was set as a day by the pilgrims to say thank you for all they had and the new friends the Native Americans who helped them in tough times.    Meanwhile , around the Pickles' house  there is alot of Thanksgiving activity going on... Stu is getting satellite dishes ready for  a bunch of football games and even Chas brings  a  TV set that is joined with others. (Cartoon logic is umm weird)   Tommy and his crew are play "nakey-Americans" for their "Hanksgiving" fun.    Grandpa Lou wins a turkey and it's on it's way by 4 O'clock , it worries  some of the adults so they go to the market to get one . (Hey guys , you really should have shopped in advance)  Angelica decides she wants to put on a parade.
   Meanwhile Grandpa's turkey does  make it and it's a little to fresh ... (kind of alive really)   the babies  go up to the box and open  it releasing our star.
                                                          
                                                 "I  wanted  a fresh turkey"/ copyright Viacom
    The Turkey falls in love with Spike (the dog) and the babies want to invite him to their Hanksgiving party. Grandpa Lou and Boris decided to look for the live turkey  (how hard is it to find in that house)   meanwhile  Didi , Betty, Charlotte, and Howard look for a turkey and apparently many stores aren't open on Thanksgiving. (this was made before 2013 you know)   Angelica informs the babies that the adults want the turkey for dinner (the dead turkey  way, also we don't eat friend) she uses this to get them to help with her parade.
          Chuckie trips and lets Spike go , this causes the turkey to chase Spike causing the parade to collapse causing Angelica  to want to tell the adults about the turkey. (that's just mean) The Grandpas are looking for the turkey still (umm how big is this house?) and the dads are focused on the multiple football games while Angelica wants attention to tell them about the turkey.
                                                              
                                                         Where's the turkey?  copyright Viacom
 The Babies want to get the turkey to fly (fact: turkeys can fly , though ones that are farmed really can't)      After a long stretch of attempts trying to get the turkey out of there , the grandpas find the turkey.   Angelica helps them out (she really holds a grudge doesn't she?)  the turkey runs into the satellite dishes  ( no more weather channel for you)  and dinner is ruined.  The adults and Angelica get mad at the turkey and they plan to eat it.  The Babies protect the turkey , Didi explains that that the turkey didn't ruin Thanksgiving  and that Thanksgiving is about family and friendship and she makes them apologize to each other. (Good ole Didi.) They have cereal for dinner and mr.turkey lives on.
  I do wonder what happened to the turkey later... maybe he went to a farm (nooooo)

 That;s our lookback ... is this episode worth being a Thanksgiving special ? Yes, I say  it's quirky and sometimes people do get to caught up in  the holiday and worry about a certain aspect and it can even bring out the worse in people.  The Rugrats wanted to have the turkey be their friend for their celebration and they were doing anything to help  him while everything else seemed against it.    So it's a good one to watch if you are looking for something Thanksgiving.  If you were  or are a Rugrats fan  or not it's still a good one.

Fox Announces Winter premiere dates

FOX  TV Fall 2015: Winter  

    FOX has announced their dates for the winter dates that includes the  return of "The X-Files".  There will also be  a 3 hour musical , following NBC's tracks  with Grease Live.

Via press release

FOX ANNOUNCES WINTER PREMIERE DATES
NEW ENSEMBLE COMEDY“COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE” ANDNEW ANIMATED SATIRE “BORDERTOWN” JOINSUNDAY LINEUP JANUARY 3 NEW TUESDAY COMEDY LINEUP DEBUTS JANUARY 5 WITH “NEW GIRL”SEASON PREMIERE AT 8:00 PM; FOLLOWED BY “GRANDFATHERED” AT 8:30 PM;“BROOKLYN NINE-NINE” AT 9:00 PM; AND “THE GRINDER”AT 9:30 PM “AMERICAN IDOL” BEGINS ITS FAREWELL SEASON WITHTWO-NIGHT EVENT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, AND THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 NEW DRAMA SERIES “SECOND CHANCE” PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 “HELL’S KITCHEN” STARTS COOKING FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 NEW DRAMA “LUCIFER” BEGINS MONDAY, JANUARY 25 As Previously Announced:Two-Hour Special SUPERHUMAN Airs Monday, January 4;THE X-FILES Returns with a Special Two-Night Event on Sunday, January 24,Following the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, and Monday, January 25;Three-Hour GREASE: LIVE Event Airs Sunday, January 31 Additional Spring Returns Include:SLEEPY HOLLOW’s Move to Fridays, Beginning February 5;GOTHAM: RISE OF THE VILLAINS on Monday, February 29;ROSEWOOD on Wednesday, March 2; andEMPIRE’s Spring Premiere Wednesday, March 30FOX is announcing premiere dates for new series COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE (Jan. 3), BORDERTOWN (Jan. 3), SECOND CHANCE (Jan. 13) and LUCIFER (Jan. 25); and returning series NEW GIRL (Jan. 5), AMERICAN IDOL (Jan. 6 and Jan. 7) and HELL’S KITCHEN (Jan. 15). In addition, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE will move to Tuesdays (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on Jan. 5, joining GRANDFATHERED (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and THE GRINDER (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT), each in new time periods. As previously announced, SUPERHUMAN airs Jan. 4; THE X-FILES returns Jan. 24 and Jan. 25; and three-hour LIVE musical event GREASE: LIVE will air Jan. 31. 

Winter schedule
 January 3rd
8PMET  The Simpsons (winter Return )
8:30PMET   Cooper Barret's  Guide to Surviving life (new series)
9PMET    Family Guy (winter return )
9:30PMET    Bordertown ( New Series)

January 4th
8PMET   Superhuman (2 hour special)

January 5th
8PMET  New Girl  (New Season )
8:30PMET  Grandfathered (time change)
9PMET    Brooklyn Nine Nine (time change)
9:30PMET  The  Grinder (Time change)

January 6th /7th
8PMET  American Idol (season premiere)

January 8th  
8PMET  Masterchef Jr.  (Winter return/ 2hours)

more after the jump

CBS announces Holiday programming

CBS Christmas   

 image: CBS  

    CBS has announced their full holiday programming schedule  starting with the Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26th.

November 26th
9AMET /7AM MT The Thnaksgiving Day Parade

November 28th
8PMET  Frosty the Snowman
8:30PMET   Frosty Returns
9PMET   The  Story of Santa Claus

December 1st
8pmet  Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer


December 8th
10PMET The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

December 12th
9PMET  The Flight Before Christmas

December 18th
9PMET  A Home for the Holidays

December 23rd
8PMET I Love Lucy Christmas Special

December 29th
9PMET  The 38th  Annual Kennedy Center Honors

press release after the jump

The Charlie Brown Lookback: He's a Bully, Charlie Brown

The Flashback   Peanuts 

                                                   

      It's November (mostly )   and that means another Charlie Brown special lookback , and installment number 10. (What a second , you did a bunch for a week in ...)  Our 10th installment for the monthly edition.  (Rude.)  This time we lookback at a relatively new Charlie Brown special ... "He's a Bully Charlie Brown"  It came out in 2006 on ABC (the home of Peanuts specials since the 2000's)  after the annual re showing of the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.    Let's lookback (boo , I don't like that)

      The special involves  Charlie Brown going to summer camp ( like...nevermind)  , along with Marcie minus Peppermint Patty (because they aren't attached at the hip) because she has to do summer school. Re Run Van Pelt  finds  some marbles that were his grandfathers. (This is important to the plot trust us) Meanwhile at the  camp there's  a stock bully named  Joe Agate  , he starts with making fun of Snoopy who is holding a bowling ball  he asks what's Snoppy going to do with the ball and well ask a stupid question. (Snoopy murders Joe.... not really , that would be a shorter special)

                                               

                  Our bully here is a bully because he must not get enough sleep/ Copyright Peanuts

  One thing Joe does is marbles (see plot) and cheats by bringing out a large marble...(cheater)  Rerun sees the kids playing marbles  and decides to be a marbles champ. Rerun decides to let  Joe teach him how to marbles with his grandpa's marbles. (no, not the figurative ones)  We will get back to that later,  now the other plot is about Marcie making Peppermint Patty think that she and ole'  C.B are getting all cozy with each other. (we are a clean blog)  Peppermint Patty (logically) decides to  figure out away to get to summer camp     Joe starts "teaching" (air quotes say so much in so little) Rerun  of course , this is dirty trick and he takes all of  Reruns marbles saying they were playing the whole time.
                                                   

                                                Saddest picture of Rerun ever/ Copyright Peanuts

   Rerun tells Charlie Brown what happened , and Charlie is disgusted. (so am I)  This makes Charlie Brown want to win Reruns marbles back. Peppermint  Patty is at camp (how'd she get there?  ....nobody knows)  to  prevent the budding Marcie and CB (or  as well it  Charcie ) also a kid has been annoying  Marcie , though   Marcie can handle herself apparently. (Marcie has kind violent streak to her) Snoopy's been teaching our hero the way of marbles.   The big showdown between Charlie Brown and Joe begins to start and it looks bad for Chuck then it looks good. (Yeah it's writte that way, also where's Linus?)

                                             

                                             He's right here Phineas, /Copyright Peanuts

      Then Charlie Brown looses because he ran out of marbles  until Snoopy gives him some spears.(Snoopy saves the day)  but fate has other plans as Joe misses and Charlie Brown wins the game. Charlie Brown then offers to play for all the marbles , using the shooter he won from Joe. (ooh CB is dirty) Charlie Brown wins.   But in true class, CB offers to give back the marbles that aren't Rerun's to Joe but Joe walks away.
   When everybody gets back ... Lucy doesn't believe that our hero is a winner  (jealous) .

Also Lucy is a jerk ..../copyright Peanuts 

  Nice to see CB get win once, this special was based off a string of comics from April 1995 (you can read that starting from here)   It was the last new special ( I wanna say.. so far for ABC to air) in it's first broadcast it and Thanksgiving Charlie Brown beat Madonna .  It hasn't aired on ABC in a while it was replaced in Thanksgiving rotation for  the Mayflower episode of  This is America Charlie Brown.  
  Thanks for reading ...next we talk about  when Lucy loses her marbles ... the figurative ones.