Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas 2025

Freeform Christmas 

         Freeform's annual 25 Days of Christmas is back and ready to bring viewers 25 days of Christmas fun.  They'll continue to have "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , "Frosty the Snowman",  "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" -which airs on Freeform in better quality than you'd find on sister network ABC,  and  "The Little Drummer Boy"  They are running the same favorites that have mostly been staples of the network for the past few years.  

         In terms of premieres to the network, there's the 2005 film "The Legend of Frosty the Snowman" a special that is unrelated to the Rankin Bass specials but features the classic snowman in a town trying to fix things for kids. It previously aired on AMC, and will air 4 times in December. Freeform has been airing the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street and has now added the 1947, or the original movie to it's line up  , it will air once. AMC had been airing the movie. and I'm assuming that FX will be airing it this year as well. The 1994 version airs 6 times.   And finally, they'll be adding the new "Prep and Landing" special "Disney's "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol"  which will also only air once. The special is on Disney Plus, and ran on Disney Channel first this year, and later ABC.  

         I will note that now, Freeform can stream the Frosty and Rudolph specials on things like Hulu Live TV and Sling TV, when they air live.  

 Here's the full line up all times ET/PT 

Monday, December 1

7:00 AM Richie's Rich Christmas Wish
10:30 AM Cricket on the Hearth
11:30 AM The Santa Clause
1:35 PM The Santa Clause 2
4:00 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
6:00 PM Home Alone
8:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Jingle all the Way


Tuesday, December 2

7:00 AM I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
10:30 AM Love Actually
1:35 PM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Jingle All the Way 2


Wednesday, December 3

7:00 AM Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve
10:30 AM The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular (2025)
12:30 PM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (Freeform Premiere)
2:00 PM The Santa Clause
4:05 PM The Santa Clause 2
6:30 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
9:00 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
12:00 AM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause


Thursday, December 4

7:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Freeform Premiere)
10:30 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
12:00 PM Jingle All the Way
2:00 PM Jingle All the Way 2
4:00 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
6:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
9:00 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:00 AM Richie Rich's Christmas Wish


Friday, December 5

7:00 AM The Family Stone
9:30 AM I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)
11:35 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
1:40 PM Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
3:10 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
5:10 PM The Santa Clause
7:20 PM The Santa Clause 2
9:50 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
11:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol


Saturday, December 6

7:00 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
8:35 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You
10:40 AM Arthur Christmas
12:45 PM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
3:25 PM Home Alone
5:55 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:35 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:10 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
10:15 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
12:55 AM Santa Claus Is Coming to Town


Sunday, December 7

7:00 AM Arthur Christmas
9:05 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
11:45 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
1:50 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
2:55 PM Frosty the Snowman
3:30 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
4:35 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
7:15 PM Home Alone
9:45 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas


Monday, December 8

7:00 AM Home Alone 3
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:05 AM Home Alone
1:35 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
4:15 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
6:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
9:00 PM Dr Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:00 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws


Tuesday, December 9

7:00 AM Snow
10:30 AM Cricket on the Hearth
11:35 AM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
2:15 PM Dr Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
4:15 PM The Santa Clause
6:25 PM The Santa Clause 2
8:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
12:00 AM The Search for Santa Paws


Wednesday, December 10

7:00 AM Snow 2: Brain Freeze
10:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
11:00 AM Jingle All the Way
1:05 PM Jingle All the Way 2
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups


Thursday, December 11

7:00 AM Santa's Little Helper (2015)
10:30 AM The Family Man (2000)
1:25 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
3:25 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
6:00 PM Frozen (Disney Animation)
8:25 PM Frozen II (Disney Animation)
10:30 PM Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Disney Animation)
12:00 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
1:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)


Friday, December 12

7:00 AM Home Alone 3
9:00 AM Home Alone
11:25 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
2:00 PM Home Alone
4:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
7:00 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
9:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Home Alone 3


Saturday, December 13

7:00 AM Merry Madagascar
7:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
8:00 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
10:05 AM The Search for Santa Paws
12:10 PM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2:10 PM Disney's Prep & Landing
2:40 PM Disney's Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol (Freeform Premiere)
3:15 PM Toy Story (Disney-Pixar)
5:15 PM Toy Story 2 (Disney-Pixar)
7:20 PM Toy Story 3 (Disney-Pixar)
9:50 PM Toy Story 4 (Disney-Pixar)
12:00 AM Toy Story That Time Forgot (Disney-Pixar)
12:30 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman


Sunday, December 14

7:00 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
8:30 AM Home Alone
10:55 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1:30 PM Arthur Christmas
3:30 PM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
5:10 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
7:15 PM The Santa Clause
9:25 PM The Santa Clause 2
11:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause


Monday, December 15

7:00 AM Jingle All the Way
10:30 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
1:05 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)


Tuesday, December 16

7:00 AM Jingle All the Way 2
10:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
11:05 AM Arthur Christmas
1:10 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
3:50 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
5:50 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
8:20 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Santa's Little Helper (2015)


Wednesday, December 17

7:00 AM Arthur Christmas
10:30 AM Merry Madagascar
11:00 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:30 AM Home Alone
1:55 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
4:25 PM The Santa Clause
6:30 PM The Santa Clause 2
8:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
12:00 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You


Thursday, December 18

7:00 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
1:30 PM The Santa Clause
3:40 PM The Santa Clause 2
6:10 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
8:15 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
9:20 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:55 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 AM Home Alone 3


Friday, December 19

7:00 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
10:30 AM The Search of Santa Paws
12:30 PM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2:30 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
3:35 PM Frosty the Snowman
4:10 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
5:15 PM Home Alone
7:45 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
10:25 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas


Saturday, December 20

7:00 AM Cricket on the Hearth
8:00 AM Arthur Christmas
10:00 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
12:05 PM The Santa Clause
2:10 PM The Santa Clause 2
4:40 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
6:45 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
8:45 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
11:25 PM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)


Sunday, December 21

7:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
9:30 AM Jingle All the Way
11:30 AM Jingle All the Way 2
1:30 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
4:05 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
5:10 PM Frosty the Snowman
5:45 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6:50 PM Home Alone
9:20 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Home Alone 3


Monday, December 22

7:00 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
7:30 AM Home Alone
9:55 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:30 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1:35 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2:40 PM Frosty the Snowman
3:15 PM The Santa Clause
5:20 PM The Santa Clause 2
7:50 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
9:55 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
11:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol


Tuesday, December 23

7:00 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30 AM Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
10:00 AM Frozen (Disney Animation)
12:25 PM Frozen II (Disney Animation)
2:30 PM Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Disney Animation)
3:00 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
5:05 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
7:45 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
9:45 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas


Wednesday, December 24 Christmas Eve

7:00 AM Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
10:30 AM Disney's Prep & Landing
11:00 AM The Santa Clause
1:05 PM The Santa Clause 2
3:30 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
5:35 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
8:15 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
9:20 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:55 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 AM I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)


Thursday, December 25 Christmas Day

7:00 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:00 AM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 PM Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (2025)
2:00 PM Toy Story That Time Forgot (Disney-Pixar)
2:30 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
4:30 PM Frosty the Snowman
5:00 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6:00 PM Home Alone
8:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)

Full Press release after the jump

ABC Holiday Programming 2025

ABC Christmas  New Year Holiday 

         ABC is ready for the end of the year with their Christmas and New Year programming.  ABC will airing returning favorites and the NBA on Christmas Day.  ABC also has a new installment to their "Prep and Landing" specials with "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol".    

Here's there full line up , kicking off with a Thanksgiving night airing of "Mary Poppins".   all times are ET/PT, unless otherwise noted. 

 Thursday, November 27

8-11pm   The Wonderful World of Disney Presents: Mary Poppins 

Sunday, November 30 

8:01-8:30pm  Disney Prep & Landing 

8:30-9pm  Disney Prep & Landing : Naughty vs. Nice 

9-9:30pm  Disney Prep & Landing : The Snowball Protocol 

9:31-10pm Olaf's Frozen Adventure 

10-11pm  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town 

Monday, December 1 

8-10pm The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 

Tuesday, December 2 

8-9:01pm Dancing the the Holidays 

9:01-10:02pm CMA Country Christmas 

10:02-11pm  What Would You Do? Holiday Edition 

Thursday, December 4 

8-9pm   Celebrity Family Feud: The Housemaid vs. the Housewives All Stars Holiday Special 

9-10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : The Holiday Express (Season Premiere) 

10-11pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : Santa's Making his List (new episode) 

Sunday December 7 

7-8:01pm  America's Funniest Home Videos: Holiday Hoots, Santa Shenanigans and Festive Funnies

9-11pm he Wonderful World of Disney Presents: The Santa Clause 

Tuesday, December 9 

8-10pm Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas 

Wednesday, December 10

8-8:30pm Shifting Gears (midseason finale) 

8:30-9:02pm Abbot Elementary  (midseason finale) 

9:02-10:02pm Shark Tank 

Thursday, December 11

8-9pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune 

9-10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : Christmas Vacation (new episode) 

10-11pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight : Holiday Igoomination 

Wednesday, December 17 

8-10pm iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2025 

Thursday, December 18 

9-10pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight (new episode) 

10-11pm  The Great Christmas Light Fight (Season Finale) 

Sunday , December 21 

7-11pm The Wonderful World of Disney Presents “The Sound of Music”

Wednesday, December 24

8-10:30pm The Wonderful World of Disney Presents “Home Alone” 

Thursday, December 25 

10am ET/ 9am CT/ 5am MT/ 5am PT - 40th Anniversary Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day  Parade 

12PM/9PT  NBA Christmas Special : Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks

2:30pm/11:30pt  San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder

5PM /2pt Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors

7:30pm Inside the NBA 

8pm  Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers.

10:30pm ET Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets.

Wednesday, December 31 

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025

Thursday, January 1 

8-11pm  2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Full press release after the jump 

Halloween: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Trick or Treason

Halloween  

            We're dipping back into "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with a look at a Halloween special. (Yay were looking at them meeting Frankenstein!) That's right we are looking at a special that aired on USA Network in 1994 called "Trick or Treason" (nooooooooo)  That other one is probably on the long list of things to get to. 

            Did you want to hear the Chimpunks do a cover of "The Monster Mash"? sure you did. The trio are getting ready for Halloween.   Alvin talks about trying to impress a group called the Monster Club, a group that Alvin thinks is cool and Simon thinks is a group of bullies. Alvin wants to join their club. To get into the group someone must do three different things. The group also mentions that's a new kid who is part pumpkin and can do a lot of horrible things, like with one look makes your hair fall out. (He probably just ate that sundae from Spongebob) 

They should be asking if he's actually a time traveler

            Simon really doesn't Alvin to join this group, but has decided to help. Meanwhile the Pumpkin head kid shows up and finds Theodore and says he's taking Theodore to his lab. Really he just helps Theodore from his fall. Theodore finds out the kid helps animals and his name is Michael. Michael knows about the things people said about him because of his deformed face. He tells Theodore not to tell people they're friends or he fears they'll be mean to Theodore.  

The Chipmunk world is like Goofy and Pluto, don't ask how it works

         Super early 90's montage music. I like that Simon made Alvin do a bunch of things for him to help with his prank for Halloween.  Michael uses his power to stop bully kids and stuff. Also there's not much Dave talking in this, he just kind of shows up. (not even an Alivinnnnnnn)  Michael likes Halloween and being able to go as hisself since people can see him as not strange.  Oh wait, David does say something, good. Theodore comes home and messes up Alvin's Halloween trick. 

That being a mask of a kid makes it darker and messed up

            The club isn't happy, so Alvin's new plan is to chase Pumpkinhead out of town. (The one from the 1988 movie?  no.. oh he wants to chase a child out of town, that's mean) Did this special pay to use "Help I've Fallen and I can't get Up" or was this before it was trademarked or something?  Anyway, he finds out that Theodore has been with Pumpkinhead and Theodore tells him that he's his friend. Alvin, after meeting him, is conflicted and tries to tell the monster club to call off the idea.  But the club is too into their whatever to continue and Alvin decides to join them. 

Alvin learned that in monster club, the real monsters are them 

            Theodore and Simon go to Michael's house to make sure he'll be alright before something stupid happens.  The monster club is making my recipe for pumpkin soup, I see.  I don't like the scene where  Michael is happy with friendly animals, saying he doesn't want to go with his mom because he's fine and has friends now.  I've seen this trick, then they kill off people, don't play with me. (I'm scared too) 

Honestly, could have gone either way of killing him or killing the mom. this has happened.

             Alvin and the leader of the Monster Club, uh who has no name; they didn't say it and I don't care, commit breaking and entering a house. (arrest them!) They get the boy to run out of his house and pour the whatever that liquid is on on him.  Alvin actually decides that this is too far and tells the others to stop. Simon and Theodore call Alvin the right things. Wait, there's a twist! That's right, Michael is fine. Alvin actually did have an earlier turn of heart and made a Pumpkinhead mask and put it on a boy from the monster club named Butch.  Michael doesn't even know what's going on.  (Ha ha Butch is dead now) 

Butch was never seen again

            I like how there's a boy that's meeting Michael and is sad that the boy won't kill off his sister. They used real children voices for this special it seems.  There we go  special is over.  The moral of the story is don't be mean.  

            

            This one is very simple, a very clear moral that one shouldn't judge some body by how they look.  It's not a bad message, but it's clear that this a very young person special, though adults need that message sometimes too. Though, don't question this world where people accept talking humanoid chipmunks, but are like woah that kid is freaky. 

          The special itself, looks alright, standard television Chipmunks stuff, but fun 90's cartoon animation look. I also liked how it really had a nice Halloween feel to it. It actually doesn't feel too sugary sweet either and that's good.  Yeah, it's a fun little special. 

          That's it for now, tune in next time, when Butch sues everyone. 

            

        

            

        

NBC announces Holiday programming for 2025

NBC  Thanksgiving  Christmas New Year 

              It's almost Thanksgiving and Christmas and NBC is back with their holiday programming. NBC has returning staples of the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" , "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" , "Frosty the Snowman" , "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , and more. 

        

          Here's the full list of programming details, all times are ET/PT, unless otherwise noted. 

Thursday, November 6 

8-10pm  Wicked :One Wonderful Night 

Wednesday, November 26

8pm Countdown to the 99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

9-11pm A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving 

Thursday, November 27

8:30-12pm  99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Encore at 2pm) 

12-2PM   National Dog Show 

Wednesday, December 3

8-10pm Christmas in Rockefeller Center 

10-11pm Christmas in Nashville 

Thursday, December 4 

8-8:30pm How The Grinch Stole Christmas 

8:30-9pm Frosty the Snowman 

Friday, December 5, 

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

Monday, December 8

10-11pm  Password Holiday Special 

Tuesday, December 9

8pm  Frosty the Snowman 

8:30pm Shrek the Halls

9-11pm A Motown Christmas 

December 11

8pm Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

9:15pm NBC 2025 Year in Review by Access Hollywood 

December 17

8-8:30pm Shrek the Halls

9-10pm  Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular 

10-11pm  NBC 2025 Year in Review by Access Hollywood 

December 18 

8pm Password Holiday Special 

9pm A Saturday Night Live Christmas 

December 22 

9pm A Saturday Night Live Christmas 

December 24 

8-11pm It's a Wonderful Life

11:30-1am  Christmas Eve Mass

December 25 

8pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

8:30-11pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas

January 1 

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

More after the Jump

DCOM Goes to Boogie Wonderland (Don't Look Under the Bed)

Disney  Halloween 

              Don't Look Under the Bed  is another older Disney Channel original movie. It premiered on Disney Channel on October 9, 1999. There's a fun note of this being a TV-PG original movie, instead of the typical TV-G on Disney Channel, because it was scary. This is also when PG meant something.   

         The movie was directed by Kenneth Johnson who also created "The Bionic Woman", "The Incredible Hulk" TV show , produced shows like the TV version of "Alien Nation"  and worked in films, he also directed the first "Zenon" movie. 

            The movie starts with narration by main character Frances Bacon McCausland (someone was having fun, right Ferdinand Magellan Jones?) she lives in a town called  Middleberg which is supposed to be like a normal boring town you see in movies and think of with America. But guess what? It's not! (I hope nothing spooky happens) 

             Frances is the middle child of her family and everyone seems to waking up early because the clocks for some reason say it's 7:23am, but it's 4:23am.   In fact everyone's clocks were wrong, which is strange. There are dogs on the roof. Frances is starting high school a year early, that's important.  Anyway, she sees a guy sitting on a rock, one of those  other people can't see people things going on.  The missing eggs thing comes into play as eggs are being dropped on one car.  The guy also shows up a few times make us wonder who he is.

When Disney Channel chose to rerun the movie 3am/ Copyright Disney 

            Frances is able to see him and he's surprised.  I like how this movie uses it's camera angles to really make you feel confused and disoriented. It's also holding the tension well as we don't see much of the creature that's doing the strange things around the town. There's also the mystery of the other guy who it is.  I don't know why the dad looks one step from murdering his family, the town, and then taking out himself, it's kind of strange. Then there seems to be things that make it look like Frances is behind the strangeness. 

I don't know why you screenshotted this. There's no one there, Frances! / Copyright Disney 

        The story is forcing Frances' character who is grounded in science and in logic to have to accept strangeness and the lack of logic. It's taking its time well to build up the tension and does it well. Finally, Frances is able to talk to the guy that's been hanging around.  His name is Larry Houdini.  He's played by Ty Hodges who would later play Larry Beale on Even Stevens.  [Strange he played a guy named Larry in two different Disney things] He's a good contrast to Frances as he's wild and silly, and says he's an imaginary friend. He says the one that's doing all the strange things is the Boogieman, which she finds really outlandish. 

        The real horror of this movie is people accusing her for stuff she didn't do and thinking she's losing her sanity. It does bug me when a character figured out that no one can see someone still tries to show people, try a new strategy. Larry says he's sent there to help her.  Odd Barry Manilow joke. Her mother was called in and they just drop a line that her younger brother, Darwin, had cancer but is in remission. (He got off lucky, in other Disney movies he'd be dead or their mom would be dead, or everyone is dead) 

         

Would be more interesting if the kids were actually the adults imginary friends/ Copyright Disney

        

            I love how this movie feels like a horror film in theory.   The mom thinking that mind control is a reason why strange things are happening is not something you'd expect.   Darwin mentions something about the boogieman and says a guy named Larry told some kids.  There's a lot of jump scares in this too as we get monster build up.   It's also interesting that young children can  see him, but Darwin can't. (hmm, I wonder)  I also like that Larry acts like a kid at times since he is a childhood imaginary friend. 

 

       Also, I'm once again asking Frances that if no one can see and hear him then stop thinking people will hear him. There's also a parallel of a the young children listening to the Peter Pan story and talking about believing in something.  That's right movie, I see what you are doing.  I don't know the librarian is mad, she doesn't know that the library put on a story for kids that also has interaction in it? 

I don't know why these kids are so happy, there's no one there/ Copyright Disney

        In this movie called "Don't Look Under the Bed" Frances goes to look under her bed. I think the creepy doll moving her head is a bad sign.  Larry jump scare.  Darwin comes into the room to for the movie to do a lost your marbles misdirection statement joke.  This is where Larry and Frances figure out that, that younger boy can't see him.  Frances says he doesn't believe in things like imaginary friends, then Larry turns scary after she says that she's the reason Darwin doesn't believe in him.  Frances says that she was helping him.  Then Larry asks why didn't she give Darwin some of her bone marrow , as earlier it was said that the older brother, and Larry leaves. Like, I said the cancer thing came up. 

         The movie was doing a good job of doing the "Jaws" thing of making sure we don't see the monster.   The boogieman is putting Christmas lights up?  This is a Christmas movie. (Change the labels)   Then we see him, he's dressed in Victorian style. I like his design, I can see how this is movie is seen as scary by kids or people who were kids when they saw it.  

Let us thou boogie/ Copyright Disney 

    Boogie makes the power go out  except at the house here where he turns on the Christmas lights because uhhhhhh reasons?   The house has ended up on the newspaper. It's funny because somehow the paper had the time to do this story as their front page news, the TV news is there too, and the story is about the house being the only one with power, so who's watching that?  Also, the dad is one step from snapping and killing everyone on Earth and then himself.   

This is  Christmas movie then/ Copyright Disney 

          Larry was Darwin's old imaginary friend and Larry says that Darwin still needed him. Interesting. Keep that note.  The movie shifts to back and white for a Frankenstein homage. Larry's nails are getting long  like a boogie man. (hmmm)  There's also a misdirection bust joke, I see what you are doing movie. The school phycologist is over at the house for a family dinner and probably because the dad thinks his daughter is losing her mind.  Larry is making boogie goo at the wrong time because of course he is. The mother finds out and explains she's concerned about Frances.  Frances wonders if there's something wrong with Larry.  He's turning into a boogieman.

I don't feel so un boogie/ copyright Disney 

            Frances finds out that if a child stops believing in an imaginary friend too early then they turn into a boogieman.  He's looking very boogie. (I'm scared)  There are shots in the movie that are one step removed from being a slasher film.  Under the bed in Frances' room is glowing as something grabs Darwin.  One step from being a slasher film, indeed.  Darwin is under the bed, he's in the boogie world, which is different than boogie wonderland. (and way different than Funky Town) 

            I do like how Larry is concerned about Darwin even as he changes is amazing, I love that touch.  I think it's ironic that this movie was actually not liked by some parents groups for being too scary, when one of the messages of the movie is that people get scared and that fear should be confronted. She tries to go Boogie World, but we get a father jump scare and thankfully her story made him leave to give her time to go the the world. 

            She ends up what would be a cool screen saver on Windows 95.   I like how it looks it's kind of like a dreamscape with a sense no logic and random assortments of whatever. It's good contrast to the more normal world of Frances, though her world isn't that much normal, and her sense of wanting logic. She is able to find her bother and oh it's the boogie man.  Larry is turning into one even more. I love their designs.  Frances convinces Darwin to believe in Larry the movie does some of that Peter Pan stuff and gets Larry to turn back to normal.  He's missing most of this fun though. 

                Larry and the boogieman fight each other and fight is kind of silly, there's a man with pointy nails fighting a man with a big pen for a moment.   Frances uses jumper cables attached to the boogie man's nails and we get a fake out of him being defeated. She tells him she's not afraid of him anymore.  Then we get a twist that this boggieman was also her imaginary friend named Zoey.  They make it back home and the boogie man is back to her woman non scary form. 

We boogied too hard/ copyright Disney 

             The parents apologize to  Frances for thinking she was doing the strange things and there's apparently a town called Centerville. (I'm not moving there)  Frances explains that she gave up on Zoey when Darwin got sick and that's why Zoey was turning.  Larry and Zoey both go to Centerville to help fix the problem there, which would be a good spinoff series. Where's that?  Frances finds out that she won't see Larry and Zoey anymore because it's not her time anymore.  Also a kiss, they really went hard on the Peter Pan allegory.  It ends with a nice scene with Darwin and Frances.  

             This is the only Disney Channel movie to end with Boogie Wonderland.  

            I can see why this movie would be scary to children  and it has some feelings of the real TV PG and rated PG movies when that meant something. I'm not sure if I would have been scared of it, but I can see how.  This movie has some good layers to it. The main idea I saw was that it was about letting fear not be in control.  Frances, rightfully, felt fear for her little brother when he had cancer and her best way to push aside her fear was  to help her brother not be in fear. There's also a slight message of letting time hit right, not try to grow up too fast.  There was the idea that she and Darwin tried to push away childhood things too early. 

           The movie has interesting shots and a look to it, I liked how it made everything feel a little off kilter.  It's also a movie that doesn't seem to waste anything that it brings up, though you could say if there's one thing it doesn't use much is Frances being moved a grade up. I think the only thing that fits with that into the story is the concept of Frances trying to be mature or more disconnected from childhood things in awkward times, but that's only tangential.  

              I do like how the movie knew to use quiet moments as effective and it was used.  The other parts of the movie is that it's mostly Frances point of view, so we don't really know much about how Darwin was effected by having cancer and he's well and seems to be alright by the time this movie happens. I think there was way too much Frances doesn't believe that Larry is real or that other people can't see him, where even if she's trying logic it, there's a point and point earlier that she would accepted it more.  I'm also a little lost on the whole thing about Frances feeling bad about not being able to give marrow but her older brother was, it's brought up twice and it's kind of random. They slightly try to tie it to her fears at the time, but yeah. 

                 It's a good movie, but it does have some pieces that kind of feel a little lost or had good ideas not explored. I did enjoy it, there was some fun charm to it and some moments felt almost slasher and horror like.  

         That it's for now, tune in next time when we come up from the bed to scare you. 

The CW'S Holiday Programming 2025

The CW     Thanksgiving   Christmas Holidays 

    

          The CW is  ready for the holidays with a slate of holiday movies and specials.  There's their annual broadcast of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer",  their Waltons specials and the Christmas parade. Also of note, the network will be airing Yogi's First Christmas.  Here's a full detailed look at their line up, all times are ET/PT/Denver Saint Louis.   

Saturday, November 22

8-10pm  A Waltons Thanksgiving 

Friday, November 28 

8-9pm Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer 

9-10pm A Totally Funny Animals Holiday

Thursday, December 4

8-10pm   Best Christmas Movies Ever! 

Monday, December 8 

8-10pm  The Waltons' Homecoming 

Wednesday, December 10 

8-9pm Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer

9-10pm Penn & Teller: Merry Fool US

Thursday, December 11

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

Friday, December 12 

8-10pm  The 93rd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade 

Monday, December 15

8-10pm A California Christmas 

Wednesday, December 17

9-10pm Best Christmas Movies Ever! 

Friday, December 19 

8-10pm Yogi's First Christmas 

Monday, December 22 

8-10pm A California Christmas  :City Lights 

Friday, December 26

8-9pm PopStar! Best of 2025 

Full Press Release after the Jump 

CBS Announces Holiday Programming

CBS   Holidays Thanksgiving  Christmas 

        CBS has released its holiday programming line up for the season of 2025.  This includes special episodes in primetime and daytime, specials,  and more.  

         "Ghosts" gets a special Thanksgiving based episode on November 20.  "Everybody Loves Raymond" celebrates its 30th anniversary with a reunion special on November 24.   

         "Paw Patrol" Christmas special will air November 28,  and Reindeer in Here will air on December 6. 

         Here's the full line up  all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted,  and subject to change. 

    

        Thursday, November 20 

      8:30pm  Ghosts-  New Thanksgiving episode 

        Monday, November 24 

       8pm  Everybody Loves Raymond : 30th Anniversary Reunion 

        Wednesday, November 26 

        Daytime : The Prices Right Thanksgiving 

        Daytime: The Bold and the Beautiful 

        Friday, November 28 

       8pm  Paw Patrol Christmas 

        Saturday, December 6 

         8pm Reindeer in Here 

        Monday, December 8 

         8pm  The Neighborhood 

        8:30pm DMV 

        Thursday, December 11 

        9pm Matlock 

        

       Saturday, December 13

       8pm  Family, Film and TV Awards 

         Monday, December 15 

       8pm FBI 

         Tuesday, December 16

         8pm NCIS Tuesday 

        Thursday, December 18

        9pm  Ghosts 

        10pm  Elsbeth 

         Sunday, December 21 

        8:30-9:30pm ET/ 8-9pm PT  Hollywood Squares 

        December 22-24 

      Daytime: Let's Make a Deal

      Daytime: The Price is Right 

      Tuesday, December 23 

         8pm Kennedy Center Honors 

          December 24 and December 30 

         Daytime: Beyond the Gates

        Friday, December 26 

        8pm  A Grammy (R) Celebration of Latin Music 

        Wednesday, December 31

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

      

    Full Press Release after the Jump 

Into the Twilight: You Drive (Car Drives You... Straight to Jail)

The Twilight Zone 

             This is another morality story from the original "Twilight Zone" series coming in during the final/ 5th season of the series.  (Season 5 , Episode  14)  It's written by Earl Hamner Jr.  but does take place more in the contemporary urban/suburban world.  

                The main character is a man named Oliver Pope who is introduced as  a man who is part of the modern world absorbed by it and the fallings of it. He's a man who works at an office job and wants to get ahead and not focused on anything else, this will be his undoing.  It's a setup that also fits with many parts of the series as a whole, the idea that the present's problems are that it's moving too fast, that people get wrapped up in things that might otherwise not really be worth it, and that the too present mindedness makes us forget the impact of our actions. 

             I like how the episode begins with Oliver driving his car in the rain and he hits a paper boy on a bike, gets out of the car to look around, and decides to just get in his car and run.  [Also this is like one of those things where you go people looked older in the past, even the kids.] They are getting this out of the way first, we are getting no background of his day or anything he's just a man decided to just leave a kid he hit because he didn't have time to deal with this.   A  woman shows up and is like hey stop but she doesn't see him and he's gone. 

Hmm, I hate the newspaper anyway/ Copyright CBS 

            Oliver comes home and his primary concern is... a co-worker might be gunning for his job.  He also gets mad at his wife because I think running over someone would probably sour my mood too.  The wife isn't one of the Twilight Zone mean wives so that's good, because I don't think we are supposed to feel for Ollie.  His wife notices that someone has fooled in garage and he sees that the car's headlights are going on and off by themselves. And the way the music goes off when he touches inside the car, makes me think the car was on  like Spooky Music Radio.

I'm going to eat you, yeah I eat/ Copyright CBS 

           Mrs. Pope notices the paper is late. (It's going to be late, it's currently black and white and red all over)  Oliver has some guilt as he calls to find out how the boy is doing in the hospital.  Apparently, you could just call the hospital and get info like that.   It's good that Oliver feels some guilt. The car honks in the garage at night, by itself. (I wonder) 

                The next day, the wife says that the boy is near death and that she hopes they catch the man. (I hope they do too) Oliver has decided to not go to work.  I do think it's interesting that they made the episode have the wife hear the car too, I kind of think the "Tell- Tale Heart"  idea here would have been somewhat more interesting if it was just him hearing the honks.  Mrs. Pope decides to drive the car and  when it gets to the spot where he hit the boy, it just kind of stops.  I'm not sure why the car is mad at the wife, though.  But it's at the shop now. 

I'm not moving... you can't make me/ Copyright CBS 

            The honking shows up again and the car is in the garage. Nobody knows how the car got back there.  Pete, the man he thinks is trying to take his job, shows up at the house. Oliver tells him straight the man should back off trying to take his job.  He's also here where Oliver finds out the news that boy is dead now. That's right Oliver committed manslaughter.   A woman sees a car whom she thinks is driving by the hit and run guy.  

             Oliver finds out that the man is Pete.  Oliver's partial relief at letting a man take the fall for him is being disturbed by the car making noise in the garage, and apparently deciding to break itself.  Later at night, the car starts playing the radio. Oliver goes to stop the car and news comes to make sure he hears it. (The news just tells people the address of the suspect and quick funeral too hmmm) The car has the power to rewind the radio too, it seems. Oliver decides to start smashing the car's radio and lights. (He's going to have a hard time explaining that one) Then he tries to break the horn too. 

This is how I fix my car/ Copyright  CBS 

             He decides to go to work by bus since he's not trusting the car. The car is like "no you ain't"  , opens the garage, backs out, freaks the wife out, and drives better than people.  The car decides to chase Oliver which makes a different meaning to car chase.  Earlier the wife said it's going to rain, he said no it's not and well the weather decided it didn't like him either.     The car had a chance to run him over but tells him to get in loser, instead. 

Hop in , loser/ Copyright CBS 

                The car drove him to the police station and he walks in to face his justice. 

                         Oliver is not a character they want us to root for or feel for at all, he starts with a callous disregard for the boy and it never stopped.  His guilt is mostly the worry that he'll be caught and how things get worse when the boy dies because he knows it will be worse for him. The storyline with him thinking about getting ahead in work, thinking that Pete is trying to steal his job is interesting as it places the idea of modern times getting in the way and that he wasn't thinking about what was important or owning up to his own mistakes. 

             I like how the episode looks, the shots being really done outside give it realistic feel and a movie like tone.  The shots are perfection.  Oliver's actor, who returns from a previous episode, Edward Andrews plays a man who isn't even in malice he's just so self-absorbed and worried about his stuff that nothing else matters to him.  The moment it starts and he sees that he hit a boy, he has no emotion but not robotic, he treats hitting a boy on a bike like someone would treat tripping over a bit.  His reactions aren't over the top.  I love how the car operating by itself was done  where you can't see a driver.  There's  sense of thriller and suspense to this episode, yet we're kind of not rooting for the the guy.   

             Oliver being mostly a normal guy plays well , because it shows that it could really be anyone. He's not villain in the sense of ruthless and evil, but that he decided to make a terrible decision that he could have avoided. He was so raptured into what his own advancement was that he made things tragic for a lot of people.  

                I do think it would have been more interesting in a few spots. I think having the car only be heard by Ollie and only doing weird stuff around him, without the wife noticing, would have made this slightly better as it would be a good way to show that the conscience in him was trying to get him to confess. Same with the ending where he just walks up in the police station seems kind of weak, when it should have been more somehow forcing him or that his guilt was triggered better, or the car did something to have him end up being spotting by the police. That's minor though. 

             This episode is fun, I liked it. It's not the top tier but still good.  Interesting concept and pretty fun.   

             That's it for now, tune in next time, when a car gives you a ride. Don't ask where you're going.