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. 

So Weird: Drive

Disney  So Weird 

           This time in "So Weird" I jump into the second episode of season two. The concept of a car being alive isn't new and was also a book and movie, plus a non-Christine related thing in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and the sitcom "My Mother the Car" where Dick Van Dyke's brother's character buys an old car that happens to be his dead mother who came back as a car.  

               So the episode we are looking at today called "Drive" has something do to with that idea.   There's a man he hears a noise at night and decides to get up with baseball bat and hope they aren't a random pitcher ready with a ball. (Or a guy with a gun) He sees a car , A For d Mustang, and it seems to be moving by itself hitting the garage door.  The man pulls the keys and nothing happens. I feel like I have been baited by a TV show.  If this was any other show that car would have killed that man. 

I'm part actual mustang / Copyright Disney 

             Back to the characters,  Jack and Clu tell Molly , Jack's Mom, that they have money to buy a [used] car.   I wonder what car that could be....  Season 2 of "So Weird" has a difference where the group is on the road less as Molly is busy recording. This anchored the show more to a location, seems this is a thing in many shows that start with traveling. I thought  I mention that here.  Anyway back to the episode. I wonder what car, hey it's a blue Mustang.  That man wants to sell it, but he wonders if he should, but agrees to the money.  

People always sell their cars in robes right? right? / Copyright Disney 

            Molly is right to be worried about Jack driving a car, but not for the reasons she's thinking.  He's trying to get ready for his test and the car seems to be doing some strange things. Fi notices that the turn signal lever by itself, and it moves by itself.  Fi wonders about the car as she always thinks the strange things are strange out of the realm. She goes to talk to the man who sold the car.  

This doesn't say anything about the car being alive/ copyright Disney

         The man explains that he worked hard on the car, it was a wreck when he bought it.  He doesn't mention the whole moving by itself thing.  Jack doesn't want to hear anything about and he's very tense.  Fi talks to her mom to help with figuring out the car's history. They find out it was in an accident a man died in a crash he was taking his wife to hospital because of a heart attack.   She looks up on the internet and talks to Clu and notices that the car started acting strange around the hospital route. The idea is the car feels guilty feels about not making the trip.   

I do feel guilty, that was truly Chevy behavior / Copyright Disney 

         Hey the show seems to be taking place in Colorado, neat!   Jack is on his driver's test and the poor guy is tense. He also doesn't know he's a in a possessed car.  The car messes with Jack's test as it has decided to take over the driving. (In "So Weird" car drives you) Fiona ends up as she rides with Clu to tell Jack to let the car drive itself.   It stops at the hospital where it seems to be the final goal the car wanted to make in the first place. 

Me at the end of episode/ Copyright Disney 

             Jack did fail his test, sadly. But Fiona says that the car feels better now.  There's also the background that Clu is leaving for college soon.  Which will be a season set up thing for a while. 

            I think it's interesting the episode didn't take the creepier approach with the car. I think "Goosebumps" or  "Are You Afraid of the Dark" , or especially "The Haunting Hour" would have gone for the creepier approach. I like the idea of the car being guilty because the brakes being broken and killing a man and his wife because of that and wants to complete the mission to atone.  I think it would have been slightly better if the car ended up helping someone who needed to go the hospital, instead. Like Jack and Clu had to help a pregnant woman [Children's show, so something that's not gruesome] to get there and the car drives itself there, it'd be kind of a full circle thing helping bring life in the world.  It went for a slightly comedic thing with goofy things making a driving instructor question his life decisions.    

             The episode is pretty fun and I did enjoy it.  The episode was lighter than expected , especially for the season known as the darker season. It did play with the expectation like the car not being evil and/or possessed by like the original driver or something. Jack's story fit in well  as it was about him trying to reach this milestone with some worry, and fitting with his mom's worries too, after her husband died in a car accident.  

        That's it for now, tune in next time, when a Chevy drives us into a levy. 

                

Freeform Sets 30 Days of Disney Programming for November 2025

Freeform

                

   Freeform's November version of 30 Days of Disney is back this year.  There will be a selection of Disney movies and some Christmas movies dashed in. Freeform will also be premiering on their network "The Sword and the Stone".    The event starts on November 1.  

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

 Saturday, November 1

7:00 AM ET – “Fantasia” (1940) (Disney Animated)

10:00 AM ET – “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Pocahontas” (Disney Animated)

1:55 PM ET – “Mulan” (1998) (Disney Animated)

3:55 PM ET – “Aladdin” (1992) (Disney Animated)

6:00 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) (Disney Animated)

8:00 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (1989) (Disney Animated)

10:00 PM ET – “The Lion King” (1994) (Disney Animated)

12:05 AM ET – “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride” (Disney Animated)

Sunday, November 2

7:00 AM ET – “Mary Poppins” (1964)

10:05 AM ET – “Toy Story” (Disney-Pixar)

12:05 PM ET – “Toy Story 2” (Disney-Pixar)

2:10 PM ET – “Toy Story 3” (Disney-Pixar)

4:40 PM ET – “Toy Story 4” (Disney-Pixar)

6:50 PM ET – “Home Alone”

9:20 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”

12:00 AM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

Monday, November 3

10:30 AM ET – “101 Dalmatians” (1996)

12:55 PM ET – “Oliver & Company” (Disney Animated)

2:25 PM ET – “Tarzan” (Disney Animated)

4:25 PM ET – “A Bug’s Life” (Disney-Pixar)

6:30 PM ET – “Zootopia” (Disney Animated)

9:00 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

Tuesday, November 4

11:30 AM ET – “The Sword and the Stone” (Disney Animated) – Freeform Premiere

1:30 PM ET – “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996) (Disney Animated)

3:35 PM ET – “Hercules” (Disney Animated)

5:40 PM ET – “The Incredibles” (Disney-Pixar)

8:20 PM ET – “Incredibles 2” (Disney-Pixar)

Wednesday, November 5

11:30 AM ET – “Ferdinand”

1:55 PM ET – “WALL-E” (Disney-Pixar)

4:00 PM ET – “Up” (Disney-Pixar)

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

Thursday, November 6

11:00 AM ET – “Bedtime Stories”

1:00 PM ET – “The Princess Bride”

3:25 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (2023) (Live Action)

6:30 PM ET – “Finding Nemo” (Disney-Pixar)

8:55 PM ET – “Finding Dory” (Disney-Pixar)

Friday, November 7

12:00 PM ET – “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”

2:30 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (2017)

5:30 PM ET – “Cruella”

8:30 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

12:00 AM ET – “Strange World” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 8

7:00 AM ET – “The Pacifier”

9:00 AM ET – “The Game Plan”

11:30 AM ET – “Home Alone”

2:00 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

4:35 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

7:15 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

9:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

11:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Sunday, November 9

7:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (2007)

9:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”

11:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”

1:00 PM ET – “Brother Bear” (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Elemental” (Disney-Pixar)

5:10 PM ET – “Tangled” (Disney Animated)

7:20 PM ET – “Moana” (Disney Animated)

9:50 PM ET – “Brave” (Disney-Pixar)

11:55 PM ET – “Turning Red” (Disney-Pixar)

Monday, November 10

10:30 AM ET – “Tooth Fairy”

12:30 PM ET – “Mulan” (2020) (Live Action)

3:00 PM ET – “Enchanted”

5:30 PM ET – “Cinderella: (2015) (Live Action)

8:00 PM ET – “Aladdin” (2019) (Live Action)

Tuesday, November 11

10:30 AM ET – “Rio”

12:30 PM ET – “Rio 2”

2:30 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

4:30 PM ET – “Soul” (Disney-Pixar)

6:30 PM ET – “Encanto” (Disney Animated)

8:35 PM ET – “Coco” (Disney-Pixar)

Wednesday, November 12

11:00 AM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

1:00 PM ET – “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) (Live Action)

3:30 PM ET – “Raya and the Last Dragon” (Disney Animated)

6:00 PM ET – “Frozen” (Disney Animated)

8:25 PM ET – “Frozen II” (Disney Animated)

10:30 PM ET – “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” (Disney Animated)

Thursday, November 13

10:30 AM ET – “The Pacifier”

12:35 PM ET – “The Princess Diaries”

3:15 PM ET – “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement”

5:55 PM ET – “Freaky Friday” (2003)

8:00 PM ET – “The Parent Trap” (1998)

Friday, November 14

10:30 AM ET – “Bambi” (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Lady and the Tramp” (1955) (Disney Animated)

1:35 PM ET – “101 Dalmatians” (1996) (Live Action)

4:00 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

12:00 AM ET – “The Aristocats” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 15

7:00 AM ET – “Garfield: The Movie” (2004)

8:55 AM ET – “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties”

10:30 AM ET – “Bolt” (Disney Animated)

12:40 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

2:40 PM ET – “Wreck-It Ralph” (Disney Animated)

4:45 PM ET – ”Ralph Breaks the Internet” (Disney Animated)

7:20 PM ET – ”Monsters, Inc.” (Disney-Pixar)

9:25 PM ET – ”Monsters University” (Disney-Pixar)

11:55 PM ET – “Luca” (Disney-Pixar)

Sunday, November 16

7:00 AM ET – “The Jungle Book” (2016) (Live Action)

9:30 AM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”

12:45 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”

4:00 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”

7:45 PM ET – ”Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”

11:00 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”

Monday, November 17

11:30 AM ET – “Night at the Museum”

2:00 PM ET – “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”

4:05 PM ET – “The Lion King” (2019) (Live Action)

6:45 PM ET – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”

8:20 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

Tuesday, November 18

10:30 AM ET – “Mary Poppins Returns”

1:40 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

4:20 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

6:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

8:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Wednesday, November 19

12:00 PM ET – “Dumbo” (2019) (Live Action)

2:30 PM ET – “National Treasure”

5:30 PM ET – “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”

8:05 PM ET – “Jungle Cruise”

Thursday, November 20

11:00 AM ET – “Cinderella” (1950) (Disney Animated)

1:00 PM ET – “Sleeping Beauty” (1959) (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Pocahontas” (Disney Animated)

5:00 PM ET – “Brave” (Disney-Pixar)

7:05 PM ET – “Mulan” (1998) (Disney Animated)

9:05 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (1989) (Disney Animated)

Friday, November 21

11:00 AM ET – “Robin Hood” (1973) (Disney Animated)

1:00 PM ET – “The Jungle Book” (1967) (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Tarzan” (Disney Animated)

5:00 PM ET – “Aladdin” (1992) (Disney Animated)

7:00 PM ET – “Tangled” (Disney Animated)

9:00 PM ET – “The Princess and the Frog” (Disney Animated)

12:00 AM ET – “Alice in Wonderland” (1951) (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 22

7:00 AM ET – “Oz the Great and Powerful”

10:00 AM ET – “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996) (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Hotel Transylvania”

2:05 PM ET – “Hotel Transylvania 2”

4:05 PM ET – “Big Hero 6” (Disney Animated)

6:15 PM ET – “The Incredibles” (Disney-Pixar)

8:55 PM ET – “Incredibles 2” (Disney-Pixar)

11:35 PM ET – “Lightyear” (Disney-Pixar)

Sunday, November 23

7:00 AM ET – “Hotel Transylvania”

9:05 AM ET – “Hotel Transylvania 2”

11:10 AM ET – “The Rescuers” (Disney Animated)

1:10 PM ET – “The Rescuers Down Under” (Disney Animated)

3:10 PM ET – “Hercules” (Disney Animated)

5:15 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

7:15 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

9:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

11:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Monday, November 24

10:30 AM ET – “Gnomeo & Juliet” (2011)

12:30 PM ET – “Peter Pan” (1953) (Disney Animated)

2:25 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

4:25 PM ET – “Lilo & Stitch” (2002) (Disney Animated)

6:25 PM ET – “Encanto” (Disney Animated)

8:30 PM ET – “Moana” (Disney Animated)

Tuesday, November 25

10:30 AM ET – “The Princess Bride”

12:50 PM ET – “Aladdin” (2019) (Live Action)

3:50 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (2023) (Live Action)

6:55 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) (Disney Animated)

8:55 PM ET – “The Lion King” (1994) (Disney Animated)

Wednesday, November 26

11:00 AM ET – “Herbie: Fully Loaded”

1:05 PM ET – “The Parent Trap” (1998)

4:15 PM ET – “Inside Out” (Disney-Pixar)

6:20 PM ET – “Elemental” (Disney-Pixar)

8:30 PM ET – “Zootopia” (Disney Animated)

Thursday, November 27

11:00 AM ET – “Jingle All the Way”

1:00 PM ET – “Jingle All the Way 2”

3:00 PM ET – “Cruella”

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”

Friday, November 28

10:30 AM ET – “Onward”

12:35 PM ET – “Cars” (Disney-Pixar)

3:15 PM ET – “Cars 2” (Disney-Pixar)

5:50 PM ET – “Cars 3” (Disney-Pixar)

8:20 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

12:00 AM ET – “The Emperor’s New Groove” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 29

7:00 AM ET – “Ice Age”

9:00 AM ET – “Ice Age: The Meltdown”

11:00 AM ET – “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”

1:05 PM ET – “Meet the Robinsons” (Disney Animated)

3:10 PM ET – “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”

5:15 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

7:55 PM ET – “Finding Nemo” (Disney-Pixar)

10:25 PM ET – “Finding Dory” (Disney-Pixar)

12:30 AM ET – “Dumbo” (1941) (Disney Animated)

Sunday, November 30

7:00 AM ET – “Air Bud”

9:05 AM ET – “Air Bud: Golden Receiver”

11:05 AM ET – “The Fox and the Hound” (Disney Animated)

1:05 PM ET – “Chicken Little” (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “A Bug’s Life” (Disney-Pixar)

5:10 PM ET – “Ratatouille” (Disney-Pixar)

7:50 PM ET – “Coco” (Disney-Pixar)

10:20 PM ET – “Up” (Disney-Pixar)

12:25 AM ET – “The Great Mouse Detective” (Disney Animated) 

Press release after the jump

It's A Charlie Brown Lookback: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (Rewrite Edition)

Peanuts 

            Rewrite edition time, where I feel an older post can be re-done for different reasons In this case, I want to re-do "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" to flesh out my old thoughts, add some more things, and because the other old one has dead videos.

 

           It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown came out on CBS (Columbia Beagle System) on April 16, 1984. This has to be the most 80's Peanuts special to exist. It's a good example of Peanuts dipping into current things in some way.   Charles Schulz had seen the movie Flashdance and apparently liked it  and he decided to dress Snoopy up like Jennifer Beals from that movie in a comic strip from 1983.   (November 29, 1983) 

                 Flashbeagle  doesn't have a plot, per say, this in the era of Peanuts specials and the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show going with vignettes instead of a full plot. We're going to be looking at things by segment.  (wonderful) 

              The special has the tone of an episode of "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show" as well as using a piece of music that would was used for the theme song of that show. The music is also on the album also called "FlashBeagle" called "Let's have a party".  The first segment has Marcie and Peppermint Patty school stuff based on strips where Peppermint Patty sleeps in class and some of Marcie's sarcastic humor.  Peppermint Patty making the teacher question her life decisions. The song segway is wild.  It's odd to hear Peppermint Patty say she's dumb. 

          The song is "She's in Shape" which is sung by Peppermint Patty. Everyone is wearing the most 80's exercise wear worn.   The moves were apparently inspired by Charles Schulz then 12-year-old daughter.  It's an alright song, I like the part that sounds like it's inspired by "Hey Mickey".  You will know that Peppermint Patty is in shape.  

        The next segment is a short bump, it has Snoopy brushing his fur and Sally talking to Charlie Brown and pretending that Linus did anything with her a party , like he would. Charlie Brown didn't even believe her. (He's right)  There's a party and Simon says is played by Lucy takes over and there's a song where Lucy's the boss.  The song is like a mash where it looks like Lucy has a cult, but it's a fun a song. Very catchy. 

Lucy, please don't kill our families/ Copyright Peanuts 

         The party continues with the running gag of Sally wanting some "Sweet Baboo".  Then a little segment where Charlie Brown notices that Snoopy and Woodstock were drinking a little bit of juice of each cup and Woodstock kind of swam in it. Lucy who doesn't like dog lips wouldn't be happy to find out this news, Charlie Brown just lets it happen.  (Revenge?) 

          There's a country themed song with Pig Pen's hoedown.  Pig Pen doing line dancing means there's dust clouds.  

           I  like the backgrounds for outside in this special, they  went to work on those clouds. The next song, I really like, it's called "Snoopy".  I also like the mention of  Lassie and Rin Tin-Tin.  Finally, the big sequence, the title song and there's strange Adult peanuts bodies. The Flashbeagle dance was done by rotoscoping. The person they used was "Flashdance" stunt dancer Marine Jahan.  It's pretty fun, it's well done 80's song and like they went the extra mile to have real dance moves.

               

         

         Snoopy comes home "not hung over" but Sally needs something for show 'n tell and brings Snoopy.  At first, it does not well for Sally, but a kid apparently brought a boombox and plays music because sure, and it's the Flashbeagle song and Snoopy is up and ready to groove.  This feel like they wanted to reprise to fill out the time.   Also I never knew the concept of being graded for show 'n tell.   

Because 80's .. also the girl in the dress seems confused by this machine and the girl in the back seems impressed.  Copyright Peanuts. 

         It's a light special , again with no plot, but is pretty fun in terms of being a collection of mini music videos.  The Flashbeagle song is really the best one of these.   The songs were written by Ed Bogas, one of the people who worked on Peanuts music after the death of Vince Guaraldi, and also worked on Garfield specials music, which ties in well with....  Desirée Goyette who not only wrote, but performed a few of the songs.  She also worked on  a few other Peanuts specials.  Joey Scarbury, who is known for the song "Believe it or Not" also worked on the music here.    There was also an album called "Flashbeagle" that came out with full versions of the songs featured in this and some extras. 

            I enjoyed how this special is an 80's capsule.  There's a very randomness to the idea of Charles Schulz  watching "Flashdance" and thinking sure, let's go.  It's not even a film with good reception. It's also rated R, which means it's not even Schulz thinking kids watched it and enjoyed it. Maybe he started the 80's trend of taking R-rated movies and kids shows, not that Peanuts is for kids only. (It's for manly men) 

   

         The special is very much a collection of things, instead of being a story and enjoyment of that can depend on your mood. I enjoyed it, because the songs were fun and it's Peanuts, which is a comic strip and known for having pass by moments.   Besides the Flashbeagle song, my favorite has to be "Lucy's the Boss", which will please her. It's a fun song, fits Lucy's vibe and just dang catchy. 

        It's not the best Peanuts special in terms of being a good story or something, but it is fun to see Peanuts characters doing some 80's things and music.  That's it for now, tune in next time, when Peanuts was inspired by Die Hard.