Thanksgiving Weekend TV Schedule 2015: Over 50 Christmas Movies To Watch Nov. 27–29
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and TV networks are starting to roll out Christmas specials and movies. While you celebrate the beginning the holiday season, digest that Thanksgiving meal or are looking to sit back and put your feet up after a long day of shopping, here are over 50 movies and specials that will be on TV:
Friday, Nov. 27:
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- “The Christmas Parade” (This 2014 film is about a morning anchor that gets embarrassed on TV and decides to take a break to a small town where she starts working with an artist on a float for a holiday parade.)
Lifetime -- “A Christmas Proposal” (A lawyer fights to have a small town demolished, but he soon learns there’s something special about the town and starts to reconnect with his ex-wife in this 2008 movie.)
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “Window Wonderland” (A Christmas rivalry breaks out between two people looking to become the head window designer of a big department store in this 2013 flick.)
Lifetime -- “A Christmas Wedding” (“American Horror Story” star Sarah Paulson stars in this 2006 holiday movie about a bride’s crazy month leading up to her Christmas wedding.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “North Pole” (When problems arise at Santa’s hometown, it will be up to an elf to fix things in this 2014 movie.)
Lifetime -- “A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride” (In this 2008 movie, a daughter tries to stop her mother’s quick wedding, but falling in love distracts her.)
Time: 3:00 p.m. EST
PBS -- “Wild Kratts” (The 2015 holiday special shows the Kratts search for some of their favorite creatures before they celebrate Christmas.)
TBS -- “The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf’s Story” (An elf helps a boy believe in the magic of Christmas in this 2011 movie with the same name as famous Christmas decoration.)
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “12 Gifts of Christmas” (An executive hires an artist to do their holiday shopping and the two start to fall in love in this 2015 movie.)
Lifetime -- “Love at the Christmas Table” (In this 2012 flick a man realizes a lifelong friend is the right woman for him at Christmas dinner.)
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
AMC -- “Home Alone” (The 1990 holiday classic stars a young man who must protect his home from burglars.)
Hallmark -- “Royal Christmas” (A prince falls for a common girl, who must impress the royal family over Christmas in this 2014 movie.)
Lifetime -- “Comfort and Joy” (In this 2003 movie, a workaholic gets into a car accident and slips into a coma only to awake in a world where she’s married with children.)
TBS -- “Four Christmases” (Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn star as a couple who has to spend the holiday visiting their divorced parents.)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
Nick -- “Santa Hunters” (Christmas problems develop when a boy and his cousins set up surveillance to prove Santa is real in this 2014 special.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
ABC -- “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” (You better watch out, you better not cry for this 1970 classic holiday special about a young Santa Claus.)
The CW -- “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” (The 2001 animated special is based off the popular Christmas song by Elmo Shropshire.)
Hallmark -- “Crown for Christmas” (A former maid cares for a little girl, who turns out to have royalty roots in Europe in this new 2015 movie.)
Lifetime -- “Dear Santa” (This 2011 flick features a little girl asking Santa to send her father a new wife for Christmas, which is answered by a lonely woman.)
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
The CW -- “Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special” (Po has to decide to continue his family holiday traditions or host an event for work in this 2010 Christmas special.)
Time: 9:30 p.m. EST
The CW -- “Merry Madagascar” (The 2009 holiday special featuring the characters from the “Madagascar” films who have to save Christmas.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “A Princess for Christmas” (Sparks fly between a woman and a duke in this 2011 holiday movie.)
Lifetime -- “All About Christmas Eve” (A party planner is asked to go on a vacation, while also being asked to set up an event for a client in this 2012 flick.)
Saturday, Nov. 28:
Time: 7:00 a.m. EST
ABC Family -- "Jingle All The Way ("Put the cookie down" and enjoy this Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday classic where he plays a father trying to buy the hot item of the season: Turboman.)
Time: 8:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- "A Princess For Christmas" (Sparks fly between a woman and a duke during a Christmas visit in this 2011 movie.)
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Royal Christmas" (A prince reveals who he is to his fiancée, while she has to deal with her mother-in-law over the holidays in this 2014 film.)
Nick -- "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Patchy the Pirate tells the story of the first Christmas in Bikini Bottom in this holiday special.)
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Once Upon A Holiday" (This 2015 holiday movie is about a princess who falls for a man that has no idea of her royal background.)
Lifetime -- "Kristin's Christmas Past" (After falling asleep Christmas Eve night, a woman wakes up to a Christmas 17 years ago in this 2013 movie.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Merry Matrimony" (Two ex-lovers are reunited in this 2015 movie when a woman ends up working for her ex-fiancé while organizing a wedding.)
Lifetime -- "A Nanny for Christmas" (Two former rivals come together when a woman gets hired to be the nanny of the children of an advertising executive in this 2010 Christmas flick.)
Pop -- "The Cast of 'A Christmas Story': Where Are They Now?" (An 2012 update on the cast of the Christmas classic, while also taking a look at the Broadway musical.)
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
Nick -- "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Plankton tries to ruin Christmas in Bikini Bottom in the Christmas special from 2012.)
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "I'm Not Ready For Christmas" (This 2015 movie is like a Christmas "Liar, Liar" when a woman loses the ability to lie after her niece makes the request to Santa.)
Lifetime -- "Home By Christmas" (A woman hopes the holidays will help her move past a divorce in this Christmas movie.)
Time: 5:00 p.m. EST
FXX -- "Christmas with the Kranks" (Tim Allen and Jaime Lee Curtis decide to skip Christmas when their daughter goes away for the holiday in this 2005 flick.)
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
AMC -- "Home Alone" (The 1990 Christmas classic starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.)
Hallmark -- "Christmas Under Wraps" (A doctor tries to start over in Alaska after missing out on a job, but things get complicated when the job opens back up in this 2014 holiday movie.)
Lifetime -- "12 Men of Christmas" (A woman tries to use her media background to raise money for a rescue squad in this 2009 flick.)
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
Nick -- "Santa Hunters" (The 2014 holiday special features kids trying to prove Santa's existence.)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
FXX -- "The Santa Clause 2" (This 2002 sequel starring Tim Allen, which takes place eight years after the original 1994 film, finds Santa looking for a Mrs. Claus or his time as Santa will end.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
CBS -- "Frosty the Snowman" (The 1969 animated Christmas favorite is about a snowman that comes to life.)
Disney -- "Jingle All The Way" (The films stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a father trying to buy the hot toy of the Christmas season.)
Hallmark -- "A Christmas Detour" (A man and woman get stranded at an airport hotel when trying to get to New York City in this 2015 Christmas movie.)
Lifetime -- "A Gift Wrapped Christmas" (A personal shopper gets close with a man and his son in this 2015 holiday film.)
Time: 8:30 p.m. EST
CBS -- "Frosty Returns" (The friendly snowman, voiced by John Goodman, returns in the 1995 sequel.)
AMC -- "Home Alone" (The 1990 Christmas classic starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.)
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
CBS -- "The Story of Santa Claus" (Animated musical from 1996, which tells the origins of Santa, voiced by Edward Asner.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Let It Snow" (A woman goes to transform a small lodge into a large resort, but end ups liking the holiday spirit of the place in this 2013 film.)
Lifetime -- "Christmas in the City" (When a model takes over as Santa in a department store, a women tries to bring back Christmas spirit back in this 2013 movie.)
Sunday, Nov. 29:
Time: 7:00 a.m. EST
Fyi -- "Inside Story: Santa Clause" (A look back at the 1994 holiday film starring Tim Allen.)
Time: 8:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Moonlight & Mistletoe" (A father and daughter try to save their family business called Sanataville in this 2008 holiday movie.)
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Best Christmas Party Ever" (An event planner has to train her boss's nephew to put on a holiday party after he gets promoted over her in this 2014 flick.)
Time: 11:00 a.m. EST
Disney -- "Jingle All The Way" (Arnold Schwarzenegger father-son holiday classic.)
FXX -- "Christmas With The Kranks" (Tim Allen and Jaime Lee Curtis decide to skip Christmas when their daughter goes away for the holiday in this 2005 flick.)
Lifetime -- "An Accidental Christmas" (Two children plot to get their separated parents back together in time for Christmas in this 2008 movie.)
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Let It Snow" (A woman goes to transform a small lodge into a large resort, but end ups liking the holiday spirit of the place in this 2013 film.)
Time: 1:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "Christmas Town" (A mother takes her son to see his father, who may or may not live at the North Pole in this 2007 flick.)
FXX -- "The Santa Clause 2" (This 2002 sequel starring Tim Allen finds Santa looking for a Mrs. Claus.)
Lifetime -- "The Christmas Hope" (A foster child helps save the marriage of a couple on Christmas in this 2009 movie.)
Time: 1:30 p.m. EST
ABC Family -- "Jack Frost" (Michael Keaton stars as a father who is killed in a car crash, but his spirit comes back in the family's snowman in this 1998 film.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "A Christmas Detour" (A man and woman get stranded at an airport hotel in this 2015 Christmas movie.)
Time: 3:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "12 Wishes of Christmas" (A woman has to fix problems she created with 12 wishes by Christmas in this 2011 holiday movie.)
Lifetime -- "The Santa Con" (A former con, who is now a department store Santa, tries to get a boy's parents back together by Christmas in this 2014 movie.)
Time: 3:30 p.m. EST
ABC Family -- "Prancer" (A girl finds a reindeer in the woods and believes it to be one of Santa's in this 1989 holiday movie.)
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Crown For Christmas" (A former maid cares for a little girl, who turns out to be royalty in this new movie.)
Time: 5:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "Christmas Belle" (A woman lands her dream job, but it involves her with a client that's not easy to work with in this 2013 movie.)
Lifetime -- "All About Christmas Eve" (A party planner is asked to go on a vacation, while also being asked to set up an event for a client in this 2012 flick.)
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "North Pole: Open For Christmas" (A woman tries to sell an inn she's inherited, but has second thoughts after she meets a repairman and an elf in this 2015 film.)
TBS -- "Survive Christmas" (Ben Affleck stars as a man who tries to pay the family living in his childhood home to let him spend Christmas there in this 2004 holiday comedy.)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "A Perfect Christmas List" (A woman who is very sick tries to make her daughter and granddaughter reconnect.)
Lifetime -- "A Gift Wrapped Christmas" (A personal shopper gets close with a man and his son in this 2015 holiday film.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- "Angel of Christmas" (A reporter uncovers romantic problems from her past when she covers his first story in this holiday movie premiere.)
TBS -- "Four Christmases" (Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn star as a couple who has to spend the holiday visiting their divorced parents.)
Time: 8:30 p.m. EST
Fox -- "Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special" (Sid tries to clear his name with Santa when the gang travels to the North Pole in this 2011 Christmas special.)
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "A Prince For Christmas" (This new movie features a prince running away from an arranged marriage and finding his true love.)
Lifetime -- "The Christmas Gift" (A woman tracks down the person who gave her a Secret Santa gift that changed her life in this 2015 holiday film premiere.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
ABC Family -- "Jingle All The Way" (Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday classic.)
Hallmark -- "A Very Merry Mix-Up" (After going to the wrong house to meet her future husband's family, a woman connects with the family she met by mistake.)
TBS -- "Four Christmases" (A couple has to spend the holidays visiting their divorced family members.)
Time: 11:00 p.m. EST
ION -- "My Santa" (A woman falls for a mall Santa, who turns out to be the actual song of Santa in this 2013 holiday film.)
Lifetime -- "A Gift Wrapped Christmas" (A personal shopper gets close with a father and son in this new holiday film.)
MTV -- "A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas" (The two friends reconnect and try to find a Christmas tree in New York City after Kumar destroy's Harold's in this 2011 comedy.)
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