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 * Nickelodeon will premiere four new Christmas specials this holiday season: It's a SpongeBob Christmas!, an hour-length stop-motion animated special based on  (released on DVD and iTunes on October 30th and scheduled to make its televised premiere on on November 23rd); A Fairly Odd Christmas, the second live-action Fairly OddParents movie (premiering November 29th); "How to Rock Christmas", the series finale of How to Rock (premiering on December 8th); and "Stuck On Christmas", a Christmas episode of Power Rangers Super Samurai (also premiering on December 8th, though it will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 4th). A new Nickelodeon Christmas album titled Merry Nickmas (not to be confused with the interstitial shorts that ran from 2002 to 2005) was also released on November 19th.
 * The Disney Channel is premiering new Christmas-themed episodes of ', ', and ' (titled "A Duncan Christmas", "Bark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "Merry Merry It Up", respectively), plus a special holiday-themed crossover between Jessie and ' - "Big Dreams & Big Apples". In addition, sister network Disney XD is premiering a Christmas episode of , titled "Oh, Christmas Nuts!"
 * Cartoon Network has officially announced their Christmas line-up for this year. Premiering this December are Christmas-themed episodes of ', ', ', ', and MAD. Cartoon Network will also be running the television premieres of Abominable Christmas, Scooby-Doo: Haunted Holidays, and The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol.
 * has officially announced the line-up for the 25 Days of Christmas this year. Notable inclusions are the premiere of the new original movies Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (the fifth installment of the Home Alone series, premiering as part of the Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas on November 25th) and The Mistle-tones (premiering on December 9th), plus the ABC Family debuts of the original Home Alone (on November 24th), Elf (on December 1st), Fred Claus (on December 4th), and Disney's A Christmas Carol (on December 6th).
 * The Hallmark Channel is premiering a dozen new movies this holiday season, along with Jingle and Bell's Christmas Star (a sequel to last year's Jingle All the Way) on Thanksgiving Day.
 * Lifetime will be premiering ten new Christmas movies as part of their "It's a Wonderful Lifetime" event, starting on November 10th.
 * The TV Guide Network is airing a special titled Cee Lo's Magic Moment on November 30th to promote Cee Lo Green's new Christmas album of the same name. The special will notably feature a special guest appearance by the Muppets.
 * WWE Studios, the movie-making division of Vince McMahon's sports entrtainment empire, has announced a made-for-TV movie titled Christmas Bounty to air on ABC Family in 2013.
 * has bought, holders of the pre-1973 Rankin/Bass library and other characters such as Mr. Magoo, amongst others, for US $155 million. The group will be rebranded as DreamWorks Classics.
 * Jerry Nelson, the Muppeteer who performed Count von Count, Herry Monster, and various other Muppets from Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and other productions (like Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and A Muppet Family Christmas) passed away on August 23rd at the age of 78.
 * , whose holiday classic "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" has been played for almost 50 years, passed away at the age of 84 on September 25th in Branson, Missouri.
 * (owners of Angela Anaconda, Super Why!, and numerous other shows) have purchased (the owners of The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Arthur, and the DIC Entertainment library) for $111 million.
 * Ken Samson, who voiced Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too, Seasons of Giving, Pooh's Super Sleuth Christmas Movie, and numerous other Winnie the Pooh productions from 1988 to 2009, passed away at the age of 85 on October 8th.

November 20:
 * Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups, a new sequel to The Search for Santa Paws, premiered on DVD and Blu-ray.
 * Christmas Comes Home to Canaan was released on Blu-ray.
 * Shout! Factory's : The Complete Series DVD box set, which contains Alpha's Magical Christmas and "I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger", is now available as a general retail release (having previously been sold at the San Diego Comic-Con and then exclusively through Time-Life).
 * Christmas with Danny Kaye has been released on DVD.
 * Warner Archive has now released a manufacture-on-demand Complete Series DVD set of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which contains the Christmas-themed short "The Play".

November 27:
 * 12 Christmas Wishes For My Dog and Christmas in Compton, two new direct-to-video movies, are being released.
 * Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas will be made available on iTunes.

December 4:
 * A new direct-to-video movie titled Elf-Man will premiere on DVD.
 * The Dog Who Saved the Holidays, a sequel to The Dog Who Saved Christmas and The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation, will premiere as a direct-to-DVD release.
 * "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" will be included on : The Fifteenth Season DVD and Blu-ray sets.
 * The upcoming Power Rangers Super Samurai episode "Stuck On Christmas" will make its debut on the Power Rangers Super Samurai DVD and Blu-ray sets, four days before the episode's television premiere.

December 11:
 * will release Babes in Toyland on Blu-ray.
 * "Just 86 Shopping Minutes Till Christmas" will be included on the Hazel: The Complete Fourth Season DVD set.

February 5, 2013:
 * The : Volume 4 DVD set, which will contain "Noel" and "The Christmas Tree", will be released.

March 5, 2013:
 * The Nativity Story is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray.

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