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 * , star of Hallmark's Hitched for the Holidays, is now filming another new Christmas movie - A Wish for Christmas, set to premiere on Lifetime next Christmas season.
 * has scheduled A Meyers Christmas, directed and written by David E. Talbert, for a November 11th release date.
 * has announced a new holiday TV special spun off from Frozen, directed by Prep & Landing directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton. It will be premiering on in the 2017 holiday season.
 * is working on an animated movie adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! that will be directed by and will star  as the voice of the Grinch. It is scheduled for release on November 27, 2017.
 * Voice actor tragically passed away at the age of 63 on February 3rd. His various voice credits included Plucky Duck from ' and Lou Pickles in the later years of ', as well as voicing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety, and Marvin the Martian in various  projects in the 1990s and 2000s.
 * , who played Mr. Handford on  (including one of its Christmas specials) and starred in The Preacher's Wife, Long Gone, and Little Senegal, died on March 22nd.
 * Writer, 's father, died on March 23rd at the age of 83. His writing credits included The Mike Douglas Christmas Special, the Alice episode "A Semi-Merry Christmas", and The Golden Girls episode "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas".
 * , star of  (including its Christmas episode), and who also played Lori in Once Upon a Christmas Time and Sook in A Christmas Memory, died on March 29th at the age of 69.
 * tragically passed away on April 17th at the age of 90. Best known as Marie Barone from , her Christmas movie credits also included Francis Smith from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Ma Bailey in It Happened One Christmas, Philomena in A Mom for Christmas, and Mrs. Miracle from the Hallmark Channel movie of the same name and its sequel.
 * , the parent company of, has purchased fpr $3.8 billion, thus bringing such franchises as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and the Classic Media library (which includes the works of , , and pre-1973 Rankin/Bass) under NBC Universal's ownership.


 * May 10th
 * The first season of  (including the series' first Christmas episode) is scheduled for a DVD release.
 * May 24th
 * Time-Life has scheduled an individual DVD release for the fifth season of  (which includes the "Christmas Party" episode).
 * June 7th
 * "Hearthbreakers" will be made available on the : Friends and Family DVD.
 * June 14th
 * The  episode "Walter's Christmas Gift" will be made available on Shout! Factory's Maude: The Complete Fifth Season DVD set.
 * Universal is putting out an individual DVD release of Back to the Future: The Animated Series ' first season (which includes "Dickens of a Christmas").
 * June 28th
 * Shout! Factory is releasing a Complete Series DVD set for  (which will include "Two Guys, a Girl and a Christmas Story").
 * July 5th
 * As a tie-in with the new Ghostbusters movie, is releasing five two-disc DVD volumes of  (the first of which will contain "Xmas Marks the Spot").
 * July 12th
 * Amazon.com is already taking preorders for the : Season Five DVD set, which includes "Heathbreakers".