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- The schedule for ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas has been released. It can be viewed here. This year, The Santa Clause and The Nightmare Before Christmas will be making their ABC Family debut.
- World Wrestling Entertainment, citing changes in schedules, has announced there will be no Tribute to the Troops tour or TV special in 2010.
- Renegade Animation owner Darrell Van Citters has written a new book about the making of Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, prime-time television's first animated Christmas Special, which is being rereleased and available at his website.
- Katy Perry will guest star in a live-action segment of The Simpsons annual holiday episode as the girlfriend of Moe, the resident bar owner in Springfield. She'll be working with puppet versions of the denizens of Bart's hometown.
- Look for a Claymation version of the NBC comedy series Community for their Christmas episode in December as well.
- The Disney Channel and Disney XD aired a special extended version of Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!, featuring the previously-cut song "What Does He Want?" In addition, new holiday episodes of Disney Channel and Disney XD programs like The Suite Life on Deck and Zeke and Luther have been announced; you can read about them here.
- Red Wagon Games released a video game adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the Nintendo Wii and DS.
- A sequel special to Prep & Landing, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice, has been announced for 2011.
New and Upcoming Video Releases
- The Rankin/Bass Christmas specials Jack Frost, Pinocchio's Christmas, Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Year Without a Santa Claus are all now available on iTunes. Yes, Virginia and Shrek the Halls are also now both available on iTunes as well.
- October 5th - Twas the Night Before Christmas and Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation! are now available on DVD, and The Year Without a Santa Claus is now available on Blu-ray.
- October 12th - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town are all now available on new DVD releases and for the first time on Blu-ray, along with a boxset containing the three discs. He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special and It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie also have new DVD releases out now.
- October 26th - Santa Claus: The Movie and Elf are now available in new DVD and Blu-ray releases, the former a 25th Anniversary Edition DVD and the latter a 2-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition. Yes, Virginia is also now available on DVD.
- November 2nd - CBS/Paramount has released a compilation DVD of Christmas episodes, titled T.V. Sets: Christmas Treats. The set contains Christmas episodes of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, The Odd Couple, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Lucy Show and Cheers.
- November 9th - The 1984 version of A Christmas Carol came to Blu-ray - a week prior to Disney's version. It is also packaged in a 2-movie set with Miracle on 34th Street. Warner Home Video has also started manufacturing a manufacture-on-demand DVD titled Classic TV Christmas Collection, featuring Christmas-themed episodes of CHiPs, Alice, Welcome Back, Kotter, Suddenly Susan, Veronica's Closet, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Perfect Strangers, Dr. Kildare, Mama's Family, Eight is Enough, and Love, American Style.
- November 16th - Robert Zemekis' Disney version of A Christmas Carol is now on DVD and Blu-ray. Also, Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is now available in a Collector's Edition Blu-Ray/DVD set.
- December 7th - A new direct-to-video special, Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular, will be released alongside the DVD release of Shrek Forever After.
- December 12th - Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper will be released on DVD.
- March 2011 - "Christmas Comes to PacLand" will be released on DVD through the Warner Archive Collection
Trivia
Day 1: Which ocean is Christmas Island in?
Day 2: Who wrote the song "Here Comes Santa Claus"?
Day 3: What voice actor from a well known Christmas specials passed away this year?
Day 4: What company sponsors Cranberry Christmas to run commercial free?
Day 5: What poem is The Town Santa Forgot based upon?
Day 6: In Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!, what did Ferb Fletcher wish for?
Day 7: In the movie Elf, what is the name of Buddy's mother?
Day 8: In A Charlie Brown Christmas, what did Linus van Pelt say he would make out of his blanket when he grows up?
Day 9: In It's a Wonderful Life, what happens every time a bell rings?
Day 10: What famous Christmas icon is a "mean one"?
Day 11: In the film Elf, what is the Code of the Elves?
Day 12: In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, who does Claus rescue from the snow?
Day 13: Who dresses up as Santa in the Rugrats Christmas episode "The Santa Experience"?
Day 14: In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Merry Wishmas", what does Tootie wish for on her wish coupon?
Day 15: Who narrates the Thomas Christmas episodes: "Thomas' Christmas Party" and "Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree"?
The answers will be posted at the end of the Christmas season.
Featured Article
"A Present for Santa" is the first Christmas episode of the Nick Jr. animated series Dora the Explorer. It was originally released directly-to-video on September 24, 2002, before airing on Nickelodeon in prime-time on December 11th of that year. It is Christmas Eve and Santa is coming to Dora's house later tonight to bring them presents. Dora and Boots present each other with a pair of maracas and a flute, respectively, and they play the tune of "Feliz Navidad". They then leave out a present for Santa, but the next morning, they find that he didn't take his present with him after leaving their gifts. They go outside and see Santa from afar. Boots asks where he's going and Dora says that he's going home. Boots tells her that they have to give him his present, so they have to figure out how to get to the North Pole. Map says that the North Pole is very far away and that they have to go up the snowy mountains and across the icy river to get there. (more...)
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The True Meaning of Christmas
"Lights, please.
- "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them. And they were so afraid.
- "And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not. For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David :a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'
- "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men.'
"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
- --Linus Van Pelt, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965.