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CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE!

It's still a work in progress. But because so many holiday shows are airing already (Grey's Anatomy snuck one in last Thursday), I've gone ahead and posted a first draft of this year's Christmas TV listings pages.

While they're only a start, these PRELIMINARY pages do include the annual airings of favorites like A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story and other perennials.

Lots more shows will be added over the coming days and weeks, so be sure to check back frequently.

(PLEASE READ THIS! -- If your favorites are not listed yet, PLEASE be patient. I'm compiling listings from dozens of sources, and this takes time and effort. Stopping to answer individual queries only delays the editing/posting of additional listings that will probably answer your question.)

Soon to arrive, too, is my annual Christmas TV DVD page reviewing dozens of new holiday-themed releases and a few old favorites (many now available on Blu-ray high-def).

And I'll be compiling a guide to Christmas TV shows online -- streaming options are mushrooming like mad.

As always, TV Worth Watching is your TV Christmas Central. Yule love our coverage!

Follow these links to WORK-IN-PROGRESS listings of:

TV Christmas Family Favorites (animated shows and more)

TV Christmas Movies

TV Christmas Episodes

TV Christmas Specials (music, unscripted and more)

(P.S. -- Ignore those strange post dates at the top of the listings pages. They're just our lazy way of keeping these lengthy holiday roundups separate from current daily posts.)

2 Comments

Eileen said:

Diane, what excellent taste you have.

I don't know if you saw the segment on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, but film critic David Edelstein did a piece on DVDs for the holidays cleverly called "Think Outside the Box".

Number One Choice -- The Golden Age of Television. Not only did he select it as a great gift, but showed clips from "Bang the Drum Slowly","The Comedian" and "Requium for a Heavyweight". Can't wait to buy this set of DVDs for my 22 year old son for us to watch together. (He was an honors grad in film, and as a result loves black & white -- thinks it's the new color.)

Truly, thanks for the heads-up.

November 30, 2009 4:55 PM

Angela said:

Hi, When I first saw this I thought, " Whew! What a lot of work!".
But I really appreciate it and come back here often to see what's what. Sometimes I feel like I've already seen all the good Christmas movies, but I saw a new one for me today, "Remember the Night".
Thank you for pointing the way to a pleasant Sunday afternoon.

Angela

December 6, 2009 7:07 PM

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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