AMC's Best Christmas Ever - 2019

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Excerpt from AMC Networks Press Release:

AMC's Best Christmas Ever

Beginning Monday, November 25 at 7:00 p.m. ET

AMC’s Best Christmas Ever event returns this year with our largest slate of holiday programs to-date and expands to all five networks. Running through Christmas Day, the 31-day event will feature over 60 titles and offers more than 700 hours of holiday-themed movies, specials and family favorite films.

AMC Networks will be the exclusive home to many holiday favorites including Elf, The Polar Express, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th Street (’94), Four Christmases, Fred Claus, and Rankin-Bass Christmas classics including The Year Without a Santa Claus, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Jack Frost, and Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, among many others.

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*Note: Always please be sure to check ratings of these films before viewing with your family.

For the most part, it appears AMC will be playing some standard family-friendly favorites: Miracle on 34th Street (’94), The Polar Express, and the Rankin Bass cartoons we all love - from generation to generation! I'm so happy to see so many of these classic Christmas cartoons continue to air on TV!

I love them all, but ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas is my number 1, sentimental Rankin Bass favorite!

Blessings to all who visit here! Net

"AMC BEST CHRISTMAS EVER" - features 35 Christmas Films and 18 Holiday Specials!

Press Release via AMC:

AMC PRESENTS
ITS LARGEST SLATE
OF HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING WITH
"AMC BEST CHRISTMAS EVER"

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Viewers can Celebrate the Season with More Than 600 Hours of Holiday Classic Films, Specials and Family Favorites Beginning November 26 Through December 25

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - AMC has viewers covered this holiday season with "AMC Best Christmas Ever," its largest slate of holiday programming ever featuring 35 films and 18 specials, airing all day, every day. Beginning Monday, November 26 through Christmas Day, the monthlong programming marathon will offer up more than 600 hours of holiday-themed movies, specials and family favorite films, as well as the television debut of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You (2017). AMC will be the exclusive home to Christmas favorites including Elf, The Polar Express and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as well as 12 classic Christmas specials from the legendary Rankin/Bass production company, including The Year Without a Santa Claus, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Jack Frost, Rudolph's Shiny New Year and Frosty's Winter Wonderland, among many others.

"In the same way 'AMC Festfest' has become a destination for horror fans every October, 'AMC Best Christmas Ever' is poised to become a new holiday tradition for viewers as we showcase 30 days and nights of Christmas movies and specials," said Tom Halleen, executive vice president of programming and scheduling for AMC and SundanceTV. "We are thrilled to expand our holiday slate - our largest ever - which was many years in the making, so that viewers can turn us on and keep us on all-month long."

A complete list of the films and specials included in "AMC Best Christmas Ever" follows:

Holiday Films:

· Elf (2003)

· National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

· Polar Express, The (2004)

· Santa Clause 2, The (2002)

· Jingle All the Way (1996)

· Prancer (1989)

· Gremlins (1984)

· Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)

· All I Want For Christmas (1991)

· Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

· Christmas in Connecticut (1992)

· Christmas Story 2, A (2012)

· Dennis the Menace Christmas, A (2007)

· Nativity Story, The (2006)

· Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)

· To Grandmother's House We Go (1992)

· White Christmas (1954)

· Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

· Sons of Mistletoe, The (2001)

· Holiday to Remember, A (1995)

· Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

· One Magic Christmas (1985)

· Christmas Star, The (1986)

· Scoot & Kassie's Christmas Adventure (2013)

· 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue (2012)


Holiday Specials:

· TV Premiere: Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You (2017)

· Year Without a Santa Claus, The (1974)

· 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)

· Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)

· Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)

· Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)

· Jack Frost (1979)

· Donkey's Caroling Christmas-tacular (2011)

· Merry Madagascar (2009)

· Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, The (2005)

· First Christmas, The (1975)

· Leprechauns' Christmas Gold, The (1981)

· Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, The (1985)

· Little Drummer Boy Book II, The (1976)

· Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)

· Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)

· Nuttiest Nutcracker, The (1999)

· Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night (1998)


Family Favorite Films:

· Happy Feet (2006)

· Happy Feet 2 (2011)

· Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

· Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

· Miracle (2004)

· Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

· Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

· Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

· Joyful Noise (2012)

· Last Holiday (2006)



About AMC:

AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy(R) Award for Outstanding Drama Series with "Mad Men" in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before "Breaking Bad" won it in 2013 and 2014. The network's series "The Walking Dead" is the highest-rated series in cable history. AMC's other current original drama series include "Better Call Saul," "Fear the Walking Dead," "The Terror," "Into the Badlands," "Humans," "Preacher," "The Son," "McMafia," "Lodge 49" and the forthcoming "The Little Drummer Girl" and "NOS4A2"(wt). AMC also explores authentic worlds and discussion with original shows like "Talking Dead," "Talking with Chris Hardwick," "AMC Visionaries" and "Ride with Norman Reedus." AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile.

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How wonderful to see so many beloved Christmas classics & more... airing this Christmas Season on AMC! From White Christmas (1954) to Miracle on 34th Street (1947)... and Christmas in Connecticut (1945), Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004), Prancer (1989), All I Want For Christmas(1991), plus cherished cartoons, such as: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974), Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977), and The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)... it most definitely sounds like "AMC's BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!!"

Which Movies or Specials are you MOST looking forward to seeing this year on AMC? Please share in comments below!

Joyous Blessings to all who visit here! Net

Rudolph's Shiny New Year!

Catch Rudolph on TV tonight!

It's Rudolph's Shiny New Year on ABC at 8 PM est.

Rudolph's Shiny New Year is the 1975 stop-motion animated sequel to the 1964 television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, produced by Rankin/Bass.

from ABC's Site:
Father Time (voiced by narrator Red Skelton) asks the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, to find the next Baby New Year before midnight on New Year's Eve. The baby, named Happy, ran away because he was ridiculed by everyone he met due to his large ears. Unless Happy returns in time to take his position as the New Year, the date will perpetually be December 31st. Rudolph searches in the Archipelago of Last Years, a mystical group of islands; Father Time reveals that, when a year ends, the old year retires to the archipelago, and selects an island to keep. Then, time on that island remains frozen for eternity as the year in which the old year ruled. Rudolph subsequently visits the islands belonging to One Million B.C., "O.M." for short (Morey Amsterdam), a caveman whose island is filled with dinosaurs. Then he meets Sir 1023 (Frank Gorshin), a knight whose island is filled with medieval trappings and fairy tale characters, and 1776, who resembles Benjamin Franklin and whose island reflected colonial-era United States. All of these former years join Rudolph on his quest.

As Rudolph and his friends search for the baby, they also repeatedly deal with the villain of the story, a buzzard named Aeon. Aeon is destined to only live until he is one aeon old, after which he turns into ice and snow; however, his aeon is finally up on December 31st. Aeon thus is also looking for Happy, so he can prevent his predestined death on December 31st and live forever. Rudolph and his friends succeed in rescuing Happy from Aeon (as well as preventing Aeon's death in the process), and return Happy to Father Time's castle in time to begin the new year.

This Animated Special is available on DVD with other Christmas Cartoons. Check the link above.