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CBS is bringing on the merry for the holidays with their ‘More the Merrier’ programming event filled with an giant collection of seasonal specials that will be fun for the whole family!

The network will kick off their lineup this November with the beloved tradition of the “CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade”, but you’ll be able to catch more returning favorites like “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, “Frosty the Snowman” and “Robbie the Reindeer”, last year’s original movies “A Christmas Proposal” and “Christmas Takes Flight” as well as three brand-new original movies, “Fit For Christmas”, “Must Love Christmas” and “When Christmas Was Young”.

LL Cool J will return to host the 100th annual “National Christmas Tree Lighting” ceremony in Washington, D.C. joined by Gloria Estefan, Andy Grammer, Joss Stone and Shania Twain, and more!  “A Home for the Holidays at The Grove” will return the week of Christmas with performances by Estefan, Grammer, Little Big Town and David Foster & Kat McPhee, and the year will close out with the “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash”!

Check out the full lineup below!

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Dolly Parton has re-released her #1 best-selling 2020 holiday album, “A Holly Dolly Christmas,“ as an ultimate deluxe expansion that includes 8 additional tracks—including a duet of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Rod Stewart from his Grammy Award-winning 2004 album, “Stardust…the Great American Songbook, Volume III.”

The album, which is available in CD, vinyl and digital formats, also features the unreleased tracks, “A Smoky Mountain Christmas,” “(I’d Like To Spend) Christmas With Santa,” and “Wrapped Up In You” all from Dolly’s 1986 holiday film, A Smoky Mountain Christmas.

“Three Candles” and “The Wish Book” – originally released as digital-only bonus tracks – will make their CD and LP debuts on the Ultimate Deluxe Edition. Lastly, the album features the digital debut for “Something Bigger Than Me” and “Silent Night,” songs that Dolly contributed to the 1997 animated holiday film, Anabelle’s Wish.

This is a true collector’s edition of a Christmas album for every Dolly fan! Check out the full tracklisting below and order your copy at Amazon, or listen to the album on streaming platforms.

With the impending holiday season comes a plethora of merry offerings from Hallmark Media, including the jolly-packed content that will be coming to Hallmark Movies Now. For the “Movies & Mistletoe” programming slate on the fast-growing streaming service, Hallmark will be adding a slew of titles throughout October, November and December.

There’s a 7-day free trial available for HMNow.com and if you want to subscribe, it’s $4.99 a month with the annual plan. 

Read on to get a list of which original Christmas movies you will be able to soon stream, and keep checking back each month for an updated list with more festive highlights!

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Grammy Award winning music icon, Gloria Estefan, is releasing new Christmas music this holiday season and joining forces with her daughter, Emily Estefan, and her grandson, Sasha Estefan-Coppola, on an album. The three will release “Estefan Family Christmas,“ on October 13th; her first and only Christmas album, “Christmas Through Your Eyes,” was released nearly 30 years ago, so this is a highly-anticipated holiday release.

This is such a special project to do with your multi-generational family, and a wonderful Christmas memory their family can treasure while also creating something timeless for families all over the world to listen to throughout the holiday season. There are even appearances from other family members—including Gloria’s husband, Grammy Award winner Emilio Estefan, Jr.—on songs such as “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” as Sasha’s parents Nayib Estefan and Lara Estefan Coppola are featured.

There are 17 classic and original songs featured on the album, and they’re sung in both English and Spanish. You can check out the tracklisting below and pre-order your copy!

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The complete lineups for Hallmark‘s Countdown to Christmas and Miracles of Christmas holiday events are officially here, and the movies will start premiering on Friday, October 21st, which means the key art posters are slowly rolling out!

Check out the festive movie posters in the slideshow below. They’re extra magical this year, we think these might be some of our favorite designs yet!

The first batch of posters include “Noel Next Door” (starring Natalie Hall and Corey Sevier), “We Wish You a Married Christmas” (starring Marisol Nichols and Kristoffer Polaha), “We Need a Little Christmas” (starring Erica Durance, Patrick Sabongui, Azriel Dalman and Lynn Whitfield), “A Cozy Christmas Inn” (starring Jodie Sweetin and David O’Donnell), “Christmas Bedtime Stories” (starring Erin Cahill, Steve Lund and Charlie Weber), “Ghosts of Christmas Always” (starring Kim Matula, Ian Harding, Beth Leavel, Lori Tan Chinn and Reginald VelJohnson).

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Stop whatever you’re doing!  Lifetime just dropped a massive dash of Christmas cheer with the announcement of their highly anticipated It’s a Wonderful Lifetime lineup! The network’s beloved seasonal celebration includes 26 all-new movies, and it all kicks off on Saturday, November 5th.

The joyful films are jam-packed with leading stars, many of whom are pulling double duty by starring and executive producing, including Kelsey Grammer, Mario Lopez, Jana Kramer, Brooke Elliott, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Kirk Franklin. Additionally, Melissa Joan Hart will executive produce and direct “Santa Bootcamp”, Whoopi Goldberg executive produces “A New Orleans Noel”, Toni Braxton produces “A Christmas Spark”, a movie which reunites “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” stars Jane Seymour and Joe Lando, and Sarah Drew will star in “Reindeer Games Homecoming,” which she also wrote and served as executive producer.

Justin Bruening, Naturi Naughton, Luke James, Cheri Oteri, Brandon Quinn, Mario Cantone, Tim Reid, Brittany Bristow, Spencer Grammer, Ariana Ron Pedrique, Rodrigo Massa, David Fumero, Kyle Dean Massey and more stars, also join in on this year’s lineup.

Get more details and the full schedule below!

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Chris Isaak announced last month that he would be releasing a brand new Christmas album this year called “Everybody Knows It’s Christmas,“ featuring the lead single “Almost Christmas”.  This will be the second Christmas album by the GRAMMY-nominated singer and actor, who is known for his smoldering vocals; he previously released the chart-topper, simply titled “Christmas”, back in 2004.

“The holidays are such a special time for me and the pandemic left us all so isolated. I felt like a holiday album was a great opportunity to bring people together this year. I had so much fun making this album and designing the cover,” he said in an official statement. “It was a joy to work with Dave Cobb and we worked in his iconic RCA studio where John Prine had placed a year-round Christmas tree to keep the holidays alive. I loved that idea so I’m going to keep that spirit alive.”

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Lindsey Stirling is gearing up to release her second Christmas album this year!

The award-winning violinist announced on her Instagram recently that her new 14-track holiday album, “Snow Waltz,“ would be released on October 7th and would be accompanied by a North American concert tour this fall.

This album follows Stirling’s first festive venture, 2017’s “Warmer in the Winter”.

“Snow Waltz” covers a fun mix of holiday classics and new songs, and also features duet appearances with Bonnie McKee, Frawley and David Archuleta. So far, she has released the song “Ice Storm” and will premiere the music video for the title track on Friday.

The “Snow Waltz Tour” concert tickets are currently on sale. Check out the tracklisting for the album as well as the tour date listing below, and pre-order your copy today.

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After releasing holiday singles over the year, it’s finally time for Debbie Gibson to release her first-ever album to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, and it’s coming out later this month! The singer will release “Winterlicious” on October 21st, an eclectic mix of dazzling classics re-imagined to cozy originals to celebrate the season.

There will be some fun features on the album, including Debbie’s longtime friend, Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block—the two sing together on “Heartbreak Holiday,” a song dedicated to those who are missing a special someone during the holidays. She also worked with her father – nicknamed ‘Daddy Joe’ – on a new rendition of “White Christmas.”

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It’s “Mean Girls” day, which is very fitting for the launch of the official trailer for Lindsay Lohan‘s return to acting! The actress is starring in Netflix‘s holiday romance, “Falling for Christmas,“ co-starring Chord Overstreet (“Glee”).

In the movie, Lindsay plays a newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress who gets into a skiing accident and suffers from amnesia, and then finds herself in the care of a handsome blue-collar lodge owner (Overstreet) and his precocious daughter (Olivia Perez) in the days leading up to Christmas. Jack Wagner and George Young also star.