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Are you ready for some live Christmas music!? Ingrid Michaelson has announced the 13th annual HOLIDAY HOP concert in New York City where she will perform holiday favorites for all ages, including songs from her 2018 Christmas album, Songs for the Season.

The singer tweeted that the fan pre-sale starts tomorrow, Thursday, November 7th, at 10am EST. You can sign up for her newsletters to get the code by clicking here.

The HOLIDAY HOP show will take place on Wednesday, December 11th at Webster Hall in NYC.

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We’re not event a week into November and it’s already been filled with lots of holiday television programming announcements. Freeform kicked the month off with their lineup while ABC revealed their holiday specials this morning, and now CBS has unveiled what they have planned for the most festive time of the year!

The network will air their own iconic Thanksgiving Day Parade coverage along with the annual Kennedy Center Honors, and you can also expect to laugh along with Lucy, Ricky, Ethel and Fred with the traditional colorized presentation of the classic “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” episode.

Idina Menzel will be joined by Adam Lambert, Ne-Yo and Kelly Rowland as she hosts the 21st annual “A Home for the Holidays” special, and you won’t want to miss the beloved classics: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “The Story of Santa Claus” + lots more!

Check out the full CBS Holiday 2019 broadcasting lineup below!

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While some got an early start in the summer, now that Halloween is over, the rest of the networks are revealing their holiday programming lineup, and to say I’m excited about what’s to come would be an understatement! ABC announced their plans for ‘the most wonderful of the year’ this morning with a jam-packed selection of festive themed episodes of your favorite network series, traditional holiday specials, original movies, and more.

Look out for Thanksgiving and Christmas-centered episodes for “black-ish”, “Modern Family“, “Stumptown”, “General Hospital”, and more, as well as the return of “The Great Christmas Light Fight” and “The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition”.

Trisha Yearwood will host this year’s “CMA Country Christmas” while Lea Michele will lead the original film, “Same Time, Next Christmas” alongside Charles Michael Davis and Bryan Greenberg–and no holiday season would be complete without the Peanuts gang so, make sure you tune in for the iconic specials,“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, “I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown” and “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown”.

You can expect the yearly tradition of magical celebrations from Disney Parks, and once Santa Claus finishes his route, end the year with “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”.

Updated (12/14/19): Added information for the “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family & Good Times” special, which airs on Wednesday, December 18th.

It’s going to be quite the season — check out the full lineup below!

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Lea Michele is ready to sing songs from her new Christmas album for all of you!

In a social media post today, the singer announced the Lea Michele: Christmas in NYC – Live In Concert, sponsored by American Express, which will be three live performances the week of Christmas to support her new holiday record, Christmas in the City.

The shows will take place at The Concert Hall at NYSec on December 19th-21st. There will also be a meet and greet opportunity, premium seats, and more, available.

Visit VIPNation.com for more information on how you can buy tickets!

Stay merry!

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Robbie Williams has thrown himself in the holiday music mix by releasing his first ever Christmas album, “The Christmas Present”. This new album will be a double disc album; the first disc is called ‘Christmas Past’ and focuses on classic holiday covers along with a few new tracks.

The second disc, dubbed ‘Christmas Future’, will include a merry mix of original songs and duets with Jamie Cullum, Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and British professional boxer, Tyson Fury.

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I’ve been seeing a lot of memes lately regarding Michael Bublé and the Christmas season — this ‘defrosting’ one in particular made me laugh this week but, honestly, it’s funny because it’s true…and Bublé proved it by releasing a new Christmas tune today, the first day of November!

Bublé has recorded a brand new version of the classic Irving Berlin song, “White Christmas”, made famous by Bing Crosby — which he originally featured on his 2011 holiday album, Christmas, as a duet with Country music icon, Shania Twain that was inspired by The Drifters 1954 version.

Andrew Walker in MERRY & BRIGHT (Photo: Crown Media)

One—or many—could say that Andrew Walker is the ‘Prince of Hallmark,’ and that might be why he has not one, but two new Christmas movies spanning both of Hallmark’s top networks this holiday season!  I chatted with Andrew about Merry & Bright, in which he co-stars with Jodie Sweetin and Sharon Lawrence, as well as his surprising second festive film alongside Ashley Greene; his outlook on acting, holiday traditions, and lots more!

Your new movie, “Merry and Bright”, premieres this weekend on Hallmark for the 10^th Anniversary of Countdown to Christmas. Can you tell me a bit about that?

Sure! It’s about a girl (Jodie Sweetin) who inherits a candy cane company from her grandfather, and the business has not been doing too well; she’s been struggling to keep it afloat and to grow it.  I represent an investment group that comes in to turn the business around.  I’ve been assigned by the investors to go in to, basically, just dismantle things and help her grow the business, and obviously she’s a very proud woman and she’s a very proud business owner, and she doesn’t feel like she needs my help so, she’s kind of giving me some pushback on that. Ultimately, we end up finding a common ground and, along the way, we end up falling for each other.

(L-R) Home Alone (Photo: 20th Century Fox) | The Santa Clause (Photo: Walt Disney Pictures)

It’s the first day of November, which makes it the perfect day for some Christmas binge-watching news, doesn’t it?  Freeform seems to think so because, they dropped the entire lineup for their iconic 25 Days of Christmas holiday programming this year and I have it all here for you!

Just like last year, Freeform will span the 25 Days of Christmas celebration from their network to ABC and the Disney Channel, which allows for you to get your Christmas fix all day long on multiple networks! Included in the lineup is the network premiere of “Same Time, Next Christmas” starring Lea Michele, Bryan Greenberg and Charles Michael Davis (which will originally debut on ABC on December 5th), Freeform’s original holiday film “Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas”, the new reality competition series “Wrap Battle”, a 2-hour holiday event for the original series “Good Trouble”, and the return of traditional classics like “Home Alone”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”–and all three films from “The Santa Clause” saga!

Check out the daily schedule for Freeform below!

Today is November 1st, which means that today officially begins the Christmas season for me!!!

I’m always in the spirit…but, now I’m *extra* festive! I know a lot of people wait until after Thanksgiving, and that’s fine, but to accommodate my decorating (including a full size tree in every room), shopping, enjoying traditions and fulfilling everyday responsibility–it’s less stressful for me when I can take more time to embrace it all.

Whether you celebrate the season the same way, or you wait until after T-Day, I hope this month gives you joy, cheer, good health and many blessings. Happy November & #StayMerry!

Stay merry!

CBS

Idina Menzel is having a very busy holiday season, and now CBS has revealed that the Tony Award® winner will also serve as the host for the 21st annual “A Home for the Holidays” uplifting event.

Idina Menzel

Adam Lambert, Ne-Yo and Kelly Rowland will also appear during “A Home For The Holidays with Idina Menzel” as they show their support for an audience made up of adoptive parents, social workers, and former foster children.

“For the last two decades, the award-winning special has shined a light on the thousands of American children in foster care and has inspired tens of thousands of adoptions, moving these kids into loving ‘forever families.’

The heart of the special is a series of documentary stories that profile some of the resilient children who have been shuttled from foster home to foster home and were ultimately adopted. These powerful stories highlight the good and the bad, from the grim realities of foster care to the life-changing effects of a loving family,” CBS announced in an official press release.