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Country music star Carly Pearce is returning to host this year’s “CMA Country Christmas” special!

For the 13th year, the musical event of the season will feature even more powerhouse names, including Steven Curtis Chapman, Dan + Shay, Scotty McCreery, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Pearce, Molly Tuttle, and The War And Treaty singing beloved holiday classics and new favorites.

“CMA Country Christmas” will air on Thursday, December 8 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on ABC, and it will stream the next day on both Hulu and Disney+!

Check out photos from the special below along with a sneak peek look!

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ABC has revealed this year’s holiday programming schedule and it’s full of Christmas cheer, festive-themed episodes of top shows, Disney magic, and joyful music from some of your favorite voices! The network will kick off its seasonal lineup on November 16th with Thanksgiving episodes of primetime hit shows, and after Turkey Day, the merriment will continue throughout the rest of the year.

The Backstreet Boys will host their very first holiday special, “A Very Backstreet Christmas” where they’ll perform songs from their new album of the same name; EGOT winner John Legend teams up with David Brown, founder of the Columbus, Ohio-based Harmony Project, for “Finding Harmony”—an inspirational one-hour special, and “A CMA Country Christmas” returns with an intimate night full of holiday classics performed by your favorite names in Country music. The 2022 American Music Awards will take place on November 20th while the anticipated “Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” airs in December!

Disney will simulcast the premiere of “Mickey Saves Christmas” on ABC, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD at 7:00 p.m. EST., and there will be lots more yuletide cheer in store—including the return of the competition show “The Great Christmas Light Fight”, a “Love Actually” cast reunion with ABC News, Disney Parks annual magical celebration specials, Wonderful World of Disney movies that families can enjoy together, and fans of the classic “Home Alone” can enjoy watching the movie on Christmas Eve! The seasonal event wraps up on New Year’s Eve as we ring in 2023 with “Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”!*

Check out the full schedule below!

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Calling all music lovers: Some of the most iconic boy bands of the 80s and 90s are reuniting for the holiday special of your pop culture dreams!  ABC has gathered members from *NSYNC, Boyz II Men, New Edition, New Kids on the Block, O-Town and 98 Degrees together for the ultimate festive reunion, a Christmas special called “A Very Boy Band Holiday”!

The holiday special, which premieres on Monday, December 6th at 8pm/7c on ABC, will feature Joey Fatone (*NSYNC), Chris Kirkpatrick (*NSYNC), Lance Bass (*NSYNC), Wanya Morris (Boyz II Men), Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men), Bobby Brown (New Edition), Michael Bivins (New Edition), Joey McIntyre (NKOTB), Erik-Michael Estrada (O-Town), Nick Lachey (98 Degrees), Drew Lachey (98 Degrees), Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) and Justin Jeffre (98 Degrees) performing classic tunes and their respective greatest holiday hits — and some special surprise guests will be there to help celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.

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The magic of the holiday season comes to the ABC network with returning Christmas specials, seasonal-themed episodes of your favorite shows, family films, merry musical events, and lots more, all leading up to the beloved “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Celebration” and the iconic “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”!

Check out the full schedule below to get the scoop on everything you won’t want to miss!

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ABC is your magical holiday destination this year with festive specials, returning seasonal favorites and Christmas episodes of top shows! The network announced the lineup, which officially kicks off on Thanksgiving night and runs through New Year’s Eve.

Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Akins will co-host the 11th annual “CMA Country Christmas” TV special and the network will air “The Disney Holiday Singalong” featuring top names in entertainment like Katy Perry, BTS, Michael Bublé, Chloe x Halle, and Kerry Washington!

You can expect animated family-fun airings of “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure,“ “Toy Story That Time Forgot,“ “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,“ “Disney Prep & Landing” and “Shrek the Halls”. There will also be holiday-themed episodes of “General Hospital,” “black-ish,“ “The Goldbergs” and more.

Additional highlights include a special fifth anniversary of the Thanksgiving evening staple “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration”; a reimagined “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Celebration” and a bright new season of “The Great Christmas Light Fight”.  There will also be the network broadcast premiere of “The Greatest Showman.“

Check out the full lineup below!

Pictured: Katy Perry, BTS and Chloe x Halle. (Photos: ABC / Big Hit Entertainment)

ABC has announced a global superstar lineup for “The Disney Holiday Singalong”, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, that is set to air Thursday, November 30th at 8pm/7c on the network.

After two very successful presentations of “The Disney Family Singalong” earlier this year, it’s quite the treat that the network will be adding the festive spin to bring some holiday cheer into our homes this season with this jolly one-hour musical event.  The star-studded lineup will include celebrity performances and appearances, including Andrea Bocelli, BTS, Michael Bublé, Ciara, Chloe x Halle, Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert, Julianne Hough, Adam Lambert, Leslie Odom Jr., Katy Perry, P!NK and Kerry Washington.

For the first time since Broadway’s shutdown amid the pandemic, the casts from Disney on Broadway’s “The Lion King,“ “Aladdin” and “Frozen” will reunite for an emotional performance of “Let It Go”, a tribute to Broadway, at The New Amsterdam Theatre. Disney Music Group’s acclaimed seven-member a cappella group DCappella also joins in for some seasonal sounds as they will carol throughout the show encouraging viewers at home to sing along.

Check out the full list of beloved Disney melodies and classic holiday carols that are set to be performed by some of the top names in entertainment; there will be animated on-screen lyrics included to allow viewers at home to sing along.

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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!

(left) Davis, (right) Greenberg. | Photos: Courtesy/ABC

I saw a tweet the other day from Bryan Greenberg (“The Mindy Project”, “One Tree Hill”) about filming in Oahu, Hawaii for a month, and it didn’t take long to find out what project it is that he’s working on… it’s a Christmas movie!

Deadline announced yesterday that both Greenberg and Charles Michael Davis (“Younger”, “For the People”, “The Originals”) will join Lea Michele in the upcoming ABC holiday movie, “Same Time, Next Christmas” — which is currently filming in Hawaii.

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This holiday season is shaping up to be quite the busy one for Lea Michele as she’ll already be spreading joy with an upcoming Christmas album, but today it was announced that Michele is set to star in the upcoming Freeform Studios film, “Same Time, Next Christmas”, which will premiere on the ABC Network later this year.

Michele has starred on Broadway, had a breakout role on FOX’s “Glee”, co-lead the short-lived comedy “The Mayor” for ABC and had a part in the 2011 festive film “New Year’s Eve”, but this will be her first Christmas-centered movie.

She will play the lead role of Olivia Henderson, a young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaii resort years later and the old chemistry between them flares up anew – but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.

“This holiday season holds special importance to me as I get to celebrate both my role in this film and my first-ever holiday album,” said Lea Michele. “I’m honored to return to ABC with this movie event, and I am excited to share the holidays with everyone.”

Here’s hoping some of that music will serve as a merry backdrop to a few scenes!

“Same Time, Next Christmas” is executive produced by EveryWhere Studios’ Tom Mazza and David Calvert Jones, while Stephen Herek (“Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus” and “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) is set to direct. There’s no current air date set yet, but keep in mind that ABC programming can also be viewed on ABC.com, the ABC app and Hulu.

Stay merry!

ABC is bringing you ‘Home for the Holidays’ with their line-up of festive specials this year! Getting a early jump on the season, the network will air Thanksgiving themed episodes of some of their hit primetime original series beginning mid-November, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will air the day before T-Day, and by Thanksgiving night it will be mostly Christmas programming from there on out — kicking off with “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration”!

The network will celebrate the season with “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, the “CMA Country Christmas” annual concert hosted by Jennifer Nettles, the seasonal reality competition series like “The Great Christmas Light Fight” and “The Great American Baking Show” will be back as well as holiday themed episodes of ABC Originals “The Goldbergs”, “Speechless”, “Fresh Off the Boat”, “The Real O’Neals”, “The Middle”, “American Housewife”, “Dr. Ken” and “Black-ish”.

Family movies are also on the list– including “The Sound of Music”, “Mary Poppins” and Disney’s “Frozen”. After Christmas, ABC will keep the season going with “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” and “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” before ending the year with “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2017” and finally, the annual “Rose Parade”.

There’s a lot to look forward to, so make sure you check out the entire schedule below!