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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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Celebrate the holidays with “CMA Country Christmas” this year as award-winning country music stars Gabby Barrett and Carly Pearce host the 12th annual heartwarming special filled with the sounds of the season performed by some of your favorite names in music!

The holiday special blends one-of-a-kind performances of holiday classics with original favorites from Barrett, Pearce, Jimmie Allen, Carrie Underwood, BRELAND, Lady A, Pistol Annies, Brett Eldredge and Lainey Wilson during an intimate at-home setting that invites viewers to bask in the joy of Christmas with the whole family.

“CMA Country Christmas” airs on Monday, November 29th at 8pm/7c on ABC!

Check out the full performance and song lineup below:

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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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Country music superstar Thomas Rhett and his his wife, philanthropist Lauren Akins, are hosting the 11th annual “CMA Country Christmas” this month! The beloved holiday special will feature a star-studded lineup of performers singing festive classics, including Rhett, Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Lady A, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, and Darius Rucker with Lindsey Stirling.

This will be a television hosting debut for the couple, who will be joined by their three daughters during the show. Given the current state of the world, this will be the first time the show is filmed without a live audience, but instead with a throwback to nostalgic holiday specials of the past.

“The idea for this year’s show was to do a throwback of the great Christmas specials of the 1960s and 1970s,” says Robert Deaton, executive producer. “Andy Williams, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra all had classic Christmas specials where the viewer was invited into the homes of the host to celebrate the holiday like a best friend coming to visit. That was what we wanted to create for this year’s show. Instead of a big flashy production, we took a page from those iconic specials to say, ‘Come relax, and let’s celebrate the holiday together.'”

“CMA Country Christmas” will premiere on Monday, November 30th at 9pm/8c on ABC. If you miss the original airing, this program will be available for a limited time On Demand and on Hulu.

Watch the official promo below!

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Stay Merry,

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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!

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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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ABC has officially announced the lineup for the annual music event, “CMA Country Christmas”!

This year, Country superstar Trisha Yearwood will host the 10th annual holiday event, which is set to air on the ABC network with performances from Kristin Chenoweth, for KING & COUNTRY, Chris Janson, Tori Kelly, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Runaway June, CeCe Winans, Brett Young and Chris Young.

In addition to her hosting duties, Yearwood will also perform on the Christmas special, taking the stage for a night filled with Christmas classics and festive one-of-a-kind collaborations.

“Music, memories and enjoying the season with loved ones are what make Christmastime so special,” says Yearwood. “Hosting ‘CMA Country Christmas’ is an opportunity to share joy and celebrate the holidays with friends and family everywhere.”

“CMA Country Christmas” will be taped on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Tickets went on sale last Friday, September 6th, and they’re still available at CMAChristmas.com/tickets.

Stay merry!

To celebrate the 25 Days of Christmas holiday programming that is spanning across the ABC, Freeform and Disney Channel networks, Reba McEntire is returning as host again this year for the annual “CMA Country Christmas” special!

The iconic entertainer will also perform on the beloved 2-hour holiday event, which will also feature performances from top country acts and legendary favorites, including: