Julianne Hough and Derek Hough (Photo: ABC)

It’s the most magical time of the year!

Bask in the Christmas cheer, merry music and a lot of Disney magic by watching the annual Disney Parks specials on ABC this holiday season. Derek Hough and Julianne Hough return to hosting duties for “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” airing on Sunday, November 27th, and they will be joined on Christmas morning, Sunday, December 25th, by Freeform’s Sherry Cola (Freeform’s “Good Trouble”) and Marcus Scribner (“grown-ish”) to co-host the “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade”.

The specials were, once again, filmed on location at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California, and will feature festive performances from some of your favorite names in music, including Black Eyed Peas, Maren Morris, Becky G, Chloe Flower, Jordin Sparks, Meghan Trainor, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Il Volo, Ne-Yo, and RUN DMC!

Check out the lineup and schedule for both specials below!

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‘Tis the season to stream with Disney+ as the streaming service celebrates the holidays with all-new original content that will bring on the cheer for the whole family!  The “Happy Holidays” Collection will be your hub to find holiday-themed episodes of your favorite shows, movies, specials, and even wintry content to take you through the new year.

Tim Allen returns as Santa Claus in the limited original series, “The Santa Clauses”, a capella music group Pentatonix will head their first Disney+ Christmas music special with “Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays,“ Tituss Burgess will host a festive competition about snow sculptures with “Best in Snow,“ Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” gets its own holiday special, and RUN DMC‘s Rev Run teams up with professional dancers Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Allison Holker, and the Jabbawockeez for “Hip Hop Nutcracker”!

Subscribers can expect new specials coming to the service, such as “Mickey Saves Christmas” and new holiday episodes of “Puppy Dog Pals”, “Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends”, “The Villains of Valley View”, “Raven’s Home”, “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery”, and “Eureka!”.

You’ll find your seasonal favorites like the “Home Alone” collection, “The Santa Clause” trilogy, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,“ the “Frozen” franchise, and more!  There will also be a plethora of non-festive exclusive new content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic to help fill your season with cheer even beyond the holiday scope.

Check out the full collection of what you can enjoy on Disney+ this holiday season below!

Julianne Hough and Ariana DeBose. (Photo: Disney/Matt Stroshane)

The magical experience of celebrating the holiday season with Disney returns to the ABC network this year with two festive specials jam-packed with music, magic and your favorite stars as they ring in the season from the ‘happiest place on earth’!

“The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration”, hosted by Julianne Hough and Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”, “Hamilton”, “The Prom”), will air on Sunday, November 28th while sibling powerhouses Derek Hough and Julianne Hough take on the hosting duties in Walt Disney World for the beloved “Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” on Christmas morning, Saturday, December 25th.  Freeform’s Trevor Jackson (“grown-ish”) and Sherry Cola (“Good Trouble”) corresponding from the Disneyland Resort.

Performers include: Gwen Stefani, Darren Criss, Kristin Chenoweth, Brett Eldredge, Chance the Rapper, Jimmie Allen, Meg Donnelly, NEEDTOBREATHE and Switchfoot, Pentatonix, Norah Jones, AFTR PARTY, and Sebastián Yatra who will perform “Dos Oruguitas” from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Encanto”.

Check out the lineup and schedule for both specials below!

Top: Nikki DeLoach; Bottom L-R: Tony Lucca, Dale Godboldo and Nita Young | Photos: Always in the Club/Official Headshots

The nostalgia is strong with the festive news today… Disney Mouseketeers have reunited to release a Christmas album!  Former cast members from all seven seasons of Disney’s “All-New Mickey Mouse Club”, which aired on the Disney Channel from 1989–1994, have joined forces once again to bring some cheer and support a few good causes with the joyful LP, Why? Because It’s Christmas.

The MMC’89 Mouseketeers, including Dale Godboldo, Nikki DeLoach, Tony Lucca, Nita Young, Jennifer McGill, Rhona Bennett, Mylin, and TJ Fantini, partnered with MusiCares® (assisting those who work in the music industry during difficult times) and The Brave of Heart Fund (offering financial support to families of healthcare workers) to create the LP, which was recorded amid the pandemic and will benefit those severely affected.

“High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special”; “Godmothered” | Photos: Disney+

Disney+ is packing their streaming sleigh full of cheer this year with festive favorites, cool new additions, and highly-anticipated Disney+ Originals that are all being added to the magical streaming service this holiday season for ‘Seasons Streamings’!  The classic “Home Alone” movie series is being added back to the “Happy Holidays Collection” to join favorites like “The Santa Clause,“ “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,“ and the Disney+ Original “Noelle”. The service will add to the cheerful collection with the “LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special” (which premiered this week), “Godmothered” (available Dec. 4), and “High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special” (available Dec. 11).

The collection also includes “The Simpsons” Christmas episodes from all 31 seasons as well as seasonal episodes from “Boy Meets World,“ “America’s Funniest Home Videos,“ and nostalgic classics from some of Disney Channel’s most popular series.

Disney+ Originals “On Pointe” (available Dec. 18), “Black Beauty” (available Nov. 27), “Safety” (available Dec. 11), and “Soul” (available Dec. 25) are also on the way.

Get more information on the holiday-themed originals coming to Disney+ below, and don’t forget to use #SeasonsStreamings when engaging on social media this season!

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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Isla Fisher and Jillian Bell‘s upcoming Disney+ movie, “Godmothered”, is set to premiere on the streaming service on December 4th, just in time for the holidays!

Here’s a little bit about the story:

Set at Christmas time, Godmothered is a comedy about Eleanor, a young, inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training (Bell) who upon hearing that her chosen profession is facing extinction, decides to show the world that people still need fairy godmothers. Finding a mislaid letter from a 12-year-old girl in distress, Eleanor tracks her down and discovers that the girl, Mackenzie, is now a 40-year-old single mom (Fisher) working at a news station in Boston. Having lost her husband several years earlier, Mackenzie has all but given up on the idea of “Happily Ever After,” but Eleanor is bound and determined to give Mackenzie a happiness makeover, whether she likes it or not.

“Godmothered” also stars June Squibb, Santiago Cabrera, Jane Curtin, and Erica Parks as young Mackenzie.  I will update this post as soon as an official movie trailer is released!

Stay merry!

The launch of the Disney+ is drawing near, and to celebrate, the @DisneyPlus Twitter revealed the massive library of movies, shows and specials that will be available on the streaming service — and it’s IMPRESSIVE!  The long list includes brand-new original features, several MCU movies, almost every Disney Channel original series that ever aired, and movies spanning 80 years!

Your whole family will undoubtedly be bitten by the magical nostalgia bug.

You can view the tweet thread here but, if you’re interested in the available Christmas content, then I have that listed below.  There is a lot to choose from—including all three movies in Tim Allen’s “The Santa Clause” saga, “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and “The Mistle-Tones” starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Tori Spelling, which originally aired on ABC Family.

It was an exciting day at Disney’s annual D23 Expo! Along with the official trailer for “Noelle”, the House of Mouse also premiered the trailer for the upcoming live-action version of the beloved 1955 animated feature, “Lady and the Tramp”, about a pampered house dog and a tough but lovable stray who embark on an unexpected adventure and, despite their differences, grow closer and come to understand the value of home.

“Lady and the Tramp” will premiere on the upcoming streaming service Disney+ on November 12th.

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I’m so excited about today’s Christmas movie news because, it’s a film I’ve been waiting on news for since 2017! Disney’s holiday comedy “Noelle” starring Anna Kendrick was originally slated for a theatrical release but switched gears to debut on the upcoming online streaming service, Disney+.

Official Synopsis: In “Noelle”, Kendrick stars as Kris Kringle’s daughter who is full of Christmas spirit and holiday fun, but wishes she could do something “important” like her beloved brother Nick (Bill Hader), who will take over from their father this Christmas. When Nick is about to crumble like a gingerbread cookie from all the pressure, Noelle suggests he take a break and get away…but when he doesn’t return, Noelle must find her brother and bring him back in time to save Christmas.

Shirley MacLaine, Michael Gross and Billy Eichner also star.

During Disney’s annual D23 Expo, which was held today in Anaheim, California, the official poster and trailer was released. Check it out below!