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Christmas is coming!! It’s one thing to get the lineup of original holiday movies slated for the season, but once the daily schedules start releasing…you know we’re even closer to the most wonderful time of the year! Today we got the announcement of Freeform’s 2020 Kickoff to Christmas programming slate, which officially kicks off on November 1st.

This event features a nice collection of family fun movies and network originals mixed in with some very festive ones like the “Home Alone” and “The Santa Clause” franchises as well as “Christmas with the Kranks”, “Miracle on 34th Street” (1994), “Deck the Halls”, “Black Nativity”, “It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie”, “The Preacher’s Wife”, “Love Actually” and more!

It’s the perfect way to ease into Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas, which starts in December.

Check out the day-by-night 2020 Kickoff to Christmas schedule below!

Sunday, Nov. 1
7:30 a.m. – “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”
10:05 a.m. – “Jingle All the Way 2”
12:05 p.m. – “Deck the Halls” (2006)
2:10 p.m. – “The Game Plan”
4:50 p.m. – “Matilda”
6:55 p.m. – “Frozen” (Disney Animated)
9:25 p.m. – “Coco” (Disney-Pixar)
11:55 p.m. – “Christmas with the Kranks”

Monday, Nov. 2
12:00 p.m. – “Christmas with the Kranks”
2:05 p.m. – “Matilda”
4:10 p.m. – “The Hunger Games”
7:25 p.m. – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”

Tim Allen in “The Santa Clause” (1994). | Walt Disney Pictures

For many, the Christmas season doesn’t start until after Thanksgiving, and for others, it kicks off after Halloween. No matter how you countdown, Freeform is ready to help you celebrate with their annual Kickoff to Christmas holiday programming slate …which officially kicks off on November 1st!

The network, known for their 25 Days of Christmas event, will be pregaming all of November with family favorites, festive episodes of your go-to shows, a few Christmas classics — including ALL THREE films in Tim Allen’s “The Santa Clause” series, an original Thanksgiving-themed film, “Turkey Drop”, and the premiere of the new holiday gift-wrapping reality competition, “Wrap Battle”.

Check out the full 2019 Kickoff to Christmas schedule below!

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Olivia Holt (“Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger”) has been announced as the lead for the upcoming Freeform movie, “Turkey Drop”, a Thanksgiving film slated for the network’s Kickoff to Christmas event.

In the Jerry Ciccoritti-directed film, when college freshman Lucy Jacobs (Holt) returns home for Thanksgiving break, she suspects she’s about to get turkey dropped—dumped by her high school sweetheart—during their holiday visit. To avoid a Turkey Day travesty, Lucy gets out of her comfort zone, proving she’s not the same play-it-safe girl she was with her high school boyfriend. As she takes control of her own life and makes choices that put herself first, she learns to let go of what’s been holding her back, helping achieve what she truly wants out of life.

The movie is set to premiere the Saturday before Thanksgiving, November 23rd at 9pm/8c during Freeform’s Kickoff to Christmas holiday programming event.

“Turkey Drop” is written by Tiffany Paulsen and produced by Jonas Prupas and Shane Boucher with executive producers Joel S. Rice and Lydia Storie of Muse Entertainment and Heroes and Villains Entertainment‘s Henry Huang.

Update 09/12/19: Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Ben Levin (“Legacies”) and Tyler Perez (“LA’s Finest”) have all joined the cast!  Hines will play Lucy’s vivacious, fun and outspoken mother, Nancy Jacobs while Levin will star as Dean, a longtime family friend crashing the Jacobs family Thanksgiving, and Perez will portray Jordan, Lucy’s high school sweetheart.

Stay merry!

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For the first time ever on cable, Freeform will air the beloved classics “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman” this holiday season during the annual “25 Days of Christmas” programming event.

These iconic fan-favorites, from the Rankin Bass classic holiday library, were highly requested last year, so they will be a nice addition to the other titles “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town” and “The Little Drummer Boy”, which have aired during previous years.

Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas begins December 1st!

Stay merry!

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The beloved 2000 Disney movie “Life-Size” starring Tyra Banks and Lindsay Lohan will have its network premiere on Freeform next month during the Kickoff to Christmas programming, and the highly-anticipated sequel will premiere on Sunday, December 2nd (9:00–11:00 p.m. EST.) as part of the 25 Days of Christmas event.

Banks reprises her role of Eve, a doll that comes to life, in “Life-Size 2” opposite Francia Raisa.

Jim Carrey in a scene from Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. | Universal Pictures

Before “25 Days of Christmas” on Freeform in December, the network is launching some holiday pre-game programming with Kickoff to Christmas, a month-long slate that kicks off on November 1st.

While there won’t be many actual Christmas movies that air every day just yet, we will get a lot of festive fun thrown in with quite a few films–including: “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000), “Deck the Halls” (2006), Disney’s “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1998), Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” (2009), the network premiere of “Love the Coopers” (2015) and the 1994 classic “The Santa Clause” as well as its third installment–I’m not sure why they aren’t airing the second film.

“The Truth About Christmas”, Freeform’s new original film, will also have its premiere on Sunday, November 25th (9:00-11:00 p.m. EST/PST).

The movie stars Kali Hawk as Jillian, a successful political consultant confident in her ability to put a spin on anything, whose next big project is the upcoming mayoral campaign for her boyfriend George (Damon Dayoub). On the way to meet George’s family for the first time during the holidays, an unusual confrontation with a toy store Santa results in a drastic change in Jillian where she can’t stop herself from wildly spilling the truth. Ali Ghandour co-stars as George’s brother Blake, who believes you should always be true to yourself but thinks Jillian just might be losing it. Jillian must find a way to make it stop before her holidays, her job and her relationship are ruined.

Check out a night-by-night list of the movies airing during Kickoff to Christmas below!