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Home for the Holidays
ABC is spreading holiday cheer this season with a lineup of festive programming during the annual “Home for the Holidays” event that will air during the most wonderful time of the year.
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2023 ABC Holiday Programming News
Highlights include The Wonderful World of Disney movies, “Frozen,” “Home Alone,” and “The Santa Clause”; holiday-themed episodes of fan-favorite shows including “The $100,000 Pyramid,” “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Shark Tank”; and a magical new season of “The Great Christmas Light Fight” also returns, along with news of a season 12 pickup for 2024.
Dazzling holiday specials, including “CMA Country Christmas” from Nashville, “The Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade,” “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration,” “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” and the previously announced “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023” special, round out the schedule.
2023 ABC Christmas Movie Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in ET)
Airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times/dates can vary by TV provider.
Schedule last updated on 12/12/23
Sunday, November 26, 2023
- 7:00pm – America’s Funniest Home Videos (Christmas)
- 8:00pm – The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
- 10:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight: “All-Stars 2” (Season Premiere)
Sunday, December 3, 2023
- 8:00pm – The Santa Clause
- 10:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
- 10:01pm – Press Your Luck’s Holiday Extravaganza II
Sunday, December 10, 2023
- 7:00pm – Mickey Saves Christmas
- 7:30pm – Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
- 8:00pm – Frozen
- 10:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
- 8:00pm – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
- 9:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight
Thursday, December 14, 2023
- 8:00pm – CMA Country Christmas
Sunday, December 17, 2023
- 7:00pm – The Sound of Music
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
- 8:00pm – Disney Prep & Landing
- 8:30pm – Disney Prep & Landing 2: Naughty vs. Nice
- 9:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight (Season Finale)
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
- 8:00pm – Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
- 8:30pm – Mickey Saves Christmas
- 9:00pm – The Great Christmas Light Fight
- 10:00pm – CMA Country Christmas
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- 8:00pm – The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour Presented by Capital One
- IHeartMedia will celebrate the holiday season across the nation with its annual “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour Presented by Capital One” – the season’s iconic live music event – which captures the music and holiday spirit on iHeartRadio stations across America and the iHeartRadio app, with performances by this year’s biggest artists, including Olivia Rodrigo, Usher, Nicki Minaj, SZA, Niall Horan, OneRepublic, AJR, Sabrina Carpenter, Miguel, Jelly Roll, Big Time Rush, NCT DREAM, Flo Rida and more.
Friday, December 22, 2023
- 8:00pm – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
Sunday, December 24, 2023
- 8:00pm – Home Alone
- 11:35pm – Christmas: A Welcoming Story
Monday, December 25, 2023
- 10:00am – Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
Sunday, December 31, 2023
- 8:00pm – Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024
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It’s because they are trying to push people over to their liberal “Freeform” channel…get em hooked with Christmas shows, and then the liberal indoctrination marches on…sad!
Well, it is really sad. In the middle of a pandemic year, kids can’t leave the house,you decide to limit all the great Christmas classics for them. God bless your tiny little selfish hearts.It would be one thing if you actually came up with great programming to replace them. But, you have not. Greedy, selfish,and as usual,not looking out for the children and families in general.They need these programs that make them laugh and give a sense of security and hope. Please stop referring to yourselves as “the family channel” ie. “American housewife” is about as crass as you get. What a great role model to Mothers and their children. it would be a nice break to get away from your problems for a while, at least over the holidays,like TV used to. What a novel idea, right?
It’s because they are trying to push people over to their liberal “Freeform” channel…get em hooked with Christmas shows, and then the liberal indoctrination marches on…sad!
I think it’s sad that you’ll show crime shows all year but at Christmas time you hardly show anything for families to enjoy together like classic Christmas cartoons and movies
The gathering movie please !
How about a classic with Dolly Parton smokey mountain Christmas
Could you please show a very Brady Christmas please?
So far, we are not seeing it on the schedule this year 🙁
StLouis channel 24 KNLC is showing it Dec 8 @ 5pm
this is always on merry metv
Love “The Nightmare Before Christmas” 🙂
PLEASE AIR THE MOVIE THREE DAYS WITH KRISTEN DAVIS AND REE D DIAMOND. THANKS. I WiII LOOK FORWARD TO IT.
I am looking to see Scrooge – It was a western version.
I would like to see Borrowed Hearts and A Season for Miracles. You show the same ones over and over again. Home Alone needs to be retired for a while.
A Season for Miracles is a Hallmark movie. Look for it on the Hallmark channels.