AMC Best Christmas Ever
AMC had typically aired a rotating lineup of five to six Christmas movies during the holiday season. In 2018, the channel introduced a more extensive holiday lineup branded as “Best Christmas Ever” running from November 26th to December 25th, featuring a mix of popular Christmas and family films, along with other acquired specials.
AMC’s Best Christmas Ever will begin in November 2020
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in Eastern)
**Page last updated on 2/23/20
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My husband & I like the original version of “Miracle on 3th Street” (1947) & “A Christmas Carol” with George C. Scott. Why is it so hard to find either one this year? We like all the classic favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “The Christmas Story”, & “White Christmas” also. Please play them more over the remainder of the Christmas holidays! Thanks!
I am not able to find the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947) on your channel. Yet you play Lampoons Vacation and Kranks over and over. Probably not politicly correct enough for you, just like “Baby Its cold Outside.” Lets change the words so nobody feels offended!
Why haven’t more of the Rankin bass shows been played during the week? Not just on select weekends at weird times, and not even the full compliment available to AMC like last year.
I was watching a movie that these two people who kept running into each other, the women was having some physical peoblems, the couple had their first date, and the girl got a call from her doctor, who told her symptons maybe MS
AMC does not have the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947) this year (2019). They only have the semi-lame 1994 remake. Disney Plus has the original now. They legit bought it when they bought Fox.
Really? I see it scheduled twice this week.
Please show Holiday Inn! It is a wonderful movie! I can not believe that the Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration segment of the movie can have have such a significant impact on its viewers except that it is representational of our history. The available actors at the Inn were limited, so the two people who were playing the roles had to use black face….not an intentional insult to anyone, but a very short and entertaining segment. This whole RACISM thing is becoming absolutely ridiculous and I think we all know we have BHO to thank for the exquisite sensitivity that abounds! It is absurd….esp. when those of us viewers are being denied such excellent entertainment by not having “Holiday Inn” available for Christmastime viewing! The same people who are eliminating this movie based upon racial accents, are probably not wanting us to use the word Christmas either. To Hell with them!
I was watching a movie that these two people who kept running into each other, the women was having some physical peoblems, the couple had their first date, and the girl got a call from her doctor, who told her symptons maybe MS
TMC shows this great movie intact. Their ads say all movies are originals
What about White Christmas, Christmas in Connecticut, Polar Express, Planes Trains & Automobiles?
Maggie…
It’s much harder this year to get a complete schedule on TV.I have had to piecemeal Hallmark movies to locate date and times of favorites. They push Godwink with Kathie Lee Gifford over and over.White Christmas will be on for sure.Wait till 25 days of Christmas comes out for details on Polar Express.
25 days of Christmas came out in October. Freeform lost rights to Elf and Polar Express when they changed their name from ABC Family to Freeform, I don’t know why. AMC plays Elf and Polar Express.
AMC does play Polar Express, the full schedule is not out yet and should be out next weekend since the Monday after starts AMC’s best Christmas ever!
I’m with Maggie …. I thought that Christmas was being done away with, but didn’t think it would happen this quickly …..
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if White Christmas wasn’t on any of the networks’ schedules ….
Why Isn’t The Rankin/Bass Special Presentations of Santa Claus is Comin to Town 1969 & The Little Drummer 1968 with Greer Garson,Jose Ferrer are Not On The The 25 Days of Christmas AMC Schedule This Year for 2019 ?…
Freeform is showing both of those several times this year.
Will you be airing A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott in your 2019 Christmas movie line-up? I hope you do.
What!!!! Not showing Home Alone! Do you guys not know it is the number one top pick for Christmas movies of all times. Boy you missed the boat again this year. As it seems did all the other networks
Agree. Christmas is ALL about tradition. Home Alone is a GREAT family Christmas Movie. STZHD (cable) has bought out the rights. So sad it’s come down to MONEY during this Special Time of year. Regards
Home Alone is on Freeform this year.
Freeform will be playing all of the home alone movies this year
I saw thaat Home Alone is on Freeform channel
Freeform is showing home alone and the grinch this year.
We missed and want to record for our grandbabies — Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas – when will it be back on again? Thank You~
I was looking for Scrooged with Bill Murray and Karen Allen. Is it not playing this year?
I haven’t seen Scrooged listed either, another move Santa Claus The Movie with Dudley moore and David huddleson , I don’t think that movie has been on since early 1990
There are so many good Christmas movies, but this year it seems again like many of them will not be shown, a Christmas carol staring henry winkler, the waltons the homecoming a Christmas story, deck the halls with micky rooney ,and it isn’t Christmas with out white Christmas, holiday inn, sure many like a Christmas story with ralphie , ( that one is over played)This is what I am seeing mostly for Christmas movies, someone is having a hard time goes to another town and falls in love, bring back the classic Christmas movies ,please
Is any channel planning to show “Eloise at Christmas?” It is one of the most light, wonderful & entertaining movie in the last 10 yrs. or so.
Could you possibly tell me if any TV station will be showing “Eloise at Christmas?”
Where is home alone this year I’m very upset it’s not apart of the 2017 line up
Don’t worry it’s on A.B.C Family or Freeform every other weekend and pretty much at least once per week. It’s really to the point I’ve stopped watching the channel, but you enjoy and Happy Holidays 😉
What happened to AChristmas Carol with Alistair Sim 1951, you always played it, very disappointed
The 1951 version of A Christmas Carol has aired on TCM the last few years.
I would like to see “It’s a wonderful life” with James Stewart in the Christmas lineup. I’m 41 yrs of age and watched it when I was younger.
Hi James, NBC owns the exclusive rights to air It’s a Wonderful Life. It will be on TV Christmas Eve on NBC:
http://www.countdownuntilchristmas.com/christmas-movies-a-to-z/its-a-wonderful-life/
Thank you for the information!
Have been disappointed in AMC for a long time! They should rename it because it is not classics!
Dec 16 and Dec 17
I totally agree. I loved this channel when they broadcast classics and liked the narrative stories told by movie experts. So disappointed, but am somewhat satisfied that at least they will broadcast several classic Christmas movies.
I agree
I agree about classics not being shown while a lot of inane garbage is shown again & again…yuk…”Ernest”…really??? Where is Holiday Inn, Christmas in Connecticut, Holiday Affair, Meet me in St Louis??? These are classic & classy. Get a grip TMC or you will lose your following. I didn’t think this was a comedy channel for kids.
I Agree!! Love Holiday Inn..Christmas In Connecticut.. White Christmas Especially!! Miss Seeing Them On TV So Bought Them On CD A Few Years Ago..But Still Like To Watch Them On TV..Wish They Would Show Them!!!
I Agree!! Love Holiday Inn..Christmas In Connecticut.. White Christmas Especially!! Miss Seeing Them On TV So Bought Them On CD A Few Years Ago..But Still Like To Watch Them On TV..Wish They Would Show Them!!!
Agree!
I am watching White Christmas after Miracle on 34th Street .Real treat!
Where is White Christmas? Stupid decision to NOT include it. Classic for many reasons.
Incredible movie. I can’t find it anywhere. My Sons 19 and 22, Love the one liners between Cosby and Kaye….
Pretty disappointing….
My daily check showed that it will be on Saturday, December 16th at 10 :15pm. More classics listed that weekend too. Networks should include these in earlier listings to allow those of us who enjoy these classics to plan for watching.
Thanks Rob ! Merriest of Christmas’s to you and yours!
From the foothills of the Appalachians in Southeast Ohio …..
Jay
I totally agree, I’m 56 years old and I grew up on “White Christmas “, it was a tradition growing up to watch it as a family. It saddens me that it’s not going to be on.
Saying white Christmas implies not all races are included.
give me a break!
Seriously, you better be joking.
Seriously, Andrew, you better be joking
I have watched White Christmas along with many other classics for 50 years +.They are a special part of my holiday celebrations.I will continue to enjoy them despite any criticisms that are published or stated.
It wasn’t meant to imply anything. It is a classic movie without racial overtones. Get a life.
It’s clearly listed on the schedule above!
Yes, it’s “clearly on the schedule above, ” NOW but it was not on the schedule they originally posted, which is when all the questions started coming. Glad they responded and corrected their error and will now be showing it.
It shows that :
Sunday, December 17, 2017
8:30am – The Nativity Story
10:30am – White Christmas (1954)
1:15pm – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
I got it from the library
I agree
It’s on Netflix if you want to see white Christmas… I’m upset I have yet to find the Reginald Owen version of a Christmas Carol on tv this year, it’s a must see for me yearly. That and the Alistair Simms one
Saturday, December 16, 2017
8:00pm – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
10:15pm – White Christmas (1954)
Check again, its on there more than once…
White Christmas is on tonight December 16th and December 17th in the morning.
For many of us who grew up in 50s and 60s White Christmas is a classic tradition of Christmas. To eliminate it from regular broadcasts is pathetic. We get bombarded with Home Alone, Bad Santa, The Grinch Who Stole
Christmas, and many more. There ought to be a channel that broadcast strictly movies from 50s through 80s. Fred Astaire made several movies along with many other Hollywood stars. Just because many of us have aged
should not mean the elimination of Christmas classics.. anyone at AMC hear us?
I agree, I want my grandchildren to see the classics but they and I cannot stay up that late to watch them.
White Christmas is on Netflix
You SERIOUSLY removed White Christmas grin your line up This year?? REALLY?? You’ve still got time to change that horrible decision!
Absolutely agree that dropping White Christmas is horribly pathetic as is most of what the holidays have become.
Yes, absolutely.
Very disappointed in AMC Christmas Schedule-where is White Christmas for the “family” to watch, where is Miracle on 34th Street…. very upset, the present list of movies are the worse. Then you play White Christmas at 2:30 in the morning, seriously!
I am with you
White Christmas is the best Christmas classic. I can only watch home alone so many times
Amen to that!!!
Agreed. The movie line up is not good. How does AMC determine the line up? I like new and old classics, like White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street along with things like Home Alone and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. I am not 100% sure what Deck the Halls or Four Christmas’ are about or who’s in them and I’m a “milenial”. Hope next year is better!
AMC, this year’s Christmas movie lineup is VERY DISAPPOINTING!
Four Christmases is going to be shown several times, along with Home Alone 2, yet White Christmas (a traditional classic) is only shown a few times.
Most disappointing of all…no Miracle on 34th Street nor It’s a Wonderful Life??????????? I am truly at a loss for words and dumbfounded on your choice to exclude those!!!!!!!!!!
I want to see Home Alone!! Not 2 or 3! Yes , Miracle on 34th St…..the original!! Christmas Carol, 1930 or 1950’s version!! C’mon AMC! Maybe TCM will do better!!
I’m very upset. White Christmas shown at a rediculos time and no Miracle on 34th Street nor uts a wonderful life. All are classics that we and our children grew up with and those they choose to show are pure crap.
It’s a Wonderful Life actually shows every year on Christmas Eve on NBC.
The only word that comes immediately to mind to describe AMC’s Christmas Movie Schedule for 2016 is “awful.”
Actually, two words: “Truly awful.” The mediocrity and banality of the movie choices invites both disbelief and derision. Showing “Home Alone” repeatedly as if, somehow, that qualifies as a legitimate and appropriate movie to celebrate the holiday season insults (or should) the intelligence of the viewer. Is the movie vault at AMC so bereft of good Christmas movies that are classics that “Home Alone” becomes the standard for Christmas movies in place of at least a dozen authentic, quality Christmas movies from years past? Classic Christmas movies like the 1951 “A Christmas Carol” or “Miracle on 34th Street” or “Holiday Inn” or “The Gathering” or “A Christmas Story” — are these movies missing from the AMC vault? Having “Home Alone” represent what AMC considers its showcase or flagship Christmas movie for the season is an embarrassing admission as to how far AMC’s programming standards have fallen. AMC, regrettably, has lost much of its luster and reputation for quality since it began showing only a limited selection of movies and interrupting them with commercial breaks every 10 minutes.
Wow….get some holiday cheer and quit complaining!! Just imagine the good you could have done instead of writing that loonnng email…..
I agree
There are so many wonderful movies out there, why do you continue to repeat the same ones. What about White Christmas…Meet me in Saint Louis…On Moonlight Bay…It’s a Wonderful Life…Miracle on 34th street…Holiday Inn??? So sad we are losing the traditions.
AMC is doing an AWESOME job with your choices for Christmas 2016! KEEP the Home Alone 2….GREAT feeling movie especially for us FAMILIES! AMC is a very POSITIVE influence for families TODAY! THANK YOU
I don’t care to see the same movie 15 times n a month. It’s gets old. There r hundreds of other Christmas movies they can show besides jus Home Alone 2. They could show a different Christmas movie everyday from Nov 25-Dec 25 & not see the same one twice in a wk.
Hi Beck,
TCM has all the holiday classics playing on 12/24. Beginning at 12:15 pm that day they are playing “It Happened on Fifth Avenue,” “Holiday Affair (2:15pm),” “Shop Around the Corner,” (4:00 pm), “Meet Me in St. Louis,” (6:00 pm) and “Christmas in Connecticut.” (8:00 pm). Unfortunately not AMC but alive and well on Turner Classic Movies.
Yes!! Now that’s a line up! All my favorites just missing Holiday Inn and Remember the Night!
Why oh why can’t we see classic Christmas movies? Where’s Remember the Night, Christmas in Connecticut, Shop Around the Corner, Bells of St. Mary’s, Meet Me in St. Louis…
Thank you for that information, Jeannie!!
And commercial free!
I so agree with you, I look forward to watching those movies with my mom.
You hit the Trifecta!! GREAT choice of the true Christmas classics!
Were is white Christmas or mircle on 34 street? Home alone is so boring
Where are the classics like White Christmas? Watching Home Alone once is like watching Dumb and Dumber. Once was too much. If this is your Christmas lineup for 2016, bah humbug to you and your theatres.
What a terrible christmas line up this year.Some pinko commie fag must be making up the holiday schedule.
If it were a pinko commie fag you’d definitely be getting white Christmas and holiday Inn. Tsk.
White Christmas is going to come on later in December
when are you showing Christmas movies on AMC Network
Wonder what they will air on Thanksgiving week
What will AMC air for Christmas 2016?
I too am so sad about White Christmas this year. AMC has in the past been the go to, feel good channel at Christmas.
Please raise your standards and level of celebration back to what you have done in years past.
I agree completely. It’s been a tradition in my family from the time it first aired. I have such happy memories watching it w my grandmother in the 1960s. I continued it with my children and grandchildren. How sad that you’re not broadcasting it. Instead you’ll show home alone lord knows how many times. Very sad sad sad!
countdown christmas show
Why are you only playing White Christmas at 11:30 pm and 2:15 pm
That is the most awful times ever, did you forget that some people do have to work, and i only see it listed twice on the schedule WHY????
Look at how many times you are showing Home Alone
so very disappointed with your schedule
Ditto
I would like to see the old movies at Christmas also. Christmas in Connecticut, Little Women, Meet me in Saint Louis, etc. Please play these. Let’s not forget the great American movies that we all love.
GREAT start AMC with your annual Christmas Movies. Home Alone is the perfect lead-off, traditional movie. Last season we had 3 families share an evening when Home Alone was showing. This year, we had 5 families that included: grandparents, parents, & 12 kids. We have a huge/open family room. All in attendance watched the movies & no major soda spills….lol Keep these AWESOME Christmas movies coming & AMC’s choices are ALWAYS the BEST! Best Wishes
I am disappointed with AMC’s Christmas movie lineup this year. Why is White Christmas only on three times, with two of the showings late at night? Why is the George C. Scott version of “A Christmas Carol” not included at all? Why are there so many airings of Home Alone? I think AMC is being programmed by Scrooge who don’t like Christmas at all. They even forgot Holiday Inn and Christmas in Connecticut. Shame on AMC for their weak movie lineup this Christmas.
Stopping by to give a BIG thank you for the awesome Christmas Movies. The Home Alone series is a warm classic, very popular with the little ones and Dads & Moms. Super idea since A Christmas Story is run 24 hours straight on another channel.
We really enjoyed your structure, and, next year please don’t change it. Christmas only comes once a year so watching the same movie for a couple weeks doesn’t get old. Thank You
I am so disappointed in AMC with their lack of traditional Christmas movies.
Where is It’s A wonderful Life on days close to Christmas, The Bishop’s wife with Loretta Young and Cary Grant ….it has been overkill with White Christmas. Meet Me in St. Louis should have been shown several times…these all should have been run and several times day and evening for all viewing audiences. I ws looking forward to the old movies a couple weeks before Christmas…..what a downer
Where’s the movies about Jesus and his birth??
I also agree with everyone else.. stop the over and over with Home Alone. All points made above are right on.
I don’t know I looked for all yesterday and it’s wonderful life I watched both on Christmas eve and I got disappointed last night
I saw Ben Hur with the birth and death of Christmas and his acts of kindness throughout his life! One of the best films ever made!
This line up is terrible! I love Home Alone, but only the second movie is being played (over and over). Why is AMC playing The Santa Clause 2 so much? There are 2 more movies in that trilogy also! Please bring back A Christmas Carol for next year!
For future Holiday airings, will you consider showing the Waltons movie “The Homecoming”? If you can get the rights of course.
Hi, I commented last year. Just like last year, the Christmas movie schedule is awful. I do believe it is getting better. You put on Miracle on 34th Street a lot more than last year which is good. Unfortunately that is the only good thing. You have the Santa Clause 2 on MULTIPLE times.Why? Why just the second one? There is a first one and a third one you know! You put on Home Alone again MULTIPLE times! Why? Just like I said last year, IT IS NOT A CHIRSTMAS MOVIE. It is especially not a Classic! All it’s about is a boy that gets left home alone in the winter, it has nothing to do with christmas! AMC stands for American Movie Classics, sooo play classics. You are not even playing A Christmas Carol with George C Scott or It’s a Wonderfull Life. They are two of the greatest christmas movies of all time. Just so you know, I’m 20 years old. I grew up watching Home Alone its okay to watch once, watching it multiple times is torcher! Please for the love of christmas,, stop playing home alone so much and start playing the older classics. Im 20 I like them, I liked them when I was younger too more than home alone. Parents know nothing about what kids want. you’d think parents would want to watch the classic too.
Please keep the classics.
Going My Way, Bells of St. Mary’s, Miracle on 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life, and of course a Christmas Carol with George C Scott. There also was one with Henry Winkler that was set during Depression that was very good. Come on AMC, you can do it, don’t let us down!
Home Alone 1 & 2 are traditional holiday movies, and, since Christmas for most Americans are traditional, these movies are AWESOME. Most parents at my kids school would agree. GREAT JOB AMC ! Your 2014 schedule rocks. ty
It’s the Christmas season we want Christmas shows to watch stop with all the repeats of the walking dead more enjoyable to get in holiday spirit with numerous holiday movies there are so many out there
Why so much of Home alone and Santa Claus? AMC can change the line up. Can’t you hear the cries of people? Bring on the classics. What about The Bishops Wife? The Belles of St. Mary’s?
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Hi Pete, AMC will be airing White Christmas this year starting on December 12th 🙂
Actually it aired Holiday Inn and called it White Christmas.
Seen both movies in the past.White Christmas =White Christmas this year. Enjoyed Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas last night!
Why no White Christmas this year. I enjoying viewing this movie every Christmas season.
Working on it…
More to come…
I’ve come to love “The Bishop’s Wife”. Will it be playing?
I agree. White Christmas is my favorite and it’s only on at midnight. They used to play it a few times. This year you will be lucky to catch it once. The bells of Saint Mary. Another classic that is never played
And it may not really be White Christmas. I saw it last weekend advertised as White Christmas but it was actually Holiday Inn (which I happen to like better than White Christmas).
Why play the same movie over and over again?
Who does your programming? This seems like a very lazy movie schedule!
What happened to George C. Scott in A Christmas Carol from 1986? It’s the best Christmas movie ever! What about Prancer?
You did not do your customers justice by playing Home Alone over and over and over again! As an (already unhappy) Time Warner customer this may just push me over the edge!
WTF is this line-up? Home Alone!?! Where is ‘Scrooged’, Any version of ‘A Christmas Carol’? Hell, you used to play action movies that had even the most subtle Christmas references (Die Hard, Batman). Just sad. I won’t be turning on AMC very much this season.
You’re the perfect Scrooge A_NOBODY_mouse. Using foul language proves it! Please leave this blog during the Holidays. Most of us are bored with your childish behavior & lack of True Christmas Spirit with Joy!
This is a terrible line up. I can’t believe you are not showing a wider variety of movies.
this year list of Christmas movies is awful, where is a Christmas carol and miracle on 34th street and all the other that people have mention, who ever thought of this years line up should be fired or demoted at best for thinking that this year line up is some how decent.
AMC’s Christmas lineup is absolutely terrible this year. They are showing hardly any christmas shows this year. I cannot believe there is no Miracle on 34th Street, its one of the greatest christmas movies of all time. Same with A Christmas Carol. AMC your airing list is awful. First of all The Home Alone Movies are not even Christmas movies, the time of year during the movies just happened to be winter. Put on the Classics please. All ages watch them trust me im 19 and i’ve been watching them for a long time and will continue to watch them. The month of December is when people expect Christmas movies to be on tv. So put them on, its the only time of year that they’re ever on tv. except for this year because of AMC’s terrible choice of Christmas movies. Trust me if you want more viewers during the christmas season put them on. Thanks!
I have seen it scheduled many times this week, both the 1947 and the 1994 version. often alternating over and over. 🙂
where is “it’s a wonderful life????/
Hi Ellen, NBC owns exclusive rights to air It’s a Wonderful Life. No other network is able to play it. NBC will have it on December 20th and December 24th at 7pm ET.
I’m very disappointed in your programming this Christmas season. why must you focus on the same movies over and over, where is a Christmas carol, miracle on 34th street, holiday inn , come to the stable, the cheaters. just very sad that your station is so lazy that you have to do repeats
OMG! What happened to the “Miracle on 34th Street” marathon? I was so looking forward to that! I can’t believe AMC skipped this classic movie this year. Please bring it back!
What the heck happened to “A Christmas Carol” with George C. Scott? You guys used to play that every year!!
We were wondering the same thing Carl, pretty disappointing.
yes a Christmas carol with George c scott
Yes, thank You!!!!!
I’ve seen it twice. It’s been scheduled. Hopefully by now you’ve seen it. 🙂
Where is Miracle on 34th Street, Holiday Inn and It’s a Wonderful Life? If these aren’t holiday movie classics then neither is Home Alone!! Bring back the true classics!!
Holiday Inn and Auntie Mame!!!! and Holiday on New Years’ Eve! Home Alone? Really? Blech!
You are showing home alone way too much
I like the movie, but you are over doing it.
Thank You AMC for playing these great Christmas Movies many people love to watch. Ive been watching the 1938 version Of A Christmas Carol for “Many” years. Happy Holidays to AMC.