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ABC
Disney specials such as Olaf's Holiday Adventure and movies such as Frozen will return as well as the Christmas Classic Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
AMC: Best Christmas Ever
The Best Christmas Ever block will return with the Rankin Bass specials from the Warner Bros. library.
Boomerang
No news yet, but a ton of Hanna Barbera holiday classics are up on their streaming service
Cartoon Network
For the month of November, a surprise airing of The Year Without a Santa Claus; it's first ever airing on Cartoon Network. This will happen around Thanksgiving. As far as December goes, The Powerpuff Girls Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Ed Edd n Eddy's Christmas special, and other older Cartoon Network Christmas episodes will return to TV this year. And while not a Christmas Movie, fans are excited to see The Iron Giant air in December this year.
CBS
Rudolph and Frosty will air once again on the network. They also will air The Story of Santa Claus with the now late great Ed Asner. Interestingly enough however, Rudolph will air much earlier than expected, the Monday before Thanksgiving.
Disney Channel
There's a really good holiday episode for the latest animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee. In it, Molly learns from her good friend Libby about Hanukkah. Other than that, not sure what else.
Freefrom: 25 Days of Christmas
Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and The Little Drummer Boy will be a part of the schedule once again this year. In addition, some of your favorite Disney movies will be a part of this block. Full schedule here.
Me-TV: A Very Merry Me-TV
Me-TV will again this year air holiday episodes of the shows that they air on their network. Animation wise that would also include Christmas Flintstone. This year, however, a brand new special: now that Me-TV got TONS of cartoons, Me-TV's Super Colossal Cartoon Christmas will present 2 hours of Christmas Cartoons featuring a brand new restoration of the rarely seen Somewhere in Dreamland, a Max Fleischer Color Classic cartoon. Hosted by the characters from Toon in With Me and Svengoulie. Full schedule here
NBC
Not a whole lot of information this year. A new Trolls special will air and as usual the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, back in full force after being reduced severely due to Covid-19. The Grinch will air again
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Nickelodeon: Nickmas
On Black Friday will be the new live action movie A Loud House Christmas based on the animated Loud House series. Meanwhile, The Loud House's spinoff series, The Casagrandes, will have a new Christmas episode. New specials with The Rugrats and The Patrick Star Show will premiere and other repeats of previous specials will air. Schedule of premieres here
PBS
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will air the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, the Christmas Classic A Charlie Brown Christmas will air the Sunday before Christmas. Both airings at 7:30pm ET/PT
Turner Networks: Winter Break
The Grinch will return as part of a new holiday block called Winter Break. Most of these shows are movies including the annual 24 hr Christmas Story marathon. The Grinch will be the first special to air this season, Saturday November 6th. In addition, The Year Without a Santa Claus will air on TBS. However, this appears to only be the case for the month of November since it could move over to AMC. Full schedule here
