FYI's Santa-Approved Holiday TV Highlights At A Glance

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A guide to holiday TV highlights is pretty much indispensable during the season of giving and gathering together. That's why we've selected only the finest choices from the vastness of all holiday viewing for this quick guide at a glance.

Because not only does such a guide take you to the best holiday viewing, it adopts the new attitude of being served up the best of what you're looking for--rather than a surfing through a grid.

Plus, some of these programs can keep friends, relatives, and co-workers focused in harmony on the spirit of the season. Just like the guide was meant for.

We hope you'll find it entertaining, useful, and informative--like all the things we do. And Happy Holidays from all of us at FYI Television.


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12
7 p.m. National Lampoon’s Christmas
Vacation (1989, Comedy) Doug Llewelyn.
Members of an eccentric family try
to create the perfect holiday by inviting
all their relatives over for a long visit, but
the plan turns into a disaster. PG-13. (HD)
FAMILY
8 p.m. Love Actually (2003, Romance)
Hugh Grant. Eight people who live in
London fall in love, out of love and lament
about not having love lives during the
frantic weeks before the Christmas
holidays. R. (HD) AMC








FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13
7 p.m. White Christmas (1954, Holiday)
Bing Crosby. After becoming romantically
involved with a duo of singing sisters, two
former Army buddies decide to take their
song-and-dance routine on the road. NR.
(HD) AMC
8 p.m. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole
Christmas A mean-hearted hermit
descends into an unsuspecting town to
steal all of the presents from the children,
but he ends up learning the true meaning
of Christmas. TBS
9 p.m. Silent Night Told is the story of
the Christmas Eve truce during the First
World War, when French, Scottish and
German soldiers laid down their arms on
Dec. 24, 1914. (HD) (N) PBS









SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14
8 p.m. Christmas on the Bayou (2013,
Holiday) Hilarie Burton. In the hopes of
strengthening her bond with her young
son, a busy New York executive decides
to spend Christmas in her Southern
hometown. NR. (HD) LIFETIME
9 p.m. CMA Country Christmas Host
Jennifer Nettles and a live audience help
celebrate the season with some of the
most powerful musicians in the country
music scene such as Trace Adkins. (HD)
ABC








SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15
8 p.m. Finding Christmas (2013, Holiday)
JT Hodges. After men from New York and
North Carolina decide to switch residences
during the holiday season, each one
encounters a woman from the other’s life.
(HD) HALLMARK

10 p.m. Scrooged (1988, Comedy) Bill
Murray. A TV network executive fires an
aide, exploits his secretary and trashes
a holiday show on Christmas Eve but
ghostly visitations show him the error of
his ways. PG-13. FAMILY








MONDAY, DECEMBER 16
9 p.m. Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Manny makes Sid believe that he’s
now on Santa’s naughty list; Sid, Crash,
Eddie and Peaches head to the North Pole
to plead their case to Santa. (HD) FOX
10 p.m. Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010, Comedy)
Christine Taylor. When a magazine
writer is assigned to find out what make’s
Mistletoe’s Santa Claus tick, she quickly
discovers how much Kris Kringle means to
the small town. NR. (HD) HALLMARK









TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17
8 p.m. A Bride for Christmas (2012,
Romance) Arielle Kebbel. A woman who
abandoned three previous wedding engagements
finds love with a man who has
agreed to participate in a wager involving
marriage. NR. (HD) HALLMARK
10 p.m. Let It Snow (2013, Holiday)
Candace Cameron Bure. After a resort
company purchases a new property, a
talented businesswoman must inspect
the land and file an important report on its
status. NR. (HD) HALLMARK






WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18
7 p.m. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas,
Too Pooh and all his friends take it upon
themselves to deliver a special Christmas
wish list to Santa Claus before the delivery
deadline approaches. TV G. FAMILY
8 p.m. iHeartRadio Jingle Ball
2013 Clear Channel’s Z100 music station
hosts its 18th annual music concert with
artists Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Pitbull,
Enrique Iglesias and Fall Out Boy. (HD)
(N) CW




THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19
8 p.m. Scrooge (1970, Musical) Albert
Finney. In a musical adaption of the
beloved tale “A Christmas Carol,” a miserly
old man contends with ghosts throughout
Christmas Eve, bringing him a change of
heart. G. TCM
9 p.m. Christmas at Luther: Tidings of
Comfort and Joy At the Luther College
Center for Faith and Life, the school’s
instrumental and vocal ensembles perform
traditional holiday carols and sacred
Christmas anthems. (HD) PBS








FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20
8 p.m. I Love Lucy Christmas Special
The Ricardos and Mertzes spend
time together decorating a Christmas
Tree; the two couples travel on vacation
to Rome where Lucy is invited to be in a
film. (N) CBS
10 p.m. Christmas at Belmont At
the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in
Nashville, Tenn., student musicians from
Belmont University and other music
artists perform traditional carols and
more. (HD) (N) PBS






SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21
8 p.m. I Want a Dog for Christmas,
Charlie Brown! Stressed out by his
older sister Lucy, ReRun asks Snoopy to
invite his canine brother Spike for a visit,
yielding catastrophic results. ABC
10 p.m. The Most Wonderful Time
of the Year (2008, Holiday) Henry
Winkler. A single working mother’s
disdain for the Christmas season is
put to the test when her uncle brings a
mysterious stranger into her home. NR.
(HD) HALLMARK
10:30 p.m. Christmas Eve (1947, Holiday)
George Raft. A rich lady needs the help of
her three long-lost sons to hold on to her
money and her estate from her covetous
nephew who is trying to deem her as
incompetent. NR. TCM








SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22
8 p.m. The Christmas Card (2006,
Holiday) John Newton. A young American
soldier in the Middle East sets out to
find the sender of a Christmas card and
discovers more than he anticipated. NR.
(HD) HALLMARK
10 p.m. Hitched for the Holidays (2012,
Romance) Joey Lawrence. A man and
woman agree to pose as each other’s
dates for the holiday season to please
their families, who are pressuring them to
be in a relationship. NR. (HD) HALLMARK


MONDAY, DECEMBER 23
7 p.m. The Year Without a Santa
Claus Mrs. Claus relates the story of the
year Santa was sick and decided to take a
break from Christmas, prompting two of
his elves to try to convince him otherwise.
(HD) FAMILY
9 p.m. Christmas in Norway with the
St. Olaf Choir At the Nidaros Cathedral,
the a cappella St. Olaf Choir and the
Nidaros Jentekor choir perform a variety of
Christmas songs, Norwegian hymns and
more. (HD) (N) PBS








TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24
CHRISTMAS EVE
8 p.m. Christmas in Connecticut (1945,
Comedy) Barbara Stanwyck. A chic
magazine writer who is supposed to be
an expert homemaker must entertain
her boss and a war veteran for the
holidays. NR. TCM
9 p.m. Christmas with the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir Featuring Alfie Boe
and Tom Brokaw The Mormon Tabernacle
Choir & Orchestra and guests come
together to celebrate the holidays with
performances of “Bring Him Home,” “Sing
Noel!” and other songs. (HD) PBS








WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25
CHRISTMAS DAY
7:30 p.m. The Christmas Spirit (2013,
Holiday) Nicollette Sheridan. After a
small town journalist arrives home for the
holiday season, she discovers a real estate
developer is attempting to purchase small
local businesses. (HD) HALLMARK


9 p.m. Snowmageddon (2011, Science
Fiction) Magda Apanowicz. A family
receives a mysterious snow globe that
has the power to affect the weather in
their town in the same manner that it is
affected. PG-13. (HD) SYFY

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