Couch potatoes can have a holly, jolly time this holiday season, with some new Christmas movies and specials joining the hundreds in reruns.
The treasured classics are like favorite tree ornaments stored away and pulled out each year to deck the television schedule. Familiar faces such as the Grinch, Charlie Brown, George Bailey, Ebenezer Scrooge, Ralphie Parker, Rudolph, Frosty and Clark Griswold will be back.
Christmas programming that started trickling out two weeks ago now fills the schedules.
Among the new offerings this season:
--"The Christmas Hope," starring Madeleine Stowe and Ian Ziering, is the third film in "The Christmas Shoes" trilogy (8 p.m. Dec. 13, Lifetime). A couple with a troubled marriage take in a foster child at Christmas.
--Hallmark Channel original movies include "The Three Gifts," with Dean Cain, at 8 p.m. Dec. 19 (about three orphans).
--Carrie Underwood performs Christmas classics on "Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special" (8 p.m. Dec. 7, Fox) with Chenoweth, Dolly Parton and Christina Applegate.
--Oprah Winfrey visits the Obamas for "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special" (10 p.m. Dec. 13, ABC), and "Saturday Night Live Christmas 2009" (8 p.m. Dec. 17, NBC) brings laughs from Christmases past.
--"Yes, Virginia" (8 p.m. Dec. 11, CBS) is a new animated special based on the famous newspaper editorial.
Among the returning favorites:
--"The 12th Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center," with Tony Award-winner Jane Krakowski and "Chuck" star Zachary Levi, at 8 p.m. Wednesday (NBC).
--"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," at 8 p.m. Wednesday (CBS).
-- "Happy Festivus" episodes of "Seinfeld," at 8 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 7 (TBS).
--"A Charlie Brown Christmas," at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 (ABC).
--"Frosty the Snowman," at 8 p.m. Dec. 18 (CBS).
--"A Christmas Story," in a 24-hour marathon beginning at 8 p.m. Dec. 24 (TBS).
--"It's a Wonderful Life," at 8 p.m. Dec. 12 and 8 p.m. Dec. 24 (NBC).
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