the 25 days of christmas started on november 18, 2017.
the 25 days of christmas started on november 18, 2017.
when does the 25 days of christmas start?
november 18, 2017
25 days of christmas is an annual season of christmas programming broadcast during the month of december by the u.s. cable network freeform. the event was first held in 1996, and has been annual fixture of the channel through its various incarnations, including the family channel, fox family, abc family, and freeform. the brand covers airings of classic holiday specials as well as new christmas-themed television movies each year; generally few of the network's original series air during the time period, outside of christmas-themed episodes. in 2006, the lineup has also included airings of general, family films that freeform holds rights to, including the "harry potter" film franchise until january 2018, and other walt disney studios motion pictures films. in 2007, the block was extended to november with a "countdown to 25 days of christmas" block. "25 days of christmas" programming often attracts major surges in viewership for freeform, with higher-profile film airings often attracting 3-4 million viewers or more. in november 2017, disney channel, disney xd, disney junior, and abc aired holiday programming through christmas day. however, it is currently unknown if the 25 days of christmas will extend to fx, fxx and fxm once the walt disney company's acquisition of most of 21st century fox goes through.
25 days of christmas
the "countdown to 25 days of christmas" schedule was released on october 12, 2017. in 2017, freeform's "countdown to 25 days of christmas" will run from november 18, 2017 to november 30, 2017. the 2017 lineup includes family movies such as "the incredibles", "despicable me", "harry potter", "willy wonka & the chocolate factory", "hook", "dennis the menace", "matilda", "charlie and the chocolate factory", and "the boxtrolls". freeform also announced the network premiere of "inside out" and "snow day". the holiday movies in the 2017 countdown to 25 days of christmas included: "home alone", "elf", "national lampoon's christmas vacation", "four christmases" (freeform network premiere), "'twas the night before christmas", "", "frosty's winter wonderland", "jack frost", "the year without a santa claus", "a christmas carol", "a dennis the menace christmas", "richie rich's christmas wish", "jack frost", "rudolph and frosty's christmas in july", "arthur christmas", "rudolph's shiny new year", "eloise at christmastime", and "the nightmare before christmas".
25 days of christmas