Christmas in Washington Christmas in Washington Christmas in Washington was an annual Christmas television special that aired for many years on the U.S. TNT network. It ended in 2015 after a 33-year run. One of two annual holiday specials produced by George Stevens Jr. (the other being the "Kennedy Center Honors"), the variety show first aired in 1982 on NBC before moving to its most recent home on TNT in 1998. Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the National Building Museum, on the second Sunday of each December before being re-edited for later broadcast, "Christmas in Washington" is a one-hour concert featuring artists from
Christmas by medium past year and giving her own reflections and advice. Many long-running British soap operas have Christmas specials, usually involving a dramatic storyline developed over several weeks which culminates at Christmas. Often these stories are tragic, involving a death, divorce, a dramatic revelation or similar event. Most Christmas specials in the UK are specially commissioned separately to a production season, and many are extended from the usual episode length. For example, the 2007 "Doctor Who" Christmas special was 71 minutes as opposed to the standard 45 minutes, was broadcast six months after the third series had finished and four months before