Grumpy Cat (voiced by Aubrey Plaza) stars in the Lifetime original movie "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever." The movie premieres Saturday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. EST.Lifetime
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! With Thanksgiving barely behind us, the TV world is gearing up for the holidays with Christmas specials and movies. While some may be out shopping the Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend deals, we’ve compiled a list of over 20 Christmas movies you can enjoy while kicking back and relaxing after that big turkey dinner.
[Click HERE to see the Thanksgiving TV schedule for Thursday Nov. 27.]
Friday, Nov. 28
Time: 8:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- “A Carol Christmas” (Tori Spelling stars as a “self-absorbed talk-show host” in this 2003 movie about holiday spirit.)
Lifetime -- “Recipe for a Perfect Christmas” (A food critic must distract her “party-girl” mom over the holidays in this 2005 flick.)
PBS -- “Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas” (A 2009 holiday special featuring classic Christmas songs.)
Time: 9:00 a.m. EST
E! -- “Keeping Up with the Kardashians: A Very Merry Christmas” (Watch the Kardashians in this 2013 holiday special.)
Time: 9:30 a.m. EST
TVGN -- “The Cast of ‘A Christmas Story’: Where Are They Now” (A 2012 special gives an update on the cast of the 1983 movie.)
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Lifetime -- “All About Christmas Eve” (A New York City party planner has to juggle work and a romantic vacation in this 2012 movie.)
Hallmark -- “Finding Christmas” (A New York City executive and North Carolina repairman swap houses during Christmas in this 2013 movie.)
Time: 1:00 p.m. EST
TVGN -- “The Love Boat: A Christmas Presence” (Celebrate Christmas with “The Love Boat” gang in this 1982 holiday special.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Lifetime -- “The Road to Christmas” (A bride takes a ride from a stranger and his 12-year-old daughter in order to reach her Christmas eve wedding in this 2006 movie.)
Time: 3:00 p.m. EST
PBS -- “Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas” (A 2009 holiday special featuring classic Christmas songs.)
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST
Lifetime -- “Christmas Crash” (This 2009 flick focuses on an “unhappily married couple” that has to make it back to civilization after their plane crashes in the wilderness.)
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “A Princess for Christmas” (Sparks fly in this 2011 movie.)
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
Nick -- “SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s A SpongeBob Christmas! (Plankton hatches a holiday scheme in this 2012 Christmas comedy.)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
Comedy Central -- “South Park: Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo” (Watch the boys in this 1997 comedy classic.)
Time: 7:30 p.m. EST
Comedy Central -- “South Park: A Very Crappy Christmas” (The holiday shenanigans continue for the South Park gang in this 2000 holiday comedy.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
Comedy Central -- “South Park: Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics” (Enjoy the musical numbers in this 1999 holiday special.)
Lifetime -- “Christmas With the Kranks” (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this 2004 holiday comedy.)
Hallmark --“A Bride for Christmas” (Love blooms in this 2012 holiday movie.)
Time: 9:30 p.m. EST
TBS -- “Four Christmases” (Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon star in this 2008 holiday comedy.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “The Christmas Ornament” (A widow meets a “charming tree-shop owner” in this sweet 2013 holiday movie.)
Comedy Central -- “Comedy Central’s All-Star Non-Denominational Christmas Special” (Celebrate with some of Comedy Central’s biggest stars in this 2014 special.)
Lifetime -- “Crazy for Christmas” (A single mom spends Christmas Eve chauffeuring “a very rich eccentric, who is really into the spirit of giving” in this 2005 movie.)
Saturday, Nov. 29
Time: 7:00 a.m. EST
PBS -- “Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas” (A 2009 holiday special featuring classic Christmas songs.)
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark -- “A Bride for Christmas” (Love blooms in this 2012 holiday movie.)
Time: 11:00 a.m. EST
VH1 -- “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” (Vanessa Williams stars in this 2000 update on the classic Charles Dickens tale.)
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Disney -- “Eloise at Christmastime” (Eloise must try to stop a Christmas Eve wedding between the Plaza owner’s daughter and a crook.)
Lifetime -- “The Twelve Trees of Christmas” (Love is in the air in this 2013 movie about a librarian trying to save “her beloved Manhattan library.”)
Hallmark -- “Royal Christmas” (A man must reveal to his fiancée that he’s really a prince in this 2014 movie.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Lifetime -- “All She Wants for Christmas” (A small town’s in trouble in this 2006 movie.)
Hallmark -- “Christmas Shepherd” (A woman forms a connection with the family that adopted her lost dog in this 2014 holiday movie.)
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
Lifetime -- “Christmas With the Kranks” (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this 2004 holiday comedy.)
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
Disney --“Good Luck Jessie: NY Christmas” (Teddy and PJ Duncan befriend Jessie Prescott in this 2013 Christmas special.)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
TBS -- “Everybody Loves Raymond: The Christmas Picture” (Ray tries to get everyone together for a Christmas photo in this 1999 holiday episode.)
Time: 7:30 p.m. EST
Disney -- “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (Join Jack Skellington and Sally in this 1993 classic.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
VH1 -- “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” (Vanessa Williams stars in this 2000 update on the classic Charles Dickens tale._
CBS -- “The Flight Before Christmas” (A young reindeer dreams of being on Santa’s “high-flying team” in this 2008 holiday special.)
Hallmark -- “Christmas Under Wraps” (A doctor relocates to Alaska in this brand new holiday movie.)
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
TMC -- “A Cadaver Christmas” (Flesh-eating corpses are on the loose in this 2011 Christmas movie.)
Time: 9:30 p.m. EST
CMT -- “Larry the Cable Guy’s Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau” (Watch comedian Larry the Cable Guy in this 2009 special featuring the Zac Brown Band and many more.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
ABC Family --“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (Chevy Chase brings the laughs in this 1989 classic.)
TBS -- “Four Christmases” (Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon star in this 2008 holiday comedy.)
Comedy Central -- “Comedy Central’s All-Star Non-Denominational Christmas Special” (Celebrate with some of Comedy Central’s biggest stars in this 2014 special.)
Time: 10:30 p.m. EST
HBO -- “Getting On: The 7th Annual Christmas Card Competition” (Watch the 2014 Christmas special on this brand new episode of “Getting On.”)
Time: 11:00 p.m. EST
ION -- “A Christmas Wedding Date” (A woman returns home after losing her job in this 2012 movie.)
Lifetime --“Christmas With the Kranks” (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this 2004 holiday comedy.)
Comedy Central -- “South Park: Woodland Critter Christmas” (Stan helps woodland creatures build a manger in this 2004 holiday episode.)
Time: 11:30 p.m. EST
Comedy Central -- “South Park: Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo” (Watch the boys in this 1997 comedy classic.)
Sunday, Nov. 30
Time: 8:00 a.m. EST
Hallmark --“The Christmas Pageant” (Melissa Gilbert and Robert Mailhouse star in this 2011 holiday movie.)
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST
Nick -- “Paw Patrol: Pups Save Christmas” (It’s up to the Paw Patrol to help Santa in this 2013 holiday episode.)
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “Catch a Christmas Star” (A pop star reunites with her high-school boyfriend, who is now a widowed single dad, in this 2013 holiday movie.)
Time: 4:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “The Christmas Spirit” (A woman in a coma uses her spirit to try to stop real-estate development in her small town in this 2013 movie.0
Time: 6:00 p.m. EST
ABC Family --“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (Chevy Chase brings the laughs in this 1989 classic.)
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
Disney -- “Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas!” (The Duncans get split up in this 2011 Christmas special.)
Lifetime -- “An En Vogue Christmas” (En Vogue is asked to reunite to “help save the club where they became stars” in this 2014 movie.)
ABC -- “CMA Country Christmas” (Jennifer Nettles returns to host this brand new holiday special. LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Underwood, Idina Menzel and Lucy Hale are also set to appear.)
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
TVGN -- “The Cast of ‘A Christmas Story’: Where Are They Now” (A 2012 special gives an update on the cast of the 1983 movie.)
TBS --“American Dad! Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas” (“American Dad” spoofs “It’s a Wonderful Life” in this brand new holiday episode.)
Time: 10:00 p.m. EST
Hallmark -- “All I Want for Christmas” (Gail O’Grady and Greg Germann star in this 2007 holiday movie.)
HBO -- “Getting On: The 7th Annual Christmas Card Competition” (Watch the 2014 Christmas special on this brand new episode of “Getting On.”)
Time: 11:00 p.m. EST
CMT -- “Larry the Cable Guy’s Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau” (Watch comedian Larry the Cable Guy in this 2009 special featuring the Zac Brown Band and many more.)
TVGN --“The Cast of ‘A Christmas Story’: Where Are They Now” ( A 2012 special gives an update on the cast of the 1983 movie.)
