Holiday TV guide 2020: When to watch holiday classics or cozy up to new gems

This list (subject to late changes) is for the 30 days from Thanksgiving to Christmas. It doesn’t include the holiday episodes of regular shows. For TV movies, it only includes new ones … but there are plenty of those. On one overpacked night (Dec. 6), cable has five new Christmas movies.

This also includes lots of theatricals (movies that played in theaters first) and cartoons. Most are reruns and we stick to the key ones. Here we go:

GRINCHY THINGS
– Nov. 27: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the animated gem, 8 p.m., NBC; also, 7 p.m., Dec. 6, TBS; 8 p.m. Dec. 13, TBS; 8 p.m. Dec. 19, TNT; 8 p.m. Dec. 25, NBC.

– Dec. 2: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000), the Jim Carrey movie, 3:45 p.m., Freeform; also on Freeform, 3:55 p.m. Dec. 5, 4:05 p.m. Dec. 11, 8:30 p.m. Dec. 14; then 8:30 p.m. Dec. 25, NBC.

– Dec. 9: “Grinch, The Musical,” 8-10 p.m., NBC; also, 8 p.m. Dec. 21. Matthew Morrison stars in a stage production from London.

PARADES
– Nov, 26: “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” 9 a.m. to noon, NBC, repeating 2-5 p.m. It’s not quite a parade, but there will be floats and balloons on a one-block stretch in front of the NBC cameras. There will be performances by casts of four musicals – “Hamilton,” “Mean Girls” and the Temptations and Alanis Morrissette shows – and by others, including Dolly Parton, Patti LaBelle, Bebe Rexha, Sofia Carson, Leslie Odom Jr., the Muppets, Jimmy Fallon with the Roots and even a “Nutcracker” ballerina. “The National Dog Show” follows at noon, repeating at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Nov. 26: “Thanksgiving Day Celebration,” 9 a.m. to noon, CBS. This views previous parades, plus new performances by the casts of “Dear Evan Hansen” and “Come From Away”; Mickey Guyton does “O Holy Night” and Maddie & Tae do “Merry Married Christmas.”

– Dec. 4: “The Hollywood Christmas Parade Greatest Moments,” 8-10 p.m., CW. There’s no parade this year, so here are some memories.

– Dec. 25: Disney “Christmas Day Parade,” 10 a.m. to noon, ABC. Alongside the Disney World parade, we see songs taped at park locations.

full article
(including other cartoon classics, classic movies, mostly music, comedy, magic, animated movies, new tv movies, “nutcracker” variations)
at: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/television/tv-and-radio/2020/11/20/holiday-tv-schedule-2020-your-guide-favorite-holiday-movies-shows/6333151002/