When you’re searching for secure Christmas plans that can reach bringing some pleasure to a vacation that is coming on the finish of a particularly troublesome 12 months, keep in mind that TV is at all times right here for you. Whether or not you rejoice Christmas or Dec. 25 is simply one other day for you, there’s one thing airing on tv you may most likely take pleasure in.
Hallmark is capitalizing on the second by doing what it does finest: airing a bunch of these lovably corny Christmas motion pictures they put out annually. There’s additionally, in fact, TBS’s annual 24-hour A Christmas Story marathon, which TNT will mirror. However when you can solely abdomen a lot of that, E! is taking part in It’s a Wonderful Life all day, Cartoon Community has an all-day Paddington marathon scheduled (who would not love that candy bear?), and for one thing completely totally different, VH1 will air 24 hours of Coming to America.
Over at FX, there’s an all-day back-to-back marathon of the 1951 A Christmas Carol and the community’s personal 2019 adaptation of the basic story, FX’s A Christmas Carol. USA can be taking part in the primary 4 Harry Potter motion pictures, whereas A&E is providing a break from all the vacation cheer with a Jurassic Park marathon.
This is a rundown of all of the marathons you’ll catch this Christmas, Friday, Dec. 25. (All occasions Jap.)
Christmas marathons by community:
A&E:
Jurassic Park (Eight a.m. – 11 a.m.)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (11 a.m. – 2 p.m.)
Jurassic Park III (2 p.m. – Four p.m.)
AMC:
Jack Frost (11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.)
Scrooged (1: 45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.)
Four Christmases (3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (5:45 – Eight p.m.)
Elf (Eight p.m. – 10 p.m.)
BBC:
Doctor Who (1 a.m. – 4:03 p.m.)
Cartoon Community:
Paddington (7 a.m. – 9 p.m.)
E!:
It’s a Wonderful Life (6 a.m. – 12 a.m.)
Freeform:
The Santa Clause (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
The Santa Clause 2 (12: 30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
Frosty the Snowman (4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (5 p.m. – 6 p.m.)
Home Alone (6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (8:30 – 11 p.m.)
FX:
A Christmas Carol (6 a.m. – 10:10 p.m.)
FX’s A Christmas Carol (7:30 a.m. – 1:40 a.m.)
FXX:
The Simpsons (6 p.m. – 12 a.m.)
Hallmark:
Jingle Bell Bride (12:30 a.m. – 2 a.m.)
By no means Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater (2 a.m. – 3:30 a.m.)
One Royal Vacation (3:30 a.m. – 6 a.m.)
Christmas in Vienna (6 a.m. – 6:30 a.m.)
A Timeless Christmas (6:30 – Eight a.m.)
Coronary heart of the Holidays (Eight a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
The Christmas Home (9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.)
A Nashville Christmas Carol (11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado (12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.)
Christmas Waltz (2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
Christmas by Starlight (3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
5 Star Christmas (5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
If I Solely Had Christmas (6:30 p.m. – Eight p.m.)
IFC:
The Godfather (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
The Godfather, Part II (1 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
Sundance:
White Christmas (1 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
TBS:
A Christmas Story (12 a.m. – Eight p.m.)
TNT:
A Christmas Story (12 a.m. – 9 p.m.)
USA:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (8:30 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (11:55 a.m. – 3:35 p.m.)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3:35 p.m. – 6:35 p.m.)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (6:35 p.m. – 10 p.m.)
VH1:
Coming to America (12 a.m. – 1 a.m.)
Christmas marathons by airtime:
A Christmas Story (12 a.m. – Eight p.m., TBS)
A Christmas Story (12 a.m. – 9 p.m., TNT)
Coming to America (12 a.m. – 1 a.m., VH1)
Jingle Bell Bride (12:30 a.m. – 2 a.m., Hallmark)
White Christmas (1 a.m. – 12 p.m., Sundance)
Doctor Who (1 a.m. – 4:03 p.m., BBC)
By no means Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater (2 a.m. – 3:30 a.m., Hallmark)
One Royal Vacation (3:30 a.m. – 6 a.m., Hallmark)
Christmas in Vienna (6 a.m. – 6:30 a.m., Hallmark)
A Timeless Christmas (6:30 – Eight a.m., Hallmark)
It’s a Wonderful Life (6 a.m. – 12 a.m., E!)
A Christmas Carol (6 a.m. – 10:10 p.m., FX)
Paddington (7 a.m. – 9 p.m., Cartoon Community)
FX’s A Christmas Carol (7:30 a.m. – 1:40 a.m., FX)
Coronary heart of the Holidays (Eight a.m. – 9:30 a.m., Hallmark)
Jurassic Park (Eight a.m. – 11 a.m., A&E)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (8:30 a.m. – 11:55 a.m., USA)
The Godfather (9 a.m. – 1 p.m., IFC)
The Christmas Home (9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., Hallmark)
The Santa Clause (10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Freeform)
A Nashville Christmas Carol (11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Hallmark)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (11 a.m. – 2 p.m., A&E)
Jack Frost (11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., AMC)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (11:55 a.m. – 3:35 p.m., USA)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., AMC)
A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado (12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m., Hallmark)
The Santa Clause 2 (12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., Freeform)
The Godfather, Part II (1 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., IFC)
Scrooged (1:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., AMC)
Christmas Waltz (2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., Hallmark)
Jurassic Park III (2 p.m. – Four p.m., A&E)
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Freeform)
Christmas by Starlight (3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., Hallmark)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3:35 p.m. – 6:35 p.m., USA)
Four Christmases (3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m., AMC)
Frosty the Snowman (4:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., Freeform)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (5 p.m. – 6 p.m., Freeform)
5 Star Christmas (5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Hallmark)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (5:45 – Eight p.m., AMC)
Home Alone (6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., Freeform)
The Simpsons (6 p.m. – 12 a.m., FXX)
If I Solely Had Christmas (6:30 p.m. – Eight p.m., Hallmark)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (6:35 p.m. – 10 p.m., USA)
Elf (Eight p.m. – 10 p.m., AMC)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (8:30 – 11 p.m., Freeform)