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December and the holidays are one month closer. Now, Freeform has released the schedule for its traditional “25 Days of Christmas” programming. Last year, Freeform was #1 for holiday viewership for the 11th year out of 12 years reaching almost 37 million viewers!

This year, fans can expect holiday classic films and movies from Disney, Rankin Bass, and more during this year’s “25 Days of Christmas” Event!

Here is the 25 Days of Christmas Schedule for 2024!

Sunday, Dec. 1

7:00 a.m. – “Prep & Landing”

7:30 a.m. – “Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas”

9:00 a.m. – “Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas”

10:30 a.m. – “Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You” – Freeform Premiere

12:30 p.m. – “Arthur Christmas”

2:35 p.m. – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”

4:15 p.m. – “Moana”

6:45 p.m. – “Home Alone”

9:15 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”

11:55 p.m. – “Home Alone 3”

Monday,...

Good tidings Freeform brings, as the network celebrates the adored seasonal tradition of 25 Days of Christmas. The programming event returns to spread holiday cheer starting on Sunday, December 1.

A delightful collection of Christmas favorites is being offered to make spirits bright, including Home Alone, The Santa Clause trilogy, and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). Select airings of perennial favorite Home Alone will incorporate “pop-up” facts about the classic holiday movie.

Jingle all the way with Disney family classics like Frozen, the Toy Story franchise, and Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Other holiday faves airing throughout the month include Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Arthur Christmas, plus Rankin-Bass’ beloved specials, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, plus much more!

Plus, the merry lineup features a network premiere featuring the Queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey’s...

It’s November 1, and Freeform is already ready to start spreading holiday cheer.

The network released its 25 Days of Christmas schedule Friday, revealing all the programming coming up in December. There’s something for everyone, with things kicking off at 7 a.m. and extending through at least midnight every day from December 1 to 25.

The lineup includes classics like the Home Alone films, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, the Santa Clause movies, Miracle on 34th Street and multiple versions of The Grinch.

There’s also some non-holiday films sprinkled in, including Moana and Toy Story.

And, as always, Freeform has a few network premieres planned, including one for Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You on December 1, after which it’ll repeatedly air through Christmas Day. Dashing Through the Snow and Santa’s Little Helper are also getting a Freeform debut on December 8.

See the full schedule below.

Freeform’s 25 days of Christmas is back for another year just in time for the holidays.

Kicking off on Dec. 1, the lineup will include classics like the “Home Alone” movies, “Miracle on 34th Street” (1994), “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “The Santa Clause” franchise, both versions of “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

Disney family-favorites will also broadcast throughout the month, including “Frozen,” the “Toy Story” films and “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” while “Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “Dashing Through the Snow” and “Santa’s Little Helper” make their Freeform debuts.

Here’s the full schedule for Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas.

Sunday, Dec. 1

7:00 a.m. – “Prep & Landing”

7:30 a.m. – “Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas”

9:00 a.m. – “Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas”

10:30 a.m. – “Mariah Carey’s...

“New Star Shining” is set to light up the screen on Friday, November 1, 2024, at 7:00 Am on UPtv. Hosted by the beloved duo Bill and Gloria Gaither, this special promises a heartwarming blend of music and nostalgia. The Gaither Vocal Band, known for their rich harmonies and uplifting performances, will take center stage to deliver a collection of original songs and timeless classics.

Viewers can look forward to cherished favorites like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Tennessee Christmas,” which are sure to evoke fond memories and festive spirit. The Gaither Vocal Band’s unique style and emotional delivery bring a fresh touch to these beloved songs, making them resonate with both longtime fans and new listeners alike.

As the morning unfolds, “New Star Shining” invites everyone to gather around and enjoy a musical experience filled with joy and inspiration. With Bill and Gloria at the helm, this special is not...

The big surprise on the runway of Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall Winter 2024 men’s collection in Paris was the appearance of Wim Wenders. The 78-year-old German filmmaker, currently enjoying box office success in Europe with Perfect Days, walked the runway wearing classic pieces in the fashion house’s style of layering and varying lengths.

Yamamoto’s connection to Wenders dates back to 1989, when the director of Wings of Desire made a documentary about the founder of the Japanese brand called Notebook on Cities and Clothes.

“We became close like brothers a long time ago. We share the same memory from when we were very young — the Tokyo and Berlin bombings,” the fashion designer stressed backstage at the event inside Yamamoto’s European headquarters on Rue Saint-Martin, in the heart of Les Halles.

The soundtrack featured famous songs such as Radiohead’s “Creep,” Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” and Johnny Cash’s “The Little Drummer Boy,...

Alexander Payne (Adapted Screenplay Oscar wins for Sideways with Jim Taylor and The Descendants with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash) at JFK airport with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Wc Fields poster in The Holdovers: “I remember that. I had that poster in my room growing up.”

In the second instalment with Alexander Payne, director of the Golden Globe-nominated The Holdovers (screenplay by David Hemingson), starring Dominic Sessa and Golden Globe nominees Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, we start out discussing the Oscar-shortlisted score by Mark Orton after my recommendation of Wurzel-Sepp, an apothecary shop in Munich from 1887. From there we move on to the Trapp Family recordings of The Little Drummer Boy and Silent Night, plus Cat Stevens in the soundtrack; the influence of Marcel Pagnol’s Merlusse, Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, Robert Donat in Sam Wood’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and...

I’m not gonna lie, there’s been a lot of debate around here about what the best Christmas specials are and why. In fact, sometimes it’s gotten downright nasty around the office – and by “office,” of course I mean each of our homes, because that’s just how we roll. You can understand how heated discussion like this can get, because even a Jew like me has his favorites. See, even though I was Jewish, my family had Christmas trees and discussion about Santa Claus coming down the chimney and chestnuts roasting and the singing of carols off-key, because we basically secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to be Christian so we wouldn’t have to pretend to be just as happy celebrating Hanukkah and getting socks and coloring books as gifts while all the goyum seemed to be having the greatest time of their lives and so...

Freeform is set to deck the halls with its annual 25 Days of Christmas programming extravaganza.

The festive schedule includes multiple showings of Home Alone (and its various sequels), Jingle All the Way, Love Actually, The Preacher’s Wife and the Santa Clause trilogy. You’ll also find beloved Rankin/Bass classics — including Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town — and marathons of The Simpsons and Family Guy.

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Deliriously wry and so perfectly balanced it should become a case study in script classes, “Riders of Justice” may be the film that finally gives Anders Thomas Jensen international recognition beyond his usual spotlight as a sought-after screenwriter. Comparisons with the Coen brothers will be inevitable given oddball characters whose fixations and genuine heart contrast with moments of extreme violence, yet the roots of this black revenge comedy go back even further, bringing an asocial spin to classic screwballers where a group of quirky misfits are balanced out by a lone woman who’s the most put-together and in touch of the bunch.

Jensen works with his customary stable of actors, many of whom have appeared in his previous four features including Mads Mikkelsen, the most globally recognized of the group and currently enjoying quite a year between this and “Another Round.” Box office in Denmark was predictably high for...

Following the double-platinum success of her Once Upon a Christmas LP with Kenny Rogers in 1984, it was a natural that Dolly Parton would eventually release another holiday-themed album. After her short-lived variety series in the late Eighties, the East Tennessee native finally went Home for Christmas with an LP and an ABC TV special in 1990. Unlike the previous album, which included several new original tunes, Home for Christmas was built around traditional Yuletide fare, including such songs as “The Little Drummer Boy,” “We Three Kings” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem.

I loved cartoons on Saturday mornings growing up, but I looked forward to watching them in primetime during the holidays. Some of my favorites were Frosty, Rudolph, The Little Drummer Boy, and A Charlie Brown Christmas especially the dance and Linus' speech. Even though they were the same stories told over and over again, I was riveted every year. I guess because in my mind both the fictional stories and the religious stories were all real to me. I loved the music and would sing along with so much joy.

What better way to spread holiday cheer, right? On Wednesday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Alanis Morissette and Jimmy Fallon went "Subway Busking" and treated lucky New York City commuters with some Christmas carols—and you 'oughta bet it was amazing. Dressed undercover in outrageous wigs, sunglasses and hats, the duo set up shop in the 50th Street subway stop and performed for some unsuspecting fans. To kick things off, Alanis and Jimmy with a stripped-down version of "The Little Drummer Boy." To really disguise his voice, the late night host sang with a deep Southern drawl. At first, the commuters were fazed by their performance but they quickly...

Alanis Morissette and Jimmy Fallon hit New York City’s 50th Street subway station below Rockefeller Center to busk in disguise for Wednesday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Morissette wore a blonde wig, sunglasses and hat, while Fallon donned a beard and sunglasses to obscure their identities.

The pair began by singing the classic Christmas carol “The Little Drummer Boy,” which drew some passersby to their makeshift stage on the platform. Morissette took the lead, while Fallon harmonized and played a drum. “Thank you very much, everybody. Happy,...

Halloween is over — and Christmas is already upon us.

Last week marked the launch of Hallmark and Lifetime’s extensive holiday slate. And on Friday, Freeform announced their full 25 Days of Christmas lineup, which kicks off Dec. 1.

As previously announced, the list includes the Good Trouble holiday special, which will feature a full reunion of the Adams-Foster family from The Fosters, including the moms, Sherri Saum and Teri Polo, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before heartthrob Noah Centineo.

The lineup also boasts the network’s movie, Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, starring The Bold Type‘s Aisha Dee.

Freeform is set to deck the halls with its annual 25 Days of Christmas programming extravaganza, which this year includes the highly anticipated reunion of The Fosters family.

As previously reported, Good Trouble‘s Callie and Mariana will be joined by moms Stef and Lena (Teri Polo and Sherri Saum), Jesus, Jude and Brandon (Noah Centineo, Hayden Byerly and David Lambert), as well as Brandon’s wife Eliza, her parents Jim (Robert Gant) and Diane (Susan Walters), and her brothers Jamie (Beau Mirchoff) and Carter (Spencer List). The two-hour holiday event is set to air on Monday, Dec. 16, at 9/8c. (For exclusive photos,...

I’m guessing that you, just like most of us, have always had seasonal favorites when it comes to movies that attempt to address and evoke the spirit of Christmas. Like most from my generation, when I was a kid I learned the pleasures of perennial anticipation of Christmastime as interpreted by TV through a series of holiday specials, like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and even musical variety hours where the likes of Bing Crosby and Andy Williams and Dean Martin et al would sit around sets elaborately designed to represent the ideal Christmas-decorated living room, drinking “wassail” (I’m sure that’s what was in those cups) and crooning classics of the season alongside a dazzling array of guests. (We knew we were moving into a new world of holiday cheer when David Bowie joined Bing Crosby for...

For better or for worse, the holiday season is upon us. To many that simply means bracing up against the onslaught of hectic holiday shopping and overly tense family gatherings. After all, it doesn't take much to put one on edge at the thought of interminable line-ups in overfull malls, endless searches for that perfect gift or bauble before Christmas or that perfect deal on Boxing Day after, or that moment when we all inevitably find ourselves singing along to The Little Drummer Boy for the millionth time in an hour. But don't lose your spirit! There are many less stressful ways to experience the best of the season and at the top of that list is sitting down to watch favourite classic holiday movies with family and friends.

With that in mind, we've compiled a list of films we think represent the very best of the traditional holiday movie fare.

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Rankin-Bass teamed up with Boris Karloff, Mad Magazine, Forry Ackerman, and Frank Frazetta for a Halloween special. What the hell?

Three years after producing 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but before going on to make other warm-hearted and sincere animated holiday standards like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman and the questionable Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass took a hard left turn into the dark, delightfully strange, and intensely geeky with Mad Monster Party.

Predating Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas by over a quarter-century, the sinister duo’s stop-motion musical comedy celebration of classic Universal horror, which was released as a theatrical feature before becoming a semi-regular October TV standby, never quite cornered the Halloween specials market as planned. Somehow it was never able to lure audiences away from that damned Great Pumpkin.

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz's 4-year-old son, Egypt, is clearly following in his parents’ musical footsteps – and he’s absolutely adorable!

Swizz posted two new Instagram videos of his son on the keys (pun intended), first playing ‘The Little Drummer Boy, ’ and captioning it “#Focused.” The following day, he shared a video of their talented son performing the “Charlie Brown” theme song.

Check out the video above to watch Egypt in all his piano-playing glory!

Related: Alicia Keys Opens Up About Bringing Baby Egypt on Tour

Alicia is clearly one proud mama! She re-grammed the second clip to her own account and wrote, “Every morning waking the whole house up!!! So cute!!! Somebody’s got the bug!!”

This isn't the first time Egypt has showed off a special talent. Last May, he modeled in Ralph Lauren’s Children’s Runway Show in New York.

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Meanwhile, Alicia and Swizz welcomed their second son, Genesis [link=nm...

Don’t get me wrong: I adore Charlie Brown, Rudolph and the Grinch as much as anyone. But ask me to name my all-time favorite holiday special, and I gotta go with Pee-wee Herman.

Broadcast in 1988--in prime time!--Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special had everything we can possibly want in seasonal entertainment: music, merriment, snow … even Oprah.

“There’s never been a Christmas special like this, I guarantee you,” Pee-wee told Et’s Jeanne Wolf in 1988. (As was his custom, Paul Reubens did the interview entirely in character as his giggling, bow-tied alter ego.) And he was absolutely right: Until Pee-wee’s Playhouse came along in 1986, no one had ever blended camp, comedy and an art-school sensibility on Saturday morning television before. The result attracted kids and many curious adults.

The Christmas special stands out for a few reasons. In the interview, Pee-wee noted it had a “bigger budget, more time (and...

Christopher Lee is back with a new heavy metal Christmas album for us to enjoy! It's called "Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing," and if you're a fan of Lee and his previously released Heavy Metal Christmas songs, then you're going to love this! This latest album of his features the songs "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Silent Night."

If you enjoy listening to the 92-year-old Lee wailing away, you can download the songs on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Music.

Ricky Gervais is prone to excessive giggling. But Jimmy Fallon's "Lip Flip" game left the comedian cracking up even more than usual during his Tonight Show visit Tuesday night. The bit finds host and guest having their lips digitally swapped during a bizarre conversation, with Gervais' beard imposed on Fallon's freshly shaven mug, and vice versa. Watch the hilarious video above to see Gervais do the Madonna "Vogue" dance and Fallon reveal some intimate grooming techniques.

"What I'd really like to see, honestly, is you interviewing yourself," Fallon says...

This is the best "Lip Flip" yet! Ricky Gervais stopped by "The Tonight Show" on Tuesday night, where he swapped mouths with Jimmy Fallon and had the late night host cracking up with his raunchy antics.The best part? Both adopted Southern accents in order to speak like the other comedian! "Hi, I'm Jimmy Fallon—I got my own TV show," said Jimmy—well, said Ricky as Jimmy. "Yeah, I can't believe it neither! I come on and I sit down and I talk, and sometimes I sing, and other people talk, and when other people are talking I'm getting paid when they're talking! It's amazing! I'm getting paid now and someone else is doing all the entertaining!" After Jimmy made Ricky call himself a "little baby," Ricky pulled out the big guns by telling "the absolute truth" about Jimmy's personal grooming habits (Hint: it involves his balls!)Check...

There are plenty of Christmas songs playing on the radio this time of year that are perfect for cozying up by the fire with a glass of wine, but if you’re looking to add a little headbanging to your holidays, then you’ll be excited to know that the legendary Christopher Lee is back with an awesome new heavy metal holiday single called “Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing.”

In 2012, Lee rang in the holidays with his heavy metal covers of “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Silent Night”, and last year he rocked the Internet with two original holiday singles, “Jingle Hell” and “My Way.” This year, the 92-year-old Lee is back with another new tune, “Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing”, and you can listen to it right here. These amazing heavy metal holiday songs are available to purchase on iTunes.

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The man whose animated holiday TV specials have touched generations of fans died Thursday at his home in Bermuda. Arthur Rankin Jr was 89. His death was reported by local newspaper The Royal Gazette. With his partner Jules Bass, Rankin mined popular Christmas songs to create enduring stop-motion TV classics including Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) — which beat The Voice and Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the 18-49 demo when CBS aired it Thanksgiving Eve last year – The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (1970) and The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974). The Jimmy Durante-narrated Frosty The Snowman (1969) was done in tradition cel animation and was the first of their Christmas specials done as a half-hour rather than an hour. Rankin and Bass founded their company in 1960 as Videocraft International, and the name was changed to Rankin/Bass Productions eight years later. They also produced plenty of non-holiday fare as well,...

*For those that missed this story earlier in the month, we wanted to share it with our readers on Christmas Eve* Looking for something different to play during your upcoming Christmas party? Last year, we rocked out to Christopher Lee singing The Little Drummer Boy and Silent Night, and he’s back with a brand new songs.

The new music includes “Jingle Hell” and “My Way” and make up Christopher Lee’s A Heavy Metal Christmas Too. The first video we’ve included below features samples of both songs and they are available for purchase in iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play.

We’ve also included last year’s video that features ”The Little Drummer Boy” and “Silent Night” from Christopher Lee. A Heavy Metal Christmas. The songs are also available on a variety of digital download services.

Christopher has been releasing a yearly video message around this time of year...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is coming to a close! EW put the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “O Holy Night,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Silent Night,” “Sleigh Ride,” and “White Christmas.”) Listen to our final top six, vote for your favorite, and let us know why you made your pick in the comments below.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “O Holy Night,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Silent Night,” and “Sleigh Ride.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six,...

Now here's a holiday album every child of the 80s would buy: On Monday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," Megadeth promoted a fake compilation called "Thrashing Through the Snow: A Very Megadeth Christmas" -- which includes a duet with indie darling Jenny Lewis. Watch the clip below.   Dressed in holiday sweaters, frontman Dave Mustaine and his bandmates growl out metal renditions of "Frosty the Snowman," "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" as little children cower in the corner and cover their ears. The band also manages to scare off Lewis, who realizes a few lines...

Michael Bublé is back with his third annual Christmas special (airing Wednesday at 10 p.m. Et on NBC), and this year’s guests are Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey, whose bedazzled mic is truly something to behold. “I felt so unimportant,” Bublé jokes. “No, it was funny, we actually had a laugh about it, her and I. I like that the girls have bedazzled mics. I saw Katy Perry’s mic the other night behind the scenes at a show we were both doing together, it was glorious. They actually look like they have special powers. I expect to see it in,...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “O Holy Night,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” and “Silent Night.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite,...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “O Holy Night,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite,...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” “O Holy Night,” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite, and let us know why...

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” and “O Holy Night.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite, and let us know why you made your pick in the comments below.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Let It Snow!” and “The Little Drummer Boy.”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite, and let us know why you made your pick in the comments below.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Classics is on! EW is putting the best versions of the most-covered Christmas songs up to a daily vote to compile the ultimate holiday playlist. (We’ve already covered “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “The Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and “Let It Snow!”) If your favorite singer isn’t in the list below, you better not pout: Each artist will only appear once throughout the 12 days. Listen to our top six, vote for your favorite, and let us know why you made your pick in the comments below.

Update: The poll is closed below,...

Another YouTube star is born, thanks to Justin Bieber.

The Canadian pop icon tweeted about 10-year-old Jayden Anderson's recent performance of Bieber's version of 'The Little Drummer Boy' at St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School’s Christmas concert in Markham, Ont., putting a bright spotlight on the young rapper.

"this kid Jayden killed it! nice. #DrummerBoy http://youtu.be/vxDKKxeLxck" he tweeted Thursday.

Jayden's teacher Angie Careri, who chose the song, said the 5th-grader is a huge Bieber fan and practised the tune for weeks.

“He has a lot of swag for a little 10-year-old,” she told the Toronto Star.

As if Jayden did not have enough talent, he also knows a thing or two about baseball. He earned Internet fame over a stellar catch during a baseball game, The Huffington Post reported last year.

We expect to hear big things about Jayden. After all, Bieber was discovered on YouTube himself,...

Christmas 2012 is all about Christopher Lee apparently – it’s his holiday season, we’re just along for the ride. The 90-year-old actor, who rose to fame playing Dracula for Hammer Studios, is back on top of the box office as he reprises his role as Saruman in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but that wasn’t enough. Now he’s poised to make your holiday party rock harder than ever before with two heavy metal renditions of your favorite holiday classics. That’s right, Lee will have you banging your head and tossing up the sign of the beast as he rocks out to "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Silent Night" on his two-track release A Heavy Metal Christmas. Lee’s metal growl is pretty impressive...

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Sir Christopher Lee is already a legend in horror but what you might not know is that he has done vocals on two metal albums. He has been doing symphonic metal since 2005 and has released a metal album in 2010 called Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross. While fans wait for his follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, which is to be released before the end of the year, Lee Partnered with a few musicians and has embraced the holiday season with two heavy metal renditions of The Little Drummer Boy and Silent Night. These two songs will for sure turn heads if you play this at your holiday party. The songs are available to download and purchase on iTunes and Amazon as a part of “Christopher Lee: A Heavy Metal Christmas”.

Info on the release:

Vocals: Christopher Lee

Backing Vocals (Silent Night): Michelle at StudioPros

Guitars: Hedras Ramos Jr.

We've all known Christopher Lee has nurtured a singing career alongside the endless other things this talented thespian can accomplish.  You can hear him croon in Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man and, in recent year, he's been getting into some "heavy metal."  Now, Lee has debuted "A Heavy Metal Christmas" - now available on iTunes - which features "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Silent Night."  Get a sample inside.  Brilliance.

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Looking for something different to play during your upcoming Christmas party? We don’t cover too music news on Daily Dead, but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share Christopher Lee singing The Little Drummer Boy and Silent Night. Both songs make up “Christopher Lee. A Heavy Metal Christmas” and were recently released on iTunes and Amazon.

Christopher Lee may have turned 90 this year, but it doesn’t look like he plans to retire any time soon. He appeared in Dark Shadows earlier this year, you can catch him in The Hobbit, and he isn’t afraid to try something a little bit different like this heavy metal Christmas project. We’ve included a sample of both songs below and here is information on the people involved:

Vocals: Christopher Lee

Backing Vocals (Silent Night): Michelle at StudioPros

Guitars: Hedras Ramos Jr.

Bass: Hedras Ramos Sr.

Drums: Ollie Usiskin...

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Mad Monster Party is a relatively obscure stop-motion animated musical treat from 1967 that many non-genre fans are unaware of. Aimed at children, it is the creation of Rankin and Bass, the production team responsible for so many holiday television specials including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Year Without a Santa Claus. Unlike these specials, however, Mad Monster Party made the rounds to movie theaters as a feature-length film for Saturday and Sunday matinees. It’s the obvious inspiration for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), boasting an infectious musical score that sticks in your head long after the movie is over.

Baron Boris von Frankenstein, the lead character who is voiced by Boris Karloff in one of his last roles, decides to hang up his lab coat and hand...

In time for the holidays, VeggieTales return with VeggieTales: The Little Drummer Boy on DVD from Big Idea Entertainment. M&C.s getting in on the Veggie fun by giving away a VeggieTales Prize Pack that includes The Little Drummer Boy DVD, O Holy Night - Journey of a Little Drummer Boy CD, VeggieTales Noah's Ark, VeggieTales Toy Drum, The Little Drummer Boy Character Play Set, and more! VeggieTales: The Little Drummer Boy is a heartwarming tale that retells the classic The Little Drummer Boy story. The DVD offers a timeless message of hope during the holiday season, and will feature multi-Grammy and Dove Award-winning artists BeBe and CeCe Winans, singing their version of the iconic .The Little Drummer...

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The real climax of this season happened last week in “Birth,” when Vivien joined the murder house’s collection of ghosts after the apocalyptic delivery of her twins. We were led to believe that one was stillborn, but the other, healthier one went straight into the care of crazy Constance as Ben was left to sort out his life all alone, as Vivien and Violet settle into eternity among the house’s ephemeral residents.

This week’s installment,...

Warning: The following recap, by definition, contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of FX’s American Horror Story.

The Harmons extract themselves from that Murder House about as well as Michael Corleone gets out of the organized crime biz.

The Season 1 finale of FX’s (already renewed) American Horror Story, titled “Afterbirth,” dealt with the aftermath of Vivien giving birth to her and Ben’s stillborn child and the “demon baby” sired by ghost boy Tate, then succumbing to fatal amounts of blood loss and trauma herself.

But first, viewers were given a “Nine Months Ago” flashback to Ben and Vivien’s Boston existence,...

Most Christmas songs exist as part of our collective unconsciousness, so we don't exactly put a magnifying glass to the lyrics to examine them for logical integrity. (Although, is logical integrity truly not what the Christmas season is all about?) But last night on "Conan," Patton Oswalt tore apart "The Little Drummer Boy," and came to the conclusion that the song makes no damn sense. At all.

"I have a two and a half year old daughter, and I never go, 'She will not settle down and go to sleep. Does anyone have a percussion instrument? Or half a can of coffee beans I can shake in her face?'" Patton joked, referring to the Drummer Boy in the song playing his drum to lull the baby Jesus to sleep. "Where were you when my baby had the croup, Neil Peart?!"

This isn't the first time Patton mercilessly took apart a Christmas standard.

I'm sure most of you are well familiar with the work of Youtube user bd594. If you haven't seen his widely popular computer performance of Bohemian Rhapsody, you've probably seen his musically inclined tech somewhere.  Today's gift for Geek Christmas is a well done rendition of The Little Drummer Boy. Share it with your friends!

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By Todd Garbarini

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Having grown up on the Rankin Bass Christmas specials since I was a child, the Yuletide season just isn't the same without a yearly viewing of some of their most enchanting shows. Since the 1960s and 1970s, specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy and The Year Without a Santa Claus were shown on the major television networks. In the late 1980s it became increasingly difficult to see most of these specials unless you had cable television or video cassette recorders as the major networks stopped airing them. With the availability of home video, the shows were inevitably made available to the masses and made great Christmas presents.

The fine folks at Classic Media have released some of these beloved Christmas classics on Blu-ray. In a two-disc set entitled The Original Christmas Classics,...

Lights, camera, Justin Bieber. Christmas has come to Rockefeller Center. The traditional tree-lighting ceremony, the 79th annual, in the midtown Manhattan destination was a cautiously paced, all-star event Wednesday night, with carols delivered by the likes of Bieber, who essentially headlined the event, Michael Bublé (singing "I'll Be Home for Christmas"), Cee Lo Green, Neil Diamond, Carole King, Katharine McPhee and Tony Bennett (the traditional "White Christmas"). Mariah Carey was also seen in a debut video duet with Bieber, for her "All I Want for Christmas." The number resembled a big-budget department-store commercial, although the video's quick cuts made it...