Hallmark Christmas Movies (+ other channels) ❤️ comfort & joy

[wabbott]

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And fender-benders in the Wal Mart parking lot.

 

[Imzadi]

The star-studded The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 2025 is on tonight at 8pm ET on ABC and will be available for streaming December 2 on Disney+, Hulu and Disney YouTube.

The celebration is back for its 10th year with a star-studded lineup of performers, including Gwen Stefani, Good Charlotte, Nicole Scherzinger, Trisha Yearwood and more.

 

[RangerPooh]

The star-studded The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 2025 is on tonight at 8pm ET on ABC and will be available for streaming December 2 on Disney+, Hulu and Disney YouTube.

The celebration is back for its 10th year with a star-studded lineup of performers, including Gwen Stefani, Good Charlotte, Nicole Scherzinger, Trisha Yearwood and more.

I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of my daughter. She and a friend got to see Trisha Yearwood perform.

 

[RangerPooh]

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Grocery store shelves will be out of bread and milk, HWY 40 will be a mess! As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time living in states with actual snow and ice, and who can function in snow, I roll my eyes at the level of panic of southerners.

Seriously, I hate Christmas at Graceland. Only rarely does Memphis get snow, and nowhere near what they had in that horribly inaccurate movie.

 

[Imzadi]

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree 2025:

This year's 75-foot Norway Spruce a 75-foot-tall Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York, carries a story rooted in family and tradition. Donated by the Russ family, the tree has been part of their property for over 60 years, serving as the backdrop for countless celebrations. “I’m excited to make more cherished memories with my family and childhood friends as it becomes the world’s Christmas tree,” says Judy Russ, who lives in the historic family home with her 7-year-old son, Liam.

The tree, estimated to be about 75 years old, will be cut on November 6, 2025, and make the 130-mile journey to Rockefeller Center. Once it arrives on November 8, crews will carefully raise it into place on Center Plaza, marking the start of one of New York’s most famous holiday traditions.

For over three decades, head gardener Erik Pauze has been the force behind finding the most famous Christmas tree in the world. Known for his sharp eye and deep love of horticulture, Pauze scouts potential trees year-round across New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and beyond. “What I look for is a tree you’d want in your living room, but on a grander scale,” Pauze says. “It needs to make people smile the second they see it.”

It was Pauze who first visited the Russ family’s property after a photo of the tree made its way to him through a Rockefeller Center security supervisor. “As soon as I saw it, I knew it was perfect,” he recalls. Pauze even returned several times throughout the year to water and care for the tree himself.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, which broadcasts live on NBC, is a beloved New York holiday tradition dating back to 1933, when construction workers first erected a small tree at the site during The Center’s construction. Since then, the lighting has evolved into an international event, signaling the official start of the holiday season in NYC.

This year’s tree lighting ceremony will take place on NBC on Wednesday, December 3, from 8–10 p.m., followed by weeks of visitors gathering beneath the Swarovski star and along the iconic Rink at Rockefeller Center.

(Last year's Christmas tree is below. And it IS called a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree, or whatever is politically correct nowadays.)

The tradition continues:

After being wrapped with more than 50,000 multi-colored, energy efficient LED lights and crowned with a Swarovski star, the tree will be lit during the live broadcast “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 starting at 8pm ET.

The performers at the 2025 Rockefeller Tree Lighting include Reba McEntire (who is also the host), Marc Anthony, Halle Bailey, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, Laufey, New Edition, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, and Gwen Stefani. The Radio City Rockettes will also perform to celebrate their 100th anniversary. The tree will be lit at 9:59pm.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display until mid-January 2026. After the season, the tree will be milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.


If you just want to watch a Hallmark movie on what it takes to find and acquire a perfect tree for the Chicago Christmas tree, Hallmark's Miss Christmas (2017) with Brooke D'Orsay and Marc Blucas is always a good one to watch.

 

[Imzadi]

Grocery store shelves will be out of bread and milk, HWY 40 will be a mess! As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time living in states with actual snow and ice, and who can function in snow, I roll my eyes at the level of panic of southerners.

In southern California, along the mountain roads east of Los Angeles, they force everyone to put chains on their tires when it snows or people will get fined. I had driven cross country, had NY license plates and all-weather tires on my car, and know how to drive in heavy sleet & snow, am careful of black ice, etc. Yet I didn't want to chance getting a traffic ticket for not having chains on my tires, as a trooper there may not know what all-weather tires are. Plus, I had a feeling, the chains would STILL be the law there for ALL cars. I bet even Santa would get a ticket, if he didn't stick to rooftops.

 

[RangerPooh]

In southern California, along the mountain roads east of Los Angeles, they force everyone to put chains on their tires when it snows or people will get fined. I had driven cross country, had NY license plates and all-weather tires on my car, and know how to drive in heavy sleet & snow, am careful of black ice, etc. Yet I didn't want to chance getting a traffic ticket for not having chains on my tires, as a trooper there may not know what all-weather tires are. Plus, I had a feeling, the chains would STILL be the law there for ALL cars. I bet even Santa would get a ticket, if he didn't stick to rooftops.

I used to live in the central sierras, chain control is no joke.

 

[RangerPooh]

The star-studded The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 2025 is on tonight at 8pm ET on ABC and will be available for streaming December 2 on Disney+, Hulu and Disney YouTube.

The celebration is back for its 10th year with a star-studded lineup of performers, including Gwen Stefani, Good Charlotte, Nicole Scherzinger, Trisha Yearwood and more.

After countless rewinding of the Trisha Yearwood segment, we didn't spot our daughter, but did spot the two friends/coworkers that she was with. So she was just out of frame. Now to wait for the Christmas parade to air later this month, as they attended that too.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

What a cool and merry (I pray) experience for your daughter, Ranger Pooh. I hope she and her friend had a time.

 

[RangerPooh]

What a cool and merry (I pray) experience for your daughter, Ranger Pooh. I hope she and her friend had a time.

She had a great time. She had snagged tickets to the filming but wouldn't know who they were seeing perform until the concert. She was like " I saw some country artist named Trisha something". My husband and I were like Trisha Yearwood! Slightly jealous.

Update: We spotted another friend of hers during the Bebe Rexa performance. We sat there rewinding and analyzing footage like it was a crime scene. lol.

 

[WDW_fan_in_TX]

The star-studded The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular 2025 is on tonight at 8pm ET on ABC and will be available for streaming December 2 on Disney+, Hulu and Disney YouTube.

The celebration is back for its 10th year with a star-studded lineup of performers, including Gwen Stefani, Good Charlotte, Nicole Scherzinger, Trisha Yearwood and more.

We caught this tonight. I told DW I thought it was too much of a concert. Like the Christmas Day parade has become. I miss when that was an actual parade and not just a concert in the park. Oh well, I guess I'm just getting to be an old man, lol.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I'm so glad, Ranger Pooh.

Welcome, WDW_fan_in_TX. I have never been too parade patient. My beloved late Grandma loved watching the Rose Parade all day. My Dad and I, God-willing, will enjoy seeing the, Christmas Fantasy Parade again one day at Disneyland. I do prefer simpler events to constant activity or segments.