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TNT, TBS & truTV Plan To Bring The Holidays You During The Entire Month Of December!



With so many options in the streaming service world, its easy to become spoiled and remember the time when we had to be entertained on a schedule, Especially during the Holiday season. But have no fear, thats where we come in! TNT, TBS and truTV celebrate this holly jolly season with iconic holiday films and episodes throughout December, and we have the entire channel listing and schedules below! Happy Holidays!


On December 17, truTV will feature a new “Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party” episode, celebrating holiday meals and memories. TBS will air all-new Christmas-themed episodes of “American Dad” on December 21 and “The Misery Index” on December 23, as well as festive marathons of “American Dad,” “Family Guy,” “Friends,” “Seinfeld” and “The Big Bang Theory.”


An annual tradition since 1997, TBS and TNT will host a 24-hour marathon of “A Christmas Story” from Christmas Eve to Christmas. This marathon is consistently among television’s highest-rated programs around Christmas, and last year’s marathon reached nearly 35 million viewers across TBS and TNT. This year throughout the marathon, interstitials will feature fan-favorite AEW wrestlers performing a special table read of some of the film’s most iconic scenes. Additionally, the table read will be available to view at TNT.tv and on TNT’s YouTube page.


TBS, TNT and truTV’s holiday programming schedule:


TBS

A CHRISTMAS STORY Friday, December 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, Saturday, December 5 at 6:00 p.m. ET/PT


JINGLE ALL THE WAY Friday, December 4 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, Saturday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. ET/PT, Sunday, December 6 at 5:00 p.m. ET/PT & 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, Saturday, December 12 at 5:30 p.m. ET/PT and Sunday, December 13 at 3:30 p.m. ET/PT 

Christmas. It's the most magical time of year. But while many are bustling to find their children the perfect gifts, others aren't quite ready to adopt the holiday spirit. High-powered businessman Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) loves his family, but he just can't seem to find enough time for wife Liz and son Jamie. But Howard will make it up to Jamie... he'll buy him the toy on every child's list to Santa -- and the hottest action figure of the season -- Turbo Man! Unfortunately, Howard if facing one BIG problem: It's Christmas Eve, and Turbo Man has been sold out since Thanksgiving! Howard's down-to-the-wire trek to find Turbo Man quickly turns into an odyssey wilder than he could have ever imagined. In the course of his seemingly endless Yuletide misadventures, he finds himself in a no-holds-barred fight-to-the-finish with a crazed postman named Myron, who is out to claim the last Turbo Man for his own kid. 


DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

Sunday, December 6 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT and Sunday, December 13 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT


TYLER PERRY'S A MADEA CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, Saturday and December 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET/PT


Madea accompanies her niece, Eileen, to the small town of Buck Tussel to pay a surprise visit to Eileen's daughter, Lacey, who has refused to come home for Christmas. The real reason Lacey is avoiding her judgmental mother is that she has secretly married Connor, a white classmate from college. When Eileen and Madea arrive at Lacey's farm, she tells them that Connor is an employee, but her lie soon spins out of control. Chippy is assigned to a family that includes a boy who is questioning the magic of Christmas. When Chippy finds the assignment a bit challenging, his good friends, Santa, and an unexpected child help him remember why his job is important! Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus with his dog Max made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things.


AMERICAN DAD MARATHON Monday, December 21 at 2:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET/PT


2:30 p.m. ET/PT – "The Best Christmas Story Never Told” 3:00 p.m. ET/PT – "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever” 3:30 p.m. ET/PT – "Rapture's Delight” 4:00 p.m. ET/PT – "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls” 4:30 p.m. ET/PT – “Season's Beatings” 5:00 p.m. ET/PT – “Minstrel Krampus” 5:30 p.m. ET/PT – “Dreaming of a White Porsche Christmas” 6:00 p.m. ET/PT – “Ninety North, Zero West”


FAMILY GUY MARATHON

Monday, December 21 at 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ET/PT

6:30 p.m. ET/PT – “A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas” 7:00 p.m. ET/PT – “Road to the North Pole Part 1” 7:30 p.m. ET/PT – “Road to the North Pole Part 2” 8:00 p.m. ET/PT – “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” 8:30 p.m. ET/PT – “Christmas Guy” 9:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The 2000-Year-Old-Virgin” 9:30 p.m. ET/PT – “How the Griffin Stole Christmas” 


AMERICAN DAD – NEW EPISODE  Monday, December 21 at 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. ET/PT

- 10:00 p.m. ET/PT – “Yule. Tide. Repeat.” – NEW EPISODE  After Stan's plan for the perfect Christmas goes terribly, tragically wrong, he's given a magical opportunity to make things right.

Leading up to the new episode, starting December 1st, fans can go to tbs.com/americandad to experience the American Dad Advent Calendar for daily unlocked content from holidays past and present and play the American Dad Holiday Edition trivia game

- 10:30 p.m. ET/PT – “Santa, Schmanta”


FRIENDS MARATHON Wednesday, December 23 at 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET/PT

-12:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with Phoebe's Dad” -12:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The One Where Rachel Quits” -1:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie” -1:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with the Inappropriate Sister” -2:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with the Routine” -2:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with All the Candy” -3:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with the Holiday Armadillo” -3:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with Monica's Boots” -4:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with the Ross' Step Forward” -4:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The One with Christmas in Tulsa”


SEINFELD  MARATHON Wednesday, December 23 at 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. ET/PT

-5:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The Red Dot” -5:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The Pick” -6:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The Race” -6:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The Gum” -7:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The Strike”


THE BIG BANG THEORY MARATHON Wednesday, December 23 at 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ET/PT -7:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis” -8:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The Santa Simulation”  -8:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The Cooper Extraction” -9:00 p.m. ET/PT – “The Clean Room Infiltration” -9:30 p.m. ET/PT – “The Holiday Summation”


THE MISERY INDEX – NEW EPISODE Wednesday, December 23 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on TBS -“The Misery Index Holiday Special” In this Holiday Special episode of The Misery Index, find out why camels and nativities don't mix, why Santa never goes rock climbing and why Joe is trying to sell caramelized gingerbread taint. All that and festivities a plenty, plus an epic final round worth fifty thousand dollars!


24 HOURS OF A CHRISTMAS STORY

Thursday, December 24 at 8 p.m. ET/PT to Friday, December 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT

Youngster Ralphie Parker spends most of his time dodging a bully and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift, a Red Ryder air rifle. Frequently at odds with his cranky dad but comforted by his doting mother, Ralphie struggles to make it to Christmas Day with his glasses and his hopes intact.


TNT

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999) Thursday, December 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and 10:00 p.m. ET/PT Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story “A Christmas Carol.” A crotchety, old misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart), experiences an epiphany on Christmas Eve when he revisits his wretched past and is permitted to see terrifying glimpses of his future with the help of three spirits and the ghost of his dead business partner.


DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT and 7:30 p.m. ET/PT and Saturday, December 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus with his dog Max made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things.


JINGLE ALL THE WAY

Friday, December 18 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and Saturday, December 19 at 4:02 p.m. ET/PT

Christmas. It's the most magical time of year. But while many are bustling to find their children the perfect gifts, others aren't quite ready to adopt the holiday spirit. High-powered businessman Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) loves his family, but he just can't seem to find enough time for wife Liz and son Jamie. But Howard will make it up to Jamie... he'll buy him the toy on every child's list to Santa -- and the hottest action figure of the season -- Turbo Man! Unfortunately, Howard if facing one BIG problem: It's Christmas Eve, and Turbo Man has been sold out since Thanksgiving! Howard's down-to-the-wire trek to find Turbo Man quickly turns into an odyssey wilder than he could have ever imagined. In the course of his seemingly endless Yuletide misadventures, he finds himself in a no-holds-barred fight-to-the-finish with a crazed postman named Myron, who is out to claim the last Turbo Man for his own kid. 


A CHRISTMAS STORY Monday, December 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and 10:00 p.m. ET/PT


TYLER PERRY'S A MADEA CHRISTMAS Tuesday, December 22 at 3:15 p.m. ET / 12:15 p.m. PT Madea accompanies her niece, Eileen, to the small town of Buck Tussel to pay a surprise visit to Eileen's daughter, Lacey, who has refused to come home for Christmas. The real reason Lacey is avoiding her judgmental mother is that she has secretly married Connor, a white classmate from college. When Eileen and Madea arrive at Lacey's farm, she tells them that Connor is an employee, but her lie soon spins out of control.


24 HOURS OF A CHRISTMAS STORY Thursday, December 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT to Friday, December 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT Youngster Ralphie Parker spends most of his time dodging a bully and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift, a Red Ryder air rifle. Frequently at odds with his cranky dad but comforted by his doting mother, Ralphie struggles to make it to Christmas Day with his glasses and his hopes intact.


truTV

IMPRACTICAL JOKERS: DINNER PARTY – NEW EPISODE  Thursday, December 17 at 10 p.m. ET/PT Let the Jokers ho, ho, host your holiday dinner party. This week, Murr, Q, Sal and Joe reminisce about their Christmas past. In addition, Joe's son Remo gets on the naughty list, while Q's on the nice list for blessing everyone with a musical gift. Plus Joe surprises the other guys with a holiday-themed wardrobe request.

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