December is Festivi-TV on VisionTV! We’ve got the warmth and wonder of the season all wrapped up for you with 4 weeks of great holiday movies and music. Take a look at some of our programming highlights this year and download the full schedule here.
Christmas Music Specials
Recorded in Toronto’s Zoomer Hall, this special showcases some of Canada’s most cherished singers and musicians, plus favourite holiday songs. Hosted by The New Classical FM’s Kathleen Kajioka with performances by La Jeunesse Youth Orchestra, Voices of Victory Youth Choir, The Victoria Scholars Men’s Ensemble Choir, and Marilyn Lightstone.
DECEMBER 25 at 9PM ET / 6PM PT
Your All Time Classic Hit Parade Christmas
What better way to lift your spirits than with a good sing-along! Join creator and host Marilyn Lightstone, The Zoomer Band with David Warrack on piano and Moshe Hammer on violin, and The Zoomer Players featuring Thom Allison, The Ault Sisters, Judy Marshak, and Simon Spiro as they perform hits like Sleigh Ride, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Little Drummer Boy, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, and Jingle Bells.
DECEMBER 22 at 8:30PM ET / 5:30PM PT
Gaither Vocal Band: All Heaven and Nature Sing
Gospel Music Hall of Fame members the Gaither Vocal Band ring in the holidays with joyful harmonies and signature style performing Christmas classics Away In a Manger, Silver Bells and White Christmas, as well as new seasonal songs.
DECEMBER 22 at 9PM ET / 6PM PT
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Great Christmas Movies
Christmas Comes To Willow Creek
John Scheider and Tom Wopat of Dukes of Hazzard fame star as feuding brothers on a crucial, unexpected winter mission to transport a truckload of supplies from California to a small, depressed Alaskan town. Can the spirit of Christmas help heal old wounds and bring a family back together?
DECEMBER 2 AT 4PM ET / 1PM PT
DECEMBER 13 AT MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
Lost Letter Mysteries: Signed, Sealed, Delivered For Christmas
With a duty to deliver every last letter before Christmas, the beloved quartet of post office detectives – Oliver (Eric Mabius), Shane (Kristin Booth), Rita (Crystal Lowe) and Norman (Geoff Gustafson) – are working around the clock to redirect Santa’s mail. When they receive an emotional last-minute plea, they must delay their own travel plans to make sure one little girl doesn’t lose her Christmas joy.
DECEMBER 2 & 23 AT 2PM ET / 11AM PT
DECEMBER 14 AT MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
Beau Bridges and Richard Thomas star in this heartfelt tale of a photographer with picture perfect proof that reindeer can fly and really do live at a magical North Pole village with Santa Claus. Can the villagers prevent him from revealing all and instigating the end of Christmas?
DECEMBER 9 AT 4PM ET / 1PM PT
DECEMBER 15 AT MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
In this joyful film destined to become a holiday classic, George, a developmentally-challenged 20 year-old with a big love for animals, convinces his overprotective father that they should foster a friendly yellow lab named “Christmas” over the holidays. When George’s father sees the strong and immediate bond between man and man’s best friend, he begins to see his son in a new light.
DECEMBER 25 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
Winona Ryder, in an Oscar® nominated role, and Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon star in this “affectionate, superbly acted” family favorite based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic Civil War era novel about 19th-century family life, strength and feminine independence.
DECEMBER 16 at 4PM ET / 1PM PT
DECEMBER 13 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
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From December 4 -7 at Midnight ET, discover the delicious, rip-roaring movies based on the cartoons of Ronald Searle. It’s a VisionTV British Christmas tradition you won’t see anywhere else on TV!
St. Trinian’s is like no academy for young ladies ever imagined by educators! The headmistress Miss Millicent Fritton is often tipsy, the school is heavily in debt, the teachers haven’t been paid for months, and the pupils have free rein, striking terror into the local residents and police. But there is new hope!
DECEMBER. 4 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
The girls of St. Trinian’s win a European tour, getting involved in love, stolen diamonds and plenty of chaos along the way.
DECEMBER. 5 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s
A compassionate professor takes over St. Trinian’s after the girls burn the school down, but there is more to his plans than meets the eye.
DECEMBER. 6 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery
The girls confront a hapless gang of crooks trying to retrieve stashed loot.
DECEMBER 7 at MIDNIGHT ET / 9PM PT
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However you celebrate, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy holiday from all of us at VisionTV!