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AMC Kick’s Off The Holiday Season With Annual “BEST CHRISTMAS EVER” Programming Event Beginning Today Through December 25th

AMC’s annual “Best Christmas Ever” programming event returns this holiday season with a slate of 835 hours of holiday classic films and family favorites airing all day, every day on AMC now through December 25th.

AMC will be the exclusive home to such holiday favorites as National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Polar Express, Love Actually, Four Christmases, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Ella Enchanted, Frosty’s Winter Wonderland,Twas the Night Before Christmas, Jack Frost, and Legend of Frosty the Snowman, among many others.

“Best Christmas Ever” has been a major ratings success for AMC. December viewership of the network during prime time has increased 39 percent in total viewers and 79 percent in adults 25-54 since AMC launched “Best Christmas Ever” in 2018.  Video on Demand and TVE viewership of top film titles like Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and The Polar Express has been remarkably strong and set records for the entire year.

Films and family favorites included in AMC’s “Best Christmas Ever” include:

  • 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue
  • All I Want for Christmas
  • The American President
  • Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure
  • Buster & Chauncey’s Silent Night
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Christmas in Connecticut (1945 & 1992)
  • The Christmas Shoes
  • A Christmas Story 2
  • A Dennis The Menace Christmas
  • Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular
  • Elf
  • Ella Enchanted
  • The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
  • Four Christmases
  • Fred Claus
  • Free Birds
  • Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
  • Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
  • Gremlins
  • Groundhog Day
  • Happy Feet
  • A Holiday to Remember
  • How Murray Saved Christmas
  • Jack Frost (1979 & 1998)
  • Joyful Noise
  • Legend of Frosty the Snowman
  • The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold
  • The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
  • The Little Drummer Boy Book II
  • Love Actually
  • Love the Coopers
  • The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
  • Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You
  • Merry Madagascar
  • Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood
  • A Miracle on Christmas Lake
  • Miracles from Heaven
  • Nanny McPhee
  • Nanny McPhee Returns
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  • National Lampoon’s Vacation
  • National Lampoon’s European Vacation
  • The Nativity Story
  • Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
  • Pinocchio’s Christmas
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  • The Polar Express
  • Richie Rich
  • Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
  • Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
  • RV
  • Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
  • Scrooged
  • Snow Day
  • The Sons of Mistletoe
  • To Grandmother’s House We Go
  • ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
  • Vegas Vacation
  • White Christmas
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  • Wish for Christmas
  • The Year Without A Santa Claus
  • Zookeeper
  • The Great Christmas Light Fight (Seasons 3-6)

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