From ‘Elf’ to Selena Gomez to ’80s divas: 24 movies and TV specials to watch this holiday season
LA TimesWhen you are old and gray, if you are not already, or about to be made prematurely so by the horrors of 2023, and recalling Christmases past, you will not look back fondly on some holiday-themed TikTok or Instagram post, whose very term of success suggests a disease. This year brings forth a second season of “The Santa Clauses”, with the question of who will succeed the Big Man in Red still up in the air; as in nine out of 10 stories in which Santa appears as a character, including the first season of this show, it’s a Save Christmas plot, with Eric Stonestreet very funny as a mad medieval predecessor magically brought into the 21st century, and little Marta Kessler quite frightening as his sidekick, an angry gnome named Olga. Lifetime’s “Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas,” starring Linda Gray, from left, Donna Mills, Loni Anderson, Nicollette Sheridan and Morgan Fairchild. Not even an exception, to judge by the trailer, is Lifetime’s brand new “Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas”, with Donna Mills, Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray and Nicollette Sheridan as a quintet of daytime soap stars reunited for a reality TV weekend, during which they will certainly engineer a match between their producer and director. From Las Vegas hails Barry Manilow’s “A Very Barry Christmas”, in which Bette Midler’s old music director wassails you with yuletide favorites and his own hits.
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