24 Nov 2014 10:48 AM PT

 

AMC

The “AMC Home for the Holidays” movie marathon begins Monday, December 1 and continues through Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25. The marathon will feature two holiday films back-to-back in primetime, including Home Alone 2:Lost in New York, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street and Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas. View Schedule

AMC will also air special holiday marathons throughout December, including:

* AMC Celebrates: White Christmas 60th Anniversary – Friday, December 12 beginning at 7pm and featuring back-to-back airings of White Christmas

* AMC Celebrates: Miracle on 34th Street (1994) 20th Anniversary – Tuesday, December 16 beginning at 8pm and featuring back-to-back airings of Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

* Christmas Movie Marathon –  Monday, December 22 beginning at 9am and continuing through Wednesday, December 24. Featuring Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), White Christmas, The Nativity Story, The Santa Clause 2, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

* Christmas with the Duke – Wednesday, December 24 beginning at 7pm and continuing through Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25). Featuring films starring Academy Award-winner John Wayne, including Big Jake, Rio Bravo, Cahill US Marshall, Chisum, The Horse Soldiers, The Quiet Man, The Cowboys, True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Searchers

 

EL REY

Join El Rey Network for a Way of the Turkey Thanksgiving kung fu marathon that brings you 48 hours of some of the greatest kung fu films of our time, airing Thursday, November 27th starting at 6 AM ET and concluding on Saturday, November 29th at 3:15 AM ET.

The marathon will begin at the crack of dawn with Challenge of the Masters on Thursday, November 27th at 6 AM ET, and culminate with Blood Brothers on Saturday, November 29th at 3:15 AM ET. El Rey Network will also honor film star and martial arts master Bruce Lee, airing his final film Enter the Dragon on what would have been his 74th birthday.

The films will air in the following order:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th

• Challenge of the Masters at 6 AM ET – A young man (Gordon Liu) wants to learn kung fu and to enter the traditional Lion Dance Festival. In the midst of all of this is a mysterious killer with a lethal death kick. This story teaches the essence of what true kung fu is all about.
• The Deadly Breaking Sword at 8 AM ET – The Deadly Breaking Sword elevated director Sun Chung to the martial arts director ranks of Chang Cheh. Starring the incomparable Ti Lung and Jackie Chan’s kung-fu comedic rival Alexander Fu Sheng, acclaimed fight choreographer Tang Chia had a field day increasing the stars’ venomous fighting appeal. Armed with the “Deadly Breaking Sword” technique, Tuen Cheng-tsin (Ti Lung) unites with thief Ko Mun (Alexander Fu Sheng) to defeat an assassin being “acupuncturingly” controlled by the evil Dr. Kuo.
• Enter the Dragon at 10:12 AM ET (7:12 PT) –  the time Bruce Lee was born on  this day in 1940 in San Francisco, the year and hour of the Dragon)A martial arts expert named Lee is hired by a government agency to infiltrate the operation of a criminal, organizing a martial arts tournament to front his illegal drugs empire. Han, the leader of this operation, is a former member of Lee’s Shaolin Temple turned rogue and Lee is considered thebest candidate to enter the tournament as a competitor, giving him the opportunity to investigate.
• All Men Are Brothers at 12:30 PM ET – This is the long-awaited sequel to the martial arts blockbuster “Water Margin“, which was released in America on video as “Seven Blows of the Dragon.” So now, finally, its many international fans can see this action-packed follow-up, based on one of China’s most enduring 14th Century novels. Also known as “Seven Soldiers of Kung Fu” and “108 Heroes,” it is truly an epic by any name, featuring a cast of perennial kung fu favorites, and no less than four action choreographers!
• The Kung-Fu Instructor at 2:45 PM ET –The Kung-fu Instructor was director Sun Chung’s loose homage to Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo where unlike hero Sanjuro being a gruff,  snarling, drunk swordsman looking for a drink, beloved actor Ti Lung plays an upright, righteous, weapon instructor looking to keep his limbs. Sun became the first Shaw Brothers’ director to use a Steadicam giving the action a unique brand of tension and rhythm. Celebrated martial arts choreographer Tang Chia did wonders with the pole fights.
• Ten Tigers of Kwangtung at 5:00 PM_ET – Two men seek to avenge the death of their relative, who was searching forthe Anti-Change leader. They locate five students who were trained by the Ten tigers. As they talk, you learn how the Ten Tigers got involved.
• The Deadly Breaking Sword at 7:00 PM ET – [See description above]
• All Men Are Brothers at 9:15 PM ET –  [See description above]
• The Kung-Fu Instructor at 11:30 PM ET –  [See description above]

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28th

Kid from Kwangtung at 1:45 AM ET –  Respected actor and action choreographer Hsu Hsia didn’t waste his chance to direct — inviting three other kung-fu designers to help on this
fight-filled thriller. Wang Yu, co-star of such classics as Dirty Ho and The Kid With A Tattoo, here takes center stage as a young rascal caught between master martial arts actor Jen Shih-kuan (Once Upon A Time In China) and violent Huang Cheng-li (Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow). From there on, it’s one masterful kung-fu bout after another.

Challenge of the Masters at 4:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung at 6:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Kid from Kwangtung at 8:15 AM ET – [See description above]

Mad Monkey Kung Fu at 10:30 AM ET – Liu Chia Liang and Kara Hui Ying Hung star as traveling stage performers in an opera troupe. They wander into a town where an evil rich man (Lo Lieh) falls for his sister and frames him for the rape of his wife, so that his sister will agree to be his concubine. He takes a mischievous, but kind-hearted street kid (Hsiao Ho) under his wing and teaches him the secrets of “Monkey-boxing”.

Legendary Weapons of China at 1 PM ET – Foreigners have invaded China and the Boxer Rebellion has begun. The kung fu schools band together against their new enemy – the Gun. The head of the I-Ho Society Lei Kung (Liu Chia Liang) disbands his school, knowing that they’re no match against the foreign weapons and goes into hiding as a woodcutter. Masters from other school send hired killers after him to silence him because they want others to believe that kung fu practitioners are invincible against guns.

Golden Swallow at 3:15 PM ET –  The indomitable martial arts team of director Chang Cheh and stunt choreographer Liu Chia-liang bring the Golden Swallow of King Hu’s Come Drink With Me back to life again in this sequel of heartbreaking romance, intrigue and stunning action. Cheng Pei-pei’s Golden Swallow finds her peaceful life shattered when an unrequited suitor starts a killing spree in her good name, the two men in her life also race towards a final showdown.

Blood Brothers at 5:30 PM ET – Set in the waning years of the Ching Dynasty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and actors to superstar status. In fact, Ti Lung won Taiwan’s Golden Horse Award for Outstanding Performance as the challenging role of a jealous provincial governor who kills his friend in order to steal the man’s wife.

Mad Monkey Kung Fu at 8:30 PM ET – [See description above]

Legendary Weapons of China at 10:45 PM ET – [See description above]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29th

Golden Swallow at 1:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Blood Brothers at 3:15 AM ET – [See description above]

Join El Rey Network for a Kaiju Christmas marathon that brings you over 48 hours of giant monster mania featuring the original King of the Monsters, Godzilla. El Rey Network is celebrating the iconic fire-breather with a mega marathon that befits this behemoth’s pop culture impact. The Godzilla marathon stomps into homes with the original film that started it
all, Gojira on Wednesday, December 24th at 6 PM ET and culminates with Godzilla VS. Biollante on Saturday, December 27th at 3:45 AM ET.

 

The Kaiju Christmas Godzilla films will air in the following order:

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24th

Gojira at 6 PM ET – In the very first Godzilla film a 400-foot-tall mutant dinosaur called Gojira, awakened from the depths of the sea, becomes a rampaging nuclear nightmare, complete with glowing dorsal fins and fiery, radioactive breath.  Crushing ships, villages, and buildings in his wake, Gojira marches toward Tokyo, bringing all of the country’s worst nightmares back until an evil more terrible bomb — capable of sucking all the oxygen from the sea — returns the monster to its watery grave.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters at 8:15PM ET – American reporter Steve Martin witnesses a 400-foot amphibious monster, brought back to life by underwater nuclear testing, go on a rampage through Tokyo. An eccentric scientist does his best to destroy the beast with his heretofore discredited invention, the Oxygen Destroyer.

Rodan at 10:30 PM ET – A giant pterodactyl whose wings create massive, destructive winds as it flies by makes its way to Japan.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 25th

Ghidorrah: The Three Headed Monster at 12:15 AM ET – The citizens of Tokyo are subjected to an ill-tempered atomic mutant: the triple-headed Ghidrah, who breathes electric volts in all directions. Coming to Tokyo’s rescue is Mothra, but Ghidrah proves too much for the outsized insect. Fortunately, Godzilla and Rodan stop fighting each other to help Mothra vanquish Ghidrah.

Godzilla Raids Again at 2:15 AM ET – Tsukioka and Kobayashi fly scout planes for a small fishing fleet, based in Osaka. A mechanical problem forces Kobayashi to set his plane down on remote Iwato island, and as he and Tsukioka are trying to make repairs, they are drawn to the sound of a horrendous conflagration and discover two enormous dinosaurs battling each other amid the snowy wastes of the island.

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero at 4:00 AM ET – Following discovery of the mysterious Planet X in our solar system, a joint U.S./Japanese space exploratory mission is organized. The explorers discover aliens who claim their planet has been under constant attack from the powerful Monster Zero. The aliens suggest a deal with the Earthlings: if they can “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan to help rid their planet of Ghidrah, they will cure all of humankind’s diseases in return. Of course, this is actually an elaborate ruse to rid the Earth of its monstrous defenders,
leaving it vulnerable to invasion.

Godzilla vs. Mothra at 6:00 AM ET – A battle royale between two of Japan’s most dangerous threats.

Godzilla’s Revenge at 8:00 AM ET – A precocious little boy has real-life traumas including harassment by bullies and kidnapping by a gang of bank robbers. He escapes these dilemmas
mainly by taking frequent naps, during which he dreams of journeys to Monster Island to partake in Godzilla’s exploits. He also befriends Godzilla’s son, Minya, offering him some advice on how to defeat the monsters which have been pushing him around. Apparently the boy draws some kind of inspiration from these dreams and finds the bravery to outwit the kidnappers and make peace with the bullies.

Terror of Mechagodzilla at 9:45 AM ET – A race of malevolent aliens bent on world domination unleash the ultimate weapon of destruction on mankind, leaving them with no hope for survival but the power of the mighty Godzilla.

Godzilla vs. Biollante at 11:30 AM ET – After rising from his volcanic grave, Godzilla is threatened by a mutated rosebush.

Gojira at 1:45 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla: King of the Monsters at 4:00 PM ET – [See description above]

Rodan at 6:30 PM ET – [See description above]

Ghidorrah: The Three Headed Monster at 8:15 PM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla Raids Again at 10:15 PM ET – [See description above]

FRIDAY DECEMBER 26th

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero at 12:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla vs. Mothra at 2:15 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla’s Revenge at 4:15 AM ET – [See description above]

Terror of Mechagodzilla at 6:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla vs. Biollante at 7:45 AM ET – [See description above]

Gojira at 10:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla: King of the Monsters at 12:15 PM ET – [See description above]

Rodan at 2:30 PM ET – [See description above]

Ghidorrah: The Three Headed Monster at 4:15 PM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla Raids Again at 6:15 PM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla vs. Monster Zero at 8:00 PM ET – See description above]

Godzilla vs. Mothra at 10:15 PM ET – [See description above]

SATURDAY DECEMBER 27th

Godzillas Revenge at 12:15 AM ET –  [See description above]

Terror of Mechagodzilla at 2:00 AM ET – [See description above]

Godzilla vs. Biollante at 3:45 AM ET –  [See description above]

 

ION

Merry Ex-Mas  Premieres Sunday, December 7, at 9/8c –  When misleading photos are published of security company chief Jessie Rogers purportedly caught in a love nest with his rock star client, his humiliated  wife, Noëlle, throws him out of the house and swiftly files for divorce.   Unable to convince her of his innocence, Jessie fights in vain to win Noëlle  back. A year later at the family ski cabin, a Christmastime blizzard  snowbounds Jessie, his daughter, ex-mother-in-law, Noëlle and her wealthy  suitor, Flynn, who is plotting a surprise wedding.

Cast: Dean Cain, Kristy Swanson, Lochlyn Munro, Shannon Kummer, Sharon  Thomas Cain, Jodi Lyn O�Keefe, Ernie Hudson, Rebecca Grant

 

A Christmas Kiss II  Premieres Saturday, December 13, at 9/8c –  At a Christmastime event, Jenna shares an impromptu, unforgettable kiss  under the mistletoe with the dashing Cooper Montgomery, a billionaire  playboy who recently returned to the city. Although she doesn’t know him,  Cooper learns that Jenna works for Cooper’s sister at the designer fashion  house founded by their dad. Fearful of getting hurt in another relationship, Jenna vows to resist Cooper’s charms and feigns a romance with her  heartbroken next door neighbor. As the two begin spending more time  together, Jenna realizes that Cooper’s affection is real, but still worries  that he won’t be able to shed his former ways.

Cast: Elisabeth Harnois, Adam Mayfield, Elisabeth Röhm, Lola Glaudini,  Jonathan Bennett, Celesta Hodge, Ray Laska

 

A Perfect Christmas List  Premieres Sunday, December 14, at 9/8c –  Just two weeks before Christmas, Sara Smith gets a call from home about her  grandmother Evie, who has been sent to the hospital. Having always been  close, the health scare is enough to get Sara to do the unthinkable… come  home for Christmas. While Sara plans to get a hotel room for her stay, her  mother won’t allow it. Sara eventually relents, but it’s clear that time has  not repaired their relationship, and her mother returns to her overbearing  ways. With her handsome doctor’s approval, the convalescing Evie conjures up  a curious challenge. As a “last wish,” she tasks her daughter and granddaughter with list of festive accomplishments to do together before Christmas, hoping that the adventure of the experience will repair their relationship. Along the way, Sara discovers an unlisted Christmas adventure  with Evie’s physician.

Cast: Ellen Hollman, Marion Ross, Aaron Hill, Beth Broderick, Richard Karn

 

Back to Christmas  Premieres Saturday, December 20, at 9/8c  –  Saddened about spending another Christmas alone, Ali meets Ginny, a quirky  and spunky woman, at a diner on Christmas Eve. Ali tells Ginny that she was  to be married on New Year’s Eve last year, but over the course of the  holidays she and her fiancé unexpectedly split. When Ali explains that she would do everything differently if she could go back in time, Ginny tells her that “sometimes people do get second chances.” The following morning,  Ali wakes up to find herself transported back to that Christmas before her planned wedding. While she sets out to avoid the mistakes of her past, she learns that changing the course of history is no easy task.

Cast: Kelly Overton, Michael Muhney, Jonathan Patrick Moore, Jennifer Elise Cox, Moses Jacob Storm, Gloria Loring, Mark Hutter

Pivot

Take Part Live  “Giving Back” Episode  Premieres Tuesday, December 2 at  10pmET/7pmPT –  Take Part Live is an interactive, nightly news show where viewers get informed and get  involved. Every night, our hosts Meghan McCain, Jacob Soboroff, and Baratunde Thurston address the hottest headlines, ripped right from the twitter feed, in an environment meant to invite the audience to  take part, live. They’ll debate the nuances, exchange POVs, and sound off on  the issues that mean the most to them in a rowdy, intelligent, hour-long
conversation.