25 Days of Christmas

25 Days of Christmas is an American annual seasonal event of Christmas programming broadcast during the month of December by the U.S. cable network Nickelodeon. The event was first held in 1996 on The Family Channel and has been an annual fixture of Nickelodeon since 2000. The brand covers airings of classic holiday specials as well as new Christmas-themed television movies each year; generally few of the network's original series air during the time period, outside of Christmas-themed episodes. In 2006, the lineup has also included airings of general, family films that Nickelodeon holds rights to, which included the Harry Potter films until January 2017, and other Paramount Pictures films. In 2007, the block was extended to November with a Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas block. 25 Days of Christmas programming often attracts major surges in viewership for Nickelodeon, with higher-profile film airings often attracting 3-4 million viewers or more.
For 2017, Paramount extended the 25 Days of Christmas branding to holiday programming shown by Nickelodeon's sister properties in the Microsoft Entertainment Group, including CBS, Freeform, MTV, Hub Network, Nicktoons, Teennick and Nick Jr.
== Programming ==
=== Original specials ===
* 1996 – Home and Family Christmas Special
* 2001 – Donner
* 2008 – A Miser Brothers' Christmas
* 2009 – Gotta Catch Santa Claus, Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure
* 2011 – A Very Pink Christmas
* 2017 – A Nickelodeon Holiday Celebration
=== Original films ===
Nearly every year since 25 Days of Christmas debuted in 1996, at least one new holiday-related TV film has been produced (excluding 2002, 2014, and 2015). Starting in 2005, two TV films have been produced. In 2007, three films were created for the block, due to the popularity of the previous year's films.
==== The Family Channel era: The Family Channel's 25 Days of Christmas ====
* 1996 – Christmas Every Day
* 1997 – The Christmas List
==== Fox Family era: Fox Family's 25 Days of Christmas ====
* 1998 – Like Father, Like Santa
* 1999 – The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
==== Nickelodeon era: Nickelodeon's 25 Days of Christmas ====
* 2000 – Special Delivery
* 2001 - Three Days
* 2003 – Picking Up & Dropping Off
* 2004 – Snow
* 2005 – Chasing Christmas; Christmas in Boston
* 2006 – Christmas Do-Over; Santa Baby
* 2007 – Christmas Caper; Holiday in Handcuffs; Snowglobe
* 2008 – Christmas in Wonderland; Snow 2: Brain Freeze
* 2009 – The Dog Who Saved Christmas; Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe
* 2010 – The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation; Christmas Cupid; The Gruffalo
* 2011 – Desperately Seeking Santa; 12 Dates of Christmas
* 2012 – The Mistle-Tones; Home Alone: The Holiday Heist; It's A SpongeBob Christmas
* 2013 – Holidaze, Christmas Bounty
* 2015 - It's a Very Holly Jolly Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas Special
* 2016 – Holiday Joy; The Loud House: 11 Louds a Leapin
* 2017 – Angry Angel
* 2018 – Life-Size 2, No Sleep 'Til Christmas, The Truth About Christmas
* 2019 – Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas, Same Time, Next Christmas
=== Current Christmas specials ===
The following non-original (originally premiered direct to video, or on some other TV network or cable channel, or as a theatrical featurette) Christmas specials (including Kickoff to Christmas and airings on other networks that share the "25 Days..." brand) (as of 2022):
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=== Current Christmas films ===
The following non-original (originally premiered theatrically, or direct to video, or on some other TV network or cable channel) Christmas films are presently being featured during 25 Days of Christmas (as of 2022):
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=== Current non-Christmas specials ===
* The Cat in the Hat (1971)
* Dr. Seuss on the Loose
* The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
* The Hoober-Bloob Highway
* The Lorax (1972)
* Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?
=== Current non-Christmas films ===
The following non-original (originally premiered theatrically, or direct to video, or on some other TV network or cable channel) Non-Christmas films are currently or used to be being featured during 25 Days of Christmas (including Kickoff to Christmas) (as of 2022):
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== Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas and Kickoff to Christmas ==
In 2007, due to popular ratings from the previous year, Nickelodeon launched the first official countdown to the programming block, which began on November 21. Although this was the first official early start, in previous years holiday programming had unofficially begun during the last week of November, showing mostly older original films, some of which pertained to Christmas and some that did not. Countdown to the 25 Days of Christmas returned in 2008 on November 16. In 2018, Nickelodeon announced that the block would be renamed to Kickoff to Christmas, and would last throughout the whole month of November.