Christmas

Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII – eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying like people did 500 years ago. She is getting into Tudor clothes and inside Tudor minds - discovering the forerunners of some of the Christmas customs we still enjoy today and exploring why other festive traditions fell out of favour.

From the Christmas tree to the Christmas turkey, we’ll reveal how Christmas as we know it has its roots in the Victorian era. We’ll be moving a young family into an authentically Victorian house to experience Christmas as it would have been 150 years ago.

Frazzled and struggling with writer's block, novelist Samantha (Deloach), along with her boyfriend, heads home to her late grandmother's home to spend Christmas. While at home with family, her grandmother's wise words reveal the true meaning of Christmas with Samantha at a time when she most needs encouragement.

Mary Berry loves Christmas more than any other time of year - it's about spending time with family and friends, but mostly it's about helping others to cook! This holiday season Mary opens her kitchen to four eager if somewhat nervous celebrities - Huw Edwards, Dina Asher-Smith, Eleanor Tomlinson and Joe Lycett - all hoping to fine-tune their festive cookery skills. Mary teaches them some of her mouthwatering Christmas recipes that are perfect for entertaining across Christmas week and even on the big day itself.

This Christmas, two of our favourite chefs will go head to head to create an epic Christmas Banquet, in celebration of some of 2017’s real heroes. It’s a Christmas competition with all the trimmings as Gordon Ramsay and Gino D’Acampo battle it out to produce the ultimate festive menu, creating scrumptious starters, magnificent mains and delectable desserts for 100 deserving diners. Tucking in will be members of the public and the emergency services who bravely risked their lives during tragic events, as they went above the call of duty in 2017.

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for food and liquor? Early versions of the heartwarming legend of Santa Claus described him as a horrible devil named Krampus who beat and kidnapped naughty children. In America during the 17th and 18th Centuries, celebrating Christmas was against the law! There's a lot to tell about the history of Christmas, and a lot you may not know.

When Miranda Chester sets off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined her investigation would lead her to both the love of her life, Ian McAndrick, and the family she had always longed for, …

Captain Grace Garland (Mumford), a decorated U.S. veteran, returns home after two tours of Search and Rescue in Afghanistan. After being separated from her beloved K9 partner, Grace must rediscover the magic of Christmas. When she finds herself stranded in …

NANCY O’DELL SERVES AS GRAND MARSHAL FOR THE 87th ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE – The “Largest Christmas Celebration in America” is hosted by popular personalities Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean Cain and Montel Williams, with special co-hosts Elizabeth Stanton and Garrett Clayton. A true Hollywood tradition, the parade features larger-than-life inflatable character balloons, and celebrity-filled cars making the heralded trek down the three-mile parade route down Hollywood Boulevard.

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