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With the Grinch on the fence about returning to New York this November, producer Kevin McCollum is in talks to bring a stage adaptation of the 1954 Irving Berlin movie musical “White Christmas” to Broadway.
McCollum, 46, said he needs concessions from Broadway’s unions to make the $4 million to $4.5 million show viable.
“I [...]

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the October 7th release of T.V. Sets: Holiday Treats, a new single-disc release compiling “8 heart-warming classic TV episodes” from some of the most beloved shows in their library: Family Ties, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Brady Bunch, The Andy Griffith Show, Frasier, Wings and the stalled-on-DVD series Taxi [...]

Shout! Factory has announced that The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet - Christmas With The Nelsons will be roasting on an open DVD player in your household this holiday season! This is a 90-minute collection from the longest-running sitcom on U.S. television (well, for now…The Simpsons is set to pass it in episode count next [...]

Lifetime Networks celebrates Christmas in July, all month long.
The festive programming on the two most popular women’s networks begins
with “Fa La La La Fourth” — Lifetime Television’s Independence Day lineup of
Christmas-only movies airing Friday, July 4, from 9AM-11PM (ET/PT).
Hosted by Melissa Peterman (”Reba”), “Fa La La La Fourth” features talent
including Dylan Walsh, Rob Lowe, Valerie [...]

Nickelodeon Thursday announced that Drake Bell and Josh Peck, stars of the network’s popular teen sitcom Drake & Josh, will co-star in “Drake & Josh: Best Christmas Ever,” an original television movie coming to the network in December.
Filming on the new movie, which was announced Thursday by Marjorie Cohn, Nickelodeon’s, executive vice president, development and [...]

Robert J. Anderson, a former child actor best known for playing the young George Bailey in the 1946 Christmas film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” has died. He was 75.
Known as Bobbie when he was young and Bob as an adult, Anderson died Friday of melanoma at his Palm Springs home, said Stephen Cox, a [...]

The plug may be pulled on the candy canes, Santa characters and toy soldiers that have lit up downtown streets for the past two decades.
There’s a plan in the works to replace the traditional Christmas decorations with “more general winter-oriented designs” as early as this fall.
“In the last few years we’ve got more and more [...]

The holiday-themed movie that was filmed during a whirlwind production schedule last month now isn’t scheduled to be released until Thanksgiving of 2009.
“Last Ounce of Courage,” which will be about a small-town mayor who is fed up with the political correctness of Christmas, originally was planned to be released this Christmas. Officials from Outpost Pictures [...]