Holiday Channel Inclusive Seasonal Programming

Rachel Axler
3 min readDec 20, 2019

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This Christmas season, the Holiday Channel has a little surprise up its stockings! We’re bringing diversity home for the holidays with some special, inclusive programming. So trade in your eggnog for a nice, warm mug of whatever a latke is, and curl up in front of the fireplace for A Very Inclusive Christmas!

Holly Jolly Hanukkah
Christy, a single mom-Jew and the struggling CEO of The Little Holly Jolly Hanukkah Ornaments Company, meets Kristoffer, a small-town rabbi who was sent to downsize Christy’s company. At first, the two are rivals, but then Christy and Kristoffer get to know each other better, and Jewish ensues.

A Hanukkah for Christmas
Christie, a single mom who’s a big city journalist for a small town greeting card company, takes a leap of faith and moves back to her small, snowy Jewish town to pursue her passion for leaps of faith. When she arrives, she discovers that her new next-door neighbor is her old high-school flame, Corey Kringle, a high-powered Jewish evergreen farmer. Will they figure out how to get along before the big family dinner on Hanukkah Eve?

Jingle Jew Blood
When Kristy, a double mom and CEO of an apple cart, is accidentally infused with Jewish DNA during a routine Christmas blood transfusion, she forgets how to sing Jingle Bells! Luckily, a visit home to snowy Ohio-ho-ho, plus a surprise encounter with an old flame who is secretly a greeting card company, help bring back her Christmas spirit.

Don’t Stand Under the Mistletoe With Anyone Else But Me (I’m Jewish)
Crissty Belle and Landon “Bible-Thumper” McFoot used to be a world-class songwriting team. Their hit single, “A Kissletoe Under the Mistletoe,” rocketed them to international fame several years back, after which Crissty gave up music forever and became an ophthalmic surgeon. Landon continues to pursue his musical dreams, but struggles in Crissty’s absence. But when a freak snow accident leaves Landon without eyeballs, fate brings him back into the capable hands of Crissty, and the magic of the holiday season heals all wounds…or does it? PS Crissty is half-Jewish on her mother’s side.

The Hanukkah Clause
Single mom and actual reindeer Chrystie heads back to her frosty Vancouver-for-Vermont hometown for the holidays, but things get complicated when she is forced to team up with her ex, Patrick, at the town’s annual Jew hunt.

Accountant Your Blessings
It’s Holiday Time for Jewish people David Cohen and Christina Cohen (not related). But how will they celebrate Holiday when there’s a big account they need to close at their money job? Luckily, a chimney visit from a non-holiday-specific magical fat man with a white beard and a red hat turns it all around, just in time for Holiday!

A Menorah In The Background
Our Holiday Channel Very Merry Christmas Spectacular is back!! Featuring songs, skits and star performances by Kenny Loggins, Kacey Musgraves, Kenny Longgraves, music, Kermit the frog, Blake Shelton, Kermy Froggins, Blacey Shusgraves, Santa Claus and the Santaland Choir, and a very realistic CGI menorah in the background. It’s a spectacular sure to make you say, “wait, why CGI?”

A Yuletide Secret
The secret is that Jesus was Jewish.

USPS I Love Yule (Buy More Stamps!)
Krisstee, who lives in Christmas, sends a Santa care package to her cousin in the military. But when the package is delivered to a handsome soldier (not her cousin, who isn’t that handsome), it begins an overseas correspondence that changes everything. But when the handsome soldier responds in Hebrew, it changes everything. But when Krisstee uses her friend’s brother’s neighbor’s Hebrew person to translate the letter, it also changes everything. But when Krisstee writes back, everything changes. A beautiful Hanukkah fable, brought to you by the good folks at stamps.com.

An Attempt At Kwanzaa
Married childless baker, Chrhistteey Singlemom, is swamped with client things for the CEO job. Her handsome assistant, Rudolf, is making things worse, because he’s very handsome, but they have nothing in common! Then, on a snowy work trip carriage ride through the city, they realize that neither of them knows anything about Kwanzaa. They google it for the rest of the movie.

Evergreen Hearts and Snowflake Kisses
A lesbian coupl — THIS MOVIE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SCHEDULE, DUE ONLY TO SCHEDULING AND NOTHING ELSE.

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