It's a bit hard to believe that we're only six days away from Christmas, but here we are. TCM's holiday movie marathon is starting this evening in prime time, and will be continuing right through to the start of prime time on Christmas day itself. Once again, however, the Christmas programming concludes at 8:00 PM on December 25, which has always seemed a bit odd to me. Thursdays on TCM this month have been for movies dealing with heaven, if you will, and the final Thursday night in December will start with A Matter of Life and Death at 8:00 PM.
But that's still almost a week away, so looking at the Christmas movies seems a bit more relevant right now. The marathon kicks off with something that definitely is a Christmas movie, Holiday Affair at 8:00 PM today. Hard to believe that it's been 15 years since I first blogged about it.
One of the few "new to me" movies this year will be Prancer, which is on the schedule for Dec. 20 at noon. Gotta make a point to record that, although YouTube TV seems to want to limit how far ahead it goes on my Roku box. Apparently, Google did something that makes it an issue for the base-level devices like mine with less RAM.
Noir Alley is taking a week off, I think, but the late night spot between Saturday and Sunday does have Lady in the Lake (midnight between Dec. 20 and Dec. 21). It's not getting a repeat at 10:00 AM Sunday.
I don't remember the Clara Bow film Call Her Savage (10:00 PM Dec. 21) having a Christmas scene, but then it's been ages since I've seen it, having blogged about back in 2008. Maybe it's time for a re-watch.
The daypart of Dec. 23 is a bunch of stuff that's only set around Christmas and not traditional fare, which returns for the 24th along with some repeats, such as a second showing of Holiday Affair (Dec. 24, 4:15 PM).
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