GREAT! Christmas returns to our screens on Thursday 5th September 2024 so you can get into the festive spirit early!
The channel will bring Christmas films from 8am through to 2am every day until Tuesday 7th January 2025. The channel will replace GREAT! Romance and deliver heartfelt festive movies.
With a line-up of familiar faces, escape the heat and enjoy screen stars such as Rachel Leigh Cook (from rom-com classic ‘She’s All That'), swoon in the snow in ‘A Blueridge Mountain Christmas', watch Lacey Chabert (from iconic ‘Mean Girls' and a Hallmark favourite) rekindle an old romance in ‘The Sweetest Christmas', and Britain’s very own Rachel Shenton (from British soap Hollyoaks), experience love at frost sight in ‘A Very British Christmas'.
Find out more about what to expect from the channel over the coming months:
Theme: Christmas with Love Monday 9th September – Friday 4th October
At 2pm & 4pm every weekday Great! Christmas features our most popular romantic Festive movies.
Theme: Christmas with a Crown Monday 16th – Friday 20th
Swap your paper crown for a real one with a week of royal themed Christmas films at 8pm.
In addition, t’is the season for special themes to make your weekends jolly, every Saturday and Sunday from 12-8pm:
Theme: Christmas Holidays 14th September
There’s snow place like a holiday, with a collection of films all featuring eventful festive trips, including Once Upon a Holiday, where a princess (Brianna Evigan) runs away from her official duties for a couple of days and winds up falling in love – 6pm
Theme: Cooking up Christmas 22nd September
Swap your BBQs for Sugar and Spice and all things nice with a feast of christmas cooking titles, including A Christmas reunion where a New York City executive (Denise Richards), is forced to return to her hometown when she inherits her aunt's bakery – 2pm
Theme: Christmas Wedding Belles 28th September
It’s almost (orna)meant to be with seasonal romance, in A Bride for Christmas, Aiden (Andrew W. Walker) makes a bet with his friends that he can find a bride in time for Christmas – 12pm
Theme: Christmas Parties 29th September
A mistle-toast to the Christmas party season, join (Hallmark favourite) Danica McKellar as she plans the ultimate festive gala in ‘Coming Home for Christmas’ – 8pm
This year, Narrative will also be launching a FAST channel for GREAT! Christmas on Friday 11th October which will be available on NetGem, LG, Samsung TV, Plex, Titan OS and VIDAA.
GREAT! Christmas will also be accessible via the GREAT! Player. The On Demand app can be found on the web, Freeview Play and YouView, Apple TV, Fire TV, and Google Play.
Temporarily replacing GREAT! Romance, the seasonal channel GREAT! Christmas will be available on Freeview 52, Sky 319, and Virgin 424.
