Chuck Jones’ animated holiday classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, featuring Boris Karloff as the narrator, airs on NBC, tomorrow, Nov. 27, 2020 at 8:00 PM EST and 7:00 CST. That’s one that Apple didn’t steal.
I got to experience a first grader reading the book to her class on Monday. I added the song when she requested it. I had our copy handy in case she tripped over words, but it didn’t happen. She even added clever asides, which she learned to do from the school librarian.
I think in recent years NBC has aired How the Grinch Stole Christmas twice; once in a half-hour slot in which it is edited down for additional commercial time compared to airings of yesteryear, and then a second time unedited as the lead in to the live action movie version. No promises that will happen this year, but an FYI.
Apple TV+ got a fair amount of blowback for taking It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown from broadcast TV and responded by striking a deal with PBS to also air the traditional Peanuts specials they grabbed up. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on my PBS station earlier this month and A Charlie Brown Christmas is scheduled to air on December 13.
I’ve been wondering about Who theology. Since they have Christmas, doesn’t that imply that there was a fairly-humanoid-but-not-quite-human Who Jesus? Lived in Whorusalem and was whocified? Do Who who do not accept him into their properly-sized hearts go to Who Hell where they are roasted like beasts?