If your idea of hell is a channel that plays non-stop Christmas movies, then you might want to move on from this article. But if nothing excites you more than the idea of festive cheer that plays out all day long, then we’ve found just the Christmas TV channel for you. That’s because the GREAT! Romance channel has once again transformed for the holiday season into the GREAT! Christmas TV channel.
Feel like tuning in to some holiday spirit? Then you’re in the right place, with GREAT! ushering in the holiday season with an exclusive programming of Christmas movies. These run all day long, every single day, until early January. Yup, you can keep the Christmas cheer going into the new year!
Here’s the wildest part: It’s been playing Christmas movies on a (seemingly) never-ending loop since as far back as September! That’s right; if you thought we were jumping the shark with announcements of Covent Garden’s Christmas lights and Buckingham Palace’s Christmas pop-up, just think, at the very same time, someone, somewhere, was settling in for a Christmas movie marathon.
In fact, arguably the only bit of festive cheer in London to have beaten the Christmas TV channel is the Harrods Christmas shop. But then, that opened all the way back in August!
Movies to watch on the Christmas TV channel
So, it’s clearly time for a Christmas movie marathon, right? But you might be wondering just which movies they’re playing on the channel. If you’ve conjured up visions of sugar plums screenings of Elf and The Polar Expressyou might be disappointed.
That’s because GREAT! Christmas dabbles pretty much exclusively in the sort of feel-good low-budget TV movies that you might call a ‘Hallmark Christmas movie’. You know what I mean – they’re a bit cheesy; they’re a bit tropey; and maybe they won’t be winning any awards for the acting. But sometimes that’s exactly what we want for Christmas!
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You can expect to catch the likes of Christmas Makeover, Coming Home for Christmas, A Royal Christmas Crushand more as part of the all-day festive screenings. And they feature just the kind of storylines we love at this time of year. Think small towns and people visiting from big-city jobs, a fair bit of bah-humbugging, and plenty of festive magic.
How to watch the GREAT! Christmas channel
Depending on your provider, you’ll find the channel on different, erm, channels. The GREAT! Christmas TV channel is available to watch on Sky, Virgin Media, and Freeview. You can find it on channels 319 (Sky), 424 (Virgin Media), and 52 (Freeview). You can also stream it via Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels.
If you want a bit more choice, you can browse through the Christmas collection on the GREAT! Player and curate your own marathon from all of the holiday films available. (Psst… there’s also a romance section for all manner of Hallmark-esque heart-string-tuggers.)
