Just last month, Charlie Brown was visited by the Great Paywall, as Apple TV+ announced it had picked up the exclusive rights to Peanuts and all its related content, including the holiday specials A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas. The streamer did offer various stretches of time in late November and mid-December for non-subscribers to watch the specials for free, which is all fine and good if you stream most of your programming. But now even the non-cord cutters among ye can view the specials, as a new broadcast window has opened up.
Apple TV+ and PBS announced today that they’re teaming up for special, ad-free broadcasts of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas. The Turkey Day special will air on PBS and PBS Kids on November 22 at 7:30 p.m. local time/6:30 p.m. CT, while A Charlie Brown Christmas will air on PBS and PBS KIDS on December 13 at 7:30 pm local time/6:30 pm CT. You can check your local PBS listings here. And, beginning November 18, you can dig into A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Apple TV+; the special will be available to stream for free from November 25-27. Starting December 4, A Charlie Brown Christmas will be available on Apple TV+, which non-subscribers can view for free from December 11-13.
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Good. Fuck Tim Apple.
This is great news. The back-lash from Halloween actually did something it seems. But lets not stop here, Apple and PBS. I want to see “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” on TV too!
I will see your obscure Peanuts movie and raise you an “It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown”I miss my boy Spike. I hope he’s doing ok out there in Needles
I watched all the Peanuts specials last year, several for the first time. I can’t believe I had never heard of that one before; you’d think the fact that a live-action-animation-hybrid Peanuts special exists would be brought up all the time.The ones that are truly garbage are the ones that went direct to video (Super Bowl, It’s My Birthday, and Pied Piper. The Happiness Is a Warm Blanket one is good though).
That’s nice (though I’ve always found Charlie Brown Thanksgiving so, so boring).
One. Explain to me why Franklin is forced to sit alone on one side of the table:Two. Woodstock is a bird. Isn’t it cannibalism to eat a turkey?Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is all kinds of messed up.
At least they gave Franklin that comfy slingback chair? And I’d say there’s inconclusive evidence Woodstock is eating any of the turkey. Looks like there are only cartoon carrots and potatoes on it’s plate. But it’s still pretty messed up to be eating dinner with the corpse of one of your own laying dead and stuffed on the table.
Snoopy set up the chairs; ask him.
Charlie Brown eating Linus and Woodstock eating another little bird that can’t fly straight is cannibalism. Woodstock eating a turkey and Charlie Brown eating Snoopy is not cannibalism.
That’s a good point. After all, birds of prey eat smaller birds all the time.
Still, it is a bit jarring to see him consuming the flesh of a bird many times his size (the same way I get a little weirded out feeding my cat beef.)
Not to mention the unsettling glee Woodstock takes in breaking apart a fellow avian’s furcula:
Realizing this is the first step toward vegetarianism.
On the other hand, he does get two bowls of popcorn and three sundays.
Sally wanted to sit near her brother (and next to Linus). Peppermint Patty wanted to sit next to Charlie Brown. Snoopy just sat in the first open chair.
Linus and Marcy are by themselves on their sides as well.
Birds eat each other all the time.
Because 1960’s outrage and cancel culture would have caused millions of people (mostly in the South) to become murderously angry at the sight of a black child sitting beside white children.
I loved Peanuts when I was growing up, and somehow I never knew about the Thanksgiving show until 2008 when I watched it for the first time. It’s bizarre, and I feel like a proper amount of alcohol and weed is the only way to watch it.
oh okay because 2020 wasn’t melancholy enough already.
Underwritten by Dolly Madison snack cakes.
You jest but more than a few of us would scream out loud if they included a vintage Dolly Madison commercial.
For me, it wasn’t even the commercial, just the narrator saying presented by Dolly Madison snack cakes made me feel disproportionately warm.
I guess this is good news but even those of us who leave TV on running in the background as visual white noise (damn you grandma and grandpa) never think about PBS. The Thanksgiving special, by the way, is all the proof you need that Peanuts could not make the TV transition past the sixties but god help me I’ll still watch it.