We’re kicking off the holiday season with 36 days of festive, family-friendly programming starting with the Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas from November 20 - 30, 2011, and then 25 Days of Christmas from December 1 - 25, 2011. We’ve got all-new original Christmas-themed movies as well as the return of holiday favorites. Enjoy the best time of the year with 25 Days of Christmas exclusives, such as an original theme song and video from hit country music artists, The Band Perry; two holly, jolly sweepstakes; and many other very merry digital treats.

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This year Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas which will feature the ABC Family original movie premiere of Desperately Seeking Santa on Sunday, November 27 at 8/7c. Laura Vandervoort (V, Smallville) stars as an ambitious young marketing executive who dreams up the ticket to Christmas sales: a sexy Santa contest. Teenage girls and their moms flock to her mall when the gorgeous winner of the contest becomes a local hero, sending sales through the roof. She counted on this new Santa to win her a promotion - not win her heart, complicate her life and question everything she ever wanted. In addition, we're proud to bring the wooftastic holiday movie The Search for Santa Paws to television for the first time on Monday, November 21 at 9/8c.

25 Days of Christmas is our biggest event of the year, and we have  the world premiere of the original movie, 12 Dates of Christmas, starring Amy Smart (Just Friends, The Butterfly Effect) and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Franklin & Bash, NYPD Blue). Premiering Sunday, December 11 at 8/7c, 12 Dates of Christmas follows a young woman who re-lives the same first date on Christmas Eve over and over again until she learns to open up her world to new things and stop living in the past.