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New Animated Winter Holiday Specials for 2025

A fresh wave of animated holiday specials arrives for 2025, ranging from Disney’s return to Prep & Landing to Japan’s winter anime events and the BBC’s storybook charm. This year splits cleanly between North America’s glossy franchises and the more eclectic creations from the rest of the world. Here’s a look at the biggest new releases bringing warmth to the season.

Winter Animated Holiday SpecialsWhen the end of the year approaches, just what’s offered on television (or being streamed) is always a curious mix of comfort-food to get some folks in the mood for Deceember, and seasonal spectacle. Just whether these holiday specials are marketed for a specific reason or not (think Batman: TAS venture into the medium from decades ago), this year is no different.

Whether it’s about Yule, Winter Solstice or Christmas, this year’s offerings has enough to sate any taste. Here’s a roundup of this year’s brand-new animated or animated-adjacent winter specials. Please check your local listings for showtimes.

North America

Prep & Landing: The Snowball

Prep & Landing- The SnowballDisney brings back the elf-operative duo Wayne and Lanny for a new crisis at the North Pole. The unstable “Snowball Protocol” threatens the entire Christmas mission, forcing the pair into action. It’s classic Prep & Landing—spy comedy, festive warmth, and a lot of holiday mischief. This new 22-minute special is the first fresh Prep & Landing story since 2011, reuniting the original cast while adding a few new North Pole recruits to the team.

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Where is The Loud House? From The Loudest and Proudest to Broadcast Information….

… we have a report on comic book and broadcast news regarding this show. While some parts of the world get to see season nine of The Loud House early, fans in North America get to read The Loudest and Proudest–released just in time for Pride Month!

The Loud House- The Loudest and Proudest
Available to purchase on Amazon USA

In addition to being a collection of new tales and old, The Loud House: Loudest and Proudest is a celebration of the best comic strips published to date about the Loud and Casagrande family. When North America is lagging behind with the release of season nine on Nickelodeon, fans in this country will need to look elsewhere to get their fix. I’m glad this compilation is here to fill in this gap. And what’s presented examines hilarious slice of life moments and LGBTQ+ representation in the later tales.

The foreword by Kevin Sullivan, co-producer, introduces why this edition exists. No prior knowledge about this IP is required as a summary at the back explains the setup. And as for whether this work is canonical has me curious. I like to know if Sam Sharp and Luna will become more than best friends; the animated series has sometimes explored their relationship.

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A Look Back & What’s Next for The Loud House & Casagrandes

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Available to stream on Amazon Prime USAThe Loud House

By Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)

Fans of The Loud House will be glad to know the next new set of episodes will begin late January. This series is one of those guilty pleasures to enjoy watching late at night. The Casagrandes is a spin-off that’s showing a lot of promise and both will continue month and I can’t wait! Loud House has new episodes starting Jan 25th and Casagrandes on Jan 11th. As much as I hoped for Nickelodeon to offer a holiday special, it did not happen.

Both grew on me as I regularly have YTV playing in the background late at night and this two-hour block helped those long nights feel shorter. Both series offer better humour and is a better take on examining having a large family than the Cheaper by the Dozen. Here, Lincoln is a 10-year-old boy with a lot to figure out in a household with ten sisters. My favourite episodes are those where he has one of three people to turn to for “manly” advice. There’s his father, best friend Clyde (who is the adopted son of an interracial gay married couple) and “Pop Pop” (the grandfather).

Having John DiMaggio around as Bud, the grouchy neighbour is just perfect. He’s not really like a second grandparent, but the holiday episode explaining why he is always grouchy is the closest thing we can have to a How I saved the Grinch episode. Although typecast (he was Bender from Futurama), I’m loving it!

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