ION Television
Home for the Holidays
ION Television’s lineup ranked #2 among networks airing holiday movies in 2019, averaging 919,000 households in primetime. Beginning Thanksgiving weekend, ION Television will once again be “Your Home for the Holidays.” Featuring a festive lineup of fan favorites, ION is kicking off the holiday season in November 2023, with special holiday fare airing weekends in December through Christmas Day.
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2024 ION Television Christmas Movie Premieres
2024 “Home for the Holidays” on ION Television to be determind.
2024 ION Home for the Holidays Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in ET) Airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times/dates can vary by TV provider.
TODAY’S CHRISTMAS MOVIE SCHEDULE
NOV 29, 2024
- 10a/9c
Snow White Christmas, A
Blanca Snow spends Christmas with her dastardly stepmother and attempts to fulfill her late father’s wishes and create new memories as a family. However, Victoria plots to edge Blanca out of her father’s inheritance, and keep the money – and the mansion – for herself. Will she stop Victoria from stealing everything her father built?120 MIN | TV-PG
- 12/11c
Beauty & The Beast Christmas, A
Peppy Christmas influencer Ginger December is convinced by her agent to fake a holiday romance with viral bad boy Beau Bradley to gain more followers. Ginger and Beau initially can’t stand each other, but as they spend more and more time together they realize the feelings they had to fake at first might just be turning into something real.120 MIN | TV-G
- 2/1c
Royal Christmas Engagement, A
Lauren, a hard-working advertising executive, begins to fall for Paul, a consultant she has been paired with to land a big account for the upcoming holiday season. Unbeknownst to Lauren and everyone else, Paul is actually Prince Edward Charles, European royalty in disguise as a commoner.120 MIN | TV-PG
- 4/3c
Prince And Pauper Christmas, A
When her down-on-his luck confidential informant in a criminal investigation suddenly goes missing, a desperate young federal agent recruits his doppelgänger to play his role. But her job gets even harder when she falls for the criminal’s stand-in… who just happens to be a European prince visiting the states for Christmas.120 MIN | TV-PG D,L,V
- 6/5c
Christmas Witness, A
Federal marshal Jessica Temple must keep mob informant and ladies man Dean McCoy safe until he testifies the day after Christmas, but the scorned mob boss’ wife, a case of mistaken identity (with a mall Santa Claus), an amorous mayor, a pugnacious hitman and a hide-out town bubbling over with holiday cheer derail the mission.120 MIN | TV-PG D,L,S,V
- 8/7c
Christmas Thief, The
A fledgling female private eye is hired by her nephew to prove a neighborhood Santa isn’t a jewel thief. A dashing detective adds exasperation and possibly romance.120 MIN | TV-PG L,V
- 10/9c
Case Of The Christmas Diamond, The
Blue collar, Andy is a little nervous but thrilled when she is invited to her rich friend’s estate for Christmas, but when the family matriarch’s multi-million-dollar gem suddenly goes missing she finds herself accused of the theft. With the help of a famous mystery writer, Andy must find the real culprit amid the litany of wealthy guests all of whom have their knives out for her.120 MIN | TV-PG D,V
- 12a/11c
Search For Secret Santa, The
Cub reporter Sofia thinks she’s found a Christmas story that will save her career when she discovers a long-lost, undelivered Secret Santa gift… from “B. to Claire.” But the mystery gets even juicer when she learns that the item – a priceless Fabergé egg – was in fact stolen years ago. With the help of a handsome & shady art dealer, she sets off on a dangerous, romantic quest to match the Secret Santas and catch the thieves.120 MIN | TV-PG L,V
ION Holiday December Updates
No additional movies are currently scheduled on ION Television channel, we realize this is a huge disappointment for so many. Hopefully ION will reconsider and reverse this poor decision next year.
TODAY’S CHRISTMAS MOVIE SCHEDULE
ION Plus TV will be airing holiday movies all day weekdays now through Christmas day. ION Plus is available to stream for free through Amazon Freevee.
What channel is ION Television?
- DirecTV – Channel 305
- DISH Network – Channel 216
Available on most cable networks. Check with your local provider for channel.
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ION Television Christmas Schedule Archives
I too live out in the country where cable does not reach. I have very slow broadband for internet, so I can’t stream any shows. I look forward to ion’s Christmas shows every year. This year was such a big disappointment. I will no longer watch ion or buy from their sponsors.
To ION, I too don’t have the luxury of having cable. For one, I choose not to. Because of all the horrible things they now and days show, confusing kids by shoving gender change, violence and gore as if we didn’t have enough already in this world, for once I want to sit down and watch a peaceful movie that doesn’t contain all the disgusting content I just mentioned above. Look, I just got off your fb page and everyone is complaining that they want their Hawaii five 0!!!! To be honest, I can care less about there Hawaii five 0!!!! This ridiculously show all year round along with other cop movies and violence, rape and mental disturbing movies!! These holiday movies are once a year!!! You understand?? Once a year. It’s not fare for those who are tired of turning on the TV everyday and see an episode of someone who raped some girl or got shot at. We have this going everyday in reality. For once, show the holiday movies Friday thru Sunday. It’s once a year and rarely get to see a peaceful movie!!! We have enough all year long all week seeing all these violent cops movies and chicago fire etc. So at least be considerate for people like us, like ME who is tired of seeing gore on tv!! Balance the movies now that you know these wonderful Christmas movies are once a year. Show them all weekend long. I enjoy these Christmas movies more than bloody twisted gore 365 days a year you show. I’m sure you know I’m right.
This is an older comment I posted on November 24 to show my major disappointment of the poor move ION hs made. Shows how well you care more about money. Talk about GREED !
I’d encourage all those who have expressed their disappointment here to share those thoughts directly with ION. I’m sure some have already, but the more that are shared, the better chance it will have some effect. I’ve been able to find some of the ION movies on free services like TUBI, but that only helps if you’re able to stream.
I am so upset!!! I have watch ION’s Christmas shows for years!!! Last year, I was only able to watch one beloved Christmas show on ION. Life challenges got in the way. This year, I have been looking forward to sitting down and watching as many as possible. I even worked my schedule around to make sure I could do just that. Then, UNBELIEVABLE, you have to pay! You are getting greedy at Christmas?! Shame on ION! I live in the country with an antenna. I tried to get the ION Plus, but our hotspot wasn’t strong enough. So, no ION Christmas shows for this family! After last year’s challenges, I was trying to find as much “holiday feel good” shows as I could to help our teenagers, and us, enjoy this time of year. Very sad. =((
Yup… ION went greedy and beginning to suck. Major disappointment!!