Holiday Peanuts specials will not air on PBS this year, streaming exclusively on Apple TV+ alongside new festive originals - 9to5Mac

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Apple’s wide woody with WildBrain sees Apple TV+ arsenic the exclusive streaming destination for each things Snoopy and Peanuts, including archive classics and wholly caller specials and series.

For the past 2 years, Apple allowed PBS to aerial the iconic Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Peanuts specials. This year, they are Apple exclusive however. Apple volition watercourse them for escaped for everyone — no subscription needed — for a constricted clip (dates below). The work is besides premiering marque caller vacation specials and archetypal movies for the festive play …

If you person a TV+ subscription, you tin bask a wealthiness of Peanuts contented each twelvemonth circular connected Apple TV+, including the Snoopy Show, Snoopy successful Space, and caller animated specials including New Years, Mother’s Day and Earth Day. Apple TV+ is besides a location to galore of the classical Peanuts specials, similar It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

For a constricted time, Apple is making these specials disposable to everyone — nary TV+ subscription required — successful lieu of a nationalist broadcast airing. These escaped windows springiness an accidental for everyone to tune successful done the Apple TV app connected their devices, without the work of subscribing to Apple TV+. It’s the Great Pumpkin volition watercourse for escaped from October 28 done October 31.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving volition watercourse for escaped November 23 done November 27, and A Charlie Brown Christmas follows from December 22 done December 25.

Other vacation specials coming to Apple TV+

Classic Peanuts vacation specials “I Want a Dog for Christmas” and “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales” volition besides premiere connected Apple TV+ starting December 2nd.

The Fraggle Rock reboot (Back to the Rock) volition aerial a caller vacation peculiar connected November 18, alongside a Thanksgiving peculiar from Sago Mini Friends. Special vacation episodes of Interrupting Chicken, Pretzel and the Puppies, and The Snoopy Show, volition besides get connected December 2nd.

‘Spirited’, a philharmonic drama retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’, starring Will Ferrel and Ryan Reynolds, premieres connected November 18. And a caller animated abbreviated movie The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse volition watercourse connected Christmas Day.