FirstEver Walking Dead Holiday Special Set for December on AMC

This holiday season, AMC+ is bringing holiday cheer to the zombie apocalypse with The Walking Dead Holiday Special, hosted by Chris Hardwick.

This holiday season, AMC+ will break new ground for the long-running Walking Dead franchise with The Walking Dead Holiday Special.

According to AMC, the Dec. 13 special will be hosted by The Talking Dead's Chris Hardwick and feature a number of the show's cast members. However, no other details on the special were provided.

The Walking Dead Holiday Special is part of AMC's annual "Best Christmas Ever" lineup, which now extends beyond the network to AMC+. Other specials arriving in December include Joe’s Pub Presents: A Holiday Special, Shudder's "Unhappy Holidays" collection and a Christmas-themed episode of The Graham Norton Show.

The full list of AMC's "Best Christmas Ever" movies is below, with asterisks to denote titles on AMC+:

• 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue*


• All I Want for Christmas*


• The American President


• Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure


• Buster & Chauncey’s Silent Night*


• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


• Christmas in Connecticut (1945 & 1992)


• The Christmas Shoes*


• A Christmas Story 2


• A Dennis The Menace Christmas


• Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-tacular


• Elf*


• Ella Enchanted*


• The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow*


• Four Christmases*


• Fred Claus*


• Free Birds


• Frosty’s Winter Wonderland*


• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer


• Gremlins*


• Groundhog Day


• Happy Feet*


• A Holiday to Remember*


• How Murray Saved Christmas


• Jack Frost (1979 & 1998)*


• Joyful Noise


• Legend of Frosty the Snowman


• The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold


• The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus*


• The Little Drummer Boy Book II


• Love Actually


• Love the Coopers*


• The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper


• Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You*


• Merry Madagascar


• Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood*


• A Miracle on Christmas Lake*


• Miracles from Heaven*


• Nanny McPhee*


• Nanny McPhee Returns*


• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation*


• National Lampoon’s Vacation*


• National Lampoon’s European Vacation*


• The Nativity Story*


• Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey*


• Pinocchio’s Christmas


• Planes, Trains & Automobiles*


• The Polar Express*


• Richie Rich


• Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July*


• Rudolph’s Shiny New Year*


• RV


• Samantha: An American Girl Holiday


• Scrooged*


• Snow Day*


• The Sons of Mistletoe*


• To Grandmother’s House We Go


• ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas*


• Vegas Vacation*


• White Christmas


• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory


• Wish for Christmas


• The Year Without A Santa Claus*


• Zookeeper


• The Great Christmas Light Fight (Seasons 3-6)

The Walking Dead stars Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton and Cooper Andrews.

Source: AMC

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