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Our stockings runneth over with streaming holiday options whose titles, on Netflix and Hallmark and elsewhere, tend to blur into a single, extended holiday viewing option we’ll call “Countdown to Falling for Christmas with You on a Holidate on Mistletoe Farm All the Way.” Someone should make that one, and…

Holiday television was once relegated to tinsel-themed episodes on the broadcast networks and the occasional TV movie thrown in, with the Hallmark Channel doing the heavy lifting. Now? It’s an embarrassment of … something: Cheapo movies, reality shows, old classics you can dig up on streaming and more.

Like many onscreen Scrooges before him, Ryan Reynolds' character in "Spirited" is told that he will face his past, present and future. But he surprises even the spirit haunting him upon raising his hand and asking: "Like 'A Christmas Carol'? The Dickens story? The Bill Murray movie with Bobcat Goldthwait?"

Netflix is a cord-cutter's best friend, but its push into ad-supported tiers and decision to livestream a Chris Rock special make it look just like cable TV.

The ‘Friends’ star has been pitied and patronised for years, but, this week, she finally put paid to the gossip about why she didn’t become a mother. It’s even further proof that she’s not a victim, writes Nicole Vassell

Florence Pugh plays a nurse sent to moniter a girl who hasn’t eaten for four months in a stunning historical thriller, while Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds bring the festive fun with their Christmas Carol remix

Which smart, streaming TV box should you go for and will they be reduced for Black Friday?

The two make for an awkward double act in a slick but grating song-and-dance spin on A Christmas Carol that will make grinches of us all

Bad Sisters follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents and a promise to always protect one another