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Need a great Christmas gift for that TV fan in your life?

Well, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation just might have what you are looking for – as long as you can win their holiday auction that is.

Among the auction items that are available for bid are as follows:

Tickets to Season 6 Premier Party of HBO’s True Blood
Tickets to 2013 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
Lunch in Santa Monica, CA with ABC’s Private Practice actress KaDee Strickland and director Ed Ornelas
Personal session with Cartoon Network VP Casting and Talent Development
Red Carpet VIP Package for the College Television Awards Dinner and Gala
Cast Signed TNT’s Leverage messenger bag with built-in electronics charger
Sons of Anarchy autographed helmet
Signed Primetime Emmys T-shirt
Big Bang Theory Bazinga and Soft Kitty swag bags
Falling Skies signed poster and comic book
Cartoon Network tote and show swag
Rookie Blue signed poster and DVD sets
Malibu Country autographed script
Porky the Pig Voicemail message created exclusively by Bob Bergen
I Love Lucy mint Hamilton Collection plates

The bidding opened on December 3 and will run through December 13. You can learn more about the Holiday Auction right here.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is the charitable arm of the Television Academy and all auction proceeds will support its education and archival programs. Bid on these and many other items benefitting the Television Academy Foundation’s scholarship, educational outreach and preservation efforts hosted by eBay Giving Works.

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The following is verbatim from the folks over at The Hollywood Reporter:

PaleyFest has announced the first three television shows that will be feted at next year’s event.

HBO’s The Newsroom, NBC’s Revolution and ABC’s Once Upon a Time will be among the programs honored at the 30th anniversary festival.

The full slate of programs will be revealed Wednesday, Jan. 9.

PaleyFest will take place March 1-15, 2013 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Hulu will also expand its relationship with the festival.

Mark your calendars!!

PS: You can learn more about the 2013 PaleyFest and the ticket options right here.

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Anything But Christmas

The new ION movie Anything But Christmas will debut at 7 PM on December 9.

John loves Grace and her 10-year-old son, Zachary. Although he wants to propose to her at Christmas, it’s the one holiday John runs from. In this romantic comedy, chaos with exes, misunderstandings, parents and in-laws all imperil John and Grace’s relationship. But can they get it sorted out by the holidays?

Elaine Hendrix (Joan of Arcadia), Sergio Di Zio (Flashpoint), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future franchise) and Adrian Holmes (Smallville) star.

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The Mistle-Tones

The ABC Family movie The Mistle-Tones will on December 9 debut at 9 PM.

Holly (Tia Mowry from The Game) is devastated when she is turned down for a spot in the Christmas singing group The Snow Belles so she forms her own group, the Mistle-Tones and challenges her rival Marci (Tori Spelling from the original Beverly Hills, 90210) and The Snow Belles to a Christmas Eve sing-off.

The cast includes Jonathan Patrick Moore (The L.A. Complex), Reginald VelJohnson (Family Matters) and Tammy Townsend (Lincoln Heights).

NOTE: This movie will encore at 10 PM that same night; and will reair on December 13 at 5 PM, December 17 at 12 Noon and December 20 at 3 PM.

Here is the trailer for The Mistle-Tones.

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Christmas with Holly

On December 9, the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Christmas with Holly will debut on ABC at 9 PM.

After being left at the altar, Maggie Conway (Eliose Mumford from The River and Lone Star) relocates from Seattle to a smaller and calmer place: Friday Harbor in Washington State where she opens a “magical’ toy shop.

After the death of his sister, Mark (Sean Faris from The Lost Valentine), the local coffee shop owner, becomes responsible for raising his 6-year old niece Holly along with his two brothers. Maggie takes a special interest in Holly – especially with Christmas fast approaching – and by Christmas Eve, Maggie and Mark fall in love.

Here is a trailer with some behind the scenes interviews for Christmas with Holly.

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Help for the Holidays

Help for the Holidays is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut at 8 PM on December 9.

Although she loves Christmas, Santa’s elf Christine (Summer Glau from Firefly) wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole. When Santa receives an emergency wish from a little boy in Los Angeles, he puts Christine on special assignment, sending her to L.A. to give the VanCamp family – mom Sara (Eva La Rue from CSI: Miami), dad Scott (Dan Gauthier from Tour of Duty), and their two kids – a holiday wake-up call.

Here is a trailer for Help for the Holidays.

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All About Christmas Eve

On December 9, the Lifetime movie All About Christmas Eve will debut at 9 PM.

Haylie Duff (7th Heaven) stars as Eve Wright, an over-extended New York City party planner who has to decide whether to jeopardize her career and go off on a romantic Christmas vacation or risk ending the relationship when a top client insists on throwing a huge Christmas Eve party 3,000 miles away in Los Angeles.

The movie co-stars Chris Carmack (The O.C.), Patrick Muldoon (Days of Our Lives) and Connie Selleca (Hotel).

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Holly's Holiday

Holly’s Holiday is the new Lifetime movie that will premiere on December 8 at 8 PM.

Claire Coffee (Grimm) stars as advertising executive Holly, who can’t quite imagine why she is so drawn to the handsome mannequin in the perfect holiday window display she passes every morning (Ryan McPartlin from Chuck). When she is knocked unconscious by a falling icicle, her once fake window man becomes the man of her dreams, but she soon discovers that though his looks are perfect, his personality is still, well, plastic.

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Come Dance With Me

On December 8, the Hallmark Channel movie Come Dance With Me will debut at 8 PM

Financial investor Jack (Andrew McCarthy from St. Elmo’s Fire) is aiming for a promotion at a prestigious firm, run by his girlfriend’s (Stephanie Mills from Urban Legend) wealthy father. Wanting to make a good impression in hopes of proposing, he signs up for ballroom dance lessons before the firm’s big Christmas party, but is soon caught in a moral dilemma when his company plans to tear the dance studio down, and his feelings for his instructor Christine (Michelle Nolden from Saving Hope) move beyond the dance floor.

Here is the trailer for Come Dance With Me.

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The longest running sci-fi series of all time Doctor Who has won the 2012 TV Guide Magazine Fan Favorites poll, with more than 250,000 votes being cast. The series star Matt Smith will grace the cover of the December 10 issue OR you can check it out to the right:

Doctor Who TVG Cover

Doctor Who was one of 10 TV Guide Magazine Fan Favorites nominees selected by the magazine’s editors, which included the following:

· Fringe (FOX)
· Grimm (NBC)
· Happy Endings (ABC)
· Parks and Recreation (NBC)
· Pretty Little Liars (ABC)
· Scandal (ABC)
· Spartacus (STARZ)
· The Vampire Diaries (The CW)
· The Walking Dead (AMC)

Congrats to Doctor Who!!

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