Home For Christmas: HGTV and Food Network Holiday Wrap Up
HGTV and Food Network are about to stuff your stockings (and bellies) with Christmas content. Here's what to watch.
HGTV and Food Network are bringing you the comforts of being home for the holidays, no matter where you actually find yourself.
The popular channels have already begun airing their Christmas programming, and they’ll be dishing up a feast of holiday originals before Santa's sleigh returns to the North Pole. With more than a dozen shows premiering before Christmas day, Food Network and HGTV will stuff your TV turkey with enough Christmas and Thanksgiving content to leave you with leftovers into the new year.
Check out all of the upcoming Holiday programming on HGTV and Food Network below. To watch both channels on Sling TV, sign up for Sling Orange below.
All descriptions courtesy of HGTV and Food Network.
Holiday Baking Championship
https://www.youtube.com/embed/f6AYrTI7iio
“In the biggest-ever season of Holiday Baking Championship, 12 of the best holiday bakers in America are going after the ultimate gifts — $25,000, a spot in Food Network Magazine and the title of Holiday Baking Champion. Host Jesse Palmer and warm, wise and witty judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman and Carla Hall bring the cheer.”
Premiered on Nov. 1 on Food Network (Watch now on demand)
Holiday Wars
“Holiday Wars returns for the tastiest season yet with nine teams of masterful cake and sugar artists. Maneet Chauhan hosts the festivities and challenges each team to create the most magical and delicious holiday-themed cakes imaginable for judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira. When the sugar dust settles after the jolly finale, one team will take home a grand prize of $25,000.”
Premiered on Nov. 7 on Food Network (Watch now on demand)
Christmas Cookie Challenge
“Santa's workshop isn't just for toys anymore! The country's best cookie makers are putting their decorating and display skills to the test as they tackle festive challenges. After the luster dust clears, the judges will gift one lucky cookie maker with a $10,000 grand prize.”
Premieres Thursday, Nov. 11 at 9pm ET on Food Network
Battle for the Bird
“Two competing kitchens heat up when a noisy family celebration goes head-to-head with a full-throttle Friendsgiving to see who can throw the best Thanksgiving party. Anne Burrell and Carson Kressley have their work cut out for them as they challenge, mentor and ultimately judge which is the biggest, baddest Turkey Day celebration and who wins the Battle for the Bird — and a prize worth $10,000!”
Premieres Sunday, Nov. 14 at 10pm ET on Food Network
Holiday Baking Championship: Gingerbread Showdown
“Jesse Palmer hosts as three teams of gingerbreaders and baking assistants take on gingerbread builds based on a theme. The gingerbread-obsessed artists also face baking twists that can make or break their chances at the prize worth $10,000.”
Premieres Nov. 15 at 9pm ET on Food Network
My Lottery Dream Home: David’s Holiday Extravaganza
"David Bromstad, star of HGTV’s My Lottery Dream Home, has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. He just moved into his new Orlando, Florida, home and has recruited serious reinforcements to help him pull off an over-the-top winter celebration. Decorating together for the first time, David and his sisters, Dyonne and Dynelle, will draw inspiration from their Scandinavian heritage to transform the home with an astonishing 70 decorated indoor trees, dozens of cheerful gnomes and rustic faux wood beams. They even repurpose gift bags and boxes to create a do-it-yourself advent calendar on the staircase. Once every whimsical detail is in place, David will go all out to host a very merry party for family and friends."
Premieres Friday, November 19, at 9pm ET on HGTV
A White House Thanksgiving
“First Lady Jill Biden and Trisha Yearwood, country superstar and host of Food Network’s Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, are kicking off the holiday season with an exclusive look at the First Family’s Thanksgiving traditions and favorite recipes in the special A White House Thanksgiving. In addition to creating a beautiful tablescape made with fresh flowers from the White House Kitchen Garden, the First Lady and the country superstar will be preparing their favorite Turkey Day dishes, including the First Lady’s Grandmom Jacobs’ Savory Stuffing recipe and Trisha’s Thanksgiving Turkey Gravy. They are also joined by White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford to cook the White House Thyme Roasted Turkey, White House Chief Floral Designer Hedieh Ghaffarian for the floral and table décor, and White House Executive Pastry Chef Susan Morrison to make the White House Apple Crisp recipe topped with the President’s favorite ice cream flavor, chocolate chip.”
Premieres Saturday, Nov. 20 at 12pm ET on Food Network
Kids Baking Championship: Light Up the Holidays
“Returning favorites from past seasons of Kids Baking Championship are back to the kitchen, this time to bake cookies for Santa and other seasonal sweet treats. The contest will be judged by cake guru Duff Goldman as well as past KBC runner-up Abby Martin.”
Premieres Nov. 21 at 8pm ET on Food Network
The Best Thing I Ever Ate Holiday Edition
“Hear from your favorite Food Network chefs and stars about the over-the-top delights they indulge in during this particularly decadent time of year.”
Premieres Nov. 21 at 10pm ET on Food Network
Buddy vs. Duff Holiday
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5q3uUPswjwQ
“Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman come together for a special competition celebrating the winter holiday season. They choose a different theme for each battle and have just 20 hours to work with their talented teams to create their finished masterpieces. Four esteemed pastry chefs join the teams in their bakeries to judge the cakes: Gesine Prado and Elizabeth Falkner in Jersey City with Buddy and Stephanie Boswell and Valerie Gordon in Los Angeles with Duff. In the end, the overall winner is awarded $25,000 for the charity of their choice.”
Premieres Nov. 28 at 8pm ET on Food Network
White House Christmas 2021
“HGTV will go behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to showcase the home’s magnificent holiday transformation in its popular annual special, White House Christmas 2021. During the one-hour special, fans will get a glimpse of the massive, three-day undertaking that spotlights spectacular trees, breathtaking decor, incredible gingerbread creations and much more.”
Premieres Sunday, December 12, at 6pm ET on HGTV
House Hunters Ho Ho Home
“In the new series House Hunters Ho Ho Home, Oregon-based real estate agent, world-famous strongman and well-known Santa impersonator Albie Mushaney is on a mission to spread Yuletide cheer by helping clients find their forever home in time for the holidays. To make these families’ wishes come true, he’ll turn the newly purchased dream homes into spectacular holiday wonderlands with fully trimmed trees, sparkling lights and boughs of holly. Albie also will gift each client with a special surprise that makes the season extra merry and bright.”
Premieres Monday-Friday, December 13-17 at 10pm ET on HGTV
Fixer to Fabulous Holiday Surprise
https://www.youtube.com/embed/MMYsLdpqvt4
“Fixer to Fabulous home renovation stars Dave and Jenny Marrs are animal lovers who have a passion for helping pets find their forever home. Just in time for the holidays, the one-hour special Fixer to Fabulous Holiday Surprise will follow Dave and Jenny as they gift the Bella Vista Animal Shelter near their hometown in Bentonville, Arkansas, with a very special renovation to get them ready for the busy Christmas pet adoption season. After the Marrs complete the modern upgrades, including a refreshed exterior and lobby, new dog kennels, a trendy outdoor space and a custom cat playroom, they’ll reopen the decked-out shelter to the community with a festive, holiday-themed pet adoption event.”
Premieres Tuesday, December 14, at 9pm ET on HGTV
Holmes for the Holidays
“The stars of Holmes Family Rescue, contractor Mike Holmes, his daughter, Sherry Holmes, and son, Michael Holmes, Jr., each believe their home is the best-dressed for the holidays. During the one-hour special Holmes For the Holidays, Mike, Sherry and Michael will battle it out in a friendly family Christmas competition to see who can create the most over-the-top light displays, ice sculptures and gingerbread houses—with Mike’s uncle, Billy Bell, deciding the ultimate winner. Mike and his wife, Anna, will trim their home in a modern Christmas theme, complete with a dazzling animated show with thousands of twinkling lights. It’ll be a holiday all about the kids for Sherry and her husband, Blake, who just welcomed their second child, as they turn their backyard into a North Pole winter wonderland. And, Michael will wow with a cozy, rustic holiday theme inspired by his wife Lisa Marie’s love of animals. In the midst of the merriment, the Holmes family also will share holiday safety tips and give back to the community in a meaningful way through their extravagant displays.”
Premieres Saturday, December 18, at 8pm ET on HGTV
Holiday Wars: Champion Cake Off
“For the first time ever, the reigning champions of Halloween Wars and Holiday Wars face off against each other! Just in time to ring in the New Year, host Maneet Chauhan challenges these two teams of champion cake and sugar artists to create their own team mascot and show how they'll ring in the New Year with a champagne-inspired cake flavor. At the end of the challenge, only one team of champs will come out on top, and judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira will award an all-expenses-paid trip for two to New York City for the biggest New Year's party in the world.”
Premieres Dec. 26 at 9pm ET on Food Network
Home Town: Ben's Holiday Workshop
“In Home Town: Ben's Workshop, master woodworker Ben Napier shares his expertise in craftsmanship and carpentry with celebrity guests who help him build iconic wood projects at his workshop in Laurel, Mississippi. Now in the holiday-themed special, Home Town: Ben’s Holiday Workshop, Ben will get holly jolly when he welcomes father-daughter duo Captain Sig and Mandy Hansen from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch to make special wood creations just in time for Christmas, including a brand new mantle for the workshop that honors the Hansens’ Norwegian heritage. Mandy also will work with Ben’s wife and Home Town co-star Erin Napier to give the shop a seasonal overhaul. In addition, Ben will team up with dancer and TV personality Stephen “tWitch” Boss and his wife, Allison Holker Boss, host of Design Star: Next Gen, to build an interactive wall display for a local children’s center play space. To further spread holiday cheer, tWitch and Allison will deck the halls of the children’s center with Erin in preparation for a special celebration.”
Premieres Sunday, December 26, at 10pm ET on HGTV