So start your Advent calendar early: Here’s what to watch, and when, sorted by holiday-movie trope. And to round out the wintry landscape, there are a couple of theatrical releases and a Disney+ film in the mix. Then there’s Netflix, which has had some of the least-disposable Christmas content of late with films like The Christmas Switch and A Christmas Prince. Hallmark will also have 24/7 Christmas programming, and both channels combined will feature 40 new Christmas films. Hallmark had so much Christmas content it had to split it over two channels: Hallmark and its sister channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. This year, Lifetime’s 24/7 Christmas-content schedule is called “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” and will feature 30 new features. Two prime offenders of the Christmas-creep agenda are dueling women-focused cable channels, Lifetime and Hallmark, which over the years have ramped up their made-for-TV holiday-romance output to near–Santa’s Workshop levels.

Did your landlord turn the heat on in your building? Surprise! It’s Christmas now. Christmas comes but once a year, and that “once” happens to last for two entire months. To which I say, “Feh!” In this house, the only Christmas creep we choose to acknowledge is Paul Giamatti in Fred Claus.

There are people out there who, every year, complain about “Christmas creep.” They fret about how all of the numbing, consumerist holiday malarkey - store displays and ad campaigns and Starbucks promotions - starts earlier and earlier every fall. Photo: Vulture, Disney+ and Universal Pictures

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