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The latest feel-good holiday fare coming to TV is “A Chestnut Family Christmas,” premiering Tuesday, November 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.
If you don’t have cable or don’t have the OWN channel, here are some different ways you can watch “A Chestnut Family Christmas” streaming online:
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Philo TV
You can watch a live stream of OWN and 60-plus other TV channels on Philo TV, which comes with a seven-day free trial:
Once signed up for Philo, you can watch “A Chestnut Family Christmas” live on the Philo app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast (compatible on Android mobile), any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. You can also watch on your computer on the Philo website.
If you can’t watch live, Philo allows you to DVR programs and watch them up to 30 days later. And even if you forget to DVR something, Philo also comes with a 72-hour rewind feature, which lets you to watch most shows on-demand if they have aired in the last three days.
FuboTV
You can watch a live stream of OWN and 100-plus other TV channels on FuboTV, which comes with a seven-day free trial:
Once signed up for FuboTV, you can watch “A Chestnut Family Christmas” live on the FuboTV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or Series X/S, Samsung TV, LG TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the FuboTV website.
If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 250 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch most shows on-demand within three days (and sometimes longer) of their conclusion, even if you don’t record them.
DirecTV Stream
DirecTV Stream (formerly AT&T TV) has four different channel packages: “Entertainment,” “Choice,” “Ultimate” and “Premier.” OWN is included in “Choice” and above, but you can pick any package and any add-on you want with your free 14-day trial.
Note that the free trial isn’t advertised as such, but your “due today” amount will be $0 when signing up. If you watch on your computer, phone or tablet, you won’t be charged for 14 days. If you watch on a streaming device on your TV (Roku, Fire Stick, Apple TV, etc.), you will be charged for the first month, but you can get still get a full refund if you cancel before 14 days:
Once signed up for DirecTV Stream, you can watch “A Chestnut Family Christmas” live on the DirecTV Stream app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Samsung TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the DirecTV Stream website.
If you can’t watch live, DirecTV Stream also comes with 20 hours of Cloud DVR storage (with the ability to upgrade to unlimited hours).
Vidgo
You can watch a live stream of OWN and 65+ other TV channels on Vidgo, which comes with a free seven-day trial:
Once signed up for Vidgo, you can watch “A Chestnut Family Christmas” live on the Vidgo app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Vidgo website.
‘A Chestnut Family Christmas’ Preview
Holiday movies aren’t just for Hallmark anymore. OWN is getting in on the fun this year with several Christmas movies. It kicks off with “A Chestnut Family Christmas,” which stars Meagan Holder as pastry chef Nina Chestnut who finds herself in a bit of a holiday jam.
According to the OWN press release:
When a talented pastry chef, currently working as a live-in cook, accidentally commits to hosting her family for the holidays, she poses as the wealthy homeowner in order to impress them and to remove the “black sheep” burden she has been carrying her whole life. All seems to be going well, until everyone’s secrets are exposed and relationships begin to unravel.
TV fans might know Holder from a variety of projects. She has starred or recurred on “Make It or Break It,” “Ringer,” “Born Again Virgin,” “Pitch,” “UnReal,” and “Dave.”
Nina’s love interest Malcolm Butler is played by Brad James, whom viewers might know from “Outer Banks,” “A House Divided,” “Superstition,” or “For Better or Worse.”
“A Chestnut Family Christmas” is just the first of three new holiday offerings from the Oprah Winfrey Network for Christmastime 2021. The second film is “A Sisterly Christmas,” which stars Deborah Joy Winans and Kendrick Cross, premieres Tuesday, December 7 on OWN.
Its description reads:
Two sisters, one who loves Christmas and everything that comes with it and the other who can be the scroogiest of Scrooges, receive an early Christmas gift: an inheritance that takes them on a once-in-a-lifetime luxury holiday vacation. Their Christmas proves to be more than they bargained for when they run into their childhood rival, now a Broadway star who digs in on these sisters, testing their resolve as women and their bonds of sisterhood.
The third in the holiday series is “A Christmas Stray,” which stars Andra Fuller and Rhyon Nicole Brown. It premieres Tuesday, December 14 and its description teases:
A tightly-wound corporate executive, finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small mountain town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the adorable stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian who is sorely in need of some Christmas magic herself.
Ahead of each film is a new episode of “The Big Holiday Food Fight” hosted by Kym Whitley. All of these shows are part of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s “OWN For the Holidays” annual programming tradition that is in its third year in 2021. According to the OWN press release, “True to OWN’s annual holiday movie theme, each original movie celebrates and honors the deeper meaning of the season — giving to others and putting friends and family first. The movies will also air concurrently on Discovery Plus.”
“A Chestnut Family Christmas” kicks things off Tuesday, November 30 at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times on OWN.