The most beloved Christmas movie of all-time, becomes the season's biggest television event.

Don't miss A Christmas Story: Live, Dec. 17th at 7/6c on FOX!


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More "Live" garbage being churned out by Hollywood.

sorry i can't stand an christmas story!! that movie gets on my nerves!! especially that they show it like 24 hours on chrsitmas!!

Is that the 1983 movie called "christmas story"??


Not very good in my opinion.....

Is that the 1983 movie called "christmas story"??


Not very good in my opinion.....

Yes, the original.

The original was perfect. No point in tampering with it.

Hollywood no longer has talent so it's either copy something that's been done or spread their propaganda. Often they do both together. I'm surprised they didn't make Ralphie black, a girl, or transgender and change the gun to an inclusive doll. Then again, I haven't seen it.

Hollywood is just nothing but rehashes, reboots, remakes, and sequels. There is just simply no originality anymore.

They have all been re-programmed to be this way.....

Its sad isnt it?

Stop ruining the classics.

Not saying the live version is a good idea, but...technically A Christmas Story itself is a reboot, even the leg lamp scene was already used in 1976 for Jean Shepherd's The Phantom Of The Open Hearth, so though A Christmas Story is the most known, it wasn't the first to feature Ralph, The Old Man, and the rest of the family, it was the third. In 1982 a year before A Christmas Story was released, Matt Dillon played Ralph in The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters.

A Christmas Story (the original, and the book) take place about a half hour from me. In the movie (can't remember if it's in the book) the town is called Hohman but it's really Hammond Indiana and Hohman is a street there. They have a setup of the movie at the tourist center right when you enter Indiana from the toll road.

Fox's A Christmas Story Live Trails All Live Musicals Before It
by Matt Webb Mitovich
December 18, 2017


The ratings for Fox’s A Christmas Story Live were more “lump of coal” than Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

Opening opposite the tail end of one of the biggest NFL games of the fall over on CBS, the three-hour broadcast averaged 4.5 million total viewers and a 1.5 demo rating, thereby placing last among all live TV musicals of the past four years.





The Sound of Music Live (NBC, Dec. 2013): 18.6 mil/4.6
Grease Live (Fox, Jan. 2016): 12.2 mil/4.3
The Wiz Live (NBC, Dec. 2015): 11.5 mil/3.4
Peter Pan Live (NBC, Dec. 2014): 9.2 mil/2.4
Hairspray Live (NBC, Jan. 2017): 9.1 mil/2.3
The Passion (Fox, March 2016): 6.6 mil/1.6
A Christmas Story Live (Fox, Dec. 2017): 4.5 mil/1.5





Next up is NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live (airing Easter Sunday), followed by the Peacock’s take on Bye Bye Birdie (sometime in 2018) and then Fox’s Rent Live (January 2019).

http://tvline.com/2017/12/18/christmas-story-live-ratings-fox-musical-special/

This "Live" stuff just looks and sounds plain terrible.

Hollywood is just nothing but rehashes, reboots, remakes, and sequels. There is just simply no originality anymore.

True...this should be Hollywood's Mantra...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhSbxypRvc/VcpDZ9Q7qPI/AAAAAAAAy3Y/BoVZK6QBQLA/s1600/ideas.jpg

True...this should be Hollywood's Mantra...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhSbxypRvc/VcpDZ9Q7qPI/AAAAAAAAy3Y/BoVZK6QBQLA/s1600/ideas.jpg

I would buy that.

I watched it and when they stuck to the original it was fine. It's when they added the songs and stories not from the movie is when it got stupid. To be honest, much of it bored me and I wanted to watch the original.

I was luckier that i decided to not to watch it last night. This FOX Live version of ACS would never beat the 1983 classic film.

Does anyone know who was in this besides Maya and Matthew Broderick as the narrator?

Fox’s disappointing A Christmas Story Live! was a “choppy, flashy affair” that never let its audience breathe (http://variety.com/2017/tv/reviews/a-christmas-story-live-fox-tv-review-1202643517/)

“For viewers who love the original film, the musical (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/64661-a-christmas-story-live-fox/?do=getLastComment) didn’t look much like it,” says Sonia Saraiya. “The film has an intimate quality, but the musical was a big, loud, constantly moving production. And in place of adult Ralphie as onscreen narrator, the musical placed him onstage —a ghost unseen by his younger self or the rest of his family. The effect was that adult Ralphie (Matthew Broderick) was stalking or even haunting the family of his youth, while shamelessly gossiping about them to the audience at home. It’s creepy, and the device never quite resolved itself as the musical wears on. But in Broderick’s defense, the musical never quite resolved itself, either. It’s a choppy, flashy affair, with so many different sets that it struggled to cultivate a sense of place.”

ALSO:

A Christmas Story Live! had a “too-gooey center and a phony sense of seasonal exuberance” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/12/18/in-foxs-overblown-christmas-story-live-no-shot-out-eyes-and-perhaps-some-clearer-vision/)
A Christmas Story Live! missed the light fun of the holiday classic (http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/18/christmas-story-live-ew-review/)
Turns out A Christmas Story becomes grating once you add music (https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-christmas-story-live-will-almost-make-you-want-to-shoot-your-own-ears-out)
The co-directors “threw down the gauntlet from the start with a technically complex opening that moved with cinematic fluidity” (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-christmas-story-live-review-1068757)
The staging was clear and fun and the performances ranged from good to fantastic (http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/television/love_that_tv/2017/12/youll_shoot_your_eye_out_fox_scores_with_a_christmas)
Surprisingly, most of the gaffes came from stage veteran Matthew Broderick (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/arts/television/a-christmas-story-live-fox.html)
Broderick was a high *AND* a low of the entire production (http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/fox-a-christmas-story-live-highs-and-lows.html)
The Greatest Showman live movie trailer “was one big act of controlled chaos on the studio lot” (https://decider.com/2017/12/18/the-live-christmas-story-musical-featured-a-live-greatest-showman-trailer-and-it-was-nuts/)
Twitter joyously roasted A Christmas Story Live! (http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a14453098/a-christmas-story-live-reaction-tweets/)
The original Christmas Story barely has enough story to sustain a 90-minute movie, let alone a three-hour musical (https://www.avclub.com/a-christmas-story-live-at-least-manages-not-to-shoot-i-1821370368)
How A Christmas Story Live! made the Chinese restaurant scene less racist (http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/christmas-story-live-chinese-restaurant-scene.html)
Every other broadcast show beat A Christmas Story Live! in preliminary ratings (https://www.thewrap.com/a-christmas-story-live-early-ratings/)

Fox's A Christmas Story Live Trails All Live Musicals Before It
by Matt Webb Mitovich
December 18, 2017


The ratings for Fox’s A Christmas Story Live were more “lump of coal” than Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

Opening opposite the tail end of one of the biggest NFL games of the fall over on CBS, the three-hour broadcast averaged 4.5 million total viewers and a 1.5 demo rating, thereby placing last among all live TV musicals of the past four years.


So it was a musical? I know they made A Christmas Story into a broadway musical but Fox was never clear if it was the broadway version or just a live redo of the actual movie.

True...this should be Hollywood's Mantra...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEhSbxypRvc/VcpDZ9Q7qPI/AAAAAAAAy3Y/BoVZK6QBQLA/s1600/ideas.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol: So very, very true!!!

So it was a musical? I know they made A Christmas Story into a broadway musical but Fox was never clear if it was the broadway version or just a live redo of the actual movie.

I didn't watch it, but I believe it was based on the musical as they performed songs from the Broadway production.

They really should stick to the original concepts. I mean no musicals in A Christmas Story. Grease Live was a success because it is a musical.

With each live show, the ratings get worse. That looks like it would tell them something. The New has worn off. This idea isn't good anymore.

sorry i didn't watch it im not fan of an christmas story!! i hate it when they show 24 hour movie marathons on tv!! this year its going to be on tbs & tnt thats just insane!! i would rather watch bunches of different christmas movies then the same movie over & over aging!!