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Christmas is everywhere--in the stores, on the streets, in workplaces, but especially on television, in movies and the theater.

* Universal Pictures’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ron Howard, seems to be the unqualified hit of this year’s holiday film season. As of last weekend, the film adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic had grossed more than $170 million in just three weeks, and kids are not even out of school yet. Other holiday-oriented family movie fare is also doing well. Disney’s “102 Dalmatians” has grossed nearly $40 million in just two weeks, and Paramount’s “Rugrats in Paris” has earned nearly $56 million in three weeks.

* CBS is offering something old and something new. The 1965 holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is scheduled for Monday at 8 p.m. A new stop-motion animation show, “Snowden’s Christmas,” featuring the voices of Peter MacNicol, Kathy Najimy, Edward Asner and Michael McKean, is slated for Thursday at 8 p.m., to be followed immediately by “A Garfield Christmas Special.” “The Christmas Secret,” a new holiday film starring Richard Thomas and Beau Bridges, premieres Dec. 17 at 9 p.m. Another new animated film, “The Story of Santa Claus,” is scheduled Dec. 23, 8 p.m.

* Not surprisingly, ABC is offering “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” starring Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit, Sunday at 8 p.m. “Walt Disney World ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” is slated for Dec. 24, 7 p.m.

* NBC is screening the holiday perennial “It’s a Wonderful Life” Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. and the 1965 classic “The Sound of Music” Dec. 17 at 7 p.m.

* Glendale’s classical theater company, A Noise Within, is reprising its 1999 adaptation of the Charles Dickens holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday 2 and 7 p.m. at 234 S. Brand Blvd. Call for a complete performance schedule. Ends Dec. 23. $22 to $40. (323) 953-7795.