A double dose of Thanksgiving

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs Thursday (i.e., “tonight” to most of you when you read this) and then again on Thanksgiving itself, at 8 PM on ABC in most U.S. time zones. To fill out the hour (both times), they’ll be running the “Mayflower Voyagers” episode of the miniseries This is American, Charlie Brown.

Hey, I’ve continued to add reviews of The Peanuts Collection in the comments at the only post of this blog for which comments are open. There’s a couple dozen reviews excerpted and mostly linked to, every review I can find… and not a bad one yet. And we’ve got one AAUGH Blog reader who added comments about the book. If you’ve got your copy, I’d love you to add your own comments about it.

For those of you who like to get a look at the book, I’ll note that the chain bookstores I’ve checked have the book on a display table… at least, the stores that haven’t sold out and are awaiting a restock.

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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New Peanuts feature film on the way

Apple, who have been producing Peanuts series and specials in plentitude, have announced that they, Wildbrain, and Peanuts Worldwide are working together on a new Peanuts feature-length film, the Hollywood Reporter notes. If you liked the last feature film, then this should be very good news. They’re using a story …