Time for Macy's 95th Annual Thanksgiving Parade

Snoopy is back again!

 

Save the date!

 

New Yorkers and visitors once again will be able to enjoy the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in person. After nearly two years of intense social distancing, we’ve no doubt this will be one of the best-attended parades ever.

 

The balloon(s) will go up — literally! — on November 25th. Folks not able to attend the 95th annual Macy’s Parade in person, can watch all the fun from 9 a.m. to noon, all time zones, on NBC-TV.

Astronaut Snoopy will return for the third consecutive year, continuing the world-famous beagle’s record as the longest-running balloon character in the parade.  Snoopy is delighted to know his ground crew will be back, because being driven by a utility vehicle — last year, due to Covid restrictions — was simply not the same.

New Peanuts video content coming to Apple's streaming service

According to reports from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety, DHX Media - the current owners of the Peanuts franchise - have struck a deal with Apple to produce "new series, specials and shorts" based on the Peanuts characters for Apple's yet-to-launch streaming service.

Details are scarce so far, but one component will be videos that focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) content featuring Snoopy as an astronaut.

(Peanuts Worldwide and NASA announced plans earlier this year to collaborate on creating educational content with Astronaut Snoopy.)

Apple's streaming service - a planned competitor for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu - won't launch until sometime in 2019 (some reports say "first half," and some reports say "last half" of 2019). So no information about how it will be available or how much it will cost have been revealed yet, or whether the Peanuts videos will be ready and part of the service when it launches or added later on.

Stay tuned!

(And don't forget that the very first Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, will air again on Thursday, Dec 20, 2018 from 8 - 9 PM Eastern/Pacific on ABC.)