Every year it enters our home like a plague.

[Ocelot II]

9. Oh, yuk. Those and the Hallmark ones.

However, if you want to watch a sort of an anti-Hallmark Christmas series, check out Home For Christmas on Netflix. It's about a thirty-ish woman whose family has been relentlessly pestering her about finding a new boyfriend and husband prospect ever since her former boyfriend, whom her mom adored, dumped her three years ago. So she makes up a story about having started dating a new guy whom she will bring to the family dinner on Christmas Eve - and she has only a month to find one. It sounds awful and (ick!) heartwarming, but it isn't; it's goofy and funny and very bawdy. The Hallmark aficionados would hate it but I thought it was a hoot. If you don't mind subtitled shows (this one probably couldn't get made in the US), check it out.