{"id":22683,"date":"2015-05-18T07:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22683"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:04:39","slug":"bill-murray-christmas-special-coming-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/bill-murray-christmas-special-coming-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Murray Christmas Special Coming for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Bill Murray, it&#8217;s Netflix and it&#8217;s all <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. And it appears to have captured all the early buzz for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> on television 2015. <\/p>\n<p>Coming to Netflix and produced in conjunction with director Sofia Coppola the special reported stars George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph and, of course, Bill Murray. Clooney talked about it in a recent visit to the retiring David Letterman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul [Shaffer, Letterman\u2019s band leader] and I just did a Bill Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> special. I sit on a piano bench with Paul and pretend to sing, which they don\u2019t let me. And I rode in a sleigh with Miley Cyrus being pulled by the Rockettes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The special will feature celebrities bringing our favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> carols to life, from \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u201d to \u201cSilent Night\u201d and everything in between. The celebrities added to the show will be playing themselves, or some version of themselves in what Murray describes as a \u201clittle movie\u201d with music and texture.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? No studio audience, no canned laughter and nothing too spontaneous. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1431895992.gif\" alt=\"_1431895992\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22684\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Bill Murray, it&#8217;s Netflix and it&#8217;s all Christmas. And it appears to have captured all the early buzz for Christmas on television 2015. Coming to Netflix and produced in conjunction with director Sofia Coppola the special reported stars George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph and, of course, Bill Murray. Clooney talked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,99],"tags":[185,22,186,187],"class_list":["post-22683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-television","tag-bill-murray","tag-christmas","tag-netflix","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}