With Santa on his way to children all throughout the world to drop off the gifts they’ve been craving for all year long, television networks have also prepared for the holiday season with some Christmas specials to boost the ratings.

Airing Saturday night at 8 p.m. on ABC Family, “A Miser Brothers’ Christmas” tells the story of a Santa who is unable to fulfill the kids’ wishes one year, because he has a bad back, so he is forced to send brothers Heat Miser and Snow Miser to replace him.

Drawing on the 1974 „The Year Without a Santa Claus,” the production also features the stars of the Rankin/Bass team of directors puppet-animation specials, with 88-year-old Mickey Rooney reprising his Santa role and George S. Irving lending his voice yet again to Heat Miser.

Another specials scheduled to air Sunday night a 8 p.m. on ABC Family is „Snow 2: Brain Freeze,” a sequel to the 2004 „Snow” movie, which will be rebroadcast immediately after „Brain Freeze” on Sunday. The sequel follows Tom Cavanagh as Nick Snowden, who has entered the same business as his late father, that of supernatural worldwide toy delivery.

Also on Saturday, at 9 p.m., „The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is set to be broadcast, which although lacks Santa and his elves, brings forth a Christmas-loving bum portrayed by Warren Christie, whom Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) puts up in his niece’s house, played by Brooke Burns.

Even though totally predictable, this movie directed by Michael Scott and written by Bruce Graham could warm the hearts of all the Grinch-like people out there and bring some holiday joy to the audience, just like the other two productions aim to.