<div id="readability-page-1"><div> Amazon's (AMZN) streaming service is also adding some big-name films, including &#34;A Minecraft Movie&#34; (Dec. 22), &#34;Sinners&#34; (Dec. 26) and &#34;The Naked Gun&#34; (Dec. 29). On the sports front, there's NFL Thursday Night Football, including a Christmas Night matchup between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs (5:15 Eastern on Dec. 25), and a full slate of NBA games. Top picks of 2025: &#34;Reacher,&#34; &#34;Ballard,&#34; &#34;Upload.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Pause. &#34;Fallout&#34; is better than it needs to be, and the movie and sports lineup is decent this month. On the minus side, the ads are really, really annoying, and Prime Video remains mostly a perk for customers who sign up for the shopping and shipping deals. Disney+ ($11.99 a month with ads, $18.99 with no ads) After loading up on The Beatles in November, Disney+ is leaning into Swifties in December. &#34;Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - The Final Show&#34; (Dec. 12) is a concert film of the final Vancouver performance from her epic 2024 tour. It'll be accompanied by the concert-tour docuseries &#34;The End of an Era&#34; (Dec. 12), dropping two episodes a week until its finale Dec. 26. There's also Season 2 of the K-Pop travel series &#34;Are You Sure?&#34; (Dec. 3), starring Jimin and Jung Kook of BTS as they hit the road before heading out for military service; &#34;Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw&#34; (Dec. 5), the third animated movie installment based on the popular kids' book series; Season 3 of the animated &#34;Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures&#34; (Dec. 8); and Season 2 of the mythological tween adventure series &#34;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#34; (Dec. 10). Disney's (DIS) also got a smattering of ABC, Hulu and cable offerings, including Hulu's boxing competition &#34;I Am Boxer&#34; (Dec. 2); the &#34;Dancing With the Stars&#34; special &#34;Dancing With the Holidays&#34; (Dec. 2); the musical special &#34;A CMA Country Christmas&#34; (Dec. 3); a new season of &#34;The Great Christmas Light Fight&#34; (Dec. 5); &#34;Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas&#34; (Dec. 10); and a Christmas Day NBA matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks (Dec. 25). Top picks of 2025: &#34;Andor,&#34; &#34;Tucci in Italy.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Pause. The weather's getting lousy and the kids need something to watch, so...why not? Plus, if there's a Taylor Swift fan in your house, a subscription is a lot cheaper than a concert ticket. Hulu ($11.99 a month with ads, or $18.99 with no ads) It's another weak month for Hulu, with Season 2 of the Disney+ YA adventure series &#34;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#34; (Dec. 10), the standup comedy special &#34;Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts&#34; (Dec. 19) and the 1970s-set Korean political thriller series &#34;Made in Korea&#34; (Dec. 24). December also has weekly episodes of the critically savaged yet apparently very popular glam legal drama &#34;All's Fair&#34; (season finale Dec. 9), which just got renewed for a second season, and network shows like &#34;Abbot Elementary,&#34; &#34;9-1-1 Nashville,&#34; &#34;Shark Tank,&#34; &#34;Grey's Anatomy,&#34; &#34;The Simpsons&#34; and &#34;Bob's Burgers.&#34; There's also holiday fare such as &#34;Disney's A Christmas Carol,&#34; &#34;Home Alone&#34; and &#34;The Santa Clause&#34; (all Dec. 1), the musical special &#34;A CMA Country Christmas&#34; (Dec. 3), a new season of &#34;The Great Christmas Light Fight&#34; (Dec. 5) and &#34;Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas&#34; (Dec. 10). Top picks of 2025: &#34;Paradise,&#34; &#34;Shoresy,&#34; &#34;Deli Boys,&#34; &#34;Dying for Sex,&#34; &#34;The Bear,&#34; &#34;Such Brave Girls,&#34; &#34;Alien: Earth,&#34; &#34;The Lowdown.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Stop. The library is good, but there's nothing must-see in December. HBO Max ($10.99 a month with ads, $18.49 with no ads, or $22.99 'Ultimate' with no ads) It's a slow month for HBO Max, too, with little aside from weekly episodes of Stephen King's &#34;It: Welcome to Derry&#34; (season finale Dec. 14) and the Gen Z comedy &#34;I Love LA&#34; (season finale Dec. 21). Neither are worth a subscription on their own. The buzziest new addition may be &#34;The Family McMullen&#34; (Dec. 5), a sequel to the 1995 indie film &#34;The Brothers McMullen.&#34; Edward Burns returns as the writer, director and co-star, catching up with the working-class Irish family and their romantic obstacles 30 years later. Connie Britton co-stars as Burns's character's widowed sister-in-law, along with Tracee Ellis Ross and Mike McGlone. There's also a comedy special from &#34;SNL&#34; co-star Sarah Sherman, &#34;Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh&#34; (Dec. 12), featuring her unique brand of surreal body horror/comedy; the musical documentaries &#34;Paul Anka: His Way&#34; (Dec. 1), &#34;It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley&#34; (Dec. 4) and &#34;Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?&#34; (Dec. 18); and Rob Reiner's mockumentary sequel &#34;Spinal Tap II: The End Continues&#34; (Dec. 12), as the bandmates (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) grudgingly agree to reunite for one last concert. And don't sleep on &#34;Ne Zha 2&#34; (Dec. 24), a blockbuster animated action film based on Chinese mythology. It just happens to be the biggest global box-office hit of this year, earning around $2 billion - mostly in China. Also, &#34;Mad Men&#34; (Dec. 1), which has had limited streaming availability in recent years, is being added to HBO Max's library, with all seven seasons streaming in 4K for the first time. It's a full-circle moment for HBO, which famously passed on Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series almost two decades ago. HBO Max also has a pair of College Football Playoff matchups (Dec. 20), the U.S. men's soccer team vs. Italy (Dec. 1), and a full slate of NHL and college basketball games. Business time: Meanwhile, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is looking to sell all or parts of itself by year's end, which could bring seismic changes to the industry. Paramount, Comcast and Netflix have already submitted bids, according to the Wall Street Journal. Stay tuned. Top picks of 2025: &#34;The Pitt,&#34; &#34;The White Lotus,&#34; &#34;Hacks,&#34; &#34;The Rehearsal,&#34; &#34;Common Side Effects,&#34; &#34;100 Foot Wave,&#34; &#34;Duster,&#34; &#34;Peacemaker,&#34; &#34;Task.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Stop. The first season of the weirdly compelling &#34;The Chair Company&#34; is over (and it's already been renewed for a second season), and so is the latest season of &#34;Last Week Tonight.&#34; What's left just isn't terribly interesting, though it'd be nice to dig into a &#34;Mad Men&#34; rewatch at some point. Paramount+ ($7.99 a month with ads, $12.99 a month Premium with no ads) Paramount+ is raising prices in the new year, but isn't offering a very impressive lineup to close out 2025. As far as new stuff, there's the psychological thriller series &#34;Little Disasters&#34; (Dec. 11), about a family torn apart after a baby is injured, starring Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner, and based on the Sarah Vaughn novel; &#34;Guns Up&#34; (Dec. 1), an action-comedy movie about a man on the run from the mob, starring Kevin James and Christina Ricci; and &#34;5-Star&#34; (Dec. 2), a docuseries tracking four elite freshman college-football recruits. Paramount (PSKY) also has a selection of popular holiday movies, including &#34;Scrooged,&#34; &#34;A Christmas Carol&#34; and &#34;Miracle on 34th Street&#34;; a full slate of sports, including NFL football every Sunday, college football, college basketball and UEFA Champions League soccer; and new episodes of CBS shows like &#34;DMV,&#34; &#34;Elsbeth,&#34; &#34;Ghosts&#34; and &#34;Matlock.&#34; Don't forget new weekly episodes of &#34;The Mayor of Kingstown&#34; (season finale Dec. 28) and &#34;Landman,&#34; which remains the most ridiculously eye-rolling yet somehow watchable series this side of Apple's &#34;The Morning Show.&#34; Top picks of 2025: &#34;Yellowjackets,&#34; &#34;Dexter: Resurrection,&#34; &#34;Star Trek Strange New Worlds.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Stop. Aside from the live sports, there's not much that's compelling. Catch up on &#34;Landman&#34; in a binge some other time. Peacock ($10.99 a month with ads, or $16.99 with no ads) The cupboard is even emptier at Comcast's (CMCSA) Peacock, which has &#34;The Copenhagen Test&#34; (Dec. 22), a thriller series starring Simu Liu as an intelligence analyst whose brain gets hacked, and not a lot else - that being the &#34;Christmas in Rockefeller Center&#34; (Dec. 3) live holiday special and Season 2 of the Notre Dame football docuseries &#34;Here Come the Irish&#34; (Dec. 8). There are a ton of holiday movies, though, like &#34;Love Actually,&#34; &#34;Miracle on 34th Street,&#34; &#34;Jingle All the Way&#34; and &#34;Die Hard,&#34; and new eps of NBC and cable shows including &#34;Jeopardy,&#34; &#34;Law &amp; Order,&#34; &#34;Saturday Night Live,&#34; &#34;St. Denis Medical,&#34; &#34;Real Housewives,&#34; &#34;Vanderpump Rules&#34; and &#34;The Voice,&#34; along with the conclusion of &#34;Bel-Air&#34; (series finale Dec. 8). And all 15 seasons of &#34;Supernatural&#34; (Dec. 22) are moving over from Netflix. Peacock's also got NFL Sunday Night Football, and a full slate of NBA, college basketball, Premier League soccer and winter sports. Speaking of 'meh': Netflix is far from the only purveyor of &#34;mid&#34; TV, with Peacock's recent missing-child thriller series &#34;All Her Fault&#34; another prime example. A great cast (Sarah Snook, Jake Lacy, Dakota Fanning, Michael Pena) elevates a clichéd plot...yet at the end it's entirely unsatisfying due to shallow storytelling and ridiculous twists. It should've been better. Top picks of 2025: &#34;The Traitors,&#34; &#34;Poker Face.&#34; Play, pause or stop? Stop. There's a decent lineup of live sports, but not a lot else that's particularly worthwhile. Need more? Catch up on previous months' picks at What's Worth Streaming. -Mike Murphy This content was created by MarketWatch, which is operated by Dow Jones &amp; Co. 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In December 2025, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max are offering a variety of new content. Amazon features films like "A Minecraft Movie" and NFL games. Disney+ highlights Taylor Swift's concert film and series like "Percy Jackson." Hulu offers "Percy Jackson" and holiday specials, while HBO Max presents "The Family McMullen" and comedy specials. Each service has its top picks, with varying recommendations on whether to subscribe.

- Amazon's streaming service is adding notable films and sports events in December, including "A Minecraft Movie" and NFL games.  
- Disney+ is focusing on Taylor Swift's concert film and various holiday specials, while Hulu and HBO Max are criticized for weak lineups.  
- Paramount+ and Peacock also struggle with limited offerings, leading to a general recommendation to pause or stop subscriptions for many services this month.

Here's what's worth streaming in December 2025 -2-