Dear Santa (2011 film)

Dear Santa is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Jason Priestley and starring Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones, and Emma Duke. Written by Barbara Kymlicka, the film is about a young woman struggling to get serious about her life who finds a letter to Santa from a seven-year-old girl asking for a new wife for her widowed father and decides to bring happiness to their lives. The film first aired on the Lifetime television network on November 26, 2011.

Plot

Crystal Carruthers (Amy Acker) is a frivolous thirty-year-old woman drifting through life shopping with her wealthy parents' money. In an effort to get their daughter to get serious about her life, they inform her that she has until Christmas to change her life style or else they will cancel her credit cards. One day Crystal discovers a letter to Santa Claus from a seven-year-old girl, Olivia (Emma Duke), asking him to send her widowed father a new wife for Christmas. Inspired by the young girl's hopeful letter, she decides to seek them out in the hopes of making herself their gift from Santa.

Dear Santa (EP)

Dear Santa is the third EP by the South Korean girl group, Girls' Generation-TTS. It was released digitally and physically on December 4, 2015 by S.M. Entertainment.

Background and release

On November 24, 2015, Girls' Generation-TTS was announced to be releasing Dear Santa and teaser images for the mini-album started to be released. The title track "Dear Santa" comes in two versions sung in different languages, one in Korean and the other in English. Seohyun was also revealed to have composed the lyrics for the Korean version of the song, which describes a request to Santa Claus to make a wish to come true on Christmas. Two teaser videos with different concepts and themes were released on November 30 and December 1. The mini-album and the title track's two music videos, one for each language, were released simultaneously on December 4.

Promotion

Starting from December 4, Girls' Generation-TTS performed the title track "Dear Santa" and other side tracks on KBS's Music Bank, MBC's Music Core, and SBS's Inkigayo. On December 11, S.M. Entertainment released a video of the trio performing the song "Winter Story" live with an acoustic band.

Dear Santa (2005 film)

Dear Santa is a 2005 American Christmas television film directed by Jim Hunziker and starring Clay Aiken, Hilary Duff, and Tony Hawk. The film first aired December 9, 2005 on the Fox network, and was rebroadcast on November 28, 2006 on ABC Family.

Plot

Santa Claus (voiced by Tom Kane) grants the wishes of children via letters from Operation Santa of the United States Postal Service, having the kids' favorite celebrities, such as Clay Aiken, Raven-Symoné, Hilary Duff, and Tony Hawk help grant the wishes. Season two was hosted by Kristen Bell star of Veronica Mars and featured Sarah Chalke, Wilmer Valderrama, Brian McKnight, Matt Dallas and the Los Angeles Galaxy. Dear Santa was created by Darren Mann and produced by Mann Made Productions, City Explorer TV and Lions Gate Television in association with the United States Postal Service. A Dear Santa holiday music CD was produced and sold through over 20,000 United States Post Offices. The CD featured songs performed by Nat King Cole, Nick Lachey, Alicia Keys, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Roland Gift and more.