It doesn’t need to be a “Blue Christmas” this yr: NBC is ready to have a good time Elvis Presley with the upcoming reside music particular Christmas at Graceland, government produced by Elvis’ granddaughter Riley Keough, Billboard can solely announce.
The particular will air Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and will probably be simulcast on Peacock.
“My household and I are elated to open the doorways to Graceland on this first-of-its-kind particular,” mentioned Christmas at Graceland EP Keough; the Daisy Jones & The Six actress is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January at age 54. “With intimate musical performances drawing inspiration from my grandfather Elvis’s cherished Christmases in Memphis, viewers will probably be invited to expertise firsthand the magic that’s Christmas at Graceland.”
In keeping with a press launch, Christmas at Graceland — which is able to air instantly after NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Heart on Nov. 29 (8 p.m. ET/PT) — will “function music’s greatest stars celebrating the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, his music and his favourite time of yr, in an unprecedented vacation particular reside from his iconic dwelling, Graceland.”
Performers will probably be introduced nearer to the air date.
“To have a good time the vacations at Graceland, and be part of the King’s legacy, is each an honor and absolute dream come true,” mentioned Jen Neal, government vp, reside occasions and specials, NBCUniversal Media Group. “We thank Riley and her household for permitting all of us to go to her grandfather’s iconic dwelling and share an intimate musical expertise that Elvis would’ve actually beloved.”
Presley has a legendary catalog of Christmas music, with two hits on the 2011-launched Vacation 100 songs chart: “Blue Christmas,” which peaked at No. 11 in 2013, and “Right here Comes Santa Claus (Proper Down Santa Claus Lane),” which hit No. 22 in 2015. His album It’s Christmas Time (a 1985 reissue of Presley’s 1957 launch Elvis’ Christmas Album) reached No. 2 on High Vacation Albums in 2015 — his highest-charting venture on the tally; it additionally peaked at No. 2 on the High Nation Albums chart in 2018.
Christmas at Graceland will probably be produced by Completed + Dusted, Genuine Studios and Felix Culpa, a manufacturing firm co-founded by Keough and Gina Gammell. Govt producers from Completed + Dusted are Raj Kapoor, Katy Mullan and Ian Stewart. Colin Smeeton, Matthew Gross and Marc Rosen will function government producers on behalf of Genuine Studios. Felix Culpa’s Keough and Gammell will even government produce alongside Graceland’s Joel Weinshanker. Completed + Dusted’s Patrick Menton will co-executive produce.
