Share Your Holiday Season With Starz Kids & Family

Share Your Holiday Season With Starz Kids & Family

Spread Season Cheer With Holiday Marathons, Television Premieres and Family-Friendly Programming Thanksgiving Through New Years

Enter the 'Cruisin' With the Family Sweepstakes' for a Chance to Win a Disney Cruise Line(R) Vacation for Ten People

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Kids & Family brings seasonal cheer to its viewers with their annual "Holidays are Better with Starz Kids & Family" campaign featuring a family-friendly collection of television premieres and programming that appeal to everyone, plus a family sweepstakes.

The season begins with the Thanksgiving Day marathon and tune-in later in the season for the commercial-free television premiere of The Happy Elf and the full-length special "Eloise: Little Miss Christmas." Finally, don't miss a marathon of holiday films airing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and the New Year's Day "Eloise" marathon. The "Cruisin' with the Family Sweepstakes" runs throughout the holiday season featuring a Disney Cruise Line(R) vacation for ten for the winner.

Starz Kids & Family will make your holiday better with the following events (all times are ET/PT):

* Enjoy your turkey and a Thanksgiving Day marathon of family-friendly
hits beginning at 6 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 23. Movies that will air
during the marathon include The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe, Chicken Little, The Incredibles and more.

* The "Eloise" series continues with the full-length special "Eloise:
Little Miss Christmas" premiering on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 3:15 p.m. In
this special, join Eloise and her friends as they plan a holiday
extravaganza at The Plaza.

* Join Eubie the Elf for the commercial-free television premiere of The
Happy Elf on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. Highlighted by Harry Connick,
Jr. as the animated narrator, The Happy Elf tells the story of Eubie
the Elf, one of Santa's helpers whose overly enthusiastic, rose-colored
view of the holiday season is put to the test when he sets out to bring
Christmas joy a dreary town called Bluesville.

* Snuggle up for a marathon of holiday films airing from 10 a.m. on
Christmas Eve until 6 p.m. on Christmas day. Movies featured during
the Christmas Marathon include Little Miss Christmas, The Happy Elf,
Christmas with the Kranks, Must be Santa, I'll be Home for Christmas
and more.

* Spend New Year's Day with The Plaza's favorite resident -- Eloise!
"Eloise," the first-ever animated series based on the classic books
written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hillary Knight,
premiered on Starz Kids & Family in October. For the first time ever
we are presenting the series of full-length specials, which were
originally adapted for the series, in a day-long marathon beginning at
6 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, 2007.

* An exclusive clip from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa will
also air throughout the holiday season on Starz Kids & Family.

The "Cruisin' with the Family Sweepstakes" begins at 12:00:01 a.m. ET Wednesday, Nov. 1 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. The sweepstakes is open to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older as of the promotion period start date. To enter the sweepstakes go to http://www.starz.com/ during the promotion period, click on "Contests, Sweepstakes and Features" banner and the "Cruisin' with the Family Sweepstakes" link, complete the entry form and click the submit button. The limit is one entry per person per day. Eligible entrants will have a chance to win:

* One (1) grand-prize: Disney Cruise Line(R) vacation for up to ten
people to be taken aboard the Disney Wonder(R). The prize includes a
4-night cruise aboard the Disney Wonder(R) to Nassau and Castaway
Cay(R) in the Bahamas, with three deluxe ocean view staterooms; all
onboard meals; government taxes and fees; onboard gratuities for
stateroom host/hostess, dining room server, assistant server and head
server; round-trip coach airfare between the U.S. gateway airport
nearest winner's home and Orlando International Airport; and round-trip
ground transfers between Orlando International Airport and Port
Canaveral via Disney Cruise Line(R) transportation.

The "Cruisin' with the Family Sweepstakes" is sponsored by Starz Entertainment.

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 14.9 million and 26.6 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand and Vongo(SM). Starz Entertainment is an operating unit of Starz LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation that is attributed to Liberty Capital Group, www.starz.com.

Contacts: Michelle Ellis Jonathan Taylor
Starz Entertainment The Lippin Group
(720) 852-6269 (323) 965-1990
michelle.ellis@starz.comjtaylor@lippingroup.com

* Marathon scheduling information provided on following page.

(all times listed are ET/PT)

Thanksgiving Marathon
Thursday, Nov. 23
6 a.m. - The Nuttiest Nutcracker
7 a.m. - Chicken Little
8:30 a.m. - The Incredibles
10:35 a.m. - Spymate
12:05 p.m. - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
2:35 p.m. - Chicken Little
4 p.m. - The Incredibles
6 p.m. - Herbie: Fully Loaded
7:42 p.m. - "Behind the Magic of Narnia"
8 p.m. - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
10:30 p.m. - The Greatest Game Ever Played

Christmas Marathon
Sunday, Dec. 24
10 a.m. - A Hollywood Christmas
11:35 a.m. - Must be Santa
1:10 p.m. - I'll be Home for Christmas
2:40 p.m. - Christmas with the Kranks
6 p.m. - Must be Santa
7:35 p.m. - I'll be Home for Christmas
9:05 p.m. - Christmas with the Kranks
10:45 p.m. - A Hollywood Christmas
Monday, Dec. 25
12:15 a.m. - Christmas on Division Street
1:50 a.m. - I'll be Home for Christmas
3:20 a.m. - Christmas with the Kranks
5:05 a.m. - "Eloise: Little Miss Christmas"
11:35 a.m. - An All Dogs Christmas Carol
1 p.m. - A Very Wompkee Christmas
2 p.m. - The Nuttiest Nutcracker
2:50 p.m. - The Happy Elf
3:40 p.m. - "Eloise: Little Miss Christmas"
4:45 p.m. - An All Dogs Christmas Carol

New Year's Day "Eloise" Marathon
Monday, Jan. 1, 2007
6 a.m. - "Me, Eloise"
7 a.m. - "Eloise: Little Miss Christmas"
8:15 a.m. - "Eloise Goes to School"
9:10 a.m. - "Eloise in Hollywood"
10 a.m. - "Eloise's Rawther Unusual Halloween"
10:50 a.m. - "Eloise in Springtime"
11:40 a.m. - "Me, Eloise"
12:35 a.m. - "Eloise: Little Miss Christmas"
1:45 p.m. - "Eloise Goes to School"
2:35 p.m. - "Eloise in Hollywood"
3:30 p.m. - "Eloise's Rawther Unusual Halloween"
4:15 p.m. - "Eloise in Springtime"
5:05 p.m. - "Me, Eloise"

Source: Starz Entertainment, LLC

CONTACT: Michelle Ellis of Starz Entertainment, +1-720-852-6269,
michelle.ellis@starz.com; or Jonathan Taylor of The Lippin Group,
+1-323-965-1990, jtaylor@lippingroup.com, for Starz

Web site: http://www.starz.com/

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