ABC’s 2009 holiday special Prep & Landing performed well for the network, notching a 5.8 rating, and then at awards time, the half-hour piece snagged an Annie award and a number of Emmys. So it should come as no surprise that ABC is rolling out a sequel, titled Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice. On December 5th, ABC brings back Wayne and Lanny, who are tasked with yet again saving Christmas. Here’s a trailer for the film Kevin Deters wrote and directed.

Tonigth at 8:30/7:30c on ABC in the US you can see the premiere of Prep & Landing, the TV special about the Santa’s special ops elves. Here’s a behind the scenes piece featuring executive producer John Lasseter. The half-hour project was produced at Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton.

ABC Family is gearing up to host the TV premiere of Walt Disney Pictures Presents “Pixar Short Films.” This 2-hour special airs at 7:00pm ET/PT on December 2nd, and it will feature twenty animated shorts from the now legendary studio Pixar. Included will be Presto, Boundin’, Lifted and Juxo Jr. Here’s a clip from BURN-E, which was directed by Angus MacLane, who was also a lead animator on WALL-E.

Last Friday’s episode of ABC’s The Goode Family saw a fairly sizable increase in viewership. The show, which airs at 8:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Central, has been watched by around 1.5 million viewers for the past month, but last week nearly 1.8 million tuned in. That said, under 2 million viwers on a primetime weekday is pretty low. Here’s a clip from last week’s Trouble in Store episode. Can the show mount a comeback?

ABC’s new animated-series The Goode Family is tanking. Acoording to Wikipedia, the show, which has moved from Wednesdays to Fridays 8:30/7:30c, is posting below a 1 rating (it’s actually putting up a 0.5 rating). I find the show somewhat amusing, if a bit gimmicky. I think it’s far better than sitcoms like Two and Half Men, but apparently the audience doesn’t. What’s your take?

Here’s a clip from last Friday’s episode, Freeganomics.

Ratings for The Goode Family premiere apparently underwhelmed, and we’ll see what transpired last night. Doubling down, ABC aired two new episodes, Pleatherheads and Goodes Gone Wild, a segment of which you can see below.

Miss the premiere of The Goode Family last night? Never fear – it’s already available at ABC.com (only for those in the USA – or try Hotspot Shield). There’s a good discussion going on over at CartoonBrew.com about this first episode. What did you think? Does it fill that empty hole in your heart left by KOTH?

Also, here’s a 2-minute clip: