Prime Video’s ‘The Chosen’ Christmas Special Officially Sets December Release Date

Published Nov 12, 2026, 7:00 AM EST

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Prime Video's standout historical drama has announced the perfect Christmas treat for fans, with full details arriving weeks in advance. One of the streamer's most successful shows, the series has earned positive reactions from viewers worldwide and still holds a near-perfect 97% Popcornmeter score on Rotten Tomatoes. It has also performed strongly on the platform, reaching No. 1 in the US after Season 5 debuted in June 2025 and remaining in the streamer's top 10 through the end of the year.

Created, directed, and co-written by filmmaker Dallas Jenkins, The Chosen tells the poignant story of Jesus through the eyes of those who encountered him during his short life. They include his disciples, Jewish religious leaders, Roman government and military officials, and ordinary people. The Christian series' pilot aired on Facebook on December 24, 2017, before its first season premiered two years later on the faith-based streaming service VidAngel. Five seasons have been released so far, though Season 6 is set to premiere on November 15, 2026.

With The Chosen Season 6 just days away, the beloved franchise—which has spawned two spin-off series—returns in December with an all-new release, this time on network TV, per TV Insider. Titled The Chosen: The Three Kings, the drama is the final chapter in the franchise's Christmas trilogy, following 2017's The Shepherd and 2021's Christmas With The Chosen: The Messengers. The Christmas special premieres December 14, 2026, at 8/7c on Fox, then streams the next day on Hulu. It airs during The Chosen Season 6, after the first six episodes drop but before the two-episode theatrical finale about the Crucifixion debuts in March 2027.

Watch the special's trailer below.

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Villain Are You?8 Questions · 5 AntagonistsEvery Christmas story needs somebody standing in the way of it. Some of them are reformable, some of them are having far too good a time, and one of them meant well the entire way through. Eight questions will work out which one you are.The Lineup

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Question 01THE DECORATIONS

01The decorations go up at work on November 3rd.Everybody reacts to the first sign. Yours says a lot.

AI say something out loud, possibly to the one person I shouldn't have said it to.BI think about what it cost and who signed off on it.CI don't look up. I have a deadline and it is not in December.DI notice that everyone has gone soft and nobody is paying much attention to anything.EI'm thrilled, and within a day I have joined the committee.

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Question 02THE PARTY

02Somebody invites you to a big Christmas party.The invitation is the test. The answer is the personality.

AI'll come for forty minutes and stand fairly close to the door.BI'll pass. There's work, and parties are expensive in more ways than one.CI'll come, I'll be excellent company, and I'll leave before anybody notices.DI'll come. Free food, open house, nobody counting anything.EI'll come, and somehow I'll be running it by nine o'clock.

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Question 03SECRET SANTA

03You get put in charge of the office Secret Santa.A small amount of power over other people's December.

AI'll run it properly and resent every minute of it.BThere will be a spending cap, and the spending cap will be enforced.CIt will run perfectly. Nobody will ever know what that took.DI'll forget until the morning of and improvise at the gas station.EI'll redesign the whole format. It'll be ambitious. It may not work.

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Question 04THE LIST

04Your family asks what you want this year.What you ask for is usually more revealing than what you give.

ANothing. Truly nothing. Please do not.BSomething useful, although I'd honestly rather you kept the money.CSomething very specific. I'll send a link to the exact one.DSurprise me. I'm easy. I'll be happy with whatever turns up.EI've made a list. It's long and parts of it are unreasonable.

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Question 05THE MORNING

05It's Christmas morning and something has gone wrong.Something always goes wrong. The tell is the first thing you do.

AI predicted this. I said this would happen. I am saying it again now.BI work out who is responsible and what it is going to cost to put right.CI deal with it quietly, before anybody else has registered that it happened.DI make it considerably worse trying to fix it, and we laugh about it eventually.EI overcorrect with great enthusiasm and create a second, larger problem.

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Question 06THE CHILD

06A child asks you a sincere question about Christmas.This is the moment most of these stories really turn on.

AIt disarms me completely and I have to go and sit down for a minute.BI give them an honest answer and then feel strange about it for the rest of the day.CI give them a charming answer that gives away nothing at all.DI give them a terrible answer with total confidence.EI give them a forty-minute answer that they did not ask for.

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Question 07THE FEEDBACK

07Someone tells you that you're being a bit much about Christmas.Being told is one thing. What you do next is the other thing.

AThey're right, and I'll be insufferable about admitting it.BI'll reconsider the entire thing at three in the morning, on my own.CI'll smile, agree completely, and change absolutely nothing.DI'll deny it and immediately double down.EI'll be genuinely hurt, because I was only ever trying to help.

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Question 08DECEMBER 26

08It's the day after. What are you doing?The last shot of the story, and the one that decides what it was about.

AFeeling unexpectedly fine about the whole thing.BLooking at the receipts and then at the people, in that order, and reconsidering.CAlready somewhere else, perfectly dressed, on to the next thing.DPlanning how to do it properly next year. It will go exactly the same way.EMissing it already, and starting to plan something enormous.

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Your answers point to the Christmas antagonist who shares your particular objection to December, your method for dealing with it, and your odds of being forgiven by the final scene.

1966The GrinchHow the Grinch Stole Christmas!It was never the presents. It was the noise.

You are not against joy. You are against volume, obligation, and being told when to feel things, which in December amounts to a full-time grievance.Why This Is You

• The Grinch spends an entire special engineering the perfect scheme and loses to a town that simply keeps singing. The plan was never the weak point. The premise was.
• You share his real quality, which is not cruelty but sensitivity, badly handled and pointed outward.
• You are the most reformable name on this list, and the one who gets the best scene when it finally happens.
• Your heart is a measurement problem. It always was.

The NoiseReformableBest Turnaround

1843Ebenezer ScroogeA Christmas CarolThe ledger was always correct. That was the problem.

You are not cruel so much as closed. The arithmetic of your life has been right for years, and it has quietly cost you everything that was never on the sheet.Why This Is You

• A Christmas Carol has outlasted nearly everything else written in 1843 because Dickens made the antagonist the only character who changes.
• You have the same shape. Show you the evidence and you will not argue with it, which is rarer than it sounds.
• Your turnaround, when it arrives, is total and slightly embarrassing in its enthusiasm. You will overpay for a goose.
• Nobody doubts you were wrong. The story is about what you do on the morning after you find out.

The LedgerTotal TurnaroundOverpays

1988Hans GruberDie HardExceptional taste. Somebody else's building.

You are the best-dressed and best-briefed person in any room, and you have never once been the one who lost control of the situation. Until the one time.Why This Is You

• Hans Gruber turned a Christmas party into a stage, and became the template every charming antagonist has borrowed from since.
• You share the method: preparation, presentation, and an absolute refusal to raise your voice.
• Your plan is better than everyone else's plan. It accounts for everything except one person who was not supposed to be in the building.
• You will be remembered for the manners rather than the scheme, which is exactly how you would want it.

The SuitThe TimetableOne Variable

1990The Wet BanditsHome AlonePhysics. Repeatedly. In the face.

You are not sophisticated, not subtle, and not remotely discouraged. You have been outwitted by an eight-year-old and a paint can, and you are already planning the return trip.Why This Is You

• Home Alone works because its antagonists are indestructible and completely undeterred, which turns the whole thing into a cartoon.
• You have that same quality. Setbacks do not register with you as information. They register as delay.
• You argue with your partner constantly and you would never once consider working with anybody else.
• You will be back. Worse plan, identical enthusiasm, same outcome.

PersistentNever LearnsComing Back

1993Jack SkellingtonThe Nightmare Before ChristmasYour heart was right. Your judgment was not.

You did not set out to ruin Christmas. You wanted to understand it, and then improve it, and then run it, and somewhere in that sequence it went very wrong.Why This Is You

• The Nightmare Before Christmas gives you an antagonist who is also the hero: someone whose enthusiasm vastly outpaces his research.
• You are the same. You commit completely to things you have not finished understanding, and the commitment is genuinely the best thing about you.
• An entire town believed in you, which removed the one thing that might have stopped this: somebody willing to say no.
• You will learn the lesson. You will have forgotten it by October.

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'The Chosen' Sets Christmas Special Amid Season 6

As fans know, The Chosen features a large ensemble cast led by Jonathan Roumie as Jesus, alongside Shahar Isaac, Elizabeth Tabish, Paras Patel, Noah James, George H. Xanthis, and others. The Three Kings, by contrast, has a smaller cast, with Taye Diggs, Piter Marek, and Rahul Rai portraying the Three Wise Men from the Biblical story: Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar, respectively. Sara Anne and Raj Bond star as Young Mary and Joseph.

As the official description teases, The Chosen: The Three Kings follows the titular characters who, among many, witness an impossibly bright light over the tiny town of Bethlehem, signaling the birth of a new ruler. Fearing regime change or death, they journey to honor the newborn king. However, their shocking discovery upon arrival changes their lives and the world forever. Jenkins serves as executive producer, along with Ryan Swanson and Tyler Thompson.

The Chosen: The Three Kings premieres on Fox this December. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.